Besides the practice photos I've provided you, you'll want to use some other images in the future. Or maybe you don't even want to use the ones I've given you. So let's learn about where we can find free photos to use and how to not get into trouble using them. So first, we're going to cover image usage rights. I'm gonna go over this briefly because it can be a little mind boggling. There are free photos, Creative Commons, public domain and royalty free.

There are many kinds of creative commons licenses. As you can see on the image here, there's attribution, attribution, share alike, attribution, no derivatives, etc. As I said, it can be a little mind boggling. What attribution is, is that you have to give credit to the photographer or the designer of the image, usually their name, sometimes their website, and you can only use the image for certain purposes, gets very convoluted and we want to avoid that as much as possible. If you're really interested you can go to creativecommons.org and read up all about it. What we're really looking for are royalty free images, or Creative Commons zero license, which means no attribution.

And we can use the photo however we want. So of course, you can use your own photos if you're a photographer, we can go to free photo and graphic sites, we can buy stock photos and graphics. Regardless of where you're getting them, you want to search for the right image for the purpose and that usually means the photo or image is going to evoke emotion. So where do we find those photos? Here are my favorite free stock photo sites. There's pixabay pixels, big jumbo, and the Creative Commons search.

Now there are dozens of other free photo sites online and you can do a search for them. The problem with some of these is you're not really sure what the license is and how you're allowed to use the photo. It can be very time consuming And mind boggling. Let's skip that. So first let's take a look at pixabay. Now, all the photos on pixabay are free and they're user generated.

There are currently over 640,000 free stock photos you can use and you can use them any way you want. However, in reality, that's a pretty small amount. I do like the site, they have some really great photos, you can go ahead and explore this, or you can choose another site. The next site is pixels. Again, you can use these images however you want in any project. You can even sell the pictures.

Another one is pick jumbo. This is a pretty good site. I like pixabay better, but you can explore some pretty good photos here. You can also use the Creative Commons search. You can find lots of different not only images, music and videos and various other media that you might want to use in your projects. But again, you have to be careful about attribution.

I like to Avoid this completely, because again, it's very time consuming, and I want to make my images, get them posted on Instagram, and I want to interact with my followers. There also paid stock photo sites. These are some of my favorites. Of course, there are many more cozy and Fotolia are the top of my list because they're the least expensive. Let's take a look. Here's cozy, it's fairly new on the scene, and they don't have millions and millions of images.

But the price is right at $1 each. Then there's Fotolia. This is on by Adobe, and they do have millions of photos and images to choose from. The price is also very good at about one to $3 an image depending on the plan you choose or the subscription you choose. Then there's Adobe Stock. Also they have millions of images.

They're a little more expensive at around $3 each depending on the subscription, you choose. Another site I recommend is deposit photos, they're a little more expensive, but sometimes you can get hundreds of images for pennies apiece. And then there's Shutterstock. They've been around for a long, long time. They're a great resource for photos, but considerably more expensive and around five to $10 an image, you got to be really picky if you're going to shop here. With all these paid stock photo sites, you are paying for a license to use the image.

It's called a royalty free photo which means you can use it over and over and only pay once. However, you may not use them in certain commercial projects. So make sure you read the licenses before you sell the photos as part of another project. Okay, now you know where to get photos. Let's go to the next step.