Twelve Places to Find Images for Your Website

Images have become a vital component of online content over the last ten years. This is partly due to the increase in internet speeds and partly due to the rise in popularity of sharing content on social media services. From a reading perspective, images are important as they break up long articles and make it easier to digest information. Finding images for posts on Elegant Themes has not been difficult for me as I have been reviewing a lot of plugins and services. One of the stumbling points for many website owners is the uncertainty over whether an image can be used or not. You should therefore avoid searching for images using tools such as Google Images, as many of the images that you will find through the service have been used illegally. Let us take a quick look at the most common licenses that you will see for images: Public Domain – Images in which the intellectual property rights have expired or images in which the owner has released them to the public domain free of charge. 1.

NIH Image Bank - National Institutes of Health Picture This: Free Images for Use on the Web By Bonny Clayton, Your Web Chick Navigating the Web for photos to populate your website, company newsletter, or other marketing tools can be like tip-toeing through a minefield. You might emerge on the other side completely unscathed, but one wrong step can blow up into a legal morass. Just about everyone has, shall we say, appropriated an image from another website at one time or another. Think about Shepard Fairey. Even if you’re not using an image directly to sell things, you may still be guilty of stealing someone’s intellectual property. Beyond iStockPhoto, Shutterstock and other heavy hitters, here are a few sources for photographs that won’t blow up your marketing budget: Unsplash doesn’t have thousands of images (yet) and it’ll take you a good 20 minutes to “scroll” through what’s on the front page, but if you go to Archive, you’ll see thumbnails of everything that’s on the site. Gratisography – Get free high-res pictures you can use on your personal or business projects.

Show Me How To Play - Love it. Learn it. Play it. Internet Archive uploads more than 14 million public domain images to Flickr Kalev Leetaru programatically recovered all the images that were discarded by the OCR program that digitizes the millions of public domain books scanned by the Archive; these were cropped, cleaned up, and uploaded to Flickr with the text that appears before and after them, and links to see their whole scanned page. The resulting mosiac is just wonderful, like browsing Sean Tejaratchi's great zine Crap Hound, but weirder and more serendipitous. And each image is richly annotated with metadata, freely re-usable, and is a gateway to a book that you can have for free. Internet Archive Book Images (via Ars Technica) Over 2 Million Historical Pictures Are Now Available on Flickr September 2, 2014Internet Archive Book Images features over 2 millions historical pictures on Flickr. This tremendous work has been done by Kalev Leetaru from Georgetown University. The pictures and drawings included in this resource are extracted from over 600 million library book pages scanned in by the Internet Archive organization. Recognizing the fact that the digitization of the human knowledge has overlooked the presence of pictures in most of the books and works that were turned into PDF formats, Kalev took it upon him to source the pictures that are buried within these digitized books and arrange them in a format that can be easily searched and accessed. Kalev's project is sponsored by Yahoo, the owner of Flickr. "For all these years all the libraries have been digitising their books, but they have been putting them up as PDFs or text searchable works," he told the BBC. Kalev has uploaded over 2.6 millions pictures that range from the year 1500 to 1922. Courtesy of BBC