Use Images, Pictures, Photos, or Vector art in your website or your blogs to improve your website usability and traffic.

 

When designing your website you could use colorful images and video to help support your content and create a positive perception of your brand. You should make sure that the images and vector arts you are using are clear from any copyright, and you have the permission to use them. In other words, you should either own or have a license to use the vector art, photo, and image that you are using on your website or blog.

 

The best method to guarantee that you are using licensed images is to obtain them from a legitimate source. Following are four favorite photo hosting platforms that provide the majority of images on the internet. 

 

Google Search
Google owns the most extensive and comprehensive photo and image website on the planet; When searching you should specify the type of license you are prepared to pay for which are A-allowed to use and modify for the non-commercial purpose; B-allowed to reuse; C- allowed to use and adjust; D-allowed to reuse for non-commercial purposes.

 

Flickr.com

Flickr photo management and sharing application
Photographers upload their artwork to share at Flicker. At Flicker, you can find studio photo work, as well as live photos of some of the world’s landmarks, festivals, holidays, and events. Flickr concentrates on two goals:
1. Help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them.
2. Organize new ways of arranging pictures and video.
You could specify the type of license you are looking for when searching for an image on Flickr. Your options are

A- All creative commons.

B- Commercial use allowed.

C- Commercial usage & modifications permitted. 
 

Dreamstime.com

Dreamstime.com contains an extensive collection of free photos but only if you Sign up. Signup to find access to an excellent inventory of Stock Photos, Illustrations Videos, Audio, and Free photo files.

 

FreeDigitalPhotos.net
FreeDigitalPhotos.net contains the most extensive library of free photos, and royalty free images for business and personal use. Download high quality, free and premium stock photos and illustrations for websites, advertising materials, newspapers, magazines, ebooks, and book covers, music artwork, and apps, ideal for business, personal and educational use. Most popular categories are pictures of people and business pictures.