Creative Commons

For a recent web design that I was creating, I wanted to spice up the look and feel a little bit by having a silhouette background image. The site that I was working on is an information portal about working and jobs, so I wanted to have something that conveyed team work. Also, to speed up development time, I wanted to convert an existing photo into my silhouette. Enter Flickr Creative Commons search (part of their advanced search http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/).

Why Creative Commons? Simply enough, because the copyright holder expressly sets the permission for what you can do with their work beforehand. I typically look for content that can be added to or enhanced by me (Creative Commons Remix) and content that can be used Commercially. After a little bit of searching, I found this photo:

Accessed from http://flickr.com/photos/a4gpa/2312527906 - Flickr Username: a4gpa.
Image is licensed under the Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.