Downloaded from: http://www.public-domain-image.com by dipl. ing. Dusan Bicanski www.public-domain-image.com frequently asked questions Frequently asked questions Are these pictures really free? Yes, all photos on this site are top quality high resolution public domain images, royalty free stock photos. They are explicitly placed in the public domain. You can use them freely without asking. Can I use photos from this site for my commercial project? Yes, you can use all these pictures whatever you like, in your commercial or non commercial projects. You can use it freely for your school projects, in any document. You can use it on television, movie, magazine news papers, press, for ads anything at all. Can I download all wallpaper images? Yes, do it freely. Can I redistribute and/or republish public domain images, wallpapers from these site? Yes. You can redistribute and/or republish public domain images, royalty free stock photos, wallpapers from these site on CD/DVD, or on your own website, you can even ask money for it. You can even make clone of these site. Please if you do so, let me know, I'll be happy to see how my work inspired you, and please post link back to this site, and let me know, I'll put link to your site if you wish. Do I need to link back to your site and/or give credit to you if I use public domain images, royalty free stock photos from here? I spend a lot time taking pictures, collecting and editing them. Also I spend a lot of time searching for public domain images in public domain archives and making sure that all images you can find on this site are explicitly placed in the public domain. Use them for whatever you want, use it freely for personal and commercial use, images are not copyrighted, no rights reserved. It would be polite to link back to this site, please support my efforts and help me continue to publish more images in public domain and make them free and available to anyone who wants them., just something like: source http://www.public-domain-image.com . See more on: http://www.public-domain-image.com/link_to_us/link_to_us.html Can I copyright these images? You can not copyright these images as is, they are already in public domain. You can use images in your own artistic work. Can I edit images? Yes. All wallpaper images are in public domain, and you can do whatever you like with them. You can use them in your own projects, you can edit them in any photo editing (or in any other) program. You can apply any filters on it, you can crop, resize, merge them, anything you wish. If you do so please let me know, I'll be happy to publish your work here, or to see it on some other site, even to put link to that place. Can I hotlink images from my own site? You should download photos you would like to use and then to upload them on your own website, server. How to download photos and to set it for my desktop wallpaper? PC users: To save image on your hard disk, open photo and right click on the wallpaper and choose "Save image as" to set wallpaper image as desktop background, right click on the wallpaper and choose "Set As Wallpaper" or "Set As Background". Mac users: Save the image to your disk. Go to the control panel, select appearance, then Desktop tab. Click Place Picture (you may need to click Remove Picture first if you already have wallpaper). Locate the public domain image you saved and click Set Desktop. Can I have your permission to use one of the photos here? If it's public domain, you don't need to ask me permission. Public domain means I don't have any copyright on the image, and neither does anyone else. Where these public domain images come from? They come from several sources. I took some of them, and I herby placed them in public domain, other come from other sites which clearly claim that pictures are explicitly placed in the public domain. Where it was possible the appropriate accreditation of source/ photographer is given. Downloaded from: http://www.public-domain-image.com by dipl. ing. Dusan Bicanski