What does everyone use for pictures on their blogs?

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I have a blog and one of the things i struggle with sometimes is finding quality photos that aren't mine to use on my blog.

I don't want any legal issues to arise so I often am left with cheap photos for the public to use on sites like pixabay.com

Is there a place I could get high quality and meaningful photos to use on my blog that are free to use or at least at a low cost?

What does everyone use? I am simply a noob in this area and could use the advice, please!
#blogs #pictures #stock photos
  • Profile picture of the author prsaputo
    You can try this site: https://stocksnap.io/

    Although I mostly just search for high resolution photo of whatever it is I need from google and use the ones that doesn't have anyone's name on it or no copyright ... Hope that helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author aizaku
    https://pixabay.com/ is another great choice.


    I use them for my videos and posts.


    have a great day,
    Ike Paz
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  • Profile picture of the author anshdeb
    I would highly suggest checking out unsplash.com or deathbystockphotos..

    Also to get more inspiration on free stock photos, check out this amazing blog post on medium

    https://medium.com/@dustin/stock-pho...01b#.rnm342xxn

    Hope this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gambino
    123rf.com is the best value when it comes to selection/cost that I have found.
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    im waiting for people to say GOOGLE IMAGES lol.

    #ouch #naughtyNaughty
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  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    Look for Creative Commons pictures on Flickr that allow for COMMERCIAL USE and MODIFICATIONS.

    Here's how you do the search:

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  • Profile picture of the author Isaiah Jackson
    I use a couple of different sites at the moment.

    Pixabay seems to be the one I always go to though.

    Isaiah
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  • Profile picture of the author Gianggg Naci
    flickr.com is a perfect choice. I often find my pictures without on it
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  • Profile picture of the author PeterComeau
    For low photos and illustrations I use canstockphoto.com

    If you sign up and then buy credits it works out really cheaply for low resolution photos

    Other than that there are Creative Commons images you can use, for non-commercial use, from sites like Wikipedia providing you credit the originator.

    And search for "public domain photos" to see sites like:
    http://www.publicdomainpictures.net
    http://www.public-domain-photos.com/

    Hope you get some good ideas
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    • Profile picture of the author DIABL0
      Originally Posted by PeterComeau View Post

      For low photos and illustrations I use canstockphoto.com
      I just checked the place out and they seem to pretty much have the same photos as the sites that charge much higher prices using credits. They also have more options for subscriptions.

      I have done the dreamstime subscription, where I got photos for like .29 ish. The downside is that you have to grab everything within 30 days. Then down the road, you end up needing something you never thought about when you were downloading. Plus, you can end up getting more for a vertical than you really need.

      So it's not necessarily a bad thing ti pay a bit more and get less and spread your buys out over time.

      I have found that the free sites are just worthless and time wasters, if you need pics that are for a commercial vertical.
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  • Profile picture of the author onegoodman
    I take my own pictures, or use pictures that is provided to me by advertiser.s
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  • Profile picture of the author elitelifetoday
    If you need to make one yourself down the road. I highly recommend using Canva.com so easy and has all different size formats as well depending on the size you need.
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  • Profile picture of the author hynds
    The list of websites that you can use to find free quality images for your posts:

    stocksnap.io
    pixabay.com
    unsplash.com
    deathbystockphotos
    123rf.com
    canstockphoto.com

    Good luck to you!
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  • Profile picture of the author manish7
    Hello,

    I used the best photo resource website is piccsy. This website millions of photos with high quality. After selection photo i use canva for edit image. Try it.
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    • Profile picture of the author princetotem
      How can you filter for commercial use images on Piccsy? Is it by use of the tags or am I missing something?
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  • Profile picture of the author Byrt M
    I almost exclusively use Pixabay for all my pix.
    Seems to work for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author CurtisSWN
    I alway try Google images with the settings set to permission to re-use, sometimes I find some good ones.

    Why take the chance for a "cease and desist" letter or worse.

    But for a good blog post I don't mind spending a few bucks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris-
    As someone else said . . . you can use Google image search, and set the options (in Advanced Settings) to "free to use or modify commercially), which is near the bottom of the advanced options.

    A few years ago, Google image search was not good, but they've been improving a lot and you'll now usually get some decent images from their search (as above), and sometimes a few great ones (I've just done maybe the best graphic I've ever created, using a free image, and it looks GREAT, although I say so myself !).

    Doing that, you'll also come across some images that are on free image sites, so you can just click through to that site and do a search there too.

    Chris
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Y
    Some great suggestions here already!

    If I'm stuck and can't find something I'm often happy to pay a couple of bucks at www.photodune.com for some small or medium sized images.
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  • Profile picture of the author smith2301
    I ththink stocksnap.io and
    pixabay.com will be great choice for you. You may try those for taking images.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jamie Dunmore
    Pexels is an excellent, free stock image site with a lot of variation and great quality. I haven't needed to look elsewhere since discovering it.
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  • Profile picture of the author saurabhthakur12
    Images play a vital role in a blog. There are many reasons which make images necessary for your blog.

    A good quality picture makes you content look more visually. Attract readers interest on your blog and convey the message properly.
    But this all true when you are using the perfect image for your blog post that conveys your mesage.
    With the help of images, you increase the length of the article.
    Images are helpful to drive the traffic from the search engine if you use proper alt tag & description for your image.
    Images help to drive good traffic to social sites because of visual play well on social channels.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Pearl
    You can just try it shutterstock images. But it's only for premium users.
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  • Profile picture of the author Muhammad Saad
    All above given list of pictures you can use but be carefull when posting in blogs bcoz it will create problem in sense of SEO, So before posting you must do a little bit change in that picture selected using above list.
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  • Profile picture of the author seobro
    I use negativespace.co and pexels.com to find free images. They both curate and pull pictures from many sources. It is not enough to have beautiful photographs, but they must add some meaning. I look for hero shots containing active people that do more than spice up a page. Pictures must contain a certain resonance.
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    • Profile picture of the author ksmusselman
      Originally Posted by seobro View Post

      I use negativespace.co and pexels.com to find free images. They both curate and pull pictures from many sources. It is not enough to have beautiful photographs, but they must add some meaning. I look for hero shots containing active people that do more than spice up a page. Pictures must contain a certain resonance.
      So true! I try to go more for "imagery" than images when I'm looking for the perfect photo for my posts, especially for the featured image. And sometimes I'll find an image that's missing something that I'll find in another image. So I'll edit them in PhotoShop into one ideal image.
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  • Profile picture of the author rohitkumary
    There are many free sites for this purpose. This site lists most of them: https://bootstrapbay.com/blog/free-stock-photos/

    Still, if you want to go premium, choose shutterstock.
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    • Profile picture of the author George Schwab
      well the best resource is:

      your own camera

      i do it every day. it works.
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  • Profile picture of the author mandy29
    Along with flickr.com, I like Morguefile for large formats.

    Another one that's useful now and then is pngimg.

    Useful flickr tool
    ImageCodr is great if you're not a coder. You just paste in the link to the flickr image and it automatically creates the proper image credits.
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  • Profile picture of the author Calin Colas
    Hi,
    You can use images just provide the proper credit either by mentioning the name of photographer or by linking to their art work.
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  • Profile picture of the author bleght
    There are a lot of photos that are free to use out there and other members have pointed out some useful resource. Additionally, you could also use some simple graphics to create your own image headings to go with your article. I've seen may people use PowerPoint or even MS Paint to do so, while more advanced users might go with PhotoShop. You don't need to create anything fancy, just a something simple and clean. It's fast and effective when you get the hang of it.
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  • Profile picture of the author ksmusselman
    Originally Posted by PatMullinTraining View Post


    I don't want any legal issues to arise so I often am left with cheap photos for the public to use on sites like pixabay.com
    Actually, Pixabay.com is one of the best places to find quality images. Don't sell them short!
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  • Profile picture of the author agmccall
    Use morguefile.com to get some images and use fotor.com or canva.com to make them your own

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  • Profile picture of the author samuelbreezey
    Hi

    Simply search for stock photos.

    If you do a google search type in Stock Photos and click on a few websites.

    You can do a free search on the sites so you can find which site offers you the photos you are after (the majority of the websites are pretty much the same but some may have different photos than others).

    I hope this helps
    Samuel
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