As a blogger for blog posts copyright free images for blogs
or royalty free images is a big issue for many of us. Because to get high rank
in search engine a blog should have unique content on it. Today, if we use
other’s copyrighted images then we may caught by google in any next algorithms
update. There are many sources on internet from where you can get copyright
free photos or images. Using these images you don’t need to publish any credit
link of creator or website. This is very hot topic on internet that “how to get
copyright free photos or non-copyrighted images for free”.
What is meant by copyrights of images?
If a photographer or graphic designer publish his photos
or images on any website or blog then he mentions some limits that how this
image access by public free or paid. Or using of that image for personal or
professional? The designer/photographer defines this criteria.
The most common copyrights using for online content is Creative
Common or CC. There are different versions of CC license. For example Creative
Common 2.0. There are many graphic sites using this CC 2.0 which provide free
images only for Personal. But if we use these images for commercial then we
need to put Credit or Attribution of copyright holder.
Free images for Blog Posts?
Now, I am going to show a list of sources that provides
images with this right that you can use that images everywhere personal and
commercial use or modify that images without giving any credit/attribution to
its original author/creator. Because these sources provide images or graphics
with Creative Common 0 or CC 0. Now, you don’t need to pay heavy amount to paid
sources of images like ShutterStock, istockphoto, fotolia, Gettyimages and many
more.
These are free image providers:
1 unSplash
If you need high resolution images then unsplash is
heaven for you. Unsplash publish/upload 10 new images with high resolution in
10 days. These images are licensed under Creative Commons Public Domain License.
2 SplitShire
SplitShire is a stock of charming and high Defination
images. SplitShire also provides free images under license Creative Common
Public Domain. You can use these images for your personal and commercial use
without any credit of creator.
3 PixAbay
PixAbay is most popular royalty free image stock on
internet which gives you rights to use its images for any purpose which may be
Personal or Commercial. You don’t need to pay or credit of original author.
4 PublicDomainArchive.com
PublicDomainArchive.com is also a free image stock.
PublicDomainArchive’s images are cool and close to nature.
5 imFree
The last online image stock is imFree.
Modification
Some images
contains logos or links, you can easily remove these logos, names or links by
using tools like Photoshop or any other. There are different techniques to
modify or remove these logos by cropping or Eraser tool etc. You can also put
the link of your site or Logo.