How To Find Royalty Free Photos For Your Blog

By Shivam Vaid On July 8, 2010 Leave a Comment 63 views

A Picture says a thousand words. While it is important to write great content for your blog, it is also equally important to supplement it with good relevant pictures which attract the reader attention and immediately set the context of the text.

As a blogger one is always trying to find answers to questions like Where to find images OR How to get photos for the blog posts. There are various separate sites where one cal look for free royalty free stock photos eg flickr. One can go on individual sites and do the search but that takes time and makes finding free images for your blog a pain at times. One of the web services that can help you in such a case is Cyclo.ps. It is essentially a search engine using which you can search for royalty free stock photography on the web.

Important Points

Absolutely free to use – no login/email/registration required.
Just enter your search keywords and get results from various websites ( see next point )
Supported sites ( from where search results are fetched )
- BigStockPhoto
- Cutcaster
- Flickr
- Fotolia
- Photos.com
- Shutterstock
- stock.xchng
- stockvault
The results are categorized by the source website. You can view results from individual websites by choosing the option from a pop-down menu in the results.
Clicking on the photograph will take you to the source website where you can eg read about the image licensing.

As an example, following is a partial snapshot of results when was searched for keyword <India>. Notice the pop-down menu on top left using which you can see results of individual sites.

Cyclo.ps would save your precious time of going through individual sites and searching for that right photo. Do try this service whenever you need to look for stock photos next time.

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