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A lot of charities or volunteer organisations are stuck with using tools that are provided with Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Office.   Artwork and designs are created in publisher or using the selection from clip art.

Sure if you got Office 2007 there are a lot of funky stuff made available, but nothing beats captivating human images to draw your audience in.

On the website front many volunteer groups are either using there own photos or pictures uploaded to the site or just avoid using them.

Just a thought! maybe in a future session I will bring in a graphic designer as a guest writer to give some tips of what makes a great poster.

Here is the part were a fusion of creative commons and flickr photos come to effect.

First lets have a brief paragraph of flickr:

“ Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. As of November 2008^[update], it claims to host more than 3 billion images.^{” {source: wikipedia}}

Now we know that flickr has billions of photos for you to look at in your free time.  But did you know that you can also use those photos?

Here is where creative commons comes into affect:

First a brief of creative commons:

“Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.^[1] The organization has released several copyright licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of other creators.^{” {source: wikipedia}}

Here is a link to a nice comic book explanation.

By going to flickr’s creative common area you are provided with a number of the photos that are available in the different creative common attributions.

Attributions used in flickr are explained in the video tutorial below:

Clicking on the ’see more’ link for any given attribute will provide you with a search box.  Now found the picture type you want to use.

The picture used in this post at the top is found after doing a search for ‘family’ and I have attributed it with a link to the original source.

The butterscotch video collection has 10 how to style video tutorials for flickr here use this to give you better insight to flickr and how you can find what you are looking to.

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