How to Place a Picture into Your File: Find Photos You Can Safely Use

Please look at the article by The Book Designer's Joel Friedlander, here:

Finding Photographs for a Book or Blog Gets Better The Book Designer
http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2011/12/finding-photographs-for-a-book-or-blog-gets-better/

Joel offers advice about how to use the images, how to give credit to the owner, how to save time when searching for images, and how to save money when buying the right to use certain images.

Here are a few sites that offer free or low cost images:
 
Google Advanced Image Search
http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search

Stock Photos: Download Royalty Free Images, Photos, Pictures | iStock
http://www.istockphoto.com/photo

Flickr: Advanced Search
http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced

Compfight : A Flickr Search Tool
http://compfight.com/

Dreamstime: Download Free Stock Photos & Royalty Free Images
http://www.dreamstime.com/

Morguefile: Free Photos For Creatives By Creatives
http://www.morguefile.com/

Stock.Xchng: The Leading Free Stock Photography Site
http://www.sxc.hu/

US Government Photo Sources

Copyright and Other Rights Pertaining to U.S. Government Works | USA.gov
http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

NOAA Photo Library – HOME
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/

NOAA Photo Library – Treasures of the Library
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/library/index.html

U.S. Government Photos and Images | USA.gov
http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml

Pictures of the Documents - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
http://www.usconstitution.net/constpix.html

US Federal Government Public Domain Images - Primarily Photos
http://stellar-one.com/public/us_federal_government_public_domain_images.htm

NASA - NASA Featured Images and Galleries
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html

DefenseImagery.mil
http://www.defenseimagery.mil/index.html

The Best Copyright-Free Photo Libraries: - DotGovWatch Exposing the good, the bad, and the buggy - A Blog Monitoring U.S. Federal, State, and Local Government Websites
http://www.dotgovwatch.com/?/archives/8-The-Best-Copyright-Free-Photo-Libraries.html