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Free Pictures for Blogging

Young woman eating chocolate

I like to use relevant and nice pictures with my blog posts. Here is a primer on web images on bloggingtips. Images play an integral part of the content of my blog. When you do use them, it helps to have them looking smooth. Here 7 tips for Better Integration of Images Within Your Content.

But now for some new discoveries of free pictures. PicApp is a photo resource site which has thousands of very high quality images which are available for bloggers to add to their blog posts for free. You can search for images. They are nicely displayed. When selecting an image your offered 4 choices. Embed your picture in your blog post, add it to a lightbox, send it to a friend by e-mail or share it with others on a social media site. The picture above this post is embedded with PicApp, you can select different sizes and lay out options before copying and pasting the image in your post. You can probably remove the link but for the sake of argument I have untouched the picture from PicApp.

flower on black

This picture is from Public Domain Pictures for free! This site can be viewed in different languages. It also has sponsored pictures for 0.83 euro. Prefer these kind of images without Java and/or links. What do you think?

You have probably already heard about LIFE photo archive hosted by Google.

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

martin-luther-king

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Free Photos

Loch Awe Scotland
Beautiful pictures accompanying a post draws attention to the message or vice versa. Finding a good picture that emphasizes the message of the post is hard to get. Sometimes if I am lucky I can use one of my own. For presentations I have a set self made photo’s about ECT.

Luckily there are few free photo sites such as:

  • FreeFoto.com The site uses the following categories: USA, Business, Europe, Nature, Transport, United Kingdom, and other.

    Our on-line images are covered by the Creative Commons license for non-commercial, no derivatives, attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). This provides for use in any media providing it is not for commercial purposes and they are not making a derivative image or gallery.ANYONE, by which we mean commercial and non-commercial alike, can use FreeFoto.com images in an online setting, providing they provide attribution to the image and a link back to FreeFoto.com (either the image or the main site).

    You will have to give your e-mail address, but than you can start the download. The picture is presented in a separate window were you can right click and save as.. The image above and below are from FreeFoto. It is Loch Awe in Scotland

  • A better site is freeimages.co.uk. All you have to do is join the mailing list and credit the source when using the image. I didn’t join the mailing list but could still use the images with a simple right click and save picture as….

  • On FreeStockPhotos.com you can only get photos with their name on it,

    Every FreeStockPhotos.com photograph used must retain the domain name: FreeStockPhotos.com when used on the Internet, in a web page, in printed publications, or in any product, advertising, or packaging. This credit, however, may be cropped out or digitally removed from the photograph if it is included in readable type near each photograph, group of photographs, in the text, or in the credits.

    Downloading them is easy. Just use right click with save picture as…

Did I mis any? Thanks