Where can I publish free Creative Commons photos so people can find and use them?
Asked 12/20/2014
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I have some photos that may be useful to others, and I’d like to share them for free rather than sell them. Written tutorials are easy to discover through search, and 3D models are easy to publish on dedicated sites, but I’m not sure what the equivalent is for photos.
What are good places to publish photos under a Creative Commons or similar free license so they’re discoverable? Is there a common site, directory, or search service people use to find openly licensed photos?
Originally by Photography Stack Exchange contributor. Source · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
Photography Stack Exchange contributor
11y ago
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I use CC search to find creative commons images. It's a meta-search engine and it searches sites like Flickr and Wikimedia Commons. You could upload your work to one of the searched sites, indicate under what creative commons licence the images fall and describe them as much as possible (keywords, location).
Originally by user9161. Source · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
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A practical approach is to upload your images to sites that are already indexed by Creative Commons image search tools, rather than only hosting them on your own site.
From the answers, good options include:
- Flickr or Wikimedia Commons, with a clearly stated Creative Commons license
- Free stock photo libraries such as FreeImages
- Creative Commons resources at creativecommons.org
To make your photos easier to find:
- Choose and state the license clearly
- Add strong descriptions, keywords, and location information
- Make sure the pages are searchable and well indexed by search engines
In short, publish the photos on a well-known image-sharing or free-stock platform that supports Creative Commons licensing, and use clear metadata so services like CC search can surface them.
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