Image details: Hillary Clinton Campaigns For Upcoming Primaries served by picapp.com

PicApp is a site where you can surf through tons of photos and use them for FREE on your website. Now I can think of a few sites that would benefit from something like this - for example … gossip blogs, political blogs, news blogs… and that’s just to name a few.

If you’re looking to get some great photos on your site, without the worry that you’re in copyright infringement hell - this would be a great place to look. When I went to PicApp, I tried to sign up - but it looks to be that sign ups are good for the United States only. But that doesn’t mean we can’t use them - or for that matter if you don’t want to sign up, all you need to provide is an email address. Nice. Yes we might be put on a newsletter or two - so perhaps using an email that would be good for that might be in order.

I chose Hillary for this example - but there’s great photos of cats, George Clooney, Obama, etc. I think this is one of those ideas that is great for those of us with small budgets and can’t afford the bigger fees that go along with getting rights to some photos. Hell, some ideas go down the drain because we don’t have access to these sorts of photos.

I guess the one thing I’m not too fond of is the sponsored links box below the image. But I guess they need to make money too… so if you can put up with it - use the service. I think it’s handy to use if you need too.

Overall - a great idea for the low budget blogger who needs images with out the copyright law hassle. We’ll see if the look they use pays off for them. I think it’s a great idea - but not too sure about how it looks on a site.

Update… just minutes later: Ok… as easy as cut and paste is I’m having a hell of a time aligning my image. It could just be me (as is often the case), but this is turning into a bit of a pain in the butt. Hopefully that’s not the case with everyone else.