Royalty Free Clipart For Blogs and Websites

Most people just do a Google search on Google image search for photos and clip art for business and personal use.

Think twice before you do that! You may just get a letter in the mail asking you for a settlement fee in exchange for not filing a law suit for copyright violations.

I know several of my colleagues that have had this happen to them this year.

You are not allowed to use any photos without the written express permission to do so from the owner of that photo, that clip art or that drawing.

Most public domain sites like government sites- it is permitted for you to use their images. When I use one of those I always credit the owner of the photo or the image.

I wrote a post about the BMX track at Okeeheelee Park in West Palm Beach Florida. I did find clip art on the site that I use now but I wanted some real photos of races held at the track. I noticed they have a designated photographer. I contacted him via email and asked for his permission to post some of his photos on my blog post about BMX. He was very happy to oblige and gave me permission to do so and I credited him for all the photos I used.

Here is a sample of the photo object section of Royalty Free Clip art that I would use for a BMX story.



You can size this image to whatever size you need to make it. I used a 350 x 468 size here so you can really see the quality of the images you can get.

Click on the image below to find out more about ICLIPART:

A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words and has been proven time and time again to be more effective in getting people interested, stay longer and choose to take action when on your blog or your website. Most people are very visual. Stimulate their visual senses with tasteful images or humorous ones.

I use ICLIPART for all the images except for the photos that I take myself. What I like the best is I can go to just this one place and get all the clip art I need for any subject.

There are over 7 million images you can use for business and commercial purposes. Their terms of use specifically state that you can use their images on your business websites and blogs. You can not use it for any illegal purposes.

So here we will share some of the variety of what they have to offer. Go and try out the clip art site out by clicking here. You can even try a few images for free so you can experience how easy it is to download images.

They just added on a new download choice, you can now ( on most of the images) choose the size you want to download. For blogs the medium size works just fine. You will also want to choose to download your images as jgp files,but there are all the format choices for images.

If you are looking for those cool 'object' images, these are very clear photographs against a white background. This is a new addition to ICLIPART. Here are some examples of objects that are perfect for blogs. This is just the beginning of what you can use Clipart for. We use it in our homeschool lessons, newsletters and emails.

If you enjoy using the clipart type of images that are cartooney in nature, exaggerated or just funny there are tons of these images. I have posted some below:

Looking for a photo and you don't have one that you took yourself? You are allowed to use the clipart on this site for a more fancy look:

Sometimes I will be looking for a photo or an object through the clip art and come across an image that sparks a topic for a new post to write.

Get ready to add some fun and visual interest to your blogs and websites. Don't forget to add your Alt1 image tags and use keywords for your titles on your images and for your keywords in your tags.

You may not copy the images on my lens. You
You can click here and join Clip Gallery Art
as a member and then you will have unlimited use of all of the 7 million images consisting of photos, photo objects, clip art, website graphics, sounds, bullet, button and even Victorian art. This Clip art site adds new images everyday that are royalty free for their members.

iCLIPART.com. Unlimited access to more than 7 million clipart images, photos, photo objects, fonts, and sounds for one low price!

Don't make the same mistake I made!

I thought, how cool, I can use Microsoft Clip Art for my blog images. They said it was free and it appeared to be on a business type of platform. It did not even occur to me read the terms of use they had on their site. It usually is somewhere on the side or bottom of a site. It becomes a habit to just click the little box that says by clicking that box you are agreeing to their terms of use. Who really pays attention to that?

Well, that is not the case! Microsoft's clip art specifically says that you can not use their clip art for commercial uses or business uses. That means that anything you monetize for business purposes you can not use the clip art.

Many other FREE Clipart Sites look appealing and it is tempting to use their clip art but do not use it even if it is FREE unless you read their terms of use and you make sure they are going to let you use the clip art for business and commercial use.

I would rather pay for my clip art and know that I can use it for commercial and business use.

It is better to be safe than get a letter in the mail that you are using images that you are not permitted to use in the manner you are using them in.

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Even if you are paying $1.00 per image on Istock photo or images after you buy 30 images you would be in the hole compared to this offer. I just love this IClipArt site and use it all the time for so many things. But the most important reason even after how easy it is to download and how easy it is to use, one stop image browsing; is the fact that you can use the images for BUSINESS and COMMERCIAL purposes.