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S02|L05 - How to Download Free Pictures & Photos to Turn Into Products to Sell

Links
Notes
- example of free photo used
- types of sites
  - pixabay
    - searching
    - licenses
  - pexels
  - free-images
  - rawpixel
  - canva
- problems
Tutorial Notes
Review
Transcript

Notes

example of free photo used

there is a very popular beach photo that a number of sellers use
on redbubble it is a popular wall print

types of sites

pixabay

huge online stock library of
- photos
- art
- video
- sound
all of these were uploaded by original artist

searching

at upper bar there is a dropdown to choose what type of asset you want to look for

licenses

there are different licenses for different images
- some can have prohibited uses, e.g. you must edit it
before Jan 9, 2019 all the images were Public Domain
- Pixabay was purchased by Canva
- everything in pixabay is avail on canva

pexels

focuses on photos and videos
photos have a royalty free license
loose license
- you have to modify them
- don't need to attribute

free-images

websites like pexels and pixabay changed their standard license
this allows you to search based on license

rawpixel

has a huge catalog
- public domain (CC0 license)
- free (not CC0)
- paid
a lot are historical pictures

canva

you can use images from pixabay by lookint at the history of images in canva
- click on the ℹ

problems

some sites won't allow you to use a public image
- redbubble requires you to change it up a lot

Tutorial Notes

Please read first: I am not a lawyer. I have no legal training. I cannot give legal advice. This video is not a replacement for a lawyer. This is information I am giving from my personal perspective and experience. Some important links for this video are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain https://pixabay.com https://pexels.com https://free-images.com https://www.rawpixel.com/category/53/public-domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixabay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pexels

Review

Summary

This lesson explains how to find free photos, clip art, illustrations, and public domain images for print-on-demand products.

Core Idea

Free images can be useful for POD, but the license matters.

Do not treat “free to use” as the same thing as “safe to sell unchanged.”

Main Sources

Pixabay
Pexels
Free-images.com
Rawpixel
Canva image library

Important License Distinction

Public Domain / CC0

Usually the safest and broadest category.

Generally allows:

commercial use
modification
redistribution
use without attribution

Platform Licenses

Pixabay, Pexels, and Rawpixel also have their own licenses.

These often allow commercial use, but may restrict:

selling the image unchanged
using it as standalone merchandise
redistribution without meaningful modification

Pixabay Notes

Pixabay images uploaded before January 9, 2019 were under CC0/public-domain-style licensing.

Images uploaded after that generally fall under the Pixabay license, which is more restrictive and vague about how much editing is required.

Pexels Notes

Pexels also had older CC0 images, but newer uploads use the Pexels license.

The exact upload date matters.

Free-images.com

Useful because it helps locate images that were originally marked public domain / CC0.

This is helpful when you want safer images with fewer licensing concerns.

Rawpixel Notes

Rawpixel has separate sections:

public domain
free

Do not confuse them.

The public domain section is much safer for direct POD use. The free section may require considerable artistic modification.

Canva Notes

Canva includes images from sources like:

Pexels
Pixabay
Getty Images

Use the information tab to check where an image came from. If needed, search for the original upload to check its license/date.

Warnings

Always read the license yourself.
Free does not always mean public domain.
Commercial use does not always mean you can sell the image unchanged.
Platform rules may be stricter than copyright law.
Redbubble may reject public domain images if they are not transformed enough.
Etsy appears more tolerant, but you should still check current rules.
This is not legal advice.

Image Source Checklist `[0/6]`

Identify original source
Check license type
Check upload date if relevant
Confirm commercial use is allowed
Confirm whether modification is required
Save/source the license evidence

Public Domain Safety Checklist `[0/5]`

Image is marked CC0/public domain
Source page confirms license
No trademark/copyright issue visible
No misleading endorsement implied
Platform allows this use

POD Use Checklist `[0/5]`

Image is high enough quality
Image fits product format
Image is modified if license requires it
Final design is distinct enough for platform rules
Test product mockup before publishing

Key Insight

There are two separate questions:

Am I legally allowed to use this?
Will this platform allow me to sell it?

Both must be yes.

My Take

The safest workflow is:

Prefer CC0/public domain sources
Keep proof of source/license
Modify the image creatively anyway
Check marketplace rules before uploading

Bottom Line

Free images can be valuable, but license discipline matters.

Use them carefully, track your sources, and avoid assuming that every “free” image can be sold unchanged.

Transcript

00:00
Hey, everyone. So in this video, I'm just gonna take

00:03
you through

00:04
how I personally find free pictures as in free clip

00:08
art, free art, and free photos

00:11
which I use for print on demand products that I

00:14
create. And it's actually a really common thing.

00:16
So,

00:18
while definitely there are lots of very talented

00:21
print on demand,

00:23
stores who

00:24
do create their own photos. They take their own photos

00:27
and they make their own art.

00:30
A lot of,

00:31
people,

00:32
use free photos and free pictures that they find online

00:35
and turn them into products as well.

00:38
And I wanted to give you an example of this.

00:40
So 1 of the most common ones that you will

00:42
see

00:43
is,

00:44
in here, there is a very popular beach photo, which

00:48
is

00:49
a, print on which is a public domain photo here.

00:52
So this photo here,

00:55
if we come

00:56
back, we'll

00:58
see here that that's so that's 1 seller who's using

01:01
that,

01:03
and there's another seller here who's using it.

01:06
And if you come on over to Redbubble, it's actually

01:08
1 of the most popular,

01:11
wall prints on there. So this is a free picture

01:15
which you can find on Pixabay.

01:17
And so this is how

01:19
most of us in the print on demand world, this

01:22
is how

01:23
we get a lot of

01:26
pictures,

01:27
photos, clip art. We find free pictures on websites like

01:31
Pixabay.

01:32
So I'm gonna be taking you through some of the

01:34
ones that I personally use.

01:37
And,

01:37
Pixabay,

01:38
it's

01:39
very, very interesting.

01:42
So this here is Pixabay. If you've never heard of

01:45
Pixabay before, it is a huge online

01:48
stock library

01:49
of royalty free photos,

01:52
pictures. There's also videos and music and sound effects on

01:56
here as well that you can use which could be

01:58
really great for advertising purposes. But when it comes to

02:00
creating products, you're probably gonna be most interested obviously

02:04
in the photos

02:05
and the pictures.

02:07
And all of these

02:09
are pictures which have been uploaded by the original artist.

02:12
And so the artist has chosen to upload their,

02:16
their art

02:17
and, they have uploaded it for the greater good.

02:20
So this is not stolen content.

02:23
This is pictures

02:25
by the artist and the way it works is really

02:27
simple. Let's say we came here and, you know, we

02:29
searched for,

02:31
surfing.

02:33
If we don't clarify exactly what we want, it's going

02:35
to,

02:37
show it to us. It's gonna, you know, look through

02:40
all of its, you know, different pictures to do with

02:42
surfing.

02:44
And it shows in here photos because they're probably the

02:46
most popular. But we can come and we

02:49
can specifically choose. So,

02:51
we can come

02:53
and we can choose. So we can come here and

02:55
we can be like, you know, for example, illustration.

02:58
Sorry.

02:59
I opened up the

03:01
the Vietnamese version of Pixabay and now it's

03:04
set to Vietnamese.

03:06
So,

03:08
my IP addresses. So you can see here now we've

03:10
got different vectors.

03:11
And, you know, you could use this here, for example,

03:14
in a t shirt design. And,

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yeah. So it's a really amazing website to find

03:21
a ton of free content.

03:23
However, the thing you have to understand when you're coming

03:26
here is that,

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they

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there are different licenses for different images and it's not

03:33
well

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explained.

03:36
So if we come here, for example, to, you know,

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this this photo here,

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it says that, you know, it it it says to

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us it's free to use. Great. And it's got a

03:48
link to a content license. Well, if we come and,

03:52
oh, sorry. Let's open up that content license.

03:55
If we open up the content license, you know, it

03:58
says so we can use the content for free. We

04:00
don't have to attribute the author, which is true. So

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we don't have to attribute to the artist and that

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we can modify and adapt it into

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new works.

04:08
But then it has a bunch of prohibited uses. Now

04:11
these prohibited uses do not stop you from using this.

04:14
They're just a little bit

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vague. So, you know, they say that you can't sell

04:18
or distribute the photo as it is without editing it,

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which makes sense.

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But they don't really explain exactly what would count as

04:26
editing it. So whenever you use an image which has

04:29
this license,

04:31
you probably do want to edit it substantially.

04:33
And because I'm not a lawyer,

04:35
I can't tell you how much you you have to

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change and modify

04:38
the image for it to count.

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But,

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yeah.

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This the,

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people use this use these images all the time. And

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a big part of why they use these images is

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because

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if you come here to, Pixabay's Wikipedia page, it explains

04:55
it even better than I can. Pixabay was actually purchased

04:59
by Canva.

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So the images that you find on the Pixabay website

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are included within Canva usually if you have a Canva

05:08
account, which is very helpful so that you don't have

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to go and download them from Pixabay and then re

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upload them into Canva

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if you are using that app.

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However, something that's important to note is that,

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this

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license

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here, this did not always exist on Pixabay.

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So Pixabay,

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back,

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before,

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the ninth of January 2019,

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all of the images on Pixabay

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had a CC 0 license which is effectively a public

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domain license.

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And a public domain license

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is,

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very, very broad and it lets you use

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images legally

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without making any modifications

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to them. There are some legal restrictions. So for example,

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you can't

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like, there are restrictions around,

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like, for example,

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like implying that the subjects

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in the photo might agree

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or be,

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they might agree with like, you know, like your your

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product or your message or things like that. So there

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are some legal limits of that but they're very, very

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minor. So generally, with a public domain license,

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you can just resell images as is legally.

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So that's why even though when you come to Canva,

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it tells you it will it will post a content

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license

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on every single page.

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However,

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anything that was,

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uploaded

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prior to ninth of January 2019

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on Pixabay

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has a public domain license

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which again is extremely unrestrictive and that can't be changed.

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You cannot legally change a public domain license once it's

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occurred. Once you've placed it in the public domain, it's

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there forever.

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So, you know, as the terms of CC0 explicitly

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indicate,

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that the surrender into the public domain,

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you know, it cannot be changed. Once it's in there,

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it's in there forever.

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So you're going to see why that's important shortly in

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this video. So that's why when you're using Pixabay to

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find free pictures,

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you want to come and you want to check out

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the details. So you want to see when it was

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uploaded.

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So for example,

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this 1 here, it was uploaded

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in April 22,

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20 19.

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So this means then that it was uploaded

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after January ninth 2019.

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So this does not have a public domain license. This

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has this license.

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So keep that in mind that this license states that

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you do have to,

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you can't sell this photo as is.

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Whereas,

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I'm just gonna quickly show you something.

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This is here what I wanted to show you. So

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this picture here, the 1 that, you know, all of

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the people on,

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Etsy are using, if we come and we check out

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the details of it, you will see that it was

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uploaded August 17 2017,

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which means then,

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obviously,

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it was uploaded with a public domain license or effectively

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a public domain license because it has a c c

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0 license and that can't be changed. That's why this

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picture is so popular, not only because it's a great

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picture

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but because of the fact that it has such an

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unrestrictive

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license.

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So it's up to you when you're using Pixabay.

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You can choose to use all of the images

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in there because they are allowed to be used for

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commercial purposes.

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When you do, keep in mind that if you're going

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to be using

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images that were uploaded

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after January ninth 2019,

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they do have the Pixabay license and that license is

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vague.

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And so if you don't want to have to worry

08:57
about the vague license

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and if you're not sure if your edits are going

09:01
to be,

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substantial

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enough

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to an image,

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then you can just focus on finding images that have

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the public domain license. And there is an easy way

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to do that which I will explain shortly. But there's

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another website I wanna talk about too which you can

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find free images and it is very similar to Pixabay.

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So this is the website I wanted to show you,

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Pexels. It's very similar to Pixabay. Pixabay has a lot

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of different types of pictures so it's the 1 that

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I tend to go to out of the 2, because

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it's got both photos and it's got

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clip

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art and vectors.

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But Pexels just focuses on photos and

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videos. So you can come here, you can find photos

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and videos.

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But just like Pixabay,

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the photos on here have a royalty free license. And

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so, you know, it's very similar. You come here, you

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just type in, you're surfing,

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and now you've got a bunch

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of photos. And a lot of the photos you find

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on Pexels,

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are,

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like stunning. Like, there are very very

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stunning photos on here and

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they are free.

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And

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their license

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is extremely similar to Pixabay.

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You are allowed to use them for free even for

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commercial purposes. You don't have to attribute

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the artist

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and, you know, you're welcome to modify them. And you

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do have to modify them if you want to sell

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them. You cannot sell unaltered copies.

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You have to modify it first.

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Again, they do not give you a big explanation as

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to what that means so it is vague. And so

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I understand that a lot of people will be iffy

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about using them for commercial purposes because they don't give

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a vague because they give a vague answer as to

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what counts.

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However, just like with Pixabay,

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some of these images were uploaded with a CC 0

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license. In fact, a lot were. I don't know the

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exact date unfortunately,

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but

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there was

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prior

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to

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it's it was sometime I believe in 2019

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or maybe even late 2018.

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It used to be that just like with Pixabay, initially

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the images were uploaded with a CC 0 license.

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So now, of course, any images that are uploaded

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since the change, since when they added in their own

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content license, which again I think was either like late

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2018,

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maybe 2019,

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images from that point onwards

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do now have the Pixels license. But the images that

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were initially uploaded with the CC 0 license, that license

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is there forever. And even though every single image you

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find on here, it's just like with Pixabay where they

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place

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that content license that, you know, that they will have

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on their I can't find it on here, but they'll

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probably have a link to

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the,

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they'll have a link to the content license probably on

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every single page, even images which don't have,

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even which images which do have a CC 0 license,

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they won't state that.

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But,

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the the images that were uploaded with that have it

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and they have it for life. And you can see

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that there's a button, edit in Canva. That's because Pexels

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was also purchased by Canva. So it's very handy

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that,

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generally, anything that's on Pexels, you'll usually find already within

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Canva.

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So very, very convenient.

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But of course, what's not convenient is, you know, trying

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to know which images are in the public domain if

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that's what you want to stick to. If you just

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wanna stick to the images with a CC 0 license,

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that information is not easily done. You can't just come

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here and search for those

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which is why

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we wanna use my favorite website next.

12:52
Okay. So we have come to free dash images dot

12:56
com And this is an incredible resource.

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So this was created, I believe, in response to the

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fact that websites like Pixabay and Pexels

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changed their licenses

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but did not place on their website

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information on how to find

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the images which were uploaded with the CC 0 license

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and now legally have that license for

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life. So this was created and it allows you to

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search for photos online that have that license and it

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is really really helpful. So you come here and you

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choose what type of image that you want. So

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like if we come to stock images, it's gonna be

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things like

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photos.

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So you can see photos.

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If we come

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and do a search

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for,

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fine art I'm not sure if we're gonna get anything

13:53
because a lot of the fine art is historical fine

13:56
art and I don't know when surfing was created. So

13:59
it doesn't have any fine art. Oh, shoot. There we

14:01
go. So you know you see it's found some historical

14:03
artwork there.

14:06
Yeah. And this wooded flowers.

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There we go. So this is more what you expect

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to find with fine art.

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And if we come and, you know, we do a

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search for

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illustrations,

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now we've got, you know, like clip art style things

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and also just, you know, like paintings.

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So, you can find so many free images on here.

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And

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the really great thing is that it tells you

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where it was sourced from.

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So

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you come here for example.

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So

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this is actually from Pixabay.

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This This image was acquired from Pixabay. It was marked

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as public domain or c c 0 and is free

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to use. To verify, go to the source and check

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the information there.

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What do they do? They provide a link

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to where you can go and

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check it out

14:58
on Pixabay

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which is fantastic. So you can go and,

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you know, check to see,

15:06
when it was uploaded if you want to double check,

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which is always a really good idea to do. Because

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once again, we're here on Pixabay and it's got the

15:14
content license linked on this page,

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very deceptive.

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But if we come to details,

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you will see it was uploaded May seventeenth

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2016.

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So it was uploaded with a CC 0 license

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and that legally cannot be changed, which is why free

15:30
images dot com

15:32
has, created this resource for us so that we can

15:36
easily go find them. So you could go and this

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image is probably within Canva if you would like to

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use it.

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Or if, you know, if you're not using Canva and

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you wanna find images,

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outside of it or if you want to very easy

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or if you would rather download images

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with a CC 0 license so that you know for

15:56
certain, you might find it on here and then re

15:58
upload it. You can you don't have to go to

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Pixabay and download this if you don't want to. You

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can just download it from here.

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So,

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this is an absolutely amazing resource

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and the majority of images on free dash images dot

16:13
com come from,

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Pixabay and Pexels. So that's why even though I can't

16:19
think off the top of my head the exact date

16:21
that Pexels changed over their license, the wonderful thing is

16:25
that we have this website here

16:27
which,

16:29
has already done the information for us and has sorted

16:32
through them.

16:33
So it is fantastic.

16:36
But there is

16:37
another website which is also very helpful to know about.

16:42
And that website is this 1 here, Rawpixel.

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So Rawpixel

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has a huge directory of different images that you can

16:50
use online and they all come in a range of

16:54
different licenses.

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So,

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they have a public domain section and they have a

17:00
free section

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on the website. A lot of people mix these up.

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I once showcased Rawpixel in a wholesale TED video.

17:07
People came. They came to the free images. They downloaded

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them. They got into a lot of trouble.

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They didn't realize that the public domain section is separate

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from the free section.

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So

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the public domain stuff has a c c 0 license

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and the c c 0 license allows you to just

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literally redistribute

17:27
the exact same picture for commercial purposes.

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Yeah. It's pretty

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it's pretty open with what you can do with it.

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So,

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with this 1 here, a lot of the pictures they

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have

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are,

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are historical pictures.

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And the interesting thing is that there are there's a

17:48
there was a legal ruling in the USA

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that,

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even if because like a lot of these images are

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heavily edited images of the original artwork pieces to restore

17:58
them. So they had to edit the original photos that

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they took of these pieces or the scans.

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And so it used to be that perhaps that was

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considered to be creative

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work. So you couldn't just take somebody's

18:10
enhanced version because they had to put artistic

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effort, a lot of artistic

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into enhancing that. However, it was deemed that that was

18:19
not considered to be,

18:22
different enough from the original. And so even if you

18:25
enhance an older piece of art, that still has a

18:28
public domain license as per the ruling in the USA.

18:32
So these images here, they have released under the public

18:35
domain license like they legally have to,

18:38
even though they are enhanced versions of it. So if

18:40
you would like to get

18:42
historical artwork

18:44
because

18:45
this this stuff here, this can be used for all

18:48
sorts of different things. Look at this. These are beautiful

18:51
backgrounds.

18:52
You don't

18:54
have to be

18:55
selling something aimed at a historical,

18:59
context, like, you know, aimed at people that enjoy historical

19:01
artwork to find a use for a beautiful background like

19:05
this.

19:05
This is timeless. So you can download public domain images

19:09
from here. They also do have a big collection of

19:13
public domain,

19:15
photos as well.

19:17
A lot of them are from,

19:21
NASA actually

19:23
because NASA released their images in the public domain. So

19:26
they took a lot of their images and they enhanced

19:29
them.

19:30
So,

19:31
a lot of people who sell Hubble images

19:34
will get their images

19:36
from RawPixel

19:37
because they are beautifully

19:39
enhanced and they are in the public domain. And if

19:42
you go to Etsy, you will find people selling photos

19:45
from NASA.

19:46
If you want to use their free images,

19:49
I would again recommend that you look over the license

19:52
because,

19:53
the license

19:55
is restrictive.

19:56
So,

19:57
this one's in the public domain, so this one's not.

19:59
But this 1 here I had been looking at and

20:01
it has the free license. So for example so if

20:04
if you come and if you view the license,

20:07
again, is very vague.

20:09
I really wish they were not so vague.

20:11
Commercial use license.

20:13
You obviously cannot distribute it as is. That's very standard.

20:17
You can't use raw pixel content for prints or other

20:20
merchandise

20:21
without adding considerable artistic value.

20:24
What does that mean?

20:26
It's very, very vague.

20:28
But there are a lot of incredible free images.

20:32
So,

20:33
again, your mileage may vary. If you want to use

20:36
1 of their free images

20:39
in a design,

20:41
the license and, again, you need to read over the

20:43
license for yourself, but the license does allow you

20:47
to,

20:48
use them in commercial,

20:50
products.

20:52
But it has restrictions. Whereas the public domain license,

20:55
very few restrictions.

20:57
You know, they've got the public domain

21:00
license

21:03
here. So,

21:04
yes.

21:06
You've got 2 different types here on RawPixel,

21:09
but it can be a fantastic resource

21:12
as

21:13
well. And I also want to show you something else

21:16
that I think you'll find very helpful to,

21:19
know to.

21:21
And that is this. So if you are going to

21:24
be using Canva

21:25
and

21:27
you're not going to be sourcing your photos

21:29
from outside of,

21:32
like in from Pixabay and uploading them and you instead

21:34
want to just use the images that have been directly

21:37
from uploaded from Pixabay into

21:41
into Canva itself,

21:42
you can find out the history of that image, which

21:45
is, you know, good to know. So let's say I

21:47
came and did a search for New Zealand

21:49
and I came to photos

21:52
and then let's come and say that I found this

21:54
1 here. Well, what we can do is we can

21:56
come to the information

21:58
tab

21:58
and we can find more information about where it was

22:01
where it came from. So this 1 here, it came

22:04
from Getty Images,

22:06
and Canva has purchased a license for it. Whereas this

22:08
1 here and so this is a pro image.

22:11
Whereas this 1 here, we can come we can check

22:13
out the information from it. This 1 is from Pexels.

22:16
So this is why this 1 has a free license

22:19
because this was already

22:21
a,

22:23
a free image.

22:24
And,

22:25
whereas,

22:26
this 1 here, Canva,

22:29
has a deal with Getty Images to be able to

22:32
use that. And, if you want to find out more

22:36
information about this, you can use this to find,

22:40
to generally find

22:41
the original upload to Pexels. So if you wanna find

22:45
out, for example, what date this was uploaded,

22:49
you could, look for,

22:51
this photographer

22:53
within pixels. You could go do a Google search for

22:56
this photographer

22:57
to then get access to their profile.

23:00
And I'll actually do that, right now as an example.

23:04
So I'm back and I went and I did a

23:06
search for him. So put in the name, put in

23:09
pixels, and

23:11
there is,

23:13
the

23:14
photographer.

23:15
So now you could go through and you could find,

23:20
that image, and then you could check out the date.

23:23
So there were there are 300

23:26
images in here. We're looking for this 1. I'll quickly,

23:30
briefly just check around to see if I can quickly

23:32
find it, but I won't make everybody go through with

23:35
me

23:36
while I do a search.

23:38
But, like, let's take for example this 1 here. This

23:40
is also, by the looks of it, in New Zealand.

23:45
Information.

23:46
This was uploaded October fourth 20 22. So,

23:52
we can know that this image here does does not

23:56
have a CC 0 license. This has

23:59
Pexels license.

24:01
But that's what's really nice. We can take the information

24:05
that we find within Canva, and then if you do

24:07
find the original photo,

24:10
you can then check out,

24:12
the

24:14
what date it was uploaded.

24:16
So let's see.

24:18
Oh, hold on.

24:20
This 1 here, more information.

24:23
This 1 here was uploaded March fifth

24:26
20 22. So even though it was taken in 2014,

24:30
what matters is the date that it was uploaded in

24:32
and it was uploaded,

24:34
March fifth 20 22. So this picture here has a,

24:39
has the standard Pexels license, but there it is. Right

24:42
there, we found it. It wasn't hard to find at

24:44
all.

24:45
So that is very helpful.

24:47
But,

24:49
there is something that I want to talk about.

24:52
So the first thing I want to talk about is

24:54
this. Before

24:56
you use any images that you find online,

24:59
be sure to read

25:01
what the restriction what the license for it is and

25:04
then any restrictions that go along with it. Do not

25:06
take

25:07
anything I say as legal advice because I am not

25:11
a lawyer.

25:12
I cannot give legal advice.

25:14
I am not a copyright lawyer. I can only speak

25:17
from my own personal experience.

25:20
So you know, everything I tell you about the public

25:22
domain, be sure to read it. Be sure to read

25:24
it and find out if there's any restrictions on there

25:27
that I did not mention.

25:29
And,

25:31
make sure to read over anything yourself,

25:34
because I'm not a lawyer and I cannot give legal

25:36
advice. The second thing is that keep in mind, even

25:40
if you are legally

25:41
allowed to sell an image as is without modifying it,

25:45
it doesn't mean that the website that you wanna upload

25:47
it to is going to allow that. Case in point,

25:50
red bubble. So as we've established,

25:52
this

25:53
is a public domain image. We all have the right

25:56
to come in and use this. You could upload this

25:59
image today legally if you want. But Redbubble

26:03
have historically been very inconsistent about whether or not they

26:06
have allowed it. They do talk about public domain pictures

26:09
within the FAQ and they have clarified that you can

26:12
use public domain images. However, they have also stated that

26:15
they now would like them to

26:18
be used for new creative

26:20
pieces.

26:21
Again, they're very vague about how you can use them.

26:26
So unless you are substantially transforming them, these days, if

26:29
you just upload

26:31
a public domain picture like this and modify the colors,

26:34
I think that you are going to have very inconsistent

26:37
results about whether Redbubble is okay with that or not.

26:41
And I haven't been able to get clarification necessarily on

26:44
why sometimes they are okay with it and sometimes they're

26:47
not. My guess is that if the picture has not

26:49
been uploaded previously

26:50
that they're

26:52
much more welcome to it. But if they don't want

26:54
to have 100 people, for example, just uploading this picture,

26:58
you know. Even if they legally can, Redbubble can say,

27:00
we don't wanna be flooded with this exact same picture.

27:04
And so they can make that choice. Just because you

27:06
can legally

27:07
doesn't mean that a website is going to allow it.

27:09
Be sure to read the terms and conditions.

27:12
Whereas on Etsy,

27:14
as I said to you, it's much more free game

27:18
on here. I have not read anything personally in Etsy's

27:21
terms of service

27:23
that has said that you can't use them

27:25
and people use them all of the time. So that

27:28
picture here, it's from this seller here.

27:31
This seller here is using it. If we were to

27:34
scroll down long enough, we'd find another person who's using

27:38
it.

27:40
This is not the same picture but it's from the

27:43
same photographer.

27:44
This person here is using that picture. So

27:48
I said to you, if we could just if we

27:49
keep scrolling and scrolling, we'd find more people who are

27:52
using this picture. So, you know,

27:55
with Etsy,

27:57
they have historically been absolutely welcome for using it.

28:02
But,

28:03
yeah. Make sure you check with every single website you

28:06
want to upload it to

28:08
before you do that so that you don't get into

28:10
any trouble. Peace. These are my favorite websites and I

28:14
hope that they can help you.

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