Pugs are extremely photogenic, with their light coat, their dark face and their expressive eyes. The Pug is an ideal subject for canine portrait photography, watercolors or oil paintings. How you go about finding great Pug pictures depends on the reason you want the pictures.

When deciding where to find the best Pug pictures, ask yourself what you want to use the pictures for. If you want a Pug picture for computer wallpaper, a screen saver, or to upload to a digital photo frame, you need a digital Pug picture. Digital pictures are Pug pictures that you can view, save and copy on your computer.

Perhaps the best source of digital Pug pictures is the Worldwide Web. Search for Pug pictures on any well-known search engine, and you will soon see 560,000 results for the search. You'll see Pugs dressed up in costumes, puppy Pugs and even drawings of Pugs.

When saving pictures from the Internet, be sure you are on a page where then picture is not copyrighted. Look at terms of service to see if the copyright information is listed there. Most sites that offer copyright-free images require that you link back to their site if you use the image on a web page of your own.

Really good stock photos are available from between one dollar and two and a half dollars. You can pay for stock photos by using a credit card or an online payment account like Paypal. A recent search for Pug puppies on a stock photo site offered two hundred fifty one Pug pictures for sale. Surely you can find a picture you can use among that many pictures.

At most stock photo web sites there are hundreds of cute Pug pictures to choose from. Stock photos are marked so you can't copy them, but they are well worth the nominal fee you pay for a photo you know you will love. If you want to buy stock Pug pictures over the Internet, you will need to use a credit card or an online account like Paypal.

The retail vendors that travel with professional dog shows often sell portrait style chalk portraits of purebred breeds. Watch your local newspaper to see when a dog show is coming to a town near you; then plan to go to the show and shop for Pug pictures.

If you go to a professional dog show, you will notice a great many vendors selling their wares around the show. These vendors sell key chains, shirts, etc., with images of purebred dogs on them. Shop around the dog show until you find the Pug area. You are bound to find several different kinds of Pug art at a dog show. A dog show is also a good place to find an artist who will create a unique portrait of your Pug.