Easy Way to acquire legal images
Introduction
To obtain enough good legal images to your articles and posts can often be a challenge, and certainly if you do not want to spend money on purchasing images. It can also be very hard to find out about pictures rights. Is it legal to use the picture or not? I've thought a great deal about this topic because it affects me a lot. I have found some good solutions that I think are 100 percent legal:)
First of all Create your own "Image Database" by topic of your niche. Create one folder for each niche and you can if you wish, make Subfolders with relevant topics.
- Next step:
Using your Mobile Phone
Is there one thing most people carry with them and cannot do without, it's their own mobile phone. Most of us have the Mobile Phone available almost all the time. Newest Mobile Phones have very good cameras integrated.Now you get to use your innate and wonderful imagination to take Pictures that you can use in your articles and blog posts. Take pictures With your Mobile Phone of everything that might be relevant to your niche. Save the pictures to the folders you created on your computer.
I have used my Mobile Phone to take the picture above. That was an Easy and quick way to get myself a legal image. I could have spent some more time to get it better, but it worked.
Good Luck!
Recent Comments
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Hi folks. I would use caution with anything you grab off the internet. See @Rich's comment below re YouTube. Also, here is some great training from Kyle. https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/how-to-find-add-images-to-your-website
In regard to screen capturing from YouTube videos, it's not "risk free", the following is from their terms and conditions: "Viewing things on YouTube is done under a license and that license only grants you permission to view the content in an actual YouTube window, not as a screen capture and not pasted into other content." Rich.
Thank you for the info. I use pictures that pop up on yahoo when I am looking at a subject. I am assuming they are legal. I have bought photos that are good quality. My niche is business so it can be hard to find the right pictures you are looking for.
It's not "risk free" Technically it's a breach of their T&C's ""Viewing things on YouTube is done under a license and that license only grants you permission to view the content in an actual YouTube window, not as a screen capture and not pasted into other content." In my case I recently "tanked" a competitor's site out of Google by filing DMCAs against their use of my images and stills from my videos. :) Rich.
Don't take that risk! as @RICH point out. Images online is a minefield :) If you take your own images you are safe, as I described above. Kyle have a training video on the topic: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/how-to-find-add-images-to-your-website
Thanks @RICH for your help:)
Thank you for your information. I am a newbie at this and i was wondering the same thing. Your suggestions make sense and next time im out and about or at the mall i will keep my creative eyes open.
Do you also recommend a good photo editing software? One that is user friendly?
Yuwn xxx
Hey, It is always good to have a photo editing software, for example to resize images (to make image files smaller) so images load faster on your wordpress sites etc. I use Adobe Photoshop (not free), but there are many good free out there. Gimp is a good free one: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ An very easy online image editor is, Pic Monkey: http://www.picmonkey.com
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Hello everyone. and thanks for all the responses! Unfortunately I have not notised Kyles instructional video about this topic. I would like that you see his video and follow his advice regarding acquisition of images. Using You Tube is doubtful and I will discourage you from using this metode. Using your Mobile Phone is safe :)
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/how-to-find-add-images-to-your-website