How to Find Free Professionally Licensed Images
It’s a fact that no matter what your product is, HD images to compliment your content will always be helpful to your customers. Your product will look and feel more professional as well as help the customer to learn more by showing them what you’re talking about. Images make topics easier to understand and high quality images make your product look more professional.
Copying a picture from Google Images with out permission can land you in trouble so how do you get high quality, professional pictures for free? I use the two secret services below:
I love PicApp. It’s the first place I go when I want to find images to use in any of my products or websites. It’s a completely free service that quickly connects you to free licensed photographs from sources like Getty Images and Jupiter Images. They have hundreds of thousands of images in their database, almost all of which are HD and professionally shot.
SEO Benefits of PicApp
Not only are the images completely free but they are completely SEO ready. The wonderful people at PicApp have preloaded each image with “in-depth and professional meta data and captions.”
This means that if you’re using a PicApp image in a blog post, article or website of yours the image will have SEO Optimized keywords and captions embedded. This is extremely helpful in boosting the traffic to that specific page/site because the image you posted will rank much higher in Google Images.
Even if you think that Google Images won’t send a lot of traffic to your website know this… 10% of all searches made online are for images. How could having higher ranked images benefit your site?
Flickr: Creative CommonsMillions of Flickr users have licensed their photos under the Creative Commons license which is an alternative to full copyright. They get to choose the rights you have with their photos and as long as you obey them you’ll be golden.
Some people don’t want you using their photos for commercial purposes. To fully understand the terms look on the sidebar at this link.
The images aren’t as professional as the ones on PicApp from what I’ve seen but overall they’re still fantastic quality. Many professional photographers use Flickr to get noticed and you can snag some real pieces of art if you look hard enough.
You also have a few options to sort from (Relevant, Recent and Interesting) which makes finding spectacular images much easier.
Overall…
Overall I love and personally use both of these services. They’re free, legal and contain some of the most beautiful, influential and professionally looking photographs in the world. What’s not to like? Next time you’re looking to take your product to the next level use PicApp or Flickr: Creative Commons.
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I have read from John Chow this PicApp that offers free professional pictures. It is useful to bloggers and some photo editors in enhancing their skils in designing and search engine optimization.
Yeah, i already heard that PicApp is really great source for legal digital picture.
Oh absolutely. I love PicApp!
Probably because John Chow has been raving about it for the past little while
most og the time i`m looking the image that I use from flickr