If you're using the images for advertising and just changing colors, I'd say that is still murky waters and not worth threats of a legal action.

It's not impossible to use istockphoto for all your Facebook marketing needs. However I get what you mean. It's a very pricy solution for small tests. It then comes down to personal choice. You can get sued for using images without permission. If you want to follow the 100% correct white line road then you have to get rights to all the images you use. You can still use Creative Commons Search. It only returns of images available for reuse from Google Images and Flickr .

In terms of the distorting an image, that is a tough one. The rules aren't as black and white around that. It's an interesting topic, ill look into it.

I know you mention istockphoto.com to stay in the clear but its impossible to use istockphoto for all your facebook marketing needs.

What is the actual deal with using images you find online? I mean pretty much every site does it. Can we be sued for any gains we made from using the images? Have you ever looked into this since you spend a ton on advertising?

Also Shoemoney is a hypocrite. Just look at his blog, he has 100s of pics of people that have not consented to be in the images on his blog. He technically needs each one of them to sign a consent form to use their image. Same for the videos. He is profiting from their images, just by having ads on his site next to their pics.

One other thing I wonder why happens if you distort an image or pic of someone. How can they really prove its their copyright or whatever.

2. Quit Job

3. Find Images on Bing

4. ????

5. Profit