Easy Technique - Unlimited Free Photos/Images to use for Commefcial and Non...

I just tried one of my niches and all results are YT thumbnails or Wikipedia images. Most are branded.

You have to be careful with this. A lot of those images actually are copyrighted and have been mislabeled by people who have stolen the images. If you want to be sure to not use copyrighted images, either avoid this method or go to the source and make certain it is free to use (and make certain that free use includes for commercial purposes).

Robert,

Everyone wants images they can freely use on their web site, for a product, for a blog, or a service, etc, but many don't understand the risk that can come from using "free" Google images . . . even those you may think are safe.

I have believed in the past that Google images is a safe alternative for anyone's use IF you used the Google advanced search feature and filtered your results to show only "free to use, share or modify, even commercially."

However, upon digging further into Google's explanations and fine print that comes after their search function filtering, you will find the following warning:

"If you find content with the wrong usage rights in the search results, let us know by reporting them in the help forum."

To make matters even worse, at the very bottom of their on-page narrative, in a section called "Find Content to Reuse," Google explains:

"Before reusing content that you've found, you should verify that its license is legitimate and check the exact terms of reuse stated in the license. For example, most licenses require that you give credit to the image creator when reusing an image. Google has no way of knowing whether the license is legitimate, so we aren't making any representation that the content is actually or lawfully licensed." (emphasis my own)

So even though you take Google at it's word and filter your search to show only "free to use, share or modify, even commercially" . . . Google weasles its way out of any claim that the image "is actually or lawfully licensed."

Steve

Thanks Steve.

That is something to highly consider when doing this. Actually, it would seem mandatory to be extremely careful and do your diligence when using this.. thanks for the insight and heads up !!

Even if you use the search function, you'd still need to check that the images are actually free to use.

There are loads of Free Photo sites, including Free Photo sites that have images that are free for commercial use. But, they may require attribution, and maybe in a specific way, so you'd still need to read the license/terms of use for each individual Free Photo Site before use.

There's also Photo Sites where the photographers put their photos in the public domain.

An example of a great Free Photo Site is Unsplash.

As per my experience, I have never found anything with satisfaction there to use it for my purpose. Many are just very basic or out of the subject i was searching for!

Vikash

just put a keyword of images you want on google > click on image you want and click view image (make sure it has enough pixel) > drag it to your desktop and use it )

The sites with the largest catalogue of totally free images are:
morguefile.com
pixabay.com
freeimages.com

You can use the trick of Google also with other search engines like yahoo.com or ask.com

You have to be careful when choosing images. There are some who claim that they are the owner but they are really not.

You really have to use proper credits to avoid trouble in the future.

License? We don't need no stinking license!

Here's an idea for you to test. Try it with an image labelled "Getty Images" and let us know how that works out for you...