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Free Images: Where To Find Royalty Free Stock Photos For Your Blog - Mini-Guide, Part 1

Free Images: Where To Find Royalty Free Stock Photos For Your Blog - Mini-Guide, Part 1
Where to find free images for your website or blog may be a challenging task if you don't know where to look. And even if you find such images, a million questions come to mind: are the images copyrighted? May I use them on a product I want to sell? Do I need to credit the photographer? In this MasterNewMedia guide I would like to help you by sharing a) some recommendations for all independent web publishers out there and b) a list of the best free and paid image libraries available on the Internet. Photo credit: Darren Hester

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