How to Get Free Pictures for Your Blog!

At Worldview Images, we love bloggers! If you have a personal blog that is being used in a non-commercial way, you can use any of the pictures on our stock image site for free! We will even store these free photos for you! All you have to do is place a link in your blogging software to where we have them stored at Worldview Images.

Here is how to get the free images for your blog!

1. First use the search box, key-word list or search through our galleries to find the image that you want to use.

2. Next, decide how large you want the image to be in your blog. We give you two sizes to choose from, (s) small and (m) medium. Small is usually the best size for bloggers.

3. If you are using Internet Explorer for your web browser, “right-click” on the image and choose “properties” from the dropdown menu.

4. From the properties box that pops up, take your mouse and highlight the URL address that appears in the middle and hit “Ctrl+C” on your keyboard to copy the address to your clip board. Then it is a simple matter of going back to your blogging software and “pasting” the address into the appropriate place in your blog.

5. If you are using Fire Fox for your browser, the process is a little easier. After right clicking on the image that you want to use, look for the option to “Copy link location”. Choosing this will automatically copy the URL address of where the image is stored, into your clipboard. Now go to your blogging software and paste it where it needs to go and you are set!

If you would like to have the image without the Worldview Images logo, you can pay a small fee and download a version of the photo that does not have the watermark. Just click on "Buy this photo" to add the image(s) to your "shopping cart", and then "check out" using any major credit card. All transactions are secure, using our partner, Smugmug. You will then be given instructions for immediate download of images that are free of the WVI logo. Happy Blogging!

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Important Message to Teachers

As you teach your students how to download the photos from Worldview Images, please be sure to also take the time to explain to them that the process of harvesting images from the internet, using the right-click method, at most sites on the internet is not only unethical, but illegal. Explain to them the importance of always checking to see what every website says about the use of images displayed at their site. While we want to make our images available to students and teachers for use in their school assignments and projects, we don’t want to encourage a mentality that all images on the internet are somehow in the “public domain” and are free to use by simply “right click” saving. It is important that students be educated in the principles of copyright, intelectual property ownership, and the right to use material that they find on the internet.

Students should know that while it is unlikely that the courts would consider a case against students using copyrighted material from the internet for school projects, they should be aware that in the adult world, in the real world, in the corporate world, using images gathered from the internet without permission or without purchasing the right to use, can, and often does result in litigation. The legal system in most “Western” countries usually favor the content owners of intellectual and artistic properties, and fines for illegal use can be as high as $100,000 or more! So, while we want you to feel welcome at Worldview Images, please use this opportunity to educate your students on the morality, ethics and legal implications of using copyrighted material that they find on the internet.

Thanks for your co-operation and enjoy the free-use policies of Worldview Images!