You have a few options when it comes to using images in your blog posts, eBooks, marketing materials and everything else you use to sell. Grab screenshots, take your own photos or go to one of the many stock image websites to see if you can grab an image for …
Over time, the disk space that a typical WordPress website uses increases due to images being uploaded every day. One way to address this is to remove any images that are not being used by your website. That is, images that are not referenced by your database, theme, or plugins. …
I spoke yesterday about the news that Getty Images are allowing bloggers to embed their high quality photos on their websites. Thomas Hoefter from CMS Commander posted a comment noting that the embed option is only available to non-commercial websites, which renders the feature pretty useless to most bloggers. Coincidentally, …
Finding the right images for your blog posts can be a real pain. To complicate matters even more, bloggers need to ensure that they only use free and creative common images. This greatly restricts the quality and quantity of images they can use, however using stock images without permission is …
Images are rarely ready for publication when you download them. Therefore, you will need to modify the image for your blog. Sometimes an image will just need resized, other times you will need to crop the image and add text. There are many free and premium image editing applications available …
Stock images sometimes offer a small percentage of images for free, however most will cost you. It is important to check the license of any image you purchase. Rights managed licensed images place restrictions on how you can use an image. For example, an image may be restricted to what …
It’s hard to make an impression if your articles are all text. Images make it easier for readers to digest information and articles with images are more likely to be shared by readers. Image galleries are a great place to find creative commons images. It is important that you do …
Public domain images have no copyright. Therefore they can be used in any way, shape or form, without any royalty concerns. Pixabay Thousands of beautiful public domain images. Public Domain Images A large selection of high resolution public domain images. Public Domain Photos A collection of around 5,000 free stock …
One of the first questions I ask before I write for another blog is “What’s the maximum width an image can be?”. It’s an important question. If an image is too wide it will probably break the design. The height of an image is irrelevant in this respect but some …
Growmatik is a feature-rich marketing service that helps you convert visitors into customers. The service describes itself as an “Omni-Channel Marketing” solution, which means that the focus is on providing users with the right content at the right time. The overall goal is to give people value. In practice, what …