Publishing Tips & Tricks - Part 1 - Choosing Photos

Adding photos to your articles is a great way to make your content jump out, and to make your work look professional. However when choosing your photos, please be aware that copyrighted images cannot be used on read.cash.

What is a copyrighted image?

In layman's terms, an image belongs to an individual, or to an organization, like a government or a company, when it is created. The image can be created by themselves, or by someone who they hired to do it. Because the image belongs to an individual or an organization, only they can decide how it is to be used and distributed.

read.cash explains why this matters:

Graphic 1: read.cash recommendation against the use of copyrighted images.

The easiest way to get around this problem is to source images that are free to use. There are several websites where you can find a lot of them. Often, the copyright holders of those free to use images simply request to be acknowledged in your article if you use their photograph. In fact, you can see how I've done it throughout this article!

My favorite website where I find most of the free photos that I like is Unsplash.

Graphic 2 - Unsplash home page

Some of the photos from this site are stunningly beautiful. You can enter a word to search for a specific image. I used "flowers" in the search box, and found many photos of flowers, including the one below.

Photo by Irina Iriser on Unsplash

The photo below was one of many that showed up when I entered the search word "sparks".

Photo by Sebastián León Prado on Unsplash

If you can't find the photo that you are looking for on Unsplash, you can try these other options:

1. Use a different search word (example, instead of using the search word "sparks", use "fire" as the search word). You can also use multiple search words at the same time.

2. Search on other sites similar to Unsplash, including Pixabay and Pexels.

Please stay tuned for Part 2 of this series, in which I will share some additional strategies on how to provide the maximum impact using photos in your read.cash article!

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References:

1. https://read.cash/@Danbrilliant/7-most-never-come-back-cities-of-the-world-51c8cea1#comment-633cca25

2. https://www.pixsy.com/academy/image-user/using-copyrighted-images/