There are a large number of royalty-free stock photography websites available to choose from. Why should we use images from MorgueFile.com? Here are a few compelling reasons why:

01. Free License: MorgueFile states on their home page “Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not!” This means using MorgueFile alllows you to take back control of your royalty-free image budget, instead of spending hundreds or thousands over time at other stock photography sites.

Personally, I have an account at iStockPhoto.com and really enjoy the comprehensive collection of media available. But I’ve personally experienced spending hundreds of dollars worth of credits for a single promotional video. If you can source appropriate images from MorgueFile, it’ll save you from spending alot of money in this area.

02. Commercial Use Freedom: As you can see with the image above, you’re free to remix the image and use it for commercial purposes without attribution to the original author. This freedom in their licensing gives you control to use their royalty-free images with massive freedom.

03. Help Me, Help You: MorgueFile has made it simple for you and I to “Crop & Post” an image in a quick hurry. And I LOVE saving time! Their “Crop & Post” is a very convenient and powerful method which I’ll showcase below. Once you learn how to use this, you’ll dig it too!

According to Wikipedia, stock photography is the supply of photographs licensed for specific uses. It is used to fulfill the needs of creative assignments instead of hiring a photographer.

Stock photography offers a photo buyer the ability to use an image in an unlimited number of ways for a single license fee.

“Free” in this context means “free of royalties (paying each time you use an image)”. It does not mean the image is free to use without purchasing a license or that the image is in the public domain.

But in this issue, using MorgueFile allows us to use IMAGES FOR FREE, without purchasing any license to use it. Cool huh?

Instead of viewing multiple pages of images, I prefer to filter image results per page to 144. This allows me to view many more images in one page view.

When you roll your mouse over the images, it’ll reveal itself in a mini pop-up. When you’ve decided, click the image you want to use.

I’ve chosen this image as this is the result of the tennis balls after I’ve “crushed it” on the court! <wink>

As you see in the flowchart, you can either download the image to upload to your blog, OR use MorgueFile’s “Crop & Post” feature, which I’ll showcase next.

If you prefer to keep the image on your desktop, click the green “Download” button now.

(1) Click and drag corner points to crop your image to your liking

(2) The width and height measurements will be revealed to the bottom left

(3) You can use the sliding scale to fine-tune your image scale

(4) If you want to lock the size of your image, check this “Lock size” checkbox

(5) When you’re ready, click the “Finished” button to complete

(1) This is the code to copy for your blog

(2) If you’re prefer to link to this image, copy this URL

You can use MorgueFile’s images and their “Crop and Post” feature for both your blog and html websites.

If you prefer to retain the images on your blog’s host, simple download it from MorgueFile, upload to your host and embed in your blog post.

Simple and effective, eh?

Would you use this for your blog? Appreciate your thoughts and feedback