Due to the demand, some companies have started offering photography specifically for books covers — mostly cool protagonists in a variety of poses. Something kind of new, are people using Daz or similiar 3D software to render really amazing character art. For that reasons I would not recommend using these sites for book cover stock photos.
However, these images might be OK for promotional images, blog posts, etc. Many users post their photos and give you the right to use them in commercial projects with proper attribution.
You can search from there. Search on Deviantart for some stock photography. Deviantart is home to thousands of artists, designers and photographers. If you have a smartphone, you can probably take a good cover photo of your own. Unleash your inner artist. The reason I prefer smartphones is because you can use apps like Instagram or Hipstamatic to make amazing shots. This would be pretty easy to do yourself, just find a friend to model.
Take off centered shots. Take a picture of them from behind, in the middle of an amazing natural scene if you avoid face pictures, they can easily represent your main character…. Simple, beautiful picture. A few more things to think about.
The trick is to find a painting that is not too famous, so it still has that mystique. You can zoom in on just one small piece, rather than doing the whole thing. Order a poster, then scan it , then you can use the high-res version for your cover. Anything order than 70 years should be royalty free. Copyright-free images will have the Public Domain Mark 1. You can obtain public domain images on sites like Wikimedia Commons and Flickr Commons.
The Creative Commons license gives photographers the ability to release their photos to the public, while still retaining some control over how they are used. If you work for a for-profit company, do not use Creative Commons photos that do not allow commercial use.
Stock photos are photos that creators license out to anyone who is willing to pay their licensing fee. Buying a license gives you the right to use the photo in any way prescribed by the licensing agreement.
You are permitted to use these images both for personal usage, but also for commercial purposes. I highly recommend you to read the licenses and terms displayed for each of these sites before downloading and using the listed images. Some of these sites might also require you to place a link back to the site or to mention the author of the photo.
Buying stock photos is the safest route, but the companies that sell these images usually ask you to pay a monthly or yearly subscription which can be quite expensive, especially for someone who is just starting his blog. For instance, you can see how someone got a copyright fine from a law firm for using an image from Pixabay, photo which was supposedly released under CC0 license. My purpose is not to make you completely paranoid about using the free images that are available on these websites.
I just want to stress out that you should be very careful what images you are using. My advice is to always check the person who has uploaded the photo, check the photo upload date, and how many other photos that person has on that website. I secondly check the photo upload date. Otherwise, the image would have probably been removed by now.
If the photo passes the first two criteria, I like to check the other images uploaded by the same author.
The more images he has, the better. Use the search function to search for images, the pagination to navigate through the results and you can zoom the images if you place your mouse cursor over the thumbnails.
This website is an impressive collection of high-resolution photos that you can use for anything you want.
Most of the photos illustrate landscapes and cities, but there are also photos of humans and objects. All photos published on Unsplash are licensed under Creative Commons Zero which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the photographer or Unsplash.
The website is very simple to navigate, making extremely easy to find your desired images with the help of the search form from the top-left side of the page. Pixabay is another fantastic source of copyright-free images. It has one of the largest databases of free photos, vectors, illustrations, and short videos, totaling over , items. All the items present on Pixabay are added by individual photographers and artists. To look for a specific photo, you can browse the categories or use the search for at the top of the website.
The photos are displayed in the grid style of Google Images website, which makes the image search process very familiar. The images on Pixabay are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license. Gratisography is another excellent website for finding images that I can use for my blog posts or my other online projects.
All the pictures found on Gratisography were made by Ryan McGuire , a professional photographer. The pictures capture people, including the photographer himself, nature, animals, objects, cities, and other awesome situations. The website has a simplistic design, with a few categories at the top and a search form just above the categories. Pexels is another exceptional website for finding images to use for your personal or commercial projects.
The photos are uploaded by different uploaders and you can find pictures in various categories and niches.
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