How to Use ELT Pics - FREE Images You Can Use In Your Blogs

Do you add images to your blog posts? Images attract the interest of your readers and make your posts more memorable. It is also useful to have images in your presentations.

Finding images that you have permission to use can be tricky. It is illegal to copy and paste pictures from the Internet if they are not in the public domain. I prefer to use my own images. I know I have permission to use them. Occasionally I don't have a good picture to use for a blog post. I subscribe to a clipart site that gives me permission to use photos on EnglishClub.com without providing credit to the photographer. The images from this clipart site are okay, but not great. There is an annual fee to use these photos.

A great place to find excellent FREE photos for your blogs is ELT Pics. This is a flickr collection made by English language teachers for English language teachers. English learners also have permission to use these pictures for educational purposes (not for commercial purposes). The pictures on ELT Pics are in the Creative Commons. You can use the pictures, but you have to credit the photographer and the source. You do this by:

1) adding the name of the photographer (and a link to his/her twitter account, website, or blog if available)

2) adding a link to the original source (ELT Pics gallery)

See an example of an ELT Pic credited in a blog post.

Watch the video to see exactly how to use ELT Pics for your blog posts.(Refresh the page or try the link above if you don't see the video below.) Thank you for respecting the rights of photographers around the world. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Learn how ELT Pics was born in this twitter interview.

Tags: ELTpics, blogs, images

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Comment by Zulkifli Alinazar on January 28, 2012 at 1:43: Very useful, thanks Tara!

Comment by Matthias MacCallus on December 28, 2011 at 15:22: My pleasure :-)

Admin Comment by Tara Benwell on December 28, 2011 at 14:46: Thanks Matthias!

Comment by Matthias MacCallus on October 31, 2011 at 9:26: Hi Tara! There is a good source of free public domain images: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/

There is also a long list of public domain images resources on the Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources

Comment by Ymn Pearl on October 30, 2011 at 11:53: Thanks dear, I followed it. =)

Comment by Agus Budiono on October 30, 2011 at 11:01: Nice sharing Tara, It is important to use legal picture in our post.

Admin Comment by Tara Benwell on October 28, 2011 at 21:07: Oh, sorry! It's @elt_pics.

Comment by Ymn Pearl on October 28, 2011 at 20:54: Sorry, but I didn't find account there with this ID (@eltpics).

Comment by Ymn Pearl on October 28, 2011 at 20:51: @Tara Benwell aha! Thanks for clarifying. I'm going to follow ELT pis to be updated. =)

I may share mine too. =)