Four Ways to Get Copyright Free Images

Looking for copyright free images to use on your website? Here are three different ways to get them, plus a bonus, starting with a very unexpected but really powerful one: Google Earth.

• Look up any city you want in Google Earth (I looked up Willow Glen), then open the map settings and click Clean to get rid of the labels and the rest of the junk on the map.
• Make sure 3D buildings is turned on, switch from 2D to 3D, then hold Shift on your keyboard and drag to look around until you like the view.
• In the settings, set the render quality to high so it looks as nice as possible. If it's set to low, it's going to look like garbage. Then take a screenshot.
• Give the screenshot to Gemini's Nano Banana and ask: "Could you please make this Google Earth image look like an actual drone shot, add some clouds. And if you can make it sunset, that would be fantastic."
• I've used this on a real listing. The agent asked me to mark the home, Monterey State Beach and Downtown Seaside, and we kept the sunset version. Two or three images cost about 21 cents.

• Look up Google AI Studio and open the top result, aistudio.google.com.
• On the page, find the setting that says Grounding with Google Search. That is what lets Gemini know everything Google knows.
• Type what you want, like "Make me an image of Stanford in Palo Alto in California." It does its research and comes back with the picture.
• If you really zoom in you might tell it's AI, so ask it to remove all the people, and then you really will not be able to tell. Switch from 1K to 4K for a sharper picture.
• Try other places too. I asked for the Apple campus in Cupertino, then said "Now let's make it look like as if it were sunset." For a website, it's plenty.

• Go to pexels.com. The pictures and videos there are free to use, and the quality is really good.
• If you're in a popular place like the Bay Area, you can literally look up downtown San Jose or Stanford University and get real pictures of it.
• Hover over a picture and hit Download. That's it.

• Look up a couple of different images of the place, like downtown Willow Glen, download them, and give them all to Gemini, GPT or any AI you want.
• Ask: "Could you make me an entirely new image based off of these images?" An entirely new image is the key. Ask for it at sunset too.