Saturday, May 23, 2009

Access to Royalty-Free Images.... Legally.

Also wanted to share this link, knowing all too often we snag images from Google or various parts of the Internet -- and that can end up getting you into trouble. It's unlikely, but if you wanna be sure you're using some images legally, there are a few options...

The one I like to use is: iStockPhoto.

A few things:
  1. They have Photos, Illustrations, Vector-Formatted images, Flash animations, Audio files, etc.
  2. Pricing is pretty reasonable -- you can download a small image for around a buck. And that gives you pretty much free reign on use. Unless you wanna print it an indefinite number of times.
  3. If you do some digging yourself, you'll find that the images are pretty easy to search for. For instance, if you search for something like "Computers Green" you'll get quite a few images, most of them all with computers and with a large green component... So if you're trying to match stuff, it could be pretty easy.
I recently spruced up my website on campus, and my own blog with a few images -- and it was so cheap. :-) Guaranteed not to get a letter from someone's lawyer down the road, "You need to stop using those images..."

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