The best banks of free images use in App Development Company in Mexico City

Nov 11, 2016
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When it comes to developing content, whether for a web or blog, images play a key role. It seems that the expression "a picture is worth a thousand words" is more meaningful than ever. In fact, it is estimated that adding photographs to a text receives a 14% more visits with respect to a text without images.

 

Image's power

 

Including photos in the articles of a blog or a web page is a simple strategy with which it is possible to attract new readers towards a web page. In addition, a web page containing images will also draw much more attention in social networks, where increasingly is tending towards visual content. However, most of the photos, vectors or graphics that are found have some rights reserved or have to pay for them, which sometimes make the use of images a challenge. Below is the list of the best banks of images in which App Development Company in Mexico City can find quality images free of royalty and free.

 

1. Pixabay

 

Pixabay offers over 650,000 images, illustrations and vector graphics to illustrate all kinds of creations. Free for commercial use, it is not necessary to mention the author's name when using them. In addition, you do not need to register to download the images that are available in different sizes. Pixabay includes professional looking quality photographs. This platform is available in Spanish, but the results are usually broader if you search in English.

 

2. Flickr

 

Flickr is probably one of the most popular image banks. Acquired in 2005 by Yahoo !, Flickr has more than 87 million registered users who upload to this platform about 3.5 million images every day. To ensure that the downloaded photos will be usable, it is important, when performing a search, to filter so that only images that have Creative Commons licenses are displayed. In each case, it is also necessary to check the terms of the license: if possible adapt, share, etc. Flickr is available in several languages ​​and it is possible to find images about anything imaginable; However, not all of them look professional.

 

3. Freeography

 

Freeography is an image bank developed by Bell Design with images by photographer and designer Ryan McGuire. The images are of good quality and some of them very funny, so with them it is easy to attract attention. Organized in different categories: animals, nature, objects, people, etc., to start the download is only necessary to click on the image, so the process is very easy and simple. Tese all images are used by Web Design Company in Mexico City to design websites in their projects.

 

 

4. Morguefile

 

As with images from Pixabay, in the case of Morguefile it is not necessary to attribute the origin or authorship of the photos used. Not all of them are good quality, but it is worth spending some time as you can find some very good ones. For an annual payment subscription, Morguefile offers some special features, among which the possibility to edit the photos on the platform itself adds filters and other improvements. An option that may be interesting for those who are not experts in image editing software.

 

5. Wikimedia Commons

 

Wikimedia Commons is an image repository containing more than 30 million free photographs. Subject to different types of licenses, when downloading an image, the platform indicates what kind of attribution is necessary to use it. In addition, they are organized by categories such as astronomy, animals or food. It is possible to access outstanding and quality image categories, which may be a good start to ensure the selection of the best content by SEO Company in Mexico City for the web.

 

6. Pexels

 

The interface of Pexels is very similar to that of Pixabay, it is easy to use and your images are royalty free, so no attribution is necessary and can be used for any project. At present, Pexels has more than 10,000 high resolution photos. Images are available in different sizes, but it is also possible to configure the size before downloading. All images are tagged, making it even easier to find similar images and refine the search.

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