Developers, designers, writers, bloggers, students, there are many people who need images but don't know whether or not they can use a certain photograph they have found on the Internet. It is very common - more than you can imagine - for someone to hesitate whether or not to use a photograph for fear that it has copyright and they end up getting into trouble. How can we solve this? Using images Creative Commons, that is, 'copyright-free' images.
The authors of these photographs have decided that anyone can use them, always respecting their authorship. And here I have decided to compile some of the Creative Commons image banks most interesting images that, today, we can find on the Internet - so that you don't have to go through a headache every time you find a nice image. To access each website and download the photographs you like the most, simply click on its name.
Beware! There are different types of 'CC', in general images cannot be used for commercial use, nor can they be modified and the authorship of the image must be respected, indicating who is the author of it.
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Unsplash
Although the notice I just mentioned does not work on sites like Unsplash, which use the license Creative Commons Zero -you can do whatever you want with the images. «Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.» This is how it is headed Unsplash.com, a site where 10 new royalty-free images are published every ten days. The vast majority are landscapes, ¡but what landscapes!
Mojito by Dave Meier – Picography
Picography
Wow, it looks like Unsplash! With a blog-type design, in Picography We can find a wide variety of images. Despite its similarity to Unsplash, it seems that in this image bank they prefer objects rather than landscapes - and they add images more frequently. Your photos are also for to do whatever you wantTherefore you will not encounter copyright restrictions.
Something curious about the site is that they give you information on how each photograph was taken, such as its camera, aperture speed, ISO, and so on.
Off in the Distance by Kyle.Greaves – Flickr
Flickr
What would we be without Flickr!? The social photography network also has the possibility of publishing Creative Commons images. And they also make your search easier. In order to find all these CC photographs we will have to go to Advanced search engine and check the box 'Search only within content licensed under Creative Commons'.
Brightness by Dasha – Stockvault
StockVault
Tens of thousands of free photographs - and also many paid ones -, that is what we will find in StockVault. This image bank will allow us to explore the different categories or use its search engine to find what we need. It will show us at the beginning and end of each page two lines of paid photographs -yes, the ones with a gray background- and between them the free images.
Gratisography
Gratisography
Not only have we found a site where we can see thousands of incredible free images, we have also found a page that makes navigation much easier for us. If you want to go straight for a CC photo, Gratisography perhaps it is the best option to get it.
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