You often blog and find images for make your post more nice, you can not find a good photos, so you go to Google Images search and select the good one. But it is not legal, and it will effect with your business. Why? Example: your Website make money with Google AdSense and you use photo from Google Image search without ask owner permission, some owners report it to Google AdSense and then they ban you. You lose your monthly income with a crazy thing. How to prevent that, you can use free photo service for use for your blog, your business, if they require to ask owner or have a credit links for them, just do it. I collect and select the 21 following best free images service for your website:
1. http://sxc.hu/ This is the best service, I use most free photo from them, but you may look at their usage option before use it.
2. http://www.photorack.net The good resources with more than 20k quality photo
3. http://www.4freephotos.com Public domain and free photo, it created by a group of photographer which want to share with the public
4. http://search.creativecommons.org You use it for search free photos with creative common license
5. http://www.public-domain-image.com This is public domain photos. You can use it for free.
6. http://www.clipart-history.com Free public domain about history
7. http://antiqueclipart.com Free clip part public domain of Victorian, and Edwardian era
8. http://www.morguefile.com It is similar to sxc.hu
9. http://images.google.com/hosted/life The images of Life Magazine from 19th centuty
10. http://www.everystockphoto.com/ You can search a lot of free photo, it may require your credit
11. http://freerangestock.com/ Free photo, you can not redistribute, or offer on print products
12. http://www.freefoto.com/ it is license under Creative common Attribution-NonCommercial
13. http://freephotosbank.com/ require credit to author
14. http://www.bigfoto.com/ you need to provide a link to their website
15. http://www.freeimages.co.uk/ you need credit to their website
16. http://www.freepixels.com you can use it for free but can not resell, use a part of trade mark, logo
17. http://www.freedigitalphotos.net free photo with attribute, but if you want more quality for design or print you must buy from them
18. http://www.rgbstock.com/ free photo, if you want to use for print as site like Zazzle, you must ask author
19. http://www.myfreedigitalphotos.com/
20. http://freeartisticphotos.com/ you must link back to their website
21. http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic98.htm A good list of public domain and free photos.
Most of them are FREE. With this list you can never buy photos for your website. If you want to have more quality photos quickly, you can go to stock photo website and buy it with the cheap price.
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