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12:48 am March 13, 2012
| Analytical Planner
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Hello All, I'm pretty new around here. Actually I'm pretty new to blogging, too. Anyway, I've been reading a lot of information around the Yakezie forum, but I can't seem to find an answer.
Where do you get photos for your blog? I mean, other than your own? It's hard to keep anonymous if I put my own pictures
Also, how do you give credit for pictures you might get around the internet? I want to make sure I don't take credit for other people's work.
Thanks!
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2:02 am March 13, 2012
| theycallmecheap
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You can get a ton of free photos that are under a Creative Commons license on Flickr. Although the images are free, I don't use them very often because it's hard to find good ones. Users are terrible at tagging their images to make them more search friendly.
I get a lot of images from DepositPhotos. There's a wide selection of high quality images for only $0.50.
You should also check out the Wikipedia page of Public Domain Image Resources.
For photo credit, I'll either add the photo credit to the caption on the image or at the bottom of the blog post. It doesn't get much more complicated than adding a line like "Photo by John Smith". Remember to make sure you follow the attribution requirements of the image's owner such as linking back to their website.
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9:54 am March 13, 2012
| Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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Flickr Creative Commons has a huge library free with attribution
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10:44 am March 13, 2012
| Mike – Saving Money Today
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theycallmecheap said:
I get a lot of images from DepositPhotos. There's a wide selection of high quality images for only $0.50.
Great find! i use istockphotos.com a lot but they are a little pricier. I just browsed around DepositPhotos and they have some nice looking stuff.
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11:57 am March 13, 2012
| sooverthis
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I get most of mine from Morguefile – the images are free with no attribution required.
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5:35 pm March 13, 2012
| jaicatalano
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I would do what I do… take a photo and photoshop your image in it. Then you have no worries.
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6:21 pm March 13, 2012
| Andi B.
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When I can't use my own photos I use a plug-in called Zemanta. It's available for wordpress and blogger, and it automatically attributes the photo.
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6:58 pm March 13, 2012
| Edward Antrobus
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I click the option for "free to share" under usage rights option in Google Advanced Search. Flickr content is indexed by Google, plus some other sites. Lately, however, I've been lazy and just using Zemanta.
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7:35 pm March 13, 2012
| Smart Wealth
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I have used creative commons so far but struggle to find an interesting image or photo, I will start using some of the suggested sites mentioned in this post
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7:37 pm March 13, 2012
| Analytical Planner
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theycallmecheap said:
You can get a ton of free photos that are under a Creative Commons license on Flickr. Although the images are free, I don't use them very often because it's hard to find good ones. Users are terrible at tagging their images to make them more search friendly.
I get a lot of images from DepositPhotos. There's a wide selection of high quality images for only $0.50.
You should also check out the Wikipedia page of Public Domain Image Resources.
For photo credit, I'll either add the photo credit to the caption on the image or at the bottom of the blog post. It doesn't get much more complicated than adding a line like "Photo by John Smith". Remember to make sure you follow the attribution requirements of the image's owner such as linking back to their website.
Oh, those are good suggestions. I think I will use some free ones first to get pictures for my post tomorrow. I'll let you know how it works out. Thanks for your help!
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7:39 pm March 13, 2012
| Analytical Planner
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sooverdebt said:
I get most of mine from Morguefile – the images are free with no attribution required.
Thanks for the suggestion! Another place for me to check out. Yay!
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7:41 pm March 13, 2012
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jaicatalano said:
I would do what I do… take a photo and photoshop your image in it. Then you have no worries.
I've thought about buying photoshop, but I haven't yet. That might be a good solutions because I have tons of pictures. It might be fun learning to manipulate different pictures. Thanks for the suggestion!
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7:44 pm March 13, 2012
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Andi B. said:
When I can't use my own photos I use a plug-in called Zemanta. It's available for wordpress and blogger, and it automatically attributes the photo.
After reading this comment I had to go check out this plug-in! I found a couple of pictures I can use for tomorrow's post. Do you know what it means when it asks for the folder to save the pictures to? Thank you!
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7:46 pm March 13, 2012
| Analytical Planner
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Now that I have a few places to find pictures, do you think it would be a good idea to go back to old posts and add pictures? So far I think I about 25 posts.
Thank you for all the suggestions and replies!
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9:27 am March 14, 2012
| John @ Married with Debt
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I second the vote for MorgueFile.
Lately I've been making my own images in MS Paint. It's fun and you don't have to worry about getting sued.
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5:45 am March 15, 2012
| jaicatalano
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I take mine and also design them from other.
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1:15 pm March 16, 2012
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John @ Married with Debt said:
I second the vote for MorgueFile.
Lately I've been making my own images in MS Paint. It's fun and you don't have to worry about getting sued.
I've used MS Paint to do a couple of things or to edit a picture, but I'm not very artistic. I'm better at numbers and such.
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6:00 am March 21, 2012
| GoodCentsSavings
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Analytical Planner said:
jaicatalano said:
I would do what I do… take a photo and photoshop your image in it. Then you have no worries.
I've thought about buying photoshop, but I haven't yet. That might be a good solutions because I have tons of pictures. It might be fun learning to manipulate different pictures. Thanks for the suggestion!
If you don't have the budget for photoshop check out the Creative Kit in Google+. It's free and you can do some pretty cool photo editing (change the exposure, size, add text, etc.) and is super easy to use.
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6:43 am March 25, 2012
| Financial Management Blog
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Hi,
I get my images and photos in some websites that offer free download, some you have to make a link back to their site while others are ok to have none. Here are some of those sites: http://stockvault.net/, http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/ and http://www.sxc.hu/
Hope it helps!
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8:44 am March 25, 2012
| The Family CEO
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I use mostly my own photos now, but in the past I've used many from Stock.xchng:
http://www.sxc.hu/
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