Images are used everywhere on the web from product images to blogs and from advertisements to personal photo albums. Copyrights are a main concern when searching for images as the owner may or may not allow redistribution of them. Distributing a copyrighted image without consent can result in fines and civil actions against the individual using the image without permission. A found image that a person wishes to use must meet certain usage requirements and it's determined by what the end user's goals are. A person wishing to use an image for commercial gains (including printing using
ink or
toner) they need to be sure the image they are using is allowed to be used for these gains. Downloading an image is simple; most times, if the copyright allows it, the image can be right clicked and downloaded directly.
Using these images will require the end user to give credit to the original owner and must follow the guidelines in the copyright agreement. Credit is given when the image is inserted into a blog, web site, visual media, or print similar to citing sources in a term paper or newspaper article. To help an individual find images there are many image search engines available. These operate by searching for images tagged or labeled with certain key phrases that the image search engine searches for. Along with the image search engines, image archiving stores images in multiple resolutions and sizes to be available to end users. The archives are set up in a database that stores the image data as well as meta data in a standard XML format. This means that platforms of any design can access and retrieve the requested information. Image archives also work in conjunction with interactive media applications.
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Image Copyrights Summary
Image and Copyright Management
A Government Image Library
Fair Use of Copyright Materials
Creative Commons Area on Flickr
Watermarking Copyrighted Images
Gaining Permission to Use Copyrighted Material and Images
Free Images for Use
Help Downloading Images
How To Download Images from the Web
Inserting Images with HTML
Image Archiving
Open Source Image Archiving
Image Archiving Directory Summary
Creative Commons Organization
Stock Photos for Use
Inserting an Image Using PHP
Fagan Finder Image Search engine
Search22 Image Search Engine
A List of Rated Image Search Engines
Description of Image Search Engines
Popular Searches