Yes, I know about Google image search.
I have a difficult imagining what kind of photo/image would look good with my articles, unless I take the photo myself, and I rarely do.
Any suggestions?
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Where do you go to find good images for your articles?
Yes, I know about Google image search.
I have a difficult imagining what kind of photo/image would look good with my articles, unless I take the photo myself, and I rarely do.
Any suggestions?
It also depends on your search query with Google, I suggest being as blunt as possible about what you want. There is also Fiverr.com if you want to pay ($5) someone to make you a graphic, logo, or image.
Some easy places to find images is on Wikimedia Commons, or on any website that indicates the images are in the public domain, like nasa.gov for example. This means they have no copyright restrictions and you are free to edit them as you please without having to cite sources. Public domain pictures are best for custom blog cover images, or any place where citation is not easy to do.
A good place to find images for articles is on Flickr. You won’t be able to download photos that have copyright restrictions, but no worries! After you enter what you’re looking for in the search field (at the upper right-hand corner of your screen), choose “Creative Commons” by clicking the drop down menu next to “License” (This is located near the upper middle portion of your screen). The page will refresh with all images available for download. Some of these have further restrictions, so the best option is to check both “Commercial Use Allowed” and “Modifications Allowed” in that same drop down menu.
Now the most important step in this process is giving credit to the original uploader. You can do this by mentioning their name and providing a link to the original image. Under each photo on Flickr, there is a link that says “Some Rights Reserved” if you click that it will tell you what kind of license it has(for example, CC BY 2.0). You’ll need to provide a link to that as well, in addition to indicating whether or not any modifications were made.
There are various ways to do this, but for the sake of example, you could use this format:
The original image used to make the cover was taken by Collin Anderson (CC BY 2.0 — photoshopped).
iStockphoto used to be awesome but then they got pricey.
Dollarphotoclub is my new best friend. Thanks to @mariannecopenhaver for introducing me to them. $10/month subscription and then, yep, $1 per image.
Wikimedia Commons is also great on the free side of things.
Unsolicited Advice: So many of the ideas that come packaged in a libertarian article do not turn easily into an image. So don’t get bogged down in finding something that really expresses what you mean to say. Just find something that people will
(1) Click on
and
(2) Not feel betrayed when they read the article.
In years past, my trick when I was finding images for authors on a daily basis was, if the piece was abstract, just focus on a concrete metaphor the author uses and find an image of that.
Image Sources
http://yandex.com/images/
https://www.flickr.com/
http://www.bing.com/images/
http://searchnigeria.net/websearch/index.php?page=search/images
http://photobucket.com/
http://www.dreamstime.com/
http://www.dollarphotoclub.com/
Free Image Source w/out keywords
http://deathtothestockphoto.com/
http://unsplash.com/
http://www.imcreator.com/free
http://pixabay.com/
http://getrefe.tumblr.com/
http://www.stockvault.net/
http://www.gratisography.com/
http://www.rgbstock.com/
http://nos.twnsnd.co/
http://splitshire.com/
http://littlevisuals.co/
http://picjumbo.com/
http://compfight.com/
http://foter.com/
http://superfamous.com/
http://www.lifeofpix.com/
http://pickupimage.com/
http://snapographic.com/
