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  • A Complete Guide to Finding and Using Incredible Flickr Images
  • Google images

    It’s hard to guard yourself against copyright infringement when using Google Images. A page does not have to list copyright information for an image to be considered copyrighted. It’s also very difficult to know the original source of an image.
  • Stock photos

    While stock photos don’t put you at risk of getting in trouble, there are two key drawbacks: they often cost money, secondly, they’re often bland and formulaic. They’re so well-matched to business-friendly keywords like ‘honesty’, ‘environmentally friendly’ and ’success’ that most seem highly contrived.
  • he starting point of your search for Flickr’s best photos will be the Flickr: Creative Commons page. From there, you can enter search portals for each of the six CC licenses.

  • Let’s use the search page for Attribution Licensed photos as a test case. Open the link in a new window or tab and search for the keyword ‘yellow’. This will search the tags and title of each image for matches. You’ll be returned with a bunch of ‘most relevant’ results, but nothing particularly interesting.


    Now, click the ‘most interesting’ link above the thumbnails

  • Now, click the ‘most interesting’ link above the thumbnails. The search algorithm changes and returns images for that keyword with the most buzz around them (comments and favorites, I suspect). As you can see, the images are of a much higher quality.


    Within seconds, I have a gorgeous, targeted photo to use with a blog post — or wherever you’d like to use it.

  • on 2008-02-20 Alexolbers
    All about how you can quickly and easily find Flickr’s best images to suit your needs, whether it’s for a blog post, an eBook, a design, an artwork or anything else. Secondly, I want to explain how Creative Commons works for Flickr images — and what that means for you.
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