Confessions of a Six Figure Professional Blogger

Tip For Great Photos For Bloggers

Photos add a nice, professional touch to your blog posts. By combining a great headline with eye-catching imagery, your post will have that extra wow factor not seen on many other blogs.

Many of us have used Google Image Search to find images of certain things. It works, but it is also pot luck and you gotta be careful not to swipe images which are copyrighted.

So, I recommend iStockphoto. This is a great resource for quality stock images. There are vector graphics, computer graphics, videos, and yes, photos. Credits are cheap, too. When buying stock photos, you can usually get away with the smallest size if it is for use in a post. If it is for printed material, then you may need a larger high DPI version.

Check it out, though. If you want to know where the big-time bloggers get the cool images from, this is it. :)

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  • Great tip for stock photos, but I'm still at the point where I like to use creative commons images (free so long as you link back) and I'm loving the service by zemanta.com - it plugs in to wordpress, scans the content of my post and tries to deliver images that match - or I can run a search on a word or phrase for images too. All the photos have their copyright status there, so I know I can't get into trouble and it's one click to put it straight in the post.
    What's your thought on using creative commons photos - are they OK in early stages or should they be avoided from the start?
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