When we have a website or blog, we try to fill these places with the best content. Often, texts alone are definitely not enough, because a wall of texts does not attract the visitor's attention. So try to make your posts more attractive with interesting photos. Where can you get them? We can jokingly answer that each of us has access to the Google search engine, and everything can be found there. You just need to upload the best photo and then put it in the post. Is it really that easy to find photos or other images for your website?

Copyright

Unfortunately, the answer is no. The Google search engine, and Google Graphics in particular, only indexes images found by its "robots". Just because we find a photo using a search engine does not mean that we can simply download it and use it without consequences, as it is copyrighted - it is someone's work that cannot be used elsewhere without the author's consent.

However, there is a concept of a license that defines how you can use content found on the Internet. The Creative Commons license, as it is called, is divided into several sub-licenses:

• CC-BY - a license with attribution, content marked in this way can be freely copied, modified and distributed, but only if the author's name and surname and the source from which, for example, a photo is taken are provided.
• CC-NC - As in the case above, we are free to use the content so marked, but we cannot derive any financial benefit from it.
• CC-SA - In this case, we can also use the photo or graphic in any way (even modify it), provided that the end effect of our actions is also marked with this license.
• CC-ND - The contents of this license may not be modified in any way. They may be copied and distributed only in their original form.
• CC0 - This license constitutes a waiver of copyright in the image. Please note that these licenses can be combined.

Tools in Google Graphics

If we want to use an image or photo found in a search engine, we should first go to the page on which it was posted and read the license that was intended for the content. Its absence means that we cannot legally (without the author's consent) use the photo we found. However, Google has a special tool that allows you to filter the results in terms of the license assigned to the photo at the search engine stage.

All you need to do in the Google Graphics search engine is select Tools and then choose the element you are interested in from the Rights of Use drop-down list.

This way, we are much more confident that the images can be freely copied and placed on our website.

You can also use so-called image banks, which are pages that collect different types of graphics or photos that can be used for different purposes. The vast majority of such banks are paid, but with a little patience, you can also find sites that offer content for free.