- You know, I've said it
before, but I will say it again. Free, free, free. Everybody loves free. Hey, everyone, and welcome back. If you are a long-time subscriber, through watching my videos, you will know that there are two things that you can get for free. The first thing is my eternal gratitude for taking a moment out
of your very busy day, to give my videos a like and to subscribe, because seriously, every time you do it, it genuinely supports me, so thank you so much for
taking a moment to do so. But the second thing
that you can get for free that my long-time subscribers will know from having watched my videos
recently is free pictures, which you can then download
and copy and then resell online to make money for, you guessed it, free. Yep. That's right. Today, I'm doing an
updated video tutorial, showing you how anyone
can copy free pictures from the internet and then
resell them to earn money online by selling them onto a
range of different products, such as posters, mugs,
pillowcases, and even phone cases. And yes, I know I already made a video on the subject recently, but I realized after making that video that a lot of people had questions, which I really wanted to answer, and so I decided to do what you could call is a remaster of that video,
which as you will see, is very much in the spirit
of this video today. Yep, not only will I be answering some of the common questions
I got in the last video I made about this, but in this tutorial, I'll also be showing you
some brand-new websites that you can use to find free pictures that you can then copy and
resell to make money online and reveal some new tips,
tricks, and strategies and case studies of people
successfully using this method to earn cash legally. And that word "legally" is very important, because you see, here's the thing, right? You cannot just come and copy any picture you find on the internet and then sell it. So for example, if I came and thought, hey, Elsa from "Frozen," that's
a pretty popular character. I'll just find a picture
of her on the internet and then sell it as a poster
to "Frozen" Elsa fans, well, I'd probably get a
cease-and-desist letter and perhaps even a lawsuit. Why? Well, it's because this picture has what is called copyright protection. Basically, whenever you
draw or paint a picture, it is instantly protected
by law with copyright. You don't have to register for it. It is instant. Copyright protection means that only you have the
legal right to use your art, including for commercial purposes. And so, of course, Disney
owns the copyright to this, so early they can use her image. However, the thing about
copyright protection is it doesn't last forever,
which is why Disney themselves love using public domain works of art, such as "Alice in Wonderland"
in their creations. Yep, eventually, once someone dies, their work will become
part of the public domain. Copyright protection only
lasts for a limited time, and this is done for a good reason. It's because making artwork
part of the public domain eventually aids and the
creativity and inspiration for future creations. And so the public domain is simply a term to refer to any art that no longer has any
copyright protections on it, either because the artists
themselves has chosen to waive it or because it has expired. So, for example, a common
question people have is this: Can I sell posters
featuring the Mona Lisa? And the answer is, yes. Yes, you legally can, because copyright protection
on the Mona Lisa image has expired and is now
in the public domain. And so what some very generous
and talented photographers and image editors have done
is they've taken photographs of popular historical paintings and produced stunning,
high-definition reproduction pictures of these works of art and have uploaded them to the internet. And courts throughout the USA
and Europe have determined that these replica pictures are also part of the public domain because
they do not meet the threshold of originality, which
is required for a photo to be protected under copyright, which means then that you are allowed to legally take this reproduction
photo of the Mona Lisa which has been uploaded to Wikipedia and sell it onto all sorts of merchandise. And yes, later on in this video, I will show you lots of
different and creative ways that people are doing this
as a free fun side hustle to earn extra cash on the side each month. Woo hoo. But first, as promised, let me show you four
websites that you can use to find this artwork. And of course, one of those
websites is Wikipedia. Now, if you come to
Wikipedia and do a search for a famous historical artist, chances are, on their Wikipedia page, you will find reproduction
photo images in high quality that you can download and
print onto products for free. The biggest issue with Wikipedia,
though, is that it's slow because you have to know
who you're searching for, and so a much faster way to browse through the amazing paintings on Wikipedia is to use this second awesome
website here, free-images.com. This is a huge directory
that locates and stores public domain images from around the web. So come to the search engine and switch it to search for fine art and then type in what
type of pictures you want. So for example, if you wanted to create
a cool flower pillowcase, which, again, I'll show you
how to do later in the video, you can come here and
do a search for flowers, and now you'll get a bunch
of amazing public domain art to choose from. And if you open up an image, you'll see that it will have
a link to its original source, which is usually Wikipedia for fine art, which you can then click to open up and find out more information
about the painting, such as who made it, and you'll be able to download
it in a range of sizes, including its original
high-definition version. So that's my second
website I highly recommend. My third website will be one that my long-time subscribers
will probably recognize, and that website is rawpixel.com. I absolutely love Rawpixel. So this is also a large image directory, although unlike free-images.com, not all of these photos on
here are in the public domain. On here, you will find
two types of pictures. The first is pictures that
Rawpixel's artists have created, and these are not in the public domain. You can tell by clicking on a picture and then seeing the license information. If like this picture here, it says it has a royalty-free license, that means that it has a picture that Rawpixel's artists have created, which also means then that it has Rawpixel's
royalty-free license, which includes rules and restrictions, including a restriction that you cannot print it onto products. But remember, that is
just one type of image that you will find on the website. The other is a stunning collection of 100% free public domain pictures, including some very
high-definition replicas of famous paintings. To access these, come to the top menu and click on the Public Domain button to access their public domain collection, not the Rawpixel collection. Here you can browse through, and all of these images
here are in high definition, 300 DPI, which is awesome for printing, and you'll find all sorts of
super cool images on here. So, for example, you think about it. For someone that's interested
in Japanese culture and art, this picture, it would look
pretty awesome on a poster, don't you think? And as you can see, in
the license information, it doesn't say that it has
a royalty-free image license and instead it says that it has a public domain image license, which means that this picture does not have the
royalty-free license rules. Instead, it is the public
domain rules that apply to it, which, of course, mean that
you are welcome to reuse it and sell it onto products. And so this was probably
the biggest reason why I wanted to remake this video. It was to ask the
questions that people had about these two licenses. They are very different. And there is one more website
that I absolutely love for finding cool free public domain art, but it is very important
that you know the trick for how to use this website correctly, and that website is the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. They have released over 400,000
stunning art replica photos in the public domain. Given that the MET Museum is literally the largest
fine art museum in the world, you can imagine that you have
some extremely famous pieces to choose from on here,
like "The Dance Class." But here's my challenge to you. Instead of finding
popular pieces to resell, my challenge to you is
to browse through here and find some lesser-known pieces that people with niche
interests and hobbies would still be interested in buying today if they discovered it. For example, let's say that you wanted
to find a cool picture of the ocean to sell to people like divers who have a niche interest
related to the ocean. When you first come
here and enter in ocean as a search phrase, and when you do that, you will see that you
will get tons of images of all sorts of art,
including statues and vases, and so the trick is to
come to the search bar and filter the results to
specifically look for paintings, and now, you'll be able to
see what historical paintings they have available. And again, so many of these
are absolutely timeless. For example, someone who
was interested in the ocean would still find this
painting very cool to have on merchandise, like a poster
or a phone case even today. And so if you wanted to download it, you just click on the download button, which will take you to a
full-size image of the painting, and then you can right-click
it and download it. But here's the thing. We now know then how to find
lots of cool timeless paintings that we can legally resell onto products. But here's the question. How do you do this to earn money? Well, my friend, let me show
you case studies of people who are successfully doing
this to hopefully inspire you to come up with your own creative ways on how you can do this, too. And one of the best websites
to find these case studies is Redbubble. Now, while I know my longtime subscribers will definitely know what Redbubble is, the truth is most of my
viewers are new around here, so I will quickly explain
what it is for those viewers. Now, Redbubble is a website
that lets you upload pictures for free and sell it onto
merchandise like prints, stickers, and phone cases, also for free. So here's how it works. First, you create a free
account with Redbubble. Next, you upload the picture
that you want to sell, and you give it a title,
relevant keywords as tags, and a description. After that, you then browse
through Redbubble's products that they can print your picture onto and choose the ones that you
think it will look best on. You can edit your picture on each product and get it looking the
way that you want it to. And then you save them. Redbubble will now create
product pages on its website for each of the products that you created. Every month, Redbubble gets
tens of millions of visits from customers who are coming here looking to find cool products
featuring awesome niche art that they couldn't find
in a big chain store. But within minutes, your
product pages will be live, and the customers will be able to come and find your pictures to buy on the products that you chose. And then each time that a
customer does come and, say, buys one of these items, one of Redbubble's print shops
will then print your design onto the product, package it up, and then ship it out to the customer. They'll collect the
money the customer paid, and then remove their production fees, and then pay you the
profit as a commission. Last year, Redbubble
made over $400 million selling merchandise on
behalf of the users, such as my viewers here, so it can be a really nice side hustle to bring in extra cash each month. Congratulations, everybody. In the e-commerce industry, we call Redbubble a
print-on-demand website because that's exactly what it is. It is printing products on
demand as customers order them. And if you'd like to learn
more about how I and others run our print-on-demand stores online, you should be sure to
download my free ebook, "The 6 Steps That 6-Figure
Online Stores Follow to Make Over $10,000 a Month," and you'll finally to
download my free ebook in the video description below. But anyway, back to the video
and onto the first case study. So on Redbubble, one of the
most popular type of posters is cool Japanese art. Well, if we do a search
for Japanese art posters, Redbubble will show us
some of it's top-selling and trending poster designs, and if you look through these results, you'll see that several of
these are historical paintings that are now in the public domain. For example, take this
awesome poster here. This poster is part of a woodblock set that is now available to
be downloaded for free because it is, of course,
in the public domain. Even though this painting is
old, it's still relevant today to anyone interested in Japanese
art, history, and culture. It's still super cool,
and so, in my opinion, that's the best type of art to sell. It's the type of art
where people are unlikely to have ever seen it before, but when the right customer sees it, they go, "Oh man, that's
really neat. I want to buy it." And so, in my opinion, this
is the biggest opportunity when it comes to selling historical art. So, for example, if we come and do a
search for flower posters, we will find that the top
trending poster design, isn't a super famous painting
like Van Gogh's "Irises." Instead, it is a painting that most people probably won't recognize. It's a niche painting of a
bunch of different flowers and plants that is from
an old encyclopedia that is now in the public domain, and the painting can now
be downloaded for free on Wikipedia like I showed
you how to do earlier. But you know what? To someone who is interested in plants, this painting would still
be super cool as a poster on their wall, even if they
don't recognize who made it, although sometimes, famous paintings can
still be a great choice depending on the audience
that you're targeting. So for example, if we
come back to Redbubble and do a search for a very
trendy type of art on Redbubble, gothic art, we will see that one of the
top trending pictures right now is indeed the very famous
historical painting from Vincent van Gogh, "The Skull with the Burning Cigarette," which, of course, you could
easily go download for free from free-images.com in high definition. So sometimes the famous pieces
are indeed the best to sell. Now, just to clarify, Redbubble is most certainly
not the only website where people are taking
public domain images and then turning them
into super cool products and then making money online with them. No. For example, if you
come on over to Etsy, you will see that lots of people are taking public domain paintings and selling them onto
print-on-demand products. So for example, van Gogh's
artwork is very popular on here, and van Gogh face masks have
been especially popular. So it's not just Redbubble
people who are doing this. There are plenty of other
people on other websites doing it, too, although if
you are watching this video and you're thinking that
repurposing free public domain art to sell with print-on-demand
products sounds great, whether it be on Etsy or
Redbubble, my advice to you would be to read that website's
terms and conditions first, because keep in mind that
just because it's legal to sell public domain art, it doesn't mean that a
website like Redbubble can't choose to restrict
how they are to be used on their private website. And also keep in mind, rules can change, so the rules today might
not be the same rules as when you were watching
this video later. And so I strongly recommend
that you've read the rules today and I will link to them in
the video description below. And so when I read over these rules, the way that I understood them was that if you were to
upload the exact same picture as someone else, yours would
be considered a copy of theirs, which isn't allowed. And so while you may indeed
see examples of people who have just downloaded free
pictures from the internet and then reuploaded them
without making any changes, nevertheless, be original, and you can be original in two ways. The first thing to do
is to find obscure art that no one else has uploaded before, and the second thing to
do is to think about ways that you can take free
public domain pictures, and then combine them
with your own elements to turn them into something new. For example, you will see
a lot of different versions of van Gogh's "Skull with
Cigarette" on Redbubble, but as you can see, people
have modified the picture, and they've turned it into new versions. Some have removed the background. Some have changed the
colors of the picture. Some have changed the style and they've turned it into a
drawing instead of a painting. This means that theirs is
now original, not a copy. So, for example, the way that this Redbubble
store did it with this image was they turned it into
a high-definition version with new colors and digitally restored it. And actually, you know what? Digitally restoring a
picture or remastering it is a format within itself. And digitally restoring
pictures or remastering them is a really great way to turn pictures that nobody would want to buy into something that people would love, and the best thing is that
you can do this all for free in less than a minute, all online. So, for example, let's take this very cool
Japanese woodblock painting of an actor that is dressed as a samurai. Well, to someone who is
interested in Japanese culture, history, and samurais, this
is really neat and timeless. The only problem, though,
is that it's now faded and has this big, ugly
gray border around it, so nobody would want to
print it in its current form onto a poster. So let's restore it, shall we? Come to this free website
here, Photo Filters, and upload the picture
that you want to restore and select their auto-correct option. Now, it's gonna make those
washed-out colors instantly pop, so there's that color correction done. Next, let's turn it into a high
definition version of itself by coming to the blur/sharpen feature, and we are going to bump
up the sharpness a bit to make the details in
the painting pop a bit. And then finally, to
finish off our remaster, we need to get rid of that
gray border around the poster, which we can do again for
free by using the crop feature to remove it. And then, boom. In less than a minute, I have taken this old, forgotten picture, and I have digitally restored
it and remastered it, and in the process, also
turned it into something new. And using this website here, TinEye, can really help you see if
you're creating something new or just copying what
others have already done. TinEye is a reverse image search. You can upload a picture to it, and it will scour the internet to see if it can find similar pictures that have been uploaded to other websites. And well, as you can imagine, since this is a very famous picture, it has been uploaded a bunch of times. And so if you want to check
for a particular website, you can come in and
search for it directly. So yes, using this, we can see,
as we already knew already, that lots of people are
trying to sell this picture on Redbubble, whereas if
we come back to TinEye, but this time do a reverse image search for that obscure Japanese
woodblock painting, unsurprisingly, this has not
been anywhere near as popular, and very few people are sharing this, let alone selling this online. And so I hope that this
video here has helped you come up with some creative ideas for how you could take old,
forgotten free pictures and then remaster them into something new that adds joy into people's lives today. So then, did my video inspire you? If it did, please hit Subscribe and click the little notification bell, so you don't miss out on any of my videos, and if you'd like to learn
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