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Creative Commons License is a copyright-free picture license.
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Pictures - Find online, Copyright-free
Pictures with the Creative Commons License are free to use in your personal or professional marketing publications.
When to use
You do not want to be accused of infringing on someone else’s photo ownership if you do not have your own original photo to use. Instead, find images online with the Creative Commons License, which makes the picture available for your use, copyright-free.
Instructions:
- On any publication page, Insert a Picture Placeholder.
- Resize the placeholder if necessary and click the center icon to access the Bing Image Search.
- Type your Search phrase, i.e.: Blue Flower, and press Enter or click the tiny magnifying glass to begin the search.
- Notice the top of the search box shows a Creative Commons Only which filters the results for “Creative Commons” licensed photos and cliparts.
- Click the filter icon for more options:
- Select the photo of your choice and click Insert on the bottom right of the dialog box
- If you want a wider selection, go to Bing.com online, click Images, type your Search phrase, i.e.: Blue Flower, and press Enter.
- Click the Filter, then the Licence button and choose Free to share and use commercially or any other selection – except for All which includes copyright protected images.
Computer Tips
To save an online copyright-free image to your computer:
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- Right-click the image.
- Select “Save Picture As”.
- Find a location in your computer files.
- Click Save.
- 00:05 At some point, during your use of Publisher you're going to want
- 00:08 a professional level photo that you may or may not have access to.
- 00:13 You'll be very tempted to jump online and just grab any photo.
- 00:16 But let me tell you, photos out there are copyrighted.
- 00:19 So keep your integrity in check and
- 00:21 make sure you're using the Creative Commons license.
- 00:24 Well, then your next question is, how is that?
- 00:27 You've probably never heard of it.
- 00:27 It's kind of great actually.
- 00:29 On the Insert ribbon,
- 00:30 if I just click Pictures it's going to take me directly to my own photos.
- 00:34 I don't really want to go there.
- 00:36 So I'm going to hit Picture Placeholder to just drop a little placeholder on
- 00:39 my screen.
- 00:40 Now when I hit the center of that placeholder,
- 00:43 it's going to pause right here.
- 00:45 I can go to my own files, to Bing Image Search, or to the OneDrive.
- 00:48 Well Bing Image Search, Bing is Microsoft, Microsoft is Bing.
- 00:53 So when I click the Bing Image Search, now it opens up to Online Pictures.
- 00:58 Well, I want to find let's say a blue flower, all right?
- 01:02 And I'm going to hit Enter.
- 01:03 Notice this gray box right up on top that says Creative Commons only with
- 01:08 a check mark?
- 01:09 Welcome to copyright free pictures.
- 01:11 Now if I uncheck that box, it's going to reload, and now I really have no idea if
- 01:16 these are copyright infringement, or they're free for me to use, I don't know.
- 01:22 But with that little checkmark in that box, I am absolutely sure of it.
- 01:26 Now if you want to get technical, you can read this part, you are responsible for
- 01:30 respecting other rights, including copyright.
- 01:32 Learn more here, and when you click that, a large website opens up and
- 01:36 you can read all about the Creative Commons and how it is a co-op for
- 01:40 photographers to share their works.
- 01:42 It's very wonderful.
- 01:43 Well, I'm going to go back here,
- 01:45 I'm going to show you one other button over here on the left.
- 01:48 It's the Filter button.
- 01:49 This Filter button allows me to choose which size picture I want,
- 01:53 just photographs or just clip art.
- 01:55 Well, I want just photographs, I don't want clip art.
- 01:58 Now go back to that filter, I can keep going.
- 02:00 I've got a scroll bar right here, do I want square, wide, tall?
- 02:03 Do I want color only or black and white only?
- 02:06 Do I want certain other colors, or do I want to clear all these filters?
- 02:09 It's worth clicking on the filter.
- 02:11 I'm looking for scroll bars.
- 02:12 You've got some great options in here.
- 02:14 So at this point, all I'm going to do is just kind of,
- 02:18 I like this blue flower right here.
- 02:20 I'd like this one.
- 02:21 Now if I click at once, then I can hit Insert.
- 02:23 Now I would like to save this to my computer which is typically a right-click.
- 02:28 So if I right-click, can I save it to my computer?
- 02:30 It's not giving me the option.
- 02:33 That's okay, there's another way to do it.
- 02:34 So I'm going to click at once, I'm going to click the Insert, and
- 02:38 I've got this great lovely blue flower.
- 02:41 Notice it's a crop, my placeholder has a crop section so
- 02:45 I can move this around and place it wherever I want within the crop.
- 02:49 That's fine.
- 02:51 But now, I want to save this picture to my files.
- 02:53 Now I can right-click on the picture and read the list.
- 02:57 You have an option right there, Save as Picture.
- 02:59 Now, the reason I want to save it to my file system is so
- 03:02 I can go fetch it whenever I want without having to remember
- 03:05 which publication was that in so I can copy-paste it?
- 03:08 Kind of a waste of time to do that, so instead, we Save as Picture.
- 03:11 And now I can save it into my file system wherever I'd like.
- 03:15 All right, that's it. Just be careful when you're looking for
- 03:18 pictures.
- 03:19 Please, please use the Creative Commons License.
- 03:21 It's kind of a cool, cool area.
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