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"A Lightning-Fast Way to Grab Graphics for Your Website..."
© Ron Hutton - All Rights reserved
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Just the right photo or graphic strategically placed on your
website can go a very long way to achieving the desired effect,
whether it's motivating someone to spend their money, click a
link, download a free report or just keep reading. However,
finding graphics that are available for your use without
copyright infringement can be a real challenge when you don't
want to pay a huge subscription fee for access to professional
photos and graphics.
NOTE: This article has a free companion video tutorial that
demonstrates how to quickly and easily grap copyright-free
graphics for use on your website. The video can be viewed
here:
http://www.gothrive.com/snag-a-photo.htm
As a marketer or webmaster you surely appreciate the fact that
original graphics works on your website belong to you and as far
as everyone else is concerned, the sign says "Hands Off". It's
only fair. If your blood, sweat, tears and moolah went into the
creation of your site's graphics, you'd be upset if you found
that someone else had blatantly stolen your copyrighted work and
was using it for their own commercial purposes. That's just not
cool.
So, where can you go to find photos and graphics that you can
use without having to spend an arm and a leg? Here are a couple
of sites that offer tons of copyright-free pictures:
Stock.xchng
http://www.sxc.hu/
I learned of Stock.xchng from another marketer and if I could
remember this person's name, I'd gladly give him credit. I've
found the inventory of photographs available at Stock.xchng to be
excellent, especially consider the cost! Here's what you'll read
on their home page...
"Welcome to Stock.XCHNG, the leading FREE stock photo site!
Whether you just want to browse our huge image gallery or want to
share your personal photos with others, this is the site for you!
Browse through the categories of our huge gallery containing over
100,000 quality stock photos by more than 9,000 users! Need a
wallpaper for your desktop? Need a pic for your commercial
website design? Looking for inspiration? Have a look around."
Next...
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org
The following two paragraphs are quoted from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About
"Wikipedia was created on January 15, 2001 by founders Jimmy
Wales, Larry Sanger, and some enthusiastic collaborators. Three
years later, as of December 2004, there were 13,000 active
contributors working on over 1,800,000 articles in more than 100
languages. As of today, there are 700,437 articles in English;
every day hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world
make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new
articles to enhance the amount of knowledge held by the Wikipedia
encyclopedia.
All text in Wikipedia, and most images and other content, is
covered by the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).
Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the
GFDL license ensures the content will remain freely distributable
and reproducible (see the copyright notice and the content
disclaimer for more information)"
You'll find additional supporting documents and links to
documents explaining the terms of use for graphics available at
Wikipedia. You may find this site to be very useful.
So, now you've found a photograph that suits your purposes
perfectly, but it's provided in a high resolution file format
that just won't resize well. You've tried altering the image
dimensions in your photo editing software and the resulting image
quality is just plain poor. Now what?
My favorite program that solves this problem is call Snag-It.
This outstanding little piece of software offers lots of slick
tools and features, but as it applies to this discussion, the
simple screen capture function is indispensible. More
information on Snag-It is available here:
http://snagit.gothrive.com and the following video will show you
just how quickly and easily Snag-It will give you the perfect
graphic for your website. Go here to watch a short demonstration
of Snag-It:
http://www.gothrive.com/snag-a-photo.htm
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To your success,
Ron Hutton
GoThrive.com
Breakaway Marketing
167 Deep Woods Way
Ormond Beach, FL 32174
Phone: 386.671.9134 | Fax: 309.416.4629
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