Searching for images you can edit or use commercially on your blog or web pages? There are some great images on Flickr but how do you make sure you’re only using images that can legally be changed and used? Please always include the proper attributes for your images. The methods listed here make this easy to do.
1. Use flickrCC
Search the huge Flickr site using flickrCC to find images you can edit or use commercially. You can crop, resize or add a frame to the resulting image directly in your browser. An attribution line can also be added to the image in colors of your choice.
The image results
Adding an attribution Line
1) Use a Greasemonkey Script (Greasemonkey needs firefox to work)
Always search for Creative Commons Images on Flickr script does just what it’s title says. Only those images that are licensed under Creative Commons will be returned on searching Flickr with this script enabled. Then use Flickr Cut-n-Paste to Blog to copy the selected image, complete with proper attribute, and paste using your page/post editor.
Flickr Cut-n-Paste to Blog makes it easy to cut-and-paste photos from Flickr into your blog while still including a credit link to the photographer.
- creates CSS classes around images on flickr
- this makes it easy to create your own style for displaying photos
- creates a credit link underneath the photo
- links to the photographer’s main photo page
- automatically checks for updates every two weeks
Nice tool. Simple and easy to use.
Yes, really a good tool. Needed something like this before, then I could easily save some of my hours of work. Thanks!