Image Resources – Tips for your Website https://tipsforyourwebsite.com Tips for websites success Fri, 19 Jan 2018 04:59:33 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 another great free Image site pexels.com https://tipsforyourwebsite.com/another-great-free-image-site-pexels-com/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 04:59:11 +0000 https://tipsforyourwebsite.com/?p=428 Pexels.com is another new free image resource that have photographers contributing their images to. You can . “pay them back” 3 ways.  By giving the photographer a Tweet or instagram follow and comment or a link back- which is all too easy 🙂 The copyright licensing is all CCO Licenced so you know exactly where you stand and what you can and can’t do.

The site itself makes it very easy to search for images and download them. There is no need to sign up for an account and be bombarded with the spam. So check them out at Pexels.com

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]]> Another great free image resource site www.stockio.com https://tipsforyourwebsite.com/another-great-free-image-resource-site-www-stockio-com/ Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:41:40 +0000 https://tipsforyourwebsite.com/?p=411 Stockio has not only free images but also vectors, videos, icons and fonts. You don’t even have to open an account but the advantages of opening an account are that you can create your own online image library of resources.

Standard copyright rules apply such as you can’t onsell or use any of the images in products that are onsold for example website templates, calender’s etc

]]> Free Images from freeimages.com https://tipsforyourwebsite.com/free-images-from-freeimages-com/ Sun, 20 Aug 2017 03:32:13 +0000 https://tipsforyourwebsite.com/?p=400 Free images has a great collection of free images as well as links to stock image library’s such as istock. You do need to create an account (no payment details or anything required) in order to be able to download the images but based on the fact that the images are free and only require attribution when used in editorial works then it is a small “price” to pay.

As per most image library’s terms of use you can not use them in any type of product which you are onselling eg website templates, calenders etc but you can use them in your own and clients commercial work.

]]> Free images and videos from Pixabay https://tipsforyourwebsite.com/free-images-and-videos-from-pixabay/ Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:40:56 +0000 https://tipsforyourwebsite.com/?p=210 All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CCO. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.

Pixabay does have some premium images in their results but these are clearly marked with the shutterstock watermark so you can’t accidentally download and use an image that is not available for use under the Creative Commons license.

As with the other image resources we have listed on this website (www.tipsforyourwebsite.com) you don’t even have to sign up for an account.

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]]> Free image resource stocksnap.io https://tipsforyourwebsite.com/free-image-resource-stocksnap-io/ Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:27:17 +0000 https://tipsforyourwebsite.com/?p=207 stocksnap.io is another awesome website which you can download free images from and you don’t need to attribute where they come from or the photographer (although I think it would be nice if you did 🙂 and they are copyright free.

All their photos that are uploaded to the site are released under Creative Commons – CCO and do not require attribution.  Basically it means that you can copy, modify, distribute any photo on the site, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission!

All of the images are high resolution and definitely big enough and of good enough quality to use in a web project.

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]]> FreeDigitalPhotos.Net -free and paid for images https://tipsforyourwebsite.com/freedigitalphotos-net-free-and-paid-for-images/ Thu, 12 May 2016 23:01:59 +0000 https://tipsforyourwebsite.com/?p=156 freedigitalphotos.net is a great resource for free digital images if you don’t need them to be too big (generally the max size width or height of the free versions is 400px) and you provide an attribution to where the images came from. You can buy the images to remove the requirement of attribution and also purchase hi-res and extended licenses if this is what your project requires. The website is ad supported and is Securi Certified that they are malware free and do not have direct links to webpages that contain malware. Securi in itself deserves it own post in the resources section which coming soon)

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]]> Free Images from Unsplash https://tipsforyourwebsite.com/free-images-from-unsplash/ Thu, 12 May 2016 22:47:37 +0000 https://tipsforyourwebsite.com/?p=151 The team at Unsplash add 10 new FREE hi res images every day to the site for you to do anything at all with- use them on websites, product packaging anything at all. The site is ad free and while the photographers submit their photos for free it actually costs the developers at crew.co around US $18,000 a month to run (this doesn’t include labour costs this is just their fixed hosting relating costs) so do the right thing and include attribution to Unsplash and the photographers if you use any of the photos 🙂

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Unsplash.com-beautiful free hi res images

The developers also have got a great blog with some really interesting articles that you can read here.

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