Where to get free pictures for websites

[richinri]

wow...did this thread miss google search? Select images and you can search for anything including pics with transparency and animated gifs. Some you can't use but I usually always find something to use very quickly.

[PeteS]

Google image search is not a list of stock images. Very rarely can you find one that you are licensed to use for free from it.

[gwpriester]

wow...did this thread miss google search? Select images and you can search for anything including pics with transparency and animated gifs. Some you can't use but I usually always find something to use very quickly.

Are you familiar with copyrights ©?

[marcelrobi]

I get a lot of clients saying just use google images, gwpriester is right on the money with his last post. You have to be careful on what pictures you use.

[gwpriester]

gwpriester frequently does a Google search for 3D stereograms and finds many of his image being used without permission--one person even had a Kindle book, of my images. And then gwpriester has to spend time to have those images removed. The Kindle book came down in under 12 hours and the so-called author I am sure got an ear full.

richinri - Go to Amazon.com and buy a copy of Electronic Highway Robbery - An artists guide to copyrights in the digital era by Mary E. Carter. A very bright person who is near and dear to my heart.

[Big Frank]

corbis and getty are your friends... not
so be warned

[mwenz]

corbis and getty are your friends... not
so be warned

Well, maybe Getty is getting warm to the subject. From another forum.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...ctions/278655/

Mike

[Big Frank]

The digital images -- of paintings by Van Gogh, drawings by Rembrandt, and watercolors by Dürer -- had already fallen into the public domain, but the Getty's program makes their digital reproductions much easier to use on the web.

Hmm... perhaps not the frostbitten Getty we're used to, but still very, very cold and nowhere near close to thawing out just yet.

[mwenz]

I would say they are no longer a frozen block of ice. True, what they are releasing are in the public domain, but their digital images are nicer than I have seen around the web. There is some value in that.

It will be interesting to see the next several thousand come online. Takes money to serve what is going to be a large bandwidth hit.

[richinri]

as I stated in my post on google search......some you can't use. But it is a rare event that I can't find one I can use.