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The Hell That Is Sourcing Stock Images

May 21, 2019May 20, 2019 Medic 0 Comments image, images, pictures, pixabay, stock, stock images

I am so thankful for the existence of free image and royalty-free stock image websites exist. Because without them, I don’t know what I’d do. Why? Because a lot of people forget that images are made and sometimes belong to people. Images, just like music and TV and things like that, have usage rights and licenses. And those usage rights can vary greatly. You do a Google Image search, you’ll find a bunch of images for pretty much anything and everything. But depending on the image, who it belongs to and where it’s hosted, you can’t just use an image… [Continue Reading]

This image is clearly of some sort of rock formation, but at first glance it could be dead bodies.

Now for Something Completely Different

A Morgue of Files

August 1, 2017August 22, 2017 Medic 0 Comments creepy, morgue, photography, stock images, work

Being someone who uses a lot of images in their line of work, I need a source of stock images, preferably free ones, that I can use without being sued. But I also need images that are actually genuinely good and interesting and preferably not shit. All the images used in this article are pictures downloaded from one particular stock photo website – Morguefile. Over the years, I’ve used loads of sites. Originally, I would just use Google Images, using the option that filters images via usage rights. It’s SUPPOSED to filter out images that have copyrights and keep in… [Continue Reading]