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Google Images. The most comprehensive image search on the web.
- Google Image Search – Filter by Usage Rights
- Flickr Creative Commons
- Unsplash
- FreeImages.com
- Create Your Own Images
- Screenshots
As I discussed in my post on optimizing images for SEO, you can find unlicensed images directly on Google. Just type your search query – today I’ll be looking for ‘cats that look like people’ because what the heck else is the internet good for… Then click on Search Tools, then Usage Rights and select Labeled for Reuse. It’s probably a good idea to ...
Flickris a massive user-generated resource for photography, with many professionals and semi-professionals showcasing their work here. You can search all the images by usage rights, and use any that are labelled with a Creative Commons licence. You just have to make sure you give full credit and link to the Flickr profile of the person who took the...
Unsplashimages are all copyright free, you just need to credit and link to the photographer. Image by Denys Nevozhai These are incredibly high-quality photos, so don’t be surprised if you see them crop up semi-regularly, but so far Unsplash seems to operate relatively under the radar.
The quality is a bit more hit-and-miss on FreeImages.com, but the search is easy to use, with handy filter options, and the free-to-use and premium images are clearly separated.
Alternatively, you could just create your own graphics, charts or infographics to make your posts more appealing. You can look through our favourites here: 17 data visualisation tools. Many of these are free, and in the case of Piktochart, incredibly easy to use…
If you’re writing ‘how-to-guides’ you could take screenshots of anything on your computer screen. There’s a Chrome extension called Awesome Screenshotthat allows you to take screenshots of your browser window (either partial or the whole web page) very easily, and you can annotate the image before downloading it. Or alternatively you can just press...
- Christopher Ratcliff
- Google Images. For many of us, Google Images is the first (and frequently the only) choice to find free images that are allowed for commercial use as well.
- CC Search. CC Search, short for Creative Commons Search, is one more great search engine for images licensed under the Creative Commons licenses. Though technically they might not be a search engine, as they themselves state explicitly, they offer results for multiple other sites, such as Europeans, Flickr, Google Images, Wikimedia Commons, Fotopedia, Open Clipart Gallery, Pixabay.
- Photo Pin. Flickr is arguably the largest single repository of free images on the web, and it isn’t surprising that several image search engines focus on it exclusively.
- PicFindr. Unlike many of the other services that call themselves ‘search engines’, even though they search Flickr only, PicFindr is more ambitious. It searches more than a dozen of sites for free imagery under a range of licenses (Creative Commons, GNU, and others).
1,050 Free images of Google. Find your perfect google image. Free pictures to download and use in your next project.
Google Advanced Image Search. Advanced Image Search. Find images with... all these words: this exact word or phrase: any of these words: none of these words: Then narrow your results...
Current status. Active. Google Images (previously Google Image Search) is a search engine owned by Google that allows users to search the World Wide Web for images. [1] It was introduced on July 12, 2001, due to a demand for pictures of the green Versace dress of Jennifer Lopez worn in February 2000.
