Using Creative Commons photos
Now that you know about Creative Commons (see previous post), here’s a little tool that will help you find fabulous photos on flickr. (If you’re not sure what flickr is – I’ll write about that in the next post.)
Thanks to Dan Coulter for something he calls Simple CC flickr Search. Here’s how it works…..
When you go to the Simple CC flickr Search webpage you can type a tag and then search on it. After a few moments you’ll be given a whole page of photos that you can use according to their CC license. Not only that – by clicking on the thumbnail of the photo you’ll see a pop up box which gives you some code & shows you what the picture will look like when you put it on your webpage – with the attribution to the photographer. BEWARE – make sure you understand CC licenses before you start using these photos all over the place. Some have restrictions on them.
Who are these photographers? Mostly people just like us who are happy to share their work with the world. (Actually they’re a bit more creative than I am!!!)
Just copy the code and paste it onto your web page. For example – to do that on this blog I simply click on the HTML edit button & copy it in. Then I return to ‘visual’ editing ie what you see is what you get – and there it is. Just think how some of these photos could liven up your website, blog or emails. Here are some to tempt you:
Soy distinto ¿y qué? / I’m different, so what? by Claudio.Ar
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
