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Finding & Using Online Images

Use images to support your presentations, engage your audience, and to punctuate or demonstrate your topic when writing papers and assignments. Learn where to find online images and how to use them legally and ethically.

                                           

                                           Photo courtesy of Gratisography

Reverse Image Search

 

Do you have a picture that isn't quite what you want?

Or perhaps you just want to be able to choose the best from several similar images?

Some Internet search engines now allow for uploading an image that you already hold and getting results for similar objects or colors.

Tin Eye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version.

Image Search Engines & Websites

 

There are many search engines that allow you to search for images on the web. You can find images to support your presentation or to tell a story; however, finding images on these websites or using these search engines does not guarantee that the work is copyright-free.

It is your responsibility to be certain that you are using images legally.

Several of the sites listed below hold large numbers of images free of copyright.  Some of these sites offer images with licenses that are royalty free and are rights managed.  Royalty free in this context does not mean that the image is free to use or in the public domain, but it is free of royalties (paying each time you use an image).