6 Resources for Finding Free Images

[mandy]

Whether you design web sites for a living, put together product brochures, or just maintain a blog, you’re likely to find yourself wanting to incorporate pictures as part of your web work. Unless you’re a photographer, this means finding images from other people - and most critically, finding images that you can legally use.

Just finding an image you like on the web and downloading it is a recipe for disaster (or at least lawbreaking). Remember, photographs are copyrighted the moment they are taken. This means that it’s not enough to look for a photo that appears to be OK for you to use. To be truly safe, you need to find images with explicit licenses that give you the rights to use them (Creative Commons licenses being the most common these days). Fortunately, there are good ways to quickly locate images that are OK for you to use.ScreenshotStock.XCHNG is the best site I know of for finding free stock photography - they’ve got over 350,000 free photos online..

full article: http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/05/25/6-r...ee-images/