If you want to find eye catching pictures to use in your blog posts or training materials you need royalty free stock images or pictures released under a creative commons license. In this slideshow I'll take you through the steps for finding pictures that use the flickr creative commons license using the flickrCC.net image search engine.

1. Finding Creative Commons images
How to discover, edit, use and attribute
free images in your training materials and blog posts.

2. 1. Go to flickrcc.net

3. 2. Enter your search term
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Use single words to begin with
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Narrow the search by adding more terms
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Leave 'For editing' checked to allow cropping etc.
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Select 'Commercial' if you're going to sell the image”
or use it for advertising copy

4. 3. Click on a thumbnail
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Choose a thumbnail and click
on it
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Or load 30 new images using
the 'next' link
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This will load the attribution in
the next panel...

5. 4. Select your image size
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The links below the image load
different sizes into the browser
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The 'Medium' size is usually all
you need for a blog post or web
page
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You can click on the image title
to see the original on flickr

6. 5. Edit the image (optional)
If you left 'For editing' selected when you started the search you can now
click on the 'Edit' link to open an on line image editor...

7. 6. Save your image
 Right click on the image
 Select 'Save Image As' from the
pop up menu (actual words may
vary depending on the browser
used)
 Name the file
 Remember where you saved it!

8. 7. Copy the attribution text
 Select the attribution text (left click and drag over the text)
 Right click the selection and choose 'Copy' from the pop up menu

9. 8. Upload the image to your blog and add the
attribution text:
Image: 'Dolomiti - le Odle viste dal Seceda'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7772186@N03/3909598872
Found on flickrcc.net