Don't use just any image.
With Google and Bing hosting every image you can possibly imagine, it can become very easy to perform a quick search and copy paste an image for your personal or commercial use. Unfortunately, you may and probably don't have rights to that image. This can lead to sticky situations down the road if you're using someone elses image as your own. To avoid these issues, make sure you own the license to the image or use an image with an open license which grants you permission to use it for the purpose you desire.
Don't Risk Litigation!
Here are the best places to find images for your posts
- Pixabay.com (Link)
Pixabay is a free image hosting website which has over 850,000 photos, vectors, and illustrations. Pixabay also offers free videos that you can include in your website and posts. All of Pixabays photos are released under the Creative Commons license which allows you to use images without attribution for any commercial or non-commercial needs.
- Picjumbo.com (Link)
Picjumbo offers a large variety of pictures of all kinds and categories. Picjumbo does a great job at categorizing images so you can easily find something that suits your needs. Picjumbos photos are free of copyright and can be used for personal and commercial use.
- Gratisography (Link)
Gratisography hosts photos taken by the great photographer, Ryan McGuire. Ryan hosts high quality images of all sorts which can fit your needs on social. Pictures are added on a weekly basis and all photos are free of copyright restrictions.
- Pexels (Link)
Pexels is another image hosting website. Pexels offers detailed information on every image and has very high quality images available. All of Pexels images are released under the Creative Commons license which allows you to use the for both personal and commercial use.
- Google Image Search With License Option
Google image search can be the most powerful image search for you, but it can also be the most dangerous. Google Image Search has a feature which allows you to search for photos and then filter them by license. Here's how you search for images on Google.
- Go to images.google.com
- Search for your image
- Under the searchbar click "Tools"
- In the new toolbar that appears click "Usage Rights"
- Select "Labeled for Reuse"
