Pictures - Find online, Copyright-free

Quick reference

• 00:04 This would be a great time to talk about pictures for your publication.
• 00:09 But maybe you don't have one available so you need to go find one online.
• 00:12 So let's talk a little bit about Copyrights, Copyright infringement and
• 00:16 the Creative Commons License.
• 00:18 First of all, if I want to insert a picture, it opens me right up to my files
• 00:23 and I don't have a picture I want to use right there.
• 00:25 So I'll hit cancel on that, go back to Insert > Picture Placeholder.
• 00:29 That drops a square on my screen, I can make it a little larger and
• 00:33 when I click the center icon, it takes me to a different area.
• 00:37 I could right back to my files, or I could go to the Bing Image Search.
• 00:41 Now, Microsoft has abandoned their old clip art catalog and
• 00:45 they've partnered with Bing to search for non-copyright infringed pictures.
• 00:50 So, I'm gonna go ahead and type blue flower there and
• 00:53 hit Insert, and here are your options via Microsoft's agreement with
• 00:58 the Bing copyright commons, creative commons license.
• 01:02 So when I scroll down,
• 01:03 there's not a lot available, but they're absolutely copyright free.
• 01:08 So right up here,
• 01:08 if you want to read more about copyrights, you would click this link.
• 01:11 If you want to know more about what the creative commons license is, go ahead and
• 01:15 click this link.
• 01:16 When I click it, here you go.
• 01:18 Basically, when I read this, I realized, it's just a copyright co-op and
• 01:23 people have said, sure, go ahead, throw me in the pool of people.
• 01:26 People can use my photos for whatever they want.
• 01:28 It's actually kind of a nice little feature.
• 01:30 But again, it didn't have a lot of options available.
• 01:34 So let's go find them another way.
• 01:37 Before I do that, notice, right up here it says CC Only?
• 01:39 That's your confirmation that this is Creative Commons license, right there.
• 01:44 All right. I'm gonna close this.
• 01:45 We're gonna go in another way.
• 01:47 I'm gonna just go straight to Bing.
• 01:49 I've already typed blue flower, right here.
• 01:51 And I'm gonna click Images right over here.
• 01:54 Now I get a ton of flowers, just hundreds and hundreds of blue flowers
• 01:58 that I need to know, wait a minute, they have to be copyright-free.
• 02:02 So where you find that out?
• 02:03 Right here is a button that says License.
• 02:06 When you click that dropdown arrow, now you can see All,
• 02:09 which means some are copyrighted, you can't use them.
• 02:13 Public domain means it's free to use.
• 02:16 And then it says Free to share and use.
• 02:18 Free to share and use commercially.
• 02:20 This is awesome.
• 02:21 I'm gonna go ahead and click on this one to see the list.
• 02:24 Now when this comes up, I can scroll through and
• 02:27 I'm gonna find one in here I like.
• 02:28 This one I really like a lot.
• 02:30 Well, let me draw your attention to the bottom of this,
• 02:32 look what it says, commons.wikimedia.org.
• 02:35 What if I float my mouse on another one over here, commons.wikimedia,
• 02:40 creative commons.
• 02:41 All right, so I particularly like this one, so I wanna save this into my file, so
• 02:46 I'm gonna right-click on top of this.
• 02:48 You'll see the list, and one says Save Picture as, and
• 02:52 I'm gonna go ahead and call it Blue flower and save it.
• 02:55 Now I'll go ahead and get out of there, hit this button, go ahead and
• 03:00 choose browse to my pictures and blue flower.
• 03:04 I'll hit Insert and there it is.
• 03:07 How great is that?
• 03:09 So now I know that I can use this picture no problem at all,
• 03:12 no copyright infringement, found it online, it's okay.
• 03:17 Anyway, it's worth talking about that.
• 03:19 Have fun with your pictures.
• 03:21 It's awesome.
• 03:22 Thank you.

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