When creating online and offline material it's very important to add pictures. It's easy to find pictures through Google Image search. Unfortunately it's not legal to use most of these pictures for any purpose. You could instead opt to pay for royalty free pictures, but this costs money and it's even tedious to sign up and deal it.

Some good websites with free pictures

http://pixabay.com/

http://www.pexels.com/

http://publicdomainarchive.com/

http://gratisography.com/

https://pikwizard.com

My own attempt

Instead it's good to pay attention to licensing and copyrights. So there are good alternatives, both free as in freedom as in moneyless. freepictures.cc is a website I've created to help you find free pictures that you can modify and use for commercial purposes.

It's only a first version but it's already working wonders for the many websites I'm building. I can simply add a keyword and freepictures.cc will show me a bunch of pictures from Wikimedia Commons and Flickr that are either under a Creative Commons license that allows commercial use and modification or even simply public domain.

Things I want to improve

Better search: currently it only really works for one keyword

Infinite scrolling

Filter for Flickr and Commons

Make it very easy to download a file

And a couple of other things

If you have an account at github, you can add new feature requests.

How to use the images

There are two basic cases:

Public domain

You can do anything, you don't have to do anything.

Creative Commons Attribution (BY clause)

Note that this case includes the CC-BY-SA license.

Once you start using the image you should give attribution. This means you have some options:

include a reference to the page where you found the image, this is good for printed materials such as books or flyers

include a link to the page from the webpage where you are using the image

include a link to the creator's website from the webpage were you are using the image, this is by far the prefered option (especially for the creator) but it can be hard to find out if the creator has a website and what it is.

So if you think this is a good idea, go to freepictures.cc and use it.

Other sources for free images include:

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