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Sourcing images for GOV.UK

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Images used on GOV.UK should be:

  • public-domain and royalty free
  • relevant to the news story or page content
  • suitably generic in style, suitable for a mass audience
  • clean and free of text - except where campaign or PHE UKHSA branding is mandatory

The UKHSA Communications shared drive has a folder with suitable and pre-sized images: GOV.UK publishing\Website resized images. 

GDS advice

Government Digital Service provides guidance on how to Add an image or video to GOV.UK.

Online sources for images

There are several websites you can use to source images for the site:

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Using Flickr images with a Creative Commons license

When using images from Flickr, they are often made available under a Creative Commons license.

This means they are free to use, as long as we give credit to the original photographer.

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This is the attribution that should be added to the page, underneath the image:

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Photo by [Ken Funakoshi](https://www.flickr.com/photos/trektrack/). Used under [Flickr Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/).

Just replace the details of the photographer's name and his unique Flickr URL.

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