A few weeks ago I wrote about Compfight, a helpful search engine for finding images in the Creative Commons section of Flickr. Today, on one of my groups in Diigo, I learned about FlickrCC. (Sorry, I deleted the original message so I can’t say which group or who posted it.)
I really like the speed and layout of FlickrCC. Simple search field with tick boxes to indicate if you want photos you can edit and/or use commercially. Your search results appear on the left half of the window. Click on a thumbnail and the image appears on the right side of the screen. Attribribution and URL appear with it, along with links to allow you to edit the image in Picnik or on your computer. Along the bottom are links to the other sizes of the image.
I plan use this for myself. However, since it does not have a safe search feature, I plan to use Compfight with students. Do you have a favorite way to locate images in the Creative Commons domain?
Hi Susan, thanks for the writeup. flickrCC is my favourite source of CC images too (but that could be just because I wrote it). I have heard that flickrstorm is pretty good too: http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/
Botheredbybees,
Thanks for dropping by! It is not every day I get to meet the developer of a great product. Thanks for telling me about flickrstorm. Always good to have another tool in my toolbox.