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Please remember to put your sources on your banners in legible font and color.

It is a privilege that we as banner makers get to use other people's stock to make our pieces. Therefore, we should always respect others' work and credit them on the image so that wherever it is posted, the due credit can be seen. This is also good for others who want to use the same images.

You have to follow the rules of the creator of the stock you are using. Examples:

Unrestricted stock: Unless otherwise posted, unrestricted stock means you can use for anything, anywhere, not credit, and/or use in a piece you'd make real money off of.

Attribution: Similar to 'unrestricted stock' except you have to give credit. MOST stock artists use this.

Always search the page/pages for stock rules. Otherwise you may come up short and infringe upon the rights of the artist, and if you are making banners for SD, you may also be posting art against the rules of properly crediting.

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DeviantART
- Search under "Stock and Resources"
- Go to the image, and scroll to see what the Description says. If it says, "Rules in my Journal", click the artist's username, click the Journal tab, and search the journal for the rules. If you can't find them, don't assume the rule is Attribution. Some DA artists do not allow use of their images off-site.

FlickrCC
- search.creativecommons.org > FlickrCC tab > Check off the "use for commercial purposes" box unless that is what you want to use the image for.
- Find an image, and look at the licence within the page.

Read here about the licences FlickrCC uses
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Pixabay
- A lovely stock website that is mostly unrestricted, high-quality stock.

Google Images
- search.creativecommons.org > Google Images tab > Be *careful* with this one as it could pick up stolen images posted on creative commons blogs. If you have Chrome, right click the image and hit "Search Google for Image" and sometimes you can find the original poster of the image. If there is no obvious original artist, don't use it, i.e., images that are all over Pinterest, etc. but no name, name of photographer, etc.

CREDITING FONT/SIZE/DECORATION EXAMPLES
- Make it match your banner with same/similar colors!
- Make it legible.
- Put it on the content of the image (the picture) or underneath, beside, or above as part of the image.



Top "Hello" is Anti-Alias (softened pixels), bottom "Hello" is Alias (sharpened pixels) - same size and resolution. This Alias/Anti-Alias thing works with many fonts but not all (see #3). #1 is Chinese Rocks, #2 is Verdana, #3 is Will&Grace. I get all my fonts from dafont.com. Also watch the licences on DaFont.

Hope that helps and please ask if you have any questions.

A few years ago Jeff posted that all images must have the credits ON the images but seems people may have forgotten or don't think it's that important. It is VERY important! It's respectful and honors the work of the stock artists. Very few stock artists don't care how their stock is used.



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Last edited by Dreisaiah Hundehutte on 5/24/2017 12:20:59 AM

Also, using copyrighted images and putting the name of the artist or photographer on the banner is not considered correct usage of images. It is "polite" copyright infringement and can get your posting rights taken away and/or your IP address banned, depending. (Someone could rat you out or the copyright holder see your banner and contact Jeff.)

Unless you have express written permission to use an image that is not unrestricted stock or with an attribution licence, don't use it.





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Last edited by Dreisaiah Hundehutte on 5/24/2017 12:24:02 AM

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