Why is the social media site Pinterest is becoming so much popular? What we can learn from the popularity of the Pinterest is this: people love to look at relevant, attractive images online. These are few of the benefits of adding image to you blog or website :
- Professional & attractive appearance
- Good amount of engagement
- Some SEO benefits using ALT attribute and carefully named your image file.
- Potential for additional traffic through Google Image, Pinterest and much more…..
After all this, you may ask where to find royalty free images or images which will be under the budget than you can freely use on you web properties?
Today, we see some of the sites to which lend the solution to find royalty free images. We will look at the little description of each this to help you find the perfect royalty free images for your blog or site, while staying legal and safe in the process
Note: Google Images looks easy place to start for finding the royalty free images but be cautious those images may or may not be free to use in blog or website.
List of Sites to find the Royalty Free Images
Creative Commons Search
Number of images are made available on web under the Creative Commons license.
There are different versions of licenses exist, which solely depend on the image owner. Generally, you are free to use their images on your blog as long as you credit their owners.
Creative Commons is powerful tool which helps you to track “free to use” stock photos from the giant sites like Flickr.
Using Creative Commons Search you can find large number royalty free images within no time.
Morgue File
Morgue File is a directory of images submitted by various photographers and illustrators to help other to by using there visual projects, this make one of the safest place to find royalty free images. Morgue files can only be used after some alteration, so there are only two ways to use these files
First, you can some editing tools like PicMonkey, to edit the image and after it you can use that image. Second, you can directly use these images but you must inform the owner of the usage and provide the link for them.
From their website:
“ You are free to:
Remix – to adapt the work.
Commercial – to use this work for commercial purposes.
Without Attribution – to use without attributing the original author.
Remix – to adapt the work.
Commercial – to use this work for commercial purposes.
Without Attribution – to use without attributing the original author.
Under the following conditions:
Stand- alone basis – You cannot sell, license, sublicense, rent, transfer or distribute this image exactly as it is without the alteration.
Ownership – You may not claim ownership of this image in its original state.”
Ownership – You may not claim ownership of this image in its original state.”
Before going further look on these:
Every Stock Photo
Every Stock Photo acts as a search engine which help to various royalty free images i.e. free to use. On upside of it, this is one of the best place to find specific kind of image, if have idea in mind. On the downside, each and every image has its own licence, which means you have dig little deeper when you find the image and you’d like to use and ensure that your proposed usage is permissible and ofcourse it should be legal.
Stock.XCHNG
Stock.XCHNG is arguably one of the best-known sources of free stock images for use by the website owners and the bloggers. Around 4 million royalty free images available on the site.
Overall usage policies at the SXC are fair for end users like you and me – generally you can use these images on your website but you need go through the license of each image before use.
From their website:
You may use the Image
In digital format on websites, multimedia presentations, broadcast film and video, cell phones.
In printed promotional materials, magazines, newspapers, books, brochures, flyers, CD/DVD covers, etc.
Along with your corporate identity on business cards, letterhead, etc.
To decorate your home, your office or any public place.
You may not use the Image
For pornographic, unlawful or other immoral purposes, for spreading hate or discrimination, or to defame or victimise other people, societies, cultures.
To endorse products and services if it depicts a person.
In a way that can give a bad name to SXC or the person(s) depicted on the Image.
As part of a trademark, service mark or logo.
In digital format on websites, multimedia presentations, broadcast film and video, cell phones.
In printed promotional materials, magazines, newspapers, books, brochures, flyers, CD/DVD covers, etc.
Along with your corporate identity on business cards, letterhead, etc.
To decorate your home, your office or any public place.
You may not use the Image
For pornographic, unlawful or other immoral purposes, for spreading hate or discrimination, or to defame or victimise other people, societies, cultures.
To endorse products and services if it depicts a person.
In a way that can give a bad name to SXC or the person(s) depicted on the Image.
As part of a trademark, service mark or logo.
Stock Vault
It house over 39K images which can be freely downloaded and also can be used freely.
The use of images on personal websites is acceptable though the image cannot used on the commercial websites. visit the site
From their website:
Can I use the images on my personal blog that has ads? Yes
Can I use the images on my company website? No
Can I use the images on my company blog? Only if you are not using them to promote your services.
Can I use the images for educational purposes? Yes
Can I use the images for charity projects? Yes
Can I use the images in a tutorial I’m writing? Yes, if you provide a link back to the image page.
Can I use the images to create image packs and give away on my own site? No
Can I use the images in a demo I’m creating? Yes
Can I use the images in paid smartphone apps? No
Can I use the images in free smartphone apps? Yes
Can I use the images on my company website? No
Can I use the images on my company blog? Only if you are not using them to promote your services.
Can I use the images for educational purposes? Yes
Can I use the images for charity projects? Yes
Can I use the images in a tutorial I’m writing? Yes, if you provide a link back to the image page.
Can I use the images to create image packs and give away on my own site? No
Can I use the images in a demo I’m creating? Yes
Can I use the images in paid smartphone apps? No
Can I use the images in free smartphone apps? Yes
How many of these are used by you to find Royalty free images? Which service do you use to find royalty free image? Do you have any suggestion on how to find Royalty free images ?
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