"New York's Liberty Island - Statue of Liberty and Seagull", David Paul Ohmer, Flickr
Google has added a much needed feature for bloggers and websites, finding "Creative Commons" images. We can now easily find images that can be added for free, share, use and modify the image depending upon the person sharing those images.
How to get Creative Common Images from Google?
- First visit "Google Image Search"
- Click "Advanced Image Search" link next to the search button.
- Go to "Usage Rights" and choose any one of the options "labeled for reuse", "labeled for commercial reuse", "labeled for reuse with modifications" and "labeled for commercial reuse with modifications".
- After you choose one of the options in the above step, click "Google Search" button.
Google said the following about the new search:
Today, we're launching a feature on Image Search to help you find images that you can use for free, while respecting the wishes of artists and creators. This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share, use and even modify. Your search will also include works that have been tagged with other licenses, like GNU Free Documentation license, or are in the public domain.
After you paste the image from Google Image Search add a link to where you got the image from in order to give credit to the person who took that picture.
Google however says it cannot guarantee the images it searches are all in the public domain, it wants the users to verify with the person who took the image to see whether the licensing information is accurate before the images are added in the website or blogs.
Other places to find "Creative Commons" images are at Everystockphoto.com and Flickr.com (there are more than 100 million photos licensed under "Creative Commons").
Official Google Blog: Find Creative Commons images with Image Search
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