Free logos, images and image editors online

So it seems most newbies like myself ask this question about where to get free images online without worrying about copyright issues. I will keep this post short and sweet and not go into great detail, as there is no need for great detail on this.

Here is a short list of the few resources (websites) that I often use for sourcing my images, editing imagesimages and also creating logos, all of which are free, no credit cards or PayPal required unless of course you would like to buy a premium image from that same source. Without further ado, here goes!

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Pixabay.com - my personal favourite for photos and vectors (double check that you have full usage rights and not just limited usage rights), it always tells you under the image before you click on download. You can also choose a specific size from small to large, remember large images may take a long time to load in when visitors come to your site. Keep them small enough in terms of kilobytes and megabytes, think about those visitors on mobile devices with data plans and they will appreciate that. Always make sure those pictures have the following info printed on the page as seen below.

License: CC0 Public Domain / FAQFree for commercial use / No attribution required

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My next favourite is Canva.com - this is an image editor where you can edit that image you just got from pixabay (if you need to edit it). NOTE: Some images in canva must be paid for, they are the premium images but you will find that you will never have to use them - they cost a dollar each, so if there is an image you really must have then you will have to pay that dollar. I find this absolutely unnecessary because there are sooooo many free images floating around on the web, why pay?

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For my free logos I love to use 2 sites, they are cooltext.com and coollogo.com

These two sites are easy to use and u can play around with them for hours if you want to. Here is a header image that took me less than a minute to create from pixabay and canva, they really are simple to use!

Since writing this blog I have discovered two more things.

1. Tinypng.com - This site takes your pics and shrinks them (in memory terms that is, for example from 1 megabyte down to half a megabyte - Very handy to keep your image file size down so your site loads up quicker in visitor's browsers.

2. Either Cooltext.com or Coollogo.com (i really can't remember) has a small watermark embedded on your logo, I didn't notice this before today - apologies, find out which one it is for yourself and then scrub that site from your memory! Nobody wants watermarks in their images.

All the best in your hunt for free images!

James

P.S. Do of course use google to search for other similar websites and tools, there is a wealth of free stuff on the web.

Please do go right ahead and add some more image, logo sources to the comments - I prefer the ones that don't ask for credit card details to get a free account. I also prefer the ones that are not just free trial.

Also what would be nice is if you could also add some free THEMES for wordpress that you highly recommend?

Update: There's an even better way to get free images. Why go to just one site when you can find every single free image on the internet just by searching for them in google. What you got to do is FILTER the search results to show only the copyright free stuff. The way with pixabay is far too limited (pixabay has about 500,000 images you can tap into.

However, how many images are on ALL of the internet? probably about a million times more than just on pixabay - I daren't really guess that number.

All Hail WA!

-Jimbo