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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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

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Get The Picture?

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

I’m Rich

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