TIP: Use Photos and Images with Compassion

http://coolmel.gaia.com — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:47:06 GMT

A picture's worth a thousand words. It also attracts attention. Adding relevant images to your blog and pod posts can spice up the experience of your readers and friends. Keyword here is relevant. It also helps to do it in moderation.

Here are some tips on how to use images with your blogs and pods.

– Know how to properly add photos. See: How to Bodhi-blog.

Now that you know how to add photos and images, the next step would be to know where to get them.

– It's highly recommend that you use your own photos and images as much as possible. Upload them to your Zaadz Photo albums and do a cut-and-paste from there. See:

HOW TO: Upload Photos to Your Zaadz Photo Albums

HOW TO: Add Photos to Your Photo Albums

– However, you can also use other images from external photo-sharing sites, like Flickr or Photobucket, provided that you are not violating the license of the images and the policy of the photo-sharing site.

For example, there are tons for photos from Flickr with a Creative Commons license which you can freely use. Just make sure that the type of CC license is applicable to how you are using the photos and images.

– Your last option from where to get images is from the Web. Although it's so easy to cut-and-paste images into your posts from other sites, this method is not highly recommended. Other sites frown upon using images stored on their servers. But if you really want to use images from outside sources make sure to link to the original source of the images and give proper credit to sources. It's just ethical do so. And since you're linking to images from other servers, be prepared for the images to be very temporal, meaning, they can be removed by their owners anytime.

-- Finally, make sure you read and review Zaadz Terms of Use.

So there you have it. Start using photos and images as compassionate as you can :)

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TIP: Use Photos and Images with Compassion