Saturday, July 11, 2009

Finding reusable images on Google

Google have added to their image search, allowing you to now search images filtered by licence.
So what?
Just the other day, I was looking for an image of Bloom's taxonomy for a slide. Google image search found me hundreds, but no clue as to whether I was allowed to reuse the images. Today, I can just go to the advanced search filter the results for 'labelled for reuse' and I'm done, now I have an image I know I can freely use. It's a small thing, but it isn't much trouble and means I'm not faced with a choice of stealing someone's graphic, or putting in the hard yards to redraw it.

Incidentally, those of you in UCC can find our own image catalog, of nice stock footage of the campus here:http://upic.ucc.ie/

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