Crediting an Image

The Proper Way To Give Credit On an Image Posted On a Website

What is the best way to give credit to a picture to the owner? A Complete Guide

Aamir Kamal 🚀
3 min readApr 12, 2020

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Crediting is the best way to use someone’s Picture taken from a website or a blog and posted it on your own website or any artwork. There are two types of pictures existed — The images that fall under creative commons and the second type of the crediting is copyrighted. You can freely use Creative common pictures on your website, blogs, Videos or any place you want without giving credit to the owner. But, in case images or pictures fall under copyright law, you have to take permission from the owner to use it. The third type of image or picture is those that are bound with giving credits on the image posted on a website or blog. In this blog post, we will discuss that.

The Proper Way To Give Credit On an Image Posted On a Website
The Proper Way To Give Credit On an Image Posted On a Website Photo by Umberto on Unsplash

What Picture you can use and which picture you can’t?

  1. If an image falls under the creative commons category then you can use it freely. There are some videos on YouTube that fall under creative commons license and you can use it freely on any of your projects. If you want to you can cite the image source, but that is up to you.
  2. Not every image or picture or video fall under the creative commons license, to post a picture from a website you have to ask the permission from the Photographer to use. Some sites like Shutterstock act like a third party between the Photographer and the person who is interested to buy the rights of any image. The photographer gets paid for his/her work while the blogger gets image rights.
  3. The third type of picture sites that give you a picture for free but you have to give credit to the owner of the picture. In this blog post, we have used a picture from Unsplash and if you look into the picture you will find credits to the owner of the picture. In some cases, crediting isn’t important but most people, out of respect, give it.

How to Give Copyright Credit for Images

For every different category, I have shown you how to give credit for images.

  • For Copyright-free images: If you want to give credit and cite the…

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