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The Internet has plenty of websites that allows you to search for a photo, but almost everyone contains photos with copyrights. Flickr is, without no doubt, the best place to find photos for your website or for your blog. It offers you a great interface to search and a wonderful way to help you with copyrights.

Flickr includes photo that are protected by the Creative Common License which is a great things for you and me. The Creative Common License could be divided in 6 groups in Flickr:

1. Attribution License
This license is the most flexible license. In fact, you can modify the photo by cropping it, writing on it, etc. You can use it on a non-commercial as well as a commercial space. The only restriction is to give credit to the photo’s owner. I highly recommend using photo protected by this particular license.

2. Attribution-NoDerivs License
This license is more restricted than the attribution license because you cannot modify the photo. You cannot crop it or write on it; you MUST use it as-is! As for the attribution license, you need to give credit to the photo’s owner.

3. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License
This license is the same as the Attribution-NoDerivs license with the exception that you cannot use it in a commercial space. If your space as the potential to generate earning in any way, don’t take any chances and consider it as a commercial space.

4. Attribution-NonCommercial License
This license is similar to the attribution license with the exception that you cannot use it on a commercial space.

5. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
This license let you use the photo on a non-commercial space with credit to the owner, but it includes another requirement: Share Alike. The Share Alike requirement let you do some derivative work with the photo. However, if you do so and you expect to distribute this derivative work, you’ll be in the obligation to distribute it under the same license.

6. Attribution-ShareAlike License
This license let you use the photo on a commercial or a non-commercial space as far as you give credit and you follow the Share Alike requirement.

Step #1: Enter the search portal

In order to search photos with the most flexible license, you need to click here.

Step #2: Write your keywords

Obviously, you’ll need to enter the keywords that best represent what you are looking for. Tips: Note that if you need a photo with particular colors, you could include it in your search query.

As soon as you click the search button, you’ll get some great results.

Step #3: Get the “Most interesting” results

You just found great photo, but what about looking at the Most interesting photo? Flickr has a great feature that allows there search users to find those photos. Above each search results, Flickr include littles links to help you to reduce the scope of your search. They offer 3 possibilities: the “Most relevant” link, the “Most recent” link and the “Most interesting” link. Click on the “Most interesting” link and you’ll instantly see that the results quality is quite better! Isn’t it?

Step #4: Choose the most relevant size

As soon as you find the photo you want to get, click on it. This will bring you to the photo page. You’ll see comments about the photo and you’ll see a link above the photo that says “All sizes”. Click on that link and choose the most relevant size for you needs.

Step #5: Integrate the photo

You are surely proud or you finding and you are very excited to include it in your web page or your blog post! If you follow the link I provide in step #1, you will only need to include the name and the link of the photo owner. For example, the photo at the beginning of this post shows you what to do. This gives the credit to the photo’s owner.

Have fun with Flickr and let your space coming alive with wonderful photos!

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