Source of Free Professional Photographs For Articles

Source of Free Professional Photographs for Articles With Proper License is An Important Topic As All Possibly Can Not Afford Royalty Fees. There is NO NEED of using Photographs somehow downloaded from illegal websites circumventing the cost of restrictive License. While, downloading such “zip files” with restrictive License is illegal; it is more dangerous to PROMOTE something which costs disproportionately higher. Theoretically, when you can not buy a premium stuff and need to seek some illegal way, it opens up various issues; like :

1. Promoting the Owner or Owner’s Work Which is Distributed with Restrictive License (this model is usually applicable for closed source softwares)
2. Promoting the Illegal Website
3. Possibly increasing an Illegal Website’s Search Engine Ranking by Your Positive “Satisfied” Activities (Google can trace what you are doing)

 

Do NOT Follow the Misleading Articles by Some Bloggers to Use Getty Images, Corbis etc. Services

 

Neither You Will Use Illegal Images, Nor Use Various Kind of Abnormal Services. The Key is – Free Software Movement and Excellent Licenses provided by the Original Creators. There are Sources From Where You Can Use Very High Quality Images Under GNU GPL 2.0/3.0 or Creative Commons (Not the Restrictive CCND) or Artistic License.

 

Source of Free Professional Photographs For Articles is The Artist With Unrestrictive License

 

Source of Free Professional Photographs For Articles : Understanding the Licenses

 

If all people were like Bill Gates, the World would never proceed! Why a Photograph, today we are using excellent Cloud Computing Software like OpenStack fully free of cost, of course they do distribute with the proper free license.

More than the Sources, it is important to learn about the Name of Licenses and Their Types. Here is a list :

There are websites where the Original Creator distributes his/her work with unrestrictive Licenses – one must know what the License Name suggests. There are Trillions of high quality images crying to get on your server – as said, if all people were like Bill Gates, the World would never proceed. Apache Open Office is Betterthan Microsoft Office not only because it is free – there is freedom of usage.

 

Source of Free Professional Photographs For Articles : Sources

 

WikiMedia Commons is the biggest source of Images; look at this one :

It has dual License – GNU GPL and CC. You need to download, properly resize, compress, may be perform some modification and it is enough for your usage – GNU GPL and CC both gives you the right to reuse, CC forces to mention the named, you can use hyperlink or plain text.

Note that, this might not be applicable for Print, specially Front Cover and Back Cover.

deviantArt, as always is a great source of free stuffs – that is the source where we distributed Wallpapers, Icons in Downloads section. But, in most cases; mentioning the Artist was important. Some Universities also distribute High Quality Photos with Free License. Please contact the original Artist in case of any doubt.

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