Using the Right Images on Medium Will Boost Your Posts

Part of The Ultimate Guide to Better Writing on Medium

A good Medium post needs good photos. The right image can make the difference between a member clicking or moving on. It can make the difference between curation and stagnation. You need to select photos that complement your writing instead of dragging it down.

First, you need to find images you have the rights to use on your posts. These include images that you create yourself, images that you buy the commercial rights to, and images that give commercial rights to you for free. Occasionally, you might be able to include a photo you took yourself, or you’ll want to purchase an image to use. But most Medium users rely on images with Creative Commons licenses that allow free commercial use.

Those are all great websites for getting your photos from! And you’ll notice if you go into the Medium editor, one of the toolbars has a magnifying glass on it. Click that and enter a search term, and Medium will pop up a list of photos from Unsplash that meet your query. Plus, Medium will automatically caption any photo you select. So, that’s the easiest way to add good images to your Medium article.

Wherever you get your images from, check the rights and usage associated with each image. Don’t steal, don’t use non-commercial photos, and don’t just google some images to use. Images on Google are almost never free to use. Even if you filter by usage to look for free commercial-use photos, Google frequently makes mistakes, and there are rarely good photos anyway.

You must always give credit to the maker in the caption for any image. If you paid for an image, credit the maker. If you got the image for free, even if the rights say credit isn’t required, credit the maker anyway. Even if you took the photo or made the image…

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