Who has never been in a hunt of a specific photo for a work related purpose? At a certain point, we all need an high quality picture to integrate in a work, such as a presentation, a school homework, a personal blog or a website.

The first problem when you are in a hunt of photos for your work/website is finding the right photo takes a lot of time, using either Google Image or other image search engine (Yahoo Image, Bing …).

Unfortunately, we are on the Internet, which means you’re looking for a photo on an open area, everybody have access to the Internet.

To prevent from abuse, photos are licensed under a certain copyright license, unfortunately for you, almost all pictures found on Google Image are fully copyrighted, which mean you cannot copy the photo you just found and paste it in your work or on your website.

So how to solve the problem? It is pretty easy actually, all you need to do is search for “stock photos” or “royalty-free photos” instead of regular pictures.

The difference is that those pictures are made for sharing and being used in presentation, their author authorize people to use them at a certain cost.

Thankfully, great websites that provides those kind of photos actually exists so that you can easily find what you’re looking for in minutes.

Now you’re probably asking this question to your self: How much is it going to cost me to have a public display “authorized” photo for my work?

If you’re looking for very high quality pictures made by professional, you can start finding those for about $1 each, depending of the picture size and it’s quality.

But honestly, who wants to pay for pictures? Even if people don’t have the right to put pictures in they work, they won’t pay $1 to keep a clear conscience. That’s why you can also find free of these photos!

You can find communities websites that currently provide those photos, there are thousands of members on each of those website uploading personal / professional photos for free.

Simply search for “Free stock photos” on Google to find advanced search engine that ONLY provide free stock photos that you have the authorization to use in your website, school work, presentation, blog etc.

You can even go to an upper level of search, try to find an entire Search Engine that only provides free stock photos (called “free stock photos search engine”). This way you would be able to find free stock photos around all the small communities available on the Internet.

*Note* : if you are hunting pictures to integrate in your website design (mannequin pictures, technical support pictures etc…), you should better look at the paid stock photos that we talked about earlier, although it may cost you around $20 to illustrate all pages of your website or integrate great components in your website design, they are available at an higher quality level, made by professional, they are probably going to fit better in your website, especially if you want to keep professional looking pages.

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