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

Copyright

Unfortunately, the answer is no. The Google search engine, in particular Google Graphics, only indexes images found by its "robots". The fact that 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 license concept that defines how content found on the Internet can be used. The Creative Commons license, as it is called, is divided into several sub-licenses:

• CC-BY- a license with acknowledgment of authorship, the 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 indicated in this way, 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 means that the copyright in the image is waived. 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 intended for the content. The absence of such a license means that we cannot legally use the photo we found (without the author's consent). 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 to 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 images can be freely copied and posted 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.