Once you are given the results after selecting the filter you will notice that the majority of the images you had seen prior are no longer available. But let us say you do see an image you would like to use. What you need to do is the following.

CLICK ON IMAGE

Once you click on the image a screen will show up with that image and 7 other thumbnail images (without red lines), see above image. What you do NOT want to do is choose any of the other alternate selections because they are NOT free to use like your selected image. So only choose your image. Now you need to determine how free the image really is.

To find out what kind of license the image has you will need to click on the button that says “visit page”, see above image, and depending on what kind of webpage the image appears on will make it either harder or easier to find the license information.

NEXT UP = The different places for licensing information.


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MasterEd Premium
Great info as always Robert, but what happens when people don't do the appropriate thing? What does Google do, if anything? I guess what I asking that I haven't seen anyone ask is, what if people just use whatever they like? What are the consequences?

Does Google sandbox your domain or do owners come after you?
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boomergp08 Premium
Google more than likely would not do anything. But if the creator of that image should see it being used on a website, especially one that makes money for the website owner, that person could legally sue the website owner for using an image without their permission.
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MasterEd Premium
Fair enough. I didn't realize that photos can be so, how do you say, sensitive.

Thanks
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boomergp08 Premium
It mainly depends on the person who owns the rights of the image.

I recently saw another eBay seller using one of my custom product pictures the other day because she was selling the same product I was. I contacted her and she removed it.

If she didn't I could have legally caused problems for her, especially since the picture she was using had a subtle watermark I placed on it. Though I couldn't actually sue her because this happened on eBay, I could get eBay to remove her listing and place a warning on her seller's account.
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MasterEd Premium
I have another question regarding this. What's to stop people from grabbing photos from Google Images and modifying them and saving them, making it a different photo, per say?

Would the owner have any claim on the new version created?
Just being devil's advocate here. Curious to know.
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boomergp08 Premium
If the owner recognizes that their image was altered/used without their permission, they can make a claim on the new image.

Personally I feel that bigger and more established websites would be the types of websites that would be the ones to complain the most. But that is just only my opinion.
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MasterEd Premium
Thank you sir.
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iainclarke Premium
Thank you Robert. Very useful info. Have a great day
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome and you have a great day too!
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johnwnewman Premium
Great info! Thanks Robert!
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome John. Thanks for stopping by.
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DJ-Yogi Premium
In chrome you can do the same inside the expanded search options.
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boomergp08 Premium
Yes that is how I used to search but this way is a lot more straight forward an option, especially for newbies.
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Kimsh Premium
This is great thanks. Your stuff is always really helpful and very clear to understand. Always a pleasure to read.
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boomergp08 Premium
Thank you Kim. I try to always make my taining as easy to understand so even the newbies can grasp it.
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