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Need Pictures for your Blog?

Bloggers know that an essential part of capturing a readers attention is pictures!

Pictures are a must-have for every blog. But where should you find your pictures at?

Along with Google Images and Flickr, a great site to find pictures to use for your Blog is PicApp.

PicApp has a wide selection of Creative (i.e. Stock Photography) and Editorial (i.e. photos of news, sport and entertainment events) Photos that are free and legal to use on your blog. Registration is not required!

Enjoy searching for the perfect picture!

Edit: As many people have commented about this I figured I should put it up here: As with written content you place on your blog, you also need to be careful of photos that you post on your blog. Flickr, Google Images, and other phtoo sites MAY be used but you first must check to see the photos are NOT copyrighted and ensure they can be used on your blog.

Posted by Toni House - Realtor Baton Rouge Real Estate Expert on 09/19/2008 08:01 PM

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56 Comments on Need Pictures for your Blog?

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Thanks for sharing - I always love to read your blogs - very good!

Toni,

Thanks for the info on where to get more pics for blogs. I am always searching for new sites that might just have the "right" pic I am looking for to add to my ever growing collection. ~Anne Marie

Toni, I know I haven't got one picture in my 60+ blogs. I tried a couple of times and for some reason, no picture. I have the pictures, they just won't post...

Toni~ Thanks for sharing with us the free use of picapp.com. Are you sure they are FREE? I am going to check it out right now! Thanks, Vickie

Toni. Thanks for the information on the pics. I am always looking. Royal..

Thank you so much for the info on picapp.com. I am constantly looking for pictures for my blog, and many times am worried about copyright infringement. I have this bookmarked for future reference. This will definately come in handy.

Thanks for your info about freebie photo websites - appreciate it. We are always looking for new resources for photos.

Just checked out the website, thanks!

Another great website is istockphotos.com. There is a charge, and I haven't checked out the websites you suggested, but I will check them also. Photos make all of the difference in the world!

Toni,

This is great information, Always looking for other sources for photos. I take my own when I can and use Microsoft images also.

Steve

Thanks for a new place to get images. I will check out the picapp.com. You can not just use a google image that comes up in a search, you must get permission from the owner of the image. I use a iclipart even though I pay a very low fee each year to use them, they are so easy to use, and their terms of use says you can use them for business. Congrats on your gold star:)

For free downloads try this site. I use it all the time.

www.sxc.hu

Trey Langford
www.BuildingCredibility.com

Toni, thanks for the info. Looks like a very useful site.

Toni, thanks for sharing this infomation.

Awesome, Toni. Thank you for posting this.

Thanks, Toni! I'm going to check out PicApp now!

As for Flickr, though, I thought photos posted there were copyrighted. Does anyone know for sure that they're okay to use?

Toni. I will view it later tonite, Just wrote a blog on taking photos when you are between appointments. Take a look at my blog and see if you know the spots aroiund New Orleans. www.neworleanscondotrends.com.

Your Bookmarked so I can check all of these out !!

Thanks you so much.

I appreciate this post Toni, I was just looking for a good place to find pictures besides Microsoft online. Thank you.

Thanks for the tip, I will check it out!

a good site -- little known -- I got an email from them verifying ability to use these pictures.

Great info - I'm always looking for a place I can get good pics I can use. I've never heard of that one, I'm off to take a look. THANKS!

Amber Gardner, Sherwood Oregon

PicApp is awesome. They have a wonderful collection of art and phots.

Toni-I hate to be a wet blanket but I was concerned when I saw that you suggested Flickr as a site to get free photos for your blog. Most photos on Flickr are copyright protected and should not be used. There are photos on Flickr that do allow for others to use and are marked with a creative commons license. Many will say that our blogs are "commercial" and limits the use of a number of photos from free sites.

The same applies to google images and when I read what is on the picap site I see they clearly say non-commercial use as well. We all have to be careful when we are randomly taking pictures from the web to use in our blogs. It is better to buy a subscription to a site then chance being hit with a copyright lawsuit.

Thanks for the tip!!! Maybe I can liven up my blog now. thanks!!!

Thanks for the tip! I took a quick peek and I'll be back for more

I appreicate all of the tips...yes, i need to liven up my blogs too..

google images, istockphoto, flickr etc should not be used. People have assumed copyright on anything they put up. I highly recommend you use these sites if you want to make sure the photos you use fall into the fair use category. Sites that offer royalty free stock photography will have fine print that explains one's purchase only allows you to use it for non-commercial reasons. Using Flickr images is currently a hot debated topic

And people are starting to complain

Flickr even tried to sell everyone's photographs last year between july 3rd and july 5th as wallpaper, etc

Yes they are being licensed through creative commons (CC) but it may not continue to hold up much longer based on the current trend. Basically what it means is: as long as you give credit via a link leading back to the page where it was found on flickr then it's ok... as of now.

There's currently a case pending against Virgin Mobile by Alison Chang who used her likeness in an ad. It's still pending but these kinds of cases may rise especially if she's granted a favorable settlement.

If you absolutely want to use flickr and don't care about any future reprocussions, then get the attribution license which grants commercial use of pictures. When they speak of profiting from the context of the image it refers to having it on a blog with the blog being your medium for getting customers and potentially earning compensation.

Once signed up you can browse through and see the latest pictures added.

Here you can see the different types of pictures available by license type.

I have to learn how to put pics in my blog as well. One thing at a time for me when it comes to technology. Karen usually helps(does)it for me.LOL.

Sincerely,

Bill

Thanks for the tip Toni. I had not heard of that site.

This is a great site! Thank you!

I'm so checking this out tonight...thanks so much!!!!!

All the best,

Beth

Toni - Thanks for the info on another site for photos. I'm always looking for new places to find pictues to post on my blog.

Thanks Toni! Even though I enjoy putting my own photos on my blog, sometimes ya just gotta find the right pic elsewhere--and free resources are the best! Thanks for sharing this with all of us.

Toni.. great blog topic... thank yuu for sharing the photo sources.

Hmmm....thanks for the tip, but I can see I better be careful with copyright.

Thanks for showing this info...I will use them!!!

Toni, thanks for an additional photo source. Always looking for more when I don't use my own.

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This is another lovely morsel of information...THANKS !

Thanks for sharing. It looks like a useful, lovely and safe site.

Toni -thx for the resource. I'm always looking for new resources for pix, especially free and legal ones.

will check picapp out thanks -- have used the others for years.

Always glad to find new sources. Interestingly enough, I didn't realize it was okay to use Flickr if they weren't copyrighted.

Thanks for the picapp tip. I'll check it out. I also like to take my own photos and use www.istockphoto. The small size is only $1.

Toni - thank for the info. I am not one to use a lot of photos or use them when they are my own. I may start adding photos if I don't get lost in the search (lol) of the photos. It does take time to find the right photo.

I wondered where so many great photos came from. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the info - I mostly take all of my own photos.

Hi Toni, Thanks for the source and also for the review of legal use of pics. Off I go .

I will be checking these sites out. Thanks for the tip!

I took a look at picapps and may be able to use it for some of my blogs. Thanks!

Thanks for letting us know about PicApp.com. From my personal experience (unfortunately) I know that Flickr considers AR blogs commercial, therefore you can't use their pictures, even with full attribution and link back to the author and all the other rules of "creative commons" license. Flickr could close ones account without notification and you could lose all your photos. I assume that if PicApp says only for noncommercial purposes -they view "commercial" the same way as Flickr. Google images come from different sources, and usually require permission of the photographer in writing. Like Katerina I use Iclipart.com to avoid any ambiguity about the allowable use.

Thank you Toni. As much as I like free pictures, I believe that we should shoot our own. They might not be perfect... but they are ours! Stay clear of legal responsabilities and accountabilities to the authors of those pictures, they might be free today... and not tomorrow. Once is posted here, it stays here forever!

Antonio & Alexia Cardenas "The Realtors In Motion" www.ListedByAntonio.com

One of the biggest challanges we found at Initial Underwriting posts has been the use of pictures. It seems that normal un-html messages deliver the message a lot easier and more powerful to the average clients. Correct me if I'm wrong, people like to have the simplicity sometimes.

Sincerely,

Ilya Bodner

Small Business Owner

Initial Underwriting

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Toni...

Thanks for the tip, I'm always looking for new places to get my pictures.

There did not seem to be a way to just click on the image and save it to my pictures, only embedded code, publish now, or put in your lightbox. Am I missing something, or can you not just download it to your picture file for later use?

I sometimes forget to come back so if you have the time would you put this on one of my blogs or e-mail me? I promise to retire the favor :-) Liz