[GET] 35 million FREE photos to use on your website or blog!

[OnceWild]

[GET] 35 million FREE photos to use on your website or blog!


Getty Images, the world's largest photo agency, has made vast swathes of its library free to use, in an effort to combat piracy.

Millions of images - including famous shots of Marilyn Monroe and Barack Obama - will now be available without cost to blogs and social media sites.

The photos will be "framed" with a code that links back to Getty's website.

If you want to get a Getty image today, you can find it without a watermark very simply.

"The way you do that is you go to one of our customer sites and you right-click. Or you go to Google Image search or Bing Image Search and you get it there.

Start with http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/



Embed image code on the Getty Images website

Images can be shared by copying a simple code from the Getty website

The company says it is making up to 35 million photos available through the new "embed tool", and images can also be shared on social media sites Twitter and Tumblr.

However, there are some notable exceptions - primarily editorial photos of events such as the 11 September terrorist attacks on America or the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Leave me a rep :D if you like the share .

[blackblack0]

Thanks Oncewild for the share. I'm still trying to understand your advice of how to get the photos without a watermark. What "customer sites" are you referring to?

Moreover, I haven't found any free photos...? Cheapest is $25 so far?

[alabama]

Thanks for the info OP!

@blackblack0, check it out here (from a simple google search)

Magic Button :

Code:

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/Creative/Frontdoor/embed#

From Getty's updated TOS [about these embedded images]

[1] "...Upon request, you agree to take prompt action to stop using the Embedded Viewer and/or Getty Images Content."

and

[2] "...You may only use embedded Getty Images Content for editorial purposes (meaning relating to events that are newsworthy or of public interest). Embedded Getty Images Content may not be used: (a) for any commercial purpose (for example, in advertising, promotions or merchandising) or to suggest endorsement or sponsorship; (b) in violation of any stated restriction; © in a defamatory, pornographic or otherwise unlawful manner; or (d) outside of the context of the Embedded Viewer."

So, if you have a news site, or a hobby blog, you can use them. Not for a business site. And Getty can decide to ask you to remove an image if they change their mind...and if you don't get the email because you are on holidays, you will get sued (and they like it), so, thanks but no thanks Getty.

[NonConformer]

Go ahead and risk getting sued for using them. I'm sure they have automated processes to find scrapped images. Just keep that in mind if you use them.

[King of Marketing]

I was reading BBC News and it caught my attention:

Code:

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26463886

Well, more like useful information than a proper share.

How-to instructions:

Code:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2105163/how-to-use-gettys-vast-collection-of-newly-free-pictures-on-your-website.html

It says they will be available for non-commercial uses only: "if a blog appears to be promoting a product or business with the images, it will take action." BOOOO-(urns)!

[Omarseo]

(03-07-2014 07:46 AM)NonConformer Wrote:  Go ahead and risk getting sued for using them. I'm sure they have automated processes to find scrapped images. Just keep that in mind if you use them.

Yeah, exactly. Just do a little Google search and you will find lots of stories about people being harassed by this corpored dbags and their lawyer lapdogs. The images are for personal use anyway, so if you make even 1 cent with your site/blog, that has a embedded image on it, don't be surprised if getty knocks on your door demanding you pay up.

There are better places to find free photos, some you can see here:

Code:

http://www.blazrobar.com/2013/tutorials-articles/great-places-get-free-high-quality-stock-photos/

These are actual photographers sharing their images not some corporate entity making money off other peoples creative work.

[OnceWild]

First, let me say that I now know I should have been more clear on the use and rights of these photos.

I felt that if anyone looked at the Getty site it would be very clear to them, my mistake.

Just because I understood I wrongly thought others would understand.

Please accept my apologies if I unintentionally mislead anyone!!!

[peasandham]

A lot of bloggers don't make a lot of money from their site though some do. For example a fashion blogger may post a getty image and they probably earn a bit of cash from adsense. So this means they are breaching T&C? Is this a publicity stunt? revenue raising from suing people?