121 – More Great Places for WordPress Images
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He gives some suggestions of finding less expensive images at iStockPhoto.
Question from Keith
I’m new to WordPress and I’m wondering what the difference is between a category and a tag.
Follow Up From Amy
Amy had a follow up question from last week’s show. She wondered how to instruct her clients on how to upload smaller images on her website.
A few suggestions:
- Show them how to resize images in Photoshop, GIMP, etc.
- Only allow upload size to WordPress to 2MB
- Change media sizes in WordPress settings to make default sizes smaller
- Install a plugin to optimize to a smaller image
More places to find images
- stocksy
- Photoxpress
- Copyright Free Images
- Public Domain Image
- PhotoPin
- dreamstime
- wikimedia
- rgbstock.com
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The best tool I’ve found for compressing JPEG images is called a JPEG to JPEG compressor. The website is: http://www.versis.co.uk
Apr 5, 2013This company has other great compression tools for PDF files too. You may not see the JPEG to JPEG compressor on their website, but contact them and ask for a link to it. It works great!
-Rick
I also use Dreamstime.com for my stock images. I’ve found them to be high quality and less expensive than most other stock image sites.
Apr 5, 2013rickaperkins Thanks Rick!
Apr 5, 2013I also use Dreamstime and they have excellent customer service should the need arise.
Apr 25, 2013