May 20 2008

Finding Royalty Free Photos

Published by at 7:00 am under Photography

If you enjoy photography, you are probably familiar with Flickr. It is one of the largest and best known photo sharing sites. In fact, Flickr was one of the pioneers of Web 2.0.

But, as with all things web, the sheer volume of content can make it hard to find what you need.

Say you are a travel agent. A simple Flickr search for an “ocean sunset” returns over 165,000 hits. Can you use all of those pictures in a You Tube video promoting your vacation package to Hawaii? Some of them? None of them? Who has time to sort through the licenses on 165,000 photographs?

If you add just two simple parameters to your Flickr search, you’ll not only narrow the search down to freely shared photos, you’ll find exactly those photos that are available for commercial use.

The video below shows you how:

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2 Responses to “Finding Royalty Free Photos”

  1. Ani Khachian says:
    May 22, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    Thank you for creating this insightful video. I especially liked how you provied an example of a Flicker search that one would at first think to be royalty free but upon a more careful review realizes is not.

  2. NicheMarketplace says:
    May 22, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    Awesome information, excellent presentation, and it couldn’t have come at a better time! I am always searching for royalty free photos to upload into for my Squidoo lens and, of course, for my new Blog. Thanks for making a difficult task easier. Great blog!

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