How to properly use Creative Commons images on your projects

CC continues to confuse me with so many options. I'd like to use a CC (non-CC0 or public domain) licensed photo as part of my blog template header. Do I really need to put the attribution and link in my template, because that will make my web site look ridiculous.. Any ideas?

Use wordpress? Just install the photodropper plugin.<p>I&#x27;m not associated with the project, I just discovered it last week and it does exactly what I need.

The funny thing is by default Flickr sets all your photos to &#x27;copyright&#x27;... and upon realizing this I set out to make all my photos completely copyright free (not even attribution)... but then it turns out you can&#x27;t even do that. At a minimum you have to have attribution. I&#x27;m just happy when people use my photos; I feel bad they have to deal with all this license stuff.

How can I get that transparent inside-the-image attribution that is shown on the first photo in the post?