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Free pictures for blog?

by Tijs
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Hi everyone,

I'd like to put pictures into the articles I write. I find it pretty hard to find nice pictures with a free to use license. How do you go about this?

Cheers,
Tijs
#blog #free #pictures
  • Profile picture of the author Steve B
    Do a search here at the forum for threads related to free images for web sites and you will find a ton of posts specifically about this subject.

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  • Profile picture of the author MarketMaster13
    You can just use google images and flicker and get images you want But not sure about licensing.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      What Steve said ^^^.

      If you use the advanced search function to do three searches of the Main Marketing Forum only, looking respectively for threads with the words "Images", "Photos" and "Pictures" in their titles, I think you'll quickly find almost endless resources answering your exact question.

      Originally Posted by MarketMaster13 View Post

      You can just use google images and flicker and get images you want
      "See you in court".
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  • Profile picture of the author Mogly
    I'm pretty sure using google images for pictures and just throwing them on your blog is totally against copyright.
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  • Profile picture of the author seobro
    I use man cray. They have embed with re size. Pinterest use to be super. However, they went ahead and got rid of the re size option so it is rare we use em any more.
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  • Profile picture of the author Long Beach Nathan
    Check out Pixabay. That's what I use. For free pictures, alot of the stuff isn't bad.
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    • Profile picture of the author geekyfox
      Just tried pixabay - they seem to redirect you to shutterstock - am I doing it wrong?
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  • Profile picture of the author Nerdygirl226
    take any photo using Google images
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Nerdygirl226 View Post

      take any photo using Google images
      Why do so many people imagine this is a safe, legal, ethical, moral or sensible thing to do?!
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  • Profile picture of the author djtrillian
    I do a weekly newsletter and need little images for the articles and what I usually do is just use Google advanced search, down near the bottom you can filter searches by license restrictions, so choose 'free to use and share' and then you should be given only results that are not restricted by a license. Wikipedia is also good for this sometimes as they'll feature images that are free of any copyright.

    We also buy big libraries of stock images from Digital Juice, so I use a lot of those whenever possible. The Digital Juice stuff is very nice, lots of composited arty stuff, it just depends on the kinds of things you need.
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  • Profile picture of the author IanGreenwood
    I can't believe that there are people here giving you advice just to steal images from a Google search!

    (I don't include djtrillian's advice in this. He / She is obviously using Google's images in the right way by searching for images which have specific licence terms and conditions)

    Do not just use Google images striaght from a search. Most images are copyright and you cannot just use them as you like. You could be served up with a heavy lawyers letter!!! or worse.

    Go to flickr on the link below and you can search for images under the creative commons licence. Generally this will let you share the image royalty free. Please check out the licence terms for any image you want to use. Generally, most creative commons images can be used for non commercial purposes freely so long as you comply with the licence terms.

    You can also use the link facility in flickr for displaying the image on your blog. This cuts out all the copying and uploading of images.

    http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/
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  • Profile picture of the author kindsvater
    What is the topic of your articles?
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  • Profile picture of the author roomservice
    This is a great free source:
    Morguefile.com free stock photos
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  • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
    Cameras are great for producing free images. It's not hard to take decent pictures with a camera phone or an automatic point and shoot camera.
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    :)

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  • Profile picture of the author SaraHendren
    I like articles that have images. When reading a dull article, an image could be quite relieving. But, the pictures you get from a Google search :

    - generally require a license
    - the ones that are free are generally full of cliches, lacking originality.

    I would recommend you to make your own pictures. Would that take too much time?
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  • Profile picture of the author createyouwealth
    You can do a google search and go to advance search options and adjust the google search results to only return free to use images.
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  • Profile picture of the author Johnny12345
    If you steal images, here's what may happen to you...

    I know an ophthalmologist who hired a guy to create his web site. A short time later, he was sued. The web designer used a stolen image on the doctor's new site.

    To settle the infringement case, the doctor had to pay $3,200. (And, let me tell you, he wasn't too happy about it!)

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  • Profile picture of the author geekyfox
    Not sure if there are easily available free images, came across:Dreamstime Stock Photos & Images: Download Stock Photography, Royalty Free Images And Vector Illustrations
    they aren't free, but very reasonably priced.

    Free cheese is only in the mousetrap!
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by Nerdygirl226 View Post

      take any photo using Google images
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Why do so many people imagine this is a safe, legal, ethical, moral or sensible thing to do?!
      They get their information from the night school version of the Urban Myth School of Internet Marketing. Specifically from a course called "Copyright Violation 101 - It's Easier to Ask Forgiveness Than Permission"...
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  • Profile picture of the author TheProgrammer
    Originally Posted by Tijs View Post

    Hi everyone,

    I'd like to put pictures into the articles I write. I find it pretty hard to find nice pictures with a free to use license. How do you go about this?

    Cheers,
    Tijs
    Here's the list of top 10 websites to find free images for you blog posts

    1. EverstockPhoto [http://www.everstockphoto.com]
    2. Stock.XCHNG [http://www.sxc.hu]
    3. Free Photos Bank [http://freephotosbank.com]
    4. Photo Pin [http://photopin.com]
    5. Freedigitalphoto.net [http://www.freedigitalphotos.net]
    6. Foter [http://foter.com]
    7. Unprofound [http://www.unprofound.com]
    8. Comp Fight [http://compfight.com]
    9. Morguefile [http://morguefile.com]
    10. Stockvault [http://www.stockvault.net/]
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