Now Use Licensed Photographs For Free On Your Blog

by Himanshu on November 22, 2009 · 13 comments

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Images tells everything, but images are very hard to find. There are certain copyright restrictions due to which we can’t use every images from Google Image search result (common mistake by a newbie blogger).

Have you seen these signs anywhere. They are a symbol of Creative commons. To know more about creative common images go to

This image is most important for bloggers meaning which they copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work – and derivative works based upon it – but only if they give you credit. So if you find any image on Flickr having range of search within Creative Commons-licensed content, you can easily use this photo by giving proper credit to the account holder.

Any more solution

Here I am going to tell you one more solution which is very efficient and easier to find really cool images for blogs. This service is known as picapp. Picapp pictures are free of cost. By using a picture from PicApp, You must agree to the terms and conditions of Picapp before using it. You must link back to the PicApp site every time you use it.

According to Picapp Images are SEO booster (All PicApp images include the right meta-data to assist search engines index the images and your posts better.) and bring more traffic to blog(High quality images improve your blog content and assure readers will keep coming back to your blog.)

Picapp has partnered with many company such as Gettyimages, Newscom , corbis, jupiterimage, imagesource. These are the prime source of all the pictures coming on Picapp.

Watch this video

Watch this amazing video to know the functionality of this service.

This is a really great service for blogger who found problem in searching cool images for their blogs. PicApp provide millions of free images without any cost. This service is also available as a Wordpress plugin. Share this post among maximum persons via tweet so that they get benefitted by this service.

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1 Phaoloo November 22, 2009 at 8:31 am

It’s really useful to know these license information and PicApp is awesome. But for my blog, I rarely use common image but I need icons and app screenshot. Do you know a website for this?
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2 Himanshu November 22, 2009 at 10:30 am: There are lots of websites for free icon sets, my favorite is http://wefunction.com/2008/07/function-free-icon-set/

Regarding screenshots I want to say that its illegal to use other’s screenshot and I don’t know any such resource. Enjoy this splendid article by Maki of Doshdosh http://www.doshdosh.com/seoposition-attacks-dosh-dosh-with-blatantly-false-and-inaccurate-accusations/

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3 neo November 22, 2009 at 9:26 am

nice..may be ill try this one.. probably this would work,,
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4 Rakesh Waghela @Webiyo November 22, 2009 at 10:29 pm

Cool stuff !

I liked this one !

WARNING : Use only striped down IMG tag and not the whole markup given to copy ! It contains a Division and a Script and a Backlink !

So be aware while using it
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5 Himanshu November 22, 2009 at 11:11 pm: Rakesh, Thanks for this suggestion, I generally use double inverted comma feature given in Windows Livewriter, can you tell me the method to use striped down tag in Windows Livewriter?

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6 Ben Lang November 22, 2009 at 11:44 pm

great stuff, glad we could use these again!

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7 Ramkumar November 23, 2009 at 7:56 pm

Thanks a lot. Will definitely use this.
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8 Vivek November 24, 2009 at 10:14 pm

For images i use google images, flickr and daveniart.
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9 Uttoran Sen November 27, 2009 at 10:24 pm

great article, i always love to use images that we have permission of using, flicker commons are good,
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10 John Samuel December 1, 2009 at 3:56 pm

Images speak sometimes better than words. I have seen posts where just by seeing the images, you could understand what the blog covered
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11 rosewing November 22, 2009 at 3:02 am