For years I’ve been using Morguefile.com to find photographs for free.

Morguefile.com is an interesting site because they have free photographs hosted there that you can “copy, distribute, transmit… and… adapt.“  In fact, attribution is not even required (a kind word for the author is always appreciated but not required).  Most photos for my blog posts were coming from this site.

Well, since then I have begun to use a plugin called Zemanta which makes it really easy to find photos for blog posts from WITHIN WordPress.  It also makes it easy to add links and tags but the photo is what was taking the most time to format to the posts.

Blogging is not the only place photos are used, though.  I use photos for all kinds of creative pursuits, including photo-puzzles, photo-manipulation, and even converting into clip art.  So, Morguefile.com still fills a void in my life.

Google now makes it east to find free photographs!

NOW, I just read a blog post on Google’s official blog that you can search for photos on their Image Search and narrow it down by license (ie. creative commons, etc.).  It’s really easy to use, just click the “Advanced Image Search” link and notice the “usage rights” section.  If you need help defining the terms, click on “more info.”

You can also search by license on Flickr.com, a Yahoo site.

With sources like these, who’d want to pay for stock photography?  OK, the quality may be a little better on a pay site, but with some sweaty effort, I think you can find some really good quality for free!  Morguefile.com, Google Image Search and Flickr just want to help a bit!

What is your favorite source of free photos?  And don’t tell me you steal other people’s graphics from their websites!

Welcome, friends, to today’s version of Firefox Friday.

This time I think I’ve come across a tool I’m really going to enjoy! It’s and add-on called “Fotofox.” Follow me and see how it works!

First, visit the add-on page: Fotofox and click the “Add to Firefox” button:

When the window pops up, click “Install Now”

Restart Firefox and click the camera button:

A sidebar should appear to the left asking you to login or create an account:

Chose which service you use (I’ll use Flickr for the sake of this tutorial) and hit continue.   Sign into your Flickr account, click the “OK, I’ll Allow It” button.  Now you ought to be ready to drag and drop photos into the box:

Notice the options at the bottom where you can set the title, tags, etc.  That’ll help organize the pictures in your Flickr account!

This plug-in is one of the coolest photo plugins I’ve seen so far!  Sometimes I find the Flickr interface cumbersome but this’ll make life a LOT easier!  Let me know what your thoughts are.  Do you know of a better plugin that does a similar task?  Share it with me and it may end up the focus of another Firefox Friday!