How do I find free images?
It is advisable to add pictures to his articles. This contributes to the success of some blogs. But how do you find a picture to illustrate each article ?
We would not like to use images whose origin is unknown...
So the question is how to find rights-free images so that you can integrate them into your site without any problems.
Go to search, simple mode
Go to the specialized site:
and enter your request. More than 50,000 high-quality and publicly available images await you .
Search, hard mode
The best source is the Google Images search engine.
The most understanding picture search on the Web. "
Translation: The most comprehensive image search on the Internet.
Google has created rights-related features in its search engine.
The Advanced Search interface provides a number of search refinements, including copyright options and reuse rights.
You can also directly filter images with parameters added to the query.
The list of available filters (provided that the engine always recognizes them):
&as_rights=cc_publicdomain &as_rights=cc_attribute &as_rights=cc_sharealike
So, if you're looking for free images in France, the query will be:
http://images.google.com/images?q=france&as_rights=cc_publicdomain
If there are several words, they are separated by the code% 20, for example:
france%20europe
Using an innovative tool
The Wikiview tool allows you to easily navigate through an array of images, presenting them in the 3D sphere, which belongs to the Wikimedia Foundation, Commons.
Images are free, but there may be a more restrictive license that can be viewed on the image page.
Go straight to shared sites...
There are also sites that provide free images and icons.
- Burningwell
Image bank in the public domain. - List of resources on Wikipedia (has no equivalent in French).
- CC Search
Creative Commons search engine for free images. s - Pexels
This site offers freely usable photos on all topics. It has its own search engine. - Pixabay
Offers "free images of high quality." You can even found beautiful SVG pictures.
- https://everypixel.com/
- http ://finda.photo/
- https://www.foodiesfeed.com/
- https://skuawk.com/
- https ://negativspace.co/
- https://stocksnap.io/
- https://www.stockified.com/
- https://picjumbo.com/
- https://www.stockio.com/
Image generators
It is also possible to automatically take images, with the guarantee that they will be unique!
- Robohash.org generates images of robots on demand. By the principle of identity.
Microsoft has added its DALL-E imaging tool to the Bing browser. Just go to the next address and enter the description of the image that you want to create (while in English), and then upload the created work.
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