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Photo Friendly Blogging Concepts

The blogosphere is built on open source platforms such as PHP, and is the home of the biggest free market in the world. Free content, with minimal confidentiality requirements is uploaded every day, and a higher audience garnered. It comes to pass that audience can be influenced more by images, as a picture can speak a thousand words. Most people who write blogs may not be experts in creating images or editing pictures on tools like Photoshop. Thus they use the internet to find pictures to accessorize their blogs, and convey their emotions.

Confidentiality

Pictures like every other form of creative media, is subject to copyrights, and restrictions on usage and distribution. While strict confidentiality binding legal documentation is costly, Creative Commons provide certain open confidentiality copyright clauses for free. These are usually used for digital images by artists just like bloggers use it to protect their blogs.

Thus if a blogger is searching for pictures on the internet, he must take specific care that he does not violate the copy rights of that image. For this, one needs to know the different copyright codes, as explained below:

CC BY – Allows a person to tweak, distribute, or build upon the original picture for personal or commercial purposes, provided due credit is given to the creator.
CC BY-ND – Allows a user to distribute the image without editing it for commercial or personal purposes with credit to the creator.
CC BY-SA – Allows tweaking or modifying of image for commercial or non-commercial purposes. The new art carries same license as the original image with credit to the creator.
CC BY-NC – Allows modification or tweaking of images for non-commercial purposes only. The new art will not carry the same license as the original with credit to the creator.
CC BY-NC-SA – Allows one to tweak and modify images for non-commercial purposes only with the new art carrying the same license as the original with credit to the creator.
CC BY-NC-ND – One can share the image, unchanged, for non-commercial purposes only with credit to the creator.

Best picture sources
There are many websites that are specifically kept for the purpose to provide license oriented pictures to websites and blogs. Certain websites like Everystockphoto call themselves ‘license-specific photo search engines’. They allow the user to search pictures on the basis of resolution, size, or license. Social image sharing sites like Flickr have a reputation of keeping HD quality free images. They allow one to identify if pictures can be edited or used commercially. Stock.xchng provides more number of images with lenient licensing and no requirement of attribution. Websites like 123rf provide small 400 pixel images for free, with a separate forum for premium images. Finally, Google has a tool for searching images with hinted parameters in their advance image search. Here pictures with licenses are only showed.

However, for serious bloggers, it is advisable to create and edit their own pictures as this would make their blog a more surreal experience for prospective viewers.

This post is a guest post by Osho. He is a blogger who writes for www.opendoorloan.co.uk, a site that helps you get cometitive APR without stress.