Visual Image Repositories and Resources
In order to identify images for your multimodal research presentation essay, you will use online resources. You are required to include image credit captions for each image and complete and correct citations on your Works Cited page.
- Unsplash – If you use an image from Unsplash, it is in the Public Domain. It does not indicate this explicitly in their license page because they do not want anyone to use their images to create a competing service. Their license description, however, is literally the same as Public Domain usage. If you cite an image used from Unsplash, always include the Public Domain attribution.
NB: Some images on Unsplash ask for you to pay a premium. You should not use any of these images in your presentation. - Flickr
- Google Images – If you use an image from a Google image search, you will need to check the licensing in order to determine how to cite it. The easiest way to find Creative Commons images using a Google image search is to search for the image and then choose Tools Creative Commons licenses.
- Wikimedia Commons – The Wikimedia Commons is an excellent resource for historical images and photos.
- Creative Commons
Reverse image lookup – These are useful if you want to check where an image originated from:
Licenses and Attributions (in APA format)
The content of this lesson is an Open Educational Resource with a Creative Commons license: Resource Repository(opens in a new tab) by Granite State College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License(opens in a new tab), except where otherwise noted.
Adapted from Covell, S. (2022). Visual Communication: A General Education textbook for the study of visual rhetoric. Granite State College. https://granite.pressbooks.pub/comm543/(opens in a new tab)
Also see Visual Rhetoric and Communications, Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons Basics, and MLA Citation Resources.
