Boring blog? Use pictures!!

Hi all, how is going with the decision in setting up your blogging persona? I hope you already have some ideas in your mind after this long time. Remember, be comfortable with your decision but not to the point it is you easy way out, else you will not treat it seriously in a long run as time goes by.

Ok, I assume you already had a certain kind of personas in your mind, now this post is about attaching pictures in blog. Human being is a visual creature, even those who did not have the ability to see needs to create a visual object in mind to help in identify and recognizing purpose.

So based on the reason stated above, I think a blog with pictures will help in preventing your readers from getting bore with your every post in your blog, I’m not saying that text alone cannot trigger imagination, I am saying picture can boost up and enhance your reader’s understanding and be interest in continuing reading, furthermore to support my point, there is a saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.”

Acknowledge that having pictures in your blog has several benefits such as:

• Pictures can help people absorb and remember the content in your blog easier.
• To act as a resting place for your reader’s eyes.
• To act as a humor or to emphasis a point, using caption will greatly help.

Acknowledging the copyright of the picture

Alright adding picture is easy, BUT IN THE CORRECT WAY, you cannot just grab from google images and use it in your blog, you might got yourself a warning from the owner of the picture depending on the types of cyber law because you might violate some legal issues and intellectual property so it is crucial to understand what you are allow and not allow to do.

We have to thank the Creative Commons or as known as CC, What is CC? Check this out from their website:

“Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.

Our free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice. CC licenses let you easily change your copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”

Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs.” - https://creativecommons.org/

You guys should check other licenses and their different usage via their website above under the “License” navigation button, you will find that there are different license logos you need to obey in order to use certain material.

Places to get photos online

Next I will recommend some photo sites meant for free usage or CC usage, again please use according to the CC license logos requirement if you ever encounter one. Just be sure to read their description carefully and you are good to go.

• flickr.com
• freedigitalphotos.net
• freephotosbank.com
• freemediagoo.com
• morguefile.com
• photorogue.com

Alternative ways

1. Google search

Google image has some extra options in searching images, check it out:

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There is another more advance search in google which they made a page specialize for the purpose of finding images <link> or pages<link>

However you should verify before reuse the images as google are unable to prove whether it is a legitimate license or not. Read their help page for more information.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/29508?hl=en

2. Ahh cut the trouble, I am going to do it myself!!

After all the information state in this post, some of you might be thinking of using your own pictures or even creating it using image software, it is fine, the value of originality will be added in your post, just make sure your photo taken is clear and be able to explain what you intended in the post.

3. Like it? You may purchase it

Take my money~

If you ever found a picture that really fits in your blog post like no other, you can consider purchasing it online, in fact, paid photos are way pretty and it will same ample of your time, below are some of the image stock websites to look for:

• istockphoto.com
• gettyimages.com
• depositphotos.com
• shutterstock.com
• bigstockphoto.com
• graphicriver.net

I think that’s all for this post, sometimes I do find that searching for images or pictures for every blog post can be time-consuming but because I think that a blog should has at least a picture to be interesting for reader and as a symbol of remembrance, so I think it will be worth of my time and it could be fun when you exploring the options available. So hope this post guide you and good luck!