Choosing the image . Choose a subject that is not too banal but not too abstract; possibly find a copyright-free image and/or cite the source or author; check that the image has a sufficient pixel size (personally, at least 650/700 px, and for some sites it is still too little); resize the image if it is not the desired size…
Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world
Bruno Barbey – The reason for such fussiness in choosing the photo image to associate with the article is due to the importance of the article itself. A beautiful image makes the difference between a user who clicks and one who abandons and looks elsewhere in the various Social Networks, for example, or in the preview image that appears in the list of all the news. Wanting to go into detail, a well-finished image within a web page guarantees: a greater amount of visits from Google Images (after correctly filling in the alt tag); a better perception of “quality”, of attention and care ; a superior overall graphic appearance of your site, even without a dedicated graphics studio; an increase in CTR ( click through rate , or the ratio between people who see the link without clicking it and people who do click).
The easiest example: in the various
Social Media that present a preview image associated with the link (Facebook and Google Plus but also many RSS feed aggregators), the image and title are the determining factors in obtaining clicks… or not. But what about usage rights? I won’t go into that, especially when it’s already been done very clearly by Ninja Marketing, in this usa email list must-read article . In short, to cut it short: it is worth paying attention to the choice of images. For this reason today I am making a ranking of the best sites where you can find free photos, free of copyright, to use on your web pages. I will limit myself to a few free sites. 20+ Sites for Free Photos and Images I try to rank them by preference, taking into account functionality, image quality, and number/variety of images.
I don’t link all of these sites
I’ll include the URL to copy and paste into your browser. 1. Photopin – In my opinion the number one: it fishes out all the photos on Flickr with Creative Commons license . This means that you can use them by citing the source (with a very short codicil already provided for each image to copy and paste), doing the search with keywords in any language. Be careful because on Flickr, in addition to good photographers, they also publish “dogs and pigs”, so you will always have to be careful: in the flow of images you will always find something with a quality that is not always sufficient. 2. is easy, intuitive: the usual search field to find the image you are looking for starting from a keyword.
The “Editor’s Choice” section is also not bad
Which includes the top images chosen by the Pixabay team, or even “Latest Images”, “Most Searched”, “Photographers”, “Cameras” . 3. Getty Images RF – RF which stands for Royalty Free : Getty Images has a section of the site with images cadastral reference: what is it, what is it used for free of copyright. 4. Free Images , if not very catchy: search for the keyword, view the usage modes and download.
There are also tutorials to learn
How to do things” and various modifications with images. Over 410 thousand photos online . 5. – It currently has about 50 thousand images, so cell p data few compared to other image repositories . Listed for completeness and variety in the photos. 6, translated: the morgue of files . A curious name for one of the most popular free image sites: almost 350 thousand photos, with a keyword search carried out in parallel also on iStock Photo, Getty, . Impossible not to find what you are looking for!
