Your Free Images for Squidoo Resource and How-To Guide

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Need free images? Read on!

You have this perfect idea for your lens, right? But, you have no idea where to get pictures that are royalty free for you to use? No problem, this lens will tell you exactly where to go to get them.

Also, I will tell you how to put them into your squidoo lens in various ways, such as sizing, alignment, and more! If your looking for more indepth html tutorials, check this this out.

Where to find images? See below

Below are several links to sites which contain "free images" for you to use on your lens. Be sure to read the rules of the site before using them, as some say you cannot use them commercially, while others you can, etc.

Free Foto
The comprehensive, yet easy to navigate site, offers images that are free for on-line use, with higher quality versions available for sale.
Free images (UK)
FREE digital photographic images for web, dtp, and design. Royalty and cost free stock photos. Free stock photographic library.
Free Digital Photos.NET
Free photos. Thousands of royalty free photos for instant download. For commercial and non-commercial use. No registration required.
Gifs.net Free Animations
More the 15,000 absolutely free Animations and animated gifs you can use on your website, emails, presentations or send as digital postcards. The best source of animated graphics.
PD Photo - Free Photos And Pictures
Thousands of royalty free pictures here. To view the photos: Click on a category below, or use the search interface for keywords.
Fotolia
Everyday this page on Fotolia gives you free images that come with a royalty free license. Check often!
Image After
Free high resolution images and textures for commercial and personal use. Daily additions. Free hi-res stock photography, with abstract graphics search.
FreeImages.com - Main Index - Free Stock Photos
A bunch of free stock photos.
123RF - Free Images Collection
Free photos, pictures and images

Where to host your images for free!

The following are sites online where you can upload and share your photos for free. I'm only listing the free sites, since most of you I have no doubt want to do this for free and not have to pay for anything.

Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing
Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.
Imageshack.us - Image Hosting
Upload and share your pictures for free.
Photobucket
Photobucket offers image hosting, free photo sharing and video sharing. Upload your photos, host your videos, and share them with friends and family.

How to use images on your lens?

I'm going to show you the simple approach to adding an image to your lens. The following are examples and outcomes of each type of implementation.





Code: <img src="http://www.yourdomain/yourimage.jpg">



Gives you the result of..






Code: <img src="http://www.yourdomain/yourimage.jpg" width="pixels" height="pixels">



Gives you the result of..



Note: With controlling the width and height by pixel sizes, you can change the size and shape of the picture. For example, the picture's natural state above is actually 200px by 200px in width and height, but I told it only be 100px by 100px.




Code: <img src="http://www.yourdomain/yourimage.jpg" align="right" width="pixels" height="pixels">



Gives you the result of..









Note: By adding the "align=right" to the code it moved the image to the right side of the area. You do not need to use the width or height in the code to make this align right (or left, or center), I just kept that in there to show you that you can add more attributes to the code to make it do different things.



Code: <img src="http://www.yourdomain/yourimage.jpg" style="border: 3px solid #858585; padding: 2px;" />



Gives you the result of..



Note: You can change the border line size and padding (space in between picture and border) by altering the #px sizes. For example, you can increase the border thickness by changing the 3px to an 8px so it looks larger in size. You can also change the type of border by changing the word "solid" to something else, such as "dashed".

dashed


dotted



double



groove



ridge



inset



outset

I'm interested to hear if you found this helpful!

  • greenlungsofpoland Mar 9, 2012 @ 2:02 am | delete
    Just what I was looking for! perfect
  • Dec 10, 2011 @ 7:33 pm | delete
    Very helpful. Thank you!
  • ideadesigns Sep 30, 2010 @ 8:57 am | delete
    Found this helpful thanks!
  • cvi108 Jun 27, 2010 @ 2:24 pm | delete
    Great Tips
  • cvi108 Jun 27, 2010 @ 2:24 pm | delete
    Great Tips
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