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How to find high-quality, royalty-free, free-to-use Photos for Free (5)

05-05-2012 09:36 AM #1 dario (Member)
How to find high-quality, royalty-free, free-to-use Photos for Free

Istockphotos.com is one of the best place to find nice royalty-free images.
You can do whatever you want with those pics once you buy them.

But you can also find those beautiful pics for free


1st: set some search criteria





2nd: sort the results by number of downloads
(This is optional: If someone already bought one these images you're more likely to find them elsewhere online)




3rd: select an image and copy its URL


To copy the URL of an image that appears on a page:

Internet Explorer

Click on the desired picture with the right mouse button.
Select Properties from the menu.
Highlight the address appearing under Address (URL):.
Press Ctrl-C.

Mozilla Firefox

Click on the image with the right mouse button.
Choose Copy Image Location from the menu.

Safari and Opera

Click on the desired image with the right mouse button (or holding down Ctrl while clicking with the left or only button).
Select Copy Image Address from the menu.

Google Chrome

Click on the image with the right mouse button.
Select Copy Image URL from the menu that comes up.



4th: Use Google Reverse Image Search









You can also use Tinypic to raise the chances of finding the chosen pics

05-05-2012 03:31 PM #2 tuco (Member)

I've used that google tool to find images before, but never thought of using it to find royalty free photos. Thanks!

05-05-2012 04:21 PM #3 mattconlon (Member)

by not purchasing it, doesn't that defeat the whole royalty free thing since the owner of the image gets a commission split with istockphoto in return for the license to use it? Finding it without the watermark and ripping it doesn't make it royalty free as far as I'm aware, and while it is probably unlikely that the owner of the image would come after you here, you would have 0 legal defense unless I'm misunderstanding something here.

also "You can do whatever you want with those pics once you buy them." -- not all of their images have the same license agreement / available uses if you read their terms, there are some things you can't do i.e. reselling I think

05-05-2012 04:41 PM #4 dario (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by mattconlon View Post
by not purchasing it, doesn't that defeat the whole royalty free thing since the owner of the image gets a commission split with istockphoto in return for the license to use it? Finding it without the watermark and ripping it doesn't make it royalty free as far as I'm aware, and while it is probably unlikely that the owner of the image would come after you here, you would have 0 legal defense unless I'm misunderstanding something here.
Mmm.. personally i'm not concerned about their lost commissions, but it's my fault and i understand that many others could see this as an issue, so thank you for pointing that out.

For what concerns the legal issue, i don't see any problem instead. You can buy the pics that you are using in no time if someone knocks on your door asking where you bought them, but i'm really open to discuss this if you think i'm wrong.

Quote Originally Posted by mattconlon View Post
also "You can do whatever you want with those pics once you buy them." -- not all of their images have the same license agreement / available uses if you read their terms, there are some things you can't do i.e. reselling I think
Well you're right, but as an affiliate i'm not worried by these terms in any way

Here is what you cannot do with either a Standard or Extended license:
Prohibited uses for both Standard and Extended license
Online "print-on-demand" products
Use in any logo or trademark
Pornographic, obscene or libelous works
Use that depicts personal endorsement by model
Use that depicts model in a sensitive way i.e. mental or physical health issues, substance abuse, criminal behavior, sexual activity or preference without a disclaimer.
Sub-license, give away, share or otherwise transfer stand-alone images/files
Displaying an original image digitally on-screen larger than 1200 x 800 pixels; video image size limitation is 640 x 480. Any size reproduction is acceptable with substantial changes to the content.

05-05-2012 06:09 PM #5 flowmotion (Member)

Fucking awesome! Royalty free or not, you could always purchase them legit, AFTER getting into trouble

Thanks, dario

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