But I guess they forgot about their own school days when the textbook do not carry fanciful pictures and it bores students in class. You need appealing pictures so that those block of black letters which looks the same after reading two strong paragraph will just bore your readers away.
Image Credit:ern the ferle
But where can I get good quality pictures without putting myself at risk of getting into any copyright trouble?
As part of my series, I have listed 10 royalty free stock photo sites so that you can grab some excellent shots to use it as part of your blog post.
Make sure you run through the copyright restrictions on the photos you have chosen to use on your blog. Some of the "free" photos on these sites requires you to provide attribution. What you can do is to notify the photographer of your use of their photo or more. Always follow the copyright and creative commons licensing rules pertaining to any photo you use on your blog and obtain any necessary permissions.
Everystockphoto is like a mini search engine for photos from a number of other photobases which holds photos that can be used on your blog, but like I say, ensure you read the copyright restrictions before using them.
Flickr have to be the most commonly used among all of them presented here by me. I love the photos that are taken by the photography and I will always drop them a link even when there is no attribution saying there is a must to offer them credits.
Gettyimages got to be one of the best sorted out photo sites found. I like how they neatly categorize the different things on their website which can be easily navigated, they also do have a large amount of photo collection.
Browse through the Stock Xchng categories of their huge gallery containing over 370,000 quality stock photos by more than 30,000 photographers!
PhotoGen is regularly updated with new quality, high-resolution free photos and images. Register before you download the photos.
If you need high resolution backgrounds for your template or desktop. Background Archive is the place to download free tileable and desktop wallpapers and Myspace backgrounds.
I did not really like the website layout, I thought they could have used some of their photos in their wide collection and do some better touch up. Otherwise Imageafter gives you a nice list of photos.
Corbis is offering royalty free pictures categorized into Rights Managed, Royalty-Free, Photography, Illustration, Color, Black & White, Only Model-Released, Only Images on CD, Collections Search.
JuptierImages is offering premier rights-managed, royalty-free and subscription stock photos backed by friendly service.
All of Freedigitalphoto photos are free for commercial and personal use. You can also make a good commission if you are a photography who is willing to sell your work to them.
Do you have anymore interesting free royalty photo sites to share? I would like to hear from you.
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17 Responses to "10 Exceptional Sites Producing Vibrant And Astonishing Free Royalty Photos"
October 3, 2008 11:36 AM
Don't forget about morgueFile.
Nice compilation! I'll be sure to bookmark them. :)
Thanks for the compilation of the photo sites!
Amazing list, thanks!
October 7, 2008 12:57 PM
I didnt know that very well thanks for the post to make me know about that.
October 11, 2008 8:27 PM
Wonderful thing. I am really saved by the opportunity.
November 10, 2008 5:35 PM
Never knew there were so many good ones. Of these I've heard only flickr. Great list!
July 4, 2009 7:24 PM
Some of my favorite sites here!
August 25, 2009 3:13 PM
These are the sights that offer a wide range of pictures, suitable for quite different purposes. Corbis, Flickr & Getty have the kinda cool search options too. I like them. I certainly will use the rest as well next time I would need images, pictures etc.
October 12, 2009 7:40 AM
Fantastic list! Thanks very much
November 25, 2009 7:16 PM
Flickr works the best followed by Imageshack(not mentioned on the list).
December 22, 2009 5:52 AM
All of these are excellent sites. Just make sure to contact the owner of the images before you go posting them.
January 6, 2010 5:53 PM
I do not have much knowledge regarding this sort of photos. But i know all this sites are good.Good job.
February 3, 2010 1:36 PM
Amazing list, thanks!
March 11, 2010 5:52 PM
Thanks for the compilation of the photo sites!
March 18, 2010 12:57 PM
nice one thanks!
March 22, 2010 12:18 PM
Flickr works the best
March 28, 2010 6:34 AM
thanks for the good info. I will add this to my tool box.
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