A company called YotoPhoto has emerged, which offers search for free-use photos for both personal and commercial use. According to YotoPhoto, “Yotophoto is a search engine for free-use stock photographs. Some of the images are public domain and others have generous Creative Commons (or similar) licensing. Nearly all these photographs are free for personal and commercial use with minimal restrictions.”
They are currently indexing approximately 100,000 photos and their archive is growing by leaps and bounds. For instance, in one month’s time, they have doubled their photo index. There are some general restrictions on how the images may be used, such as no images may be used for hate or adult sites. They also ask that you contact the photographers as a courtesy to let them know how you’re using their photos.
Instead of searching Google images where most of the photos are copyrighted, YotoPhoto is a place to search and use photos for personal or commercial use. Webmasters, designers, and many others will no longer have to be frustrated searching for photos that are free for personal use but not for commercial use. At least this is one more tool in the toolkit for those looking for royalty-free and copyright free photos.
