copyright & licensingGenerally speaking, who ever created an image, such as a digital photograph, owns that image. It is their intellectual property. And, again generally speaking, you do not have the legal right to use that image however you wish unless that image's owner has granted you permission. Licensing is a way for an owner to define how others may use his image, his intellectual property. Creative Commons is an organisation that has created several different licenses that people may apply to their intellectual property to define, in advance, how others are allowed to use that property. For example, whether it would be okay to post that image on a blog. Learn more about Creative Commons at this link: http://creativecommons.org/about/what-is-cc Read explanations of the various Creative Commons licenses at this link: http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses When you need to find an image, searching for images licensed using a Creative Commons license is an easy to limit your image search to those images that you would be legally allowed to use. Please note... a common requirement is that you attribute the image you're using so that people would be able to easily determine who was the creator of that image. find imagesHere are some web sites that focus on images and digital photographs that have been licensed using Creative Commons.Animal Photos! Car Pictures Compfight - simplifies searching Flickr for CC licensed images Creativity103 (http://creativity103.com/) - collection of abstract background images Flickr Creative Commons search - Flickr's specialized search page for CC licensed images Geograph British Isles - photographs of Great Britain Open Clip Art Library - online clip art library Photo Everywhere - travel locations from around the world Morgue File - public image archive online photo editorsThese are web sites that allow you to edit digital photographs and other images online through a web browser.Picnik - photo editor SUMO Paint - seems to focus more on drawing & painting features FotoFlexer - photo editor Pixisnap - create photo mosaics and polaroid pictures Dumpr - photo effects Photoshop Express - photo editor Splashup - image editing Wet Floor Maker - create reflecting images fd's Flickr Toys - do fun things to images |