October 9, 2008

How To Find Free Photos Online – Select by Color Scheme

Filed under: photos — rich @ 10:40 pm

Use Free, Creative Commons, Images from flickr and find selection by color scheme.  This is the easiest way to select Free Photos Online.

free photos online

free photos online

This information was found by commenting on a post by Ann Smarty at Search Engine Journal. and one of the readers, Leila Boujnane of ideeinc, commented back about this excellent resource.  What a find.
Here is the link to ideeinc.

free photos online

free photos online

I have been going nuts and wasting hour upon hour searching for photos and images to use in various website posts, only to find excellent ones and then finding out that they were copyrighted or restricted.

I have had good luck in sending a request to the owner and in each case they all have answered back that it was fine to use the image but they wanted credit, which I gave of course.

free photos online

free photos online

You’ve done this for sure.  One problem is that usually a couple or more days have passed since you found the image and by then you have worked on a thousand other things and when the email came in giving permission to use the copyrighted image, you can no longer remember exactly where you had found it.

free photos online

free photos online

That all changes now.  With this fantastic search tool from ideeinc.com they search “only” Creative Commons images and you get to search by color scheme.  There is a color chart on the right and you click on the colors you want  to use and you can select up to ten colors.

As you click on each color the tapestry screen full of images keeps changing to reflect your choice.  You can select a color more than once if you desire to emphasize one certain color.  After you get through choosing the 10 colors you now have choices galore to select from and all of these images are free to use with no restrictions!

free photos online

free photos online

From the ideeinc home page there is also another method to search by subject matter but I have not tried that yet.

The images you see in this post are just a few from the hundreds available that I selected in just a couple of minutes by using the base color theme of this LinkMoney dot org website.

All I did to use them in this post was to download them all to a folder, then I opened each one in photoshop and resized them all to 300 px wide and re-saved them, then uploaded them to this post.  Easy as 1, 2, 3.

Use your imagination and think about projects that you have been planning for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas

free photos online

free photos online

Get The Picture?

ideeinc and flickr, an excellent combination for free photos online.

I’m Rich

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12 Comments »

  1. Thanks for the tip, I will have to check it out. I don’t use images to often because like you said it takes so much time searching, getting permission, and resizing them. When I do use images I have been a big fan of using http://www.sxc.hu/ it doesn’t have a ton of images, but they are all royalty free and the majority of are good quality.

    Adams last blog post..Answer Session 1

    Comment by Adam — October 10, 2008 @ 8:04 pm

  2. Nice. Thanks Adam, for sxc.hu, did not know of them.
    I think maybe I should have emphasized the speed of locating images on ideeinc. It only took a few minutes to select from a great many.
    Thanks for the comment.
    Rich

    Comment by rich — October 10, 2008 @ 11:56 pm

  3. Very cool. I knew about the CC search on Flickr, but I had never heard of the color scheme function. This is going to come in very handy ;)

    Comment by Tyler Banfield — October 17, 2008 @ 6:02 pm

  4. Very informative and Professional Post

    keep it up and finding pic are very easy by using the extension

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    Comment by Proxy — October 19, 2008 @ 9:29 pm

  5. @Tyler Banfield, thanks for the comment. I have used this tool on some other niche sites and am still amazed at how fast you can do this process.

    @proxy, glad you like the instructions. andstop back often.

    Rich

    Comment by rich — October 21, 2008 @ 12:05 pm

  6. Excellent, excellent – thanks for the info. My blog is new and I wanted to dress it up but was afraid to put copyrighted photos on it. This helps.
    Thanks again

    Comment by Luca - Reach Success Online — October 25, 2008 @ 2:50 pm

  7. Glad you liked it Luca. Best of luck with your blog.
    Rich

    Comment by rich — October 25, 2008 @ 3:43 pm

  8. Thanks for your comment on my blog, it’s been a slow start it’s encouraging. It looks like you have a nice blog here and have found some great resources for others bloggers. I’m just signing up for the echodemic site, will be sure to echo the post requested.

    Cheers and good luck, I’ll be back.

    Kiris last blog post..Quicken Online is now FREE!

    Comment by Kiri — October 27, 2008 @ 12:10 pm

  9. Absolutely amazing tool. I commonly use flickr images on my blog and have often wanted for more control of what colors are used in the images returned from a search on flickr.

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    Comment by Qydo — October 29, 2008 @ 4:30 am

  10. @Kiri,
    Welcome back anytime. Rich

    @Qydo,
    Amazing tool is right, simple and fast.
    Thanks for commenting.
    Rich

    Comment by rich — October 30, 2008 @ 2:46 am

  11. Rich,
    Came here via Gary Conns blog.

    How did you find images free of any restrictions? Seems most of the images have some kind of rights caveat, etc. The ones free of restrictions seem to be old photos from the Library of Congress made in 1910 or earlier. I notice that none of your image posting have any credits?

    Very nice, inviting blog!
    MikeR

    Comment by miker — January 7, 2009 @ 2:32 pm

  12. Hi Miker

    The post refers to the search site described and you can set it so you only have “CC” returns, meaning Creative Commons. I am not an attorney, nor do I give any legal advice, but I believe this to mean that as the original submitter posted it with the comment that it was free to be shared by everyone, that they are allowing you to do so.

    Thank you for the nice comment and glad that you followed Garry’s links.

    Rich

    Comment by rich — January 8, 2009 @ 3:33 am

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