Finding open images
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This document provides instructions for finding and saving open images from Compfight and Flickr for reuse. It explains that Compfight uses Flickr's API to search images and redirects users to Flickr pages. It emphasizes checking the license type, with Creative Commons licenses allowing reuse and "All Rights Reserved" requiring author permission. The document outlines how to view license details, select an image size, save the image, and properly attribute and apply the license when reusing images from Flickr.
Finding open images
- 1. Finding and saving open images Using Compfight/ Flickr Nicole Southgate Image by qthomasbower
- 2. Compfight Compfight, according to their website, is not affiliated to Flickr. Instead, they use Flickr’s API to find the images www.compfight.com
- 3. Type in your search term - I chose the lovely Table Mountain - and hit Enter The next page has this on it. Click on Creative Commons
- 4. Choose a picture. Once you click on the image, it will redirect you to Flickr. Screenshot of the information block on the right of the Flickr page Name of the author The most important part of this page is the License part. If you see “All Rights Reserved”, skip it and look for another picture. If you’re lucky, an e-mail to the author will result in you being able to use it. Tags: these are the keywords you type in when searching for a particular topic Creative Commons Licenses
- 5. Licensing Click on “Some Rights Reserved” A license page will come up, explaining the terms of this license CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0
- 6. How to save an image from Flickr You might laugh at the simplicity of this slide, but many people don’t know how to do this. 1. Click on the image 2. Right-click and click on your required size 3. You will be redirected to a new page where you will have to (again) click on the image size you want+ 4. Save it to your hard-drive
- 7. Don’t forget to… … follow the rules as stipulated by the license … attach the license to the image … attribute the author Image by: jamalaly (Flickr)
- 8. I hope you found this slideshow informative. Do you have any suggestions? Tweet me @nicansou