A brief guide to the best sites for finding freely available images online
From the post:
I’m currently running a 23 Things self-directed learning programme at my University. One of the Things we just covered is Creative Commons images, and the best places to find them. I have a whole bunch of useful sites I draw people’s attentions to in the Presentations Skills course I run, so shared them all via the 23 Things blog – it got a lot of RTs when I tweeted about it, so as people found it so useful I thought I’d share it here. Finding good quality images is absolutely critical to pretty much all forms of marketing, after all!
If you want to avoid Death by PowerPoint presentations or to spruce up your blog posts, images are a necessity.
But searching the web randomly for safe (legally speaking) images to use may take more than a little time and effort.
The resources listed here are good sources for freely available images.
Don’t depend on obscurity to avoid image permission problems. That could be real embarrassing with a former prospective client.
I first saw this in Christophe Lalanne’s A bag of tweets / July 2013.