I have written other articles about where to find Royalty Free images and music for your website or blog:

• http://askjoanne.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Find-and-Download-Royalty-Free-Music-for-your-Video-or-Website
  
• http://askjoanne.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Find-and-Use-Royalty-Free-Photos-for-your-Website

What I didn’t realize, though I should have, is that there is a huge number of images on Flickr that are registered with a variety of different Creative Commons Licenses. Here’s a page with the different types and links to searches:

• http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

The different types of Licenses that allow you to use images in your website, blog or social media post are Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike. These do not restrict the use of the image for commercial purposes. You are required to make proper attribution to the creator of the image.

This is where the question arose for me… how exactly to give the proper attribution on my site (quickly and easily!). I did a little searching around and found this great article: http://librarianbyday.net/2009/09/28/how-to-attribute-a-creative-commons-photo-from-flickr/ that included this tip:

Example 4. You can use imagecodr.org to create it.  You put in the URL of the photo it automatically does the rest!  The alt text contains the author title and credits Flickr. The image links to Flickr. It adds the CC license image and author adds appropriate links.”

So, I gave http://www.imagecodr.org/ a try. All you have to do is copy in the image url that you found on Flickr. This one is a picture with Attribution only license, which means it can be copied, distributed, displayed but only if credit is given:

  by  cygnus921 

  by  F. D. Richards 

I think this is going to be an incredibly rich source of fantastic images. I have also begun uploading some more of my images under the Attribution-ShareAlike license for others to be able to use.

Questions? Comments?