A Lightning-Fast Way to Grab Graphics for Your
Website
Copyright 2005 Ron Hutton
Just the right photo or graphic strategically placed on
your website can go a very long way to achieving the
desired effect, whether it's motivating someone to spend
their money, click a link, download a free report or just
keep reading. However, finding graphics that are available
for your use without copyright infringement can be a real
challenge when you don't want to pay a huge subscription
fee for access to professional photos and graphics.
NOTE: This article has a free companion video tutorial
that demonstrates how to quickly and easily grap
copyright-free graphics for use on your website. The video
can be viewed here:
http://www.gothrive.com/snag-a-photo.htm
As a marketer or webmaster you surely appreciate the fact
that original graphics works on your website belong to you
and as far as everyone else is concerned, the sign says
"Hands Off". It's only fair. If your blood, sweat, tears
and moolah went into the creation of your site's graphics,
you'd be upset if you found that someone else had blatantly
stolen your copyrighted work and was using it for their own
commercial purposes. That's just not cool.
So, where can you go to find photos and graphics that you
can use without having to spend an arm and a leg? Here are
a couple of sites that offer tons of copyright-free
pictures:
Stock.xchng http://www.sxc.hu/
I learned of Stock.xchng from another marketer and if I
could remember this person's name, I'd gladly give him
credit. I've found the inventory of photographs available
at Stock.xchng to be excellent, especially consider the
cost! Here's what you'll read on their home page...
"Welcome to Stock.XCHNG, the leading FREE stock photo
site!
Whether you just want to browse our huge image gallery or
want to share your personal photos with others, this is the
site for you!
Browse through the categories of our huge gallery
containing over 100,000 quality stock photos by more than
9,000 users! Need a wallpaper for your desktop? Need a pic
for your commercial website design? Looking for
inspiration? Have a look around."
Next...
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org
The following two paragraphs are quoted from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About
"Wikipedia was created on January 15, 2001 by founders
Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, and some enthusiastic
collaborators. Three years later, as of December 2004,
there were 13,000 active contributors working on over
1,800,000 articles in more than 100 languages. As of today,
there are 700,437 articles in English; every day hundreds
of thousands of visitors from around the world make tens of
thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles to
enhance the amount of knowledge held by the Wikipedia
encyclopedia.
All text in Wikipedia, and most images and other content,
is covered by the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).
Contributions remain the property of their creators, while
the GFDL license ensures the content will remain freely
distributable and reproducible (see the copyright notice
and the content disclaimer for more information)"
You'll find additional supporting documents and links to
documents explaining the terms of use for graphics
available at Wikipedia. You may find this site to be very
useful.
So, now you've found a photograph that suits your
purposes perfectly, but it's provided in a high resolution
file format that just won't resize well. You've tried
altering the image dimensions in your photo editing
software and the resulting image quality is just plain
poor. Now what?
My favorite program that solves this problem is call
Snag-It. This outstanding little piece of software offers
lots of slick tools and features, but as it applies to this
discussion, the simple screen capture function is
indispensible. More information on Snag-It is available
here: http://snagit.gothrive.com and the following video
will show you just how quickly and easily Snag-It will give
you the perfect graphic for your website. Go here to watch
a short demonstration of Snag-It:
http://www.gothrive.com/snag-a-photo.htm
Ron Hutton is a 20 year sales and marketing veteran with a
passion for coaching and training. Subscribe to "GoThrive
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