 Finding Free Images In this video, we will guide you with finding and using free images for course projects. This includes all kinds of images you find online, from graphics to photographs to icons. To help you, we'll explain some reasons why images may or may not be free to use. Then we'll explore options for where and how to find images. Finally, we'll discuss giving credit to creators. Not all images you see online are available to use freely. Some have restrictions, like needing to pay or needing to ask the creator for permission. In Canada, copyright is automatically applied to work like images as soon as the image is created. Copyright gives a creator rights over if and how others can use copies of their creative work. If you want to use someone's copyrighted image, you need their permission, even if it was uploaded online. Luckily, there are many creators who share their images more freely, so you won't have to ask for permission first or pay to use the image. If you're looking for free images for projects, you can look for images using Creative Commons licenses or other free licenses. There are many websites that have free images. Google Image is a good starting point to search many free image sites at once. Google Images has a search filter that allows you to limit your search by image license. First, enter your search in Google Images. Next, select Tools. Under usage rights, you can select Creative Commons licenses. This will show you images you can use free of charge for course projects. Once you find an image that you'd like to use, click on the image and visit. This will take you to the image and let you see any terms for how you can use the image, such as needing to attribute, which means giving credit to the creator of the image. What if at first you can't find an image that meets your needs? Google Images is only one potential option. You can find a list of many free image sites on the learning portal. Additionally, you may have to try different search words when looking for images. Creators often use descriptive tags or words for their images and may use different words than you may expect. For example, if you wanted an image of a webinar, it may come up under tags like video conferencing or Zoom. Do I need to cite images I find online for my projects? Once you've found images to use, you may have questions about whether you need to give credit or cite them. Even if a work says no attribution is required. For good academic integrity practices, you should give credit to acknowledge you're using work created by someone else. You can consult your assignment instructions or speak to your professor for specific preferences on how to cite images used in your work. Some websites may also provide you with a preferred citation.