How To Make Online Money

Be careful when you use images on your website.  Even though it’s easy to copy an image from someone’s website and use it on your own, you may be violating a copyright law when you do so.  Most images on a website are protected by the websites copyright.  And some images are used by license only by the creators, and they require notification and credit for their work.

So here are two tips for getting good, free graphic images on your website:

Stock Xchng – this is a free stock photography site that I find to have really good contents.  Most of their images are royalty-free and license-free.  Some of the individual images may require that you notify and give credit to the author, and they do have some ‘premium’ images that you can buy.  A great resource for images.

GIMP - If you can’t afford a really good tool like Photoshop (which is expensive), GIMP is a fantastic free photo-editing tool.  It’s almost as powerful as Photoshop (some would say AS powerful), and it’s completely free.  And there are plenty of resources online to support how to use it (forums, blogs, etc, with tips and tutorials).

As an example, the banner on this page was created with images from Stock Xchng and blended together with GIMP.  I’m nowhere NEAR a graphic artist, but by using these free tools, the results aren’t half bad, if I do say so myself!