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Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?
- developeruk 9y agoinspiredpics.co.uk
- developeruk 9y agoCan I plug my own little site :- https://www.inspiredpics.co.uk https://www.inspiredpics.co.uk All free for commercial use
- thoux 9y agohttps://freephotos.cc/ https://freephotos.cc/ http://pixambo.com/ http://pixambo.com/ https://realgraphy.org/ https://realgraphy.org/ http://foodshot.co/ http://foodshot.co/ http://librestock.com/ http://librestock.com/ http://www.photostockeditor.com/ http://www.photostockeditor.com/ https://stocksnap.io/ https://stocksnap.io/ http://deathtothestockphoto.com/ http://deathtothestockphoto.com/ http://visualhunt.com/ http://visualhunt.com/ http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/stock-up http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/stock-up https://foodiesfeed.com/free-food-images/ https://foodiesfeed.com/free-food-images/ http://freenaturestock.com/ http://freenaturestock.com/ https://www.pexels.com/ https://www.pexels.com/ https://www.splitshire.com/ https://www.splitshire.com/ http://streetwill.co/ http://streetwill.co/ http://cupcake.nilssonlee.se/ http://cupcake.nilssonlee.se/ https://unsplash.com/ https://unsplash.com/ http://www.splashbase.co/ http://www.splashbase.co/ http://jeshoots.com/ http://jeshoots.com/ http://moveast.me/ http://moveast.me/ http://startupstockphotos.com/ http://startupstockphotos.com/ http://jaymantri.com/ http://jaymantri.com/ http://travelcoffeebook.com/ http://travelcoffeebook.com/ http://www.designerspics.com/ http://www.designerspics.com/ http://superfamous.com/Images http://superfamous.com/Images https://picography.co/ https://picography.co/ https://pixabay.com/ https://pixabay.com/ http://magdeleine.co/ http://magdeleine.co/ http://littlevisuals.co/ http://littlevisuals.co/ http://nos.twnsnd.co/ http://nos.twnsnd.co/ https://picjumbo.com/ https://picjumbo.com/ http://www.lifeofpix.com/ http://www.lifeofpix.com/ http://www.gratisography.com/ http://www.gratisography.com/ http://getrefe.com/downloads/category/free/ http://getrefe.com/downloads/category/free/ http://www.imcreator.com/free http://www.imcreator.com/free http://publicdomainarchive.com/ http://publicdomainarchive.com/ http://isorepublic.com/ http://isorepublic.com/ http://stokpic.com/ http://stokpic.com/ http://kaboompics.com/ http://kaboompics.com/ http://mmt.li/ http://mmt.li/ http://lockandstockphotos.com/ http://lockandstockphotos.com/ http://photos.bucketlistly.com/ http://photos.bucketlistly.com/ http://fr.photl.com/ http://fr.photl.com/ http://libreshot.com/ http://libreshot.com/ Source : https://template.pro/42-sites-image-libre-de-droit/ https://template.pro/42-sites-image-libre-de-droit/
- wnm 9y agohttps://unsplash.com/ https://unsplash.com/
- vinayan3 9y agoI highly recommend it. They have some amazing images.
- King-Aaron 9y agoSince it's sharp rise in popularity around ~12 months ago, it seems like every new website on the internet is using unsplash imagery
- uptown 9y agoUnsplash http://unsplash.com/ http://unsplash.com/ Burst https://burst.shopify.com/ https://burst.shopify.com/ Death to the Stock Photo http://join.deathtothestockphoto.com/ http://join.deathtothestockphoto.com/ New Old Stock http://nos.twnsnd.co/ http://nos.twnsnd.co/ Superfamous (requires attribution) http://superfamous.com/ http://superfamous.com/ Picjumbo http://picjumbo.com/ http://picjumbo.com/ The Pattern Library http://thepatternlibrary.com/ http://thepatternlibrary.com/ Gratisography http://www.gratisography.com/ http://www.gratisography.com/ Getrefe http://getrefe.tumblr.com/ http://getrefe.tumblr.com/ IM Free (requires attribution) http://imcreator.com/free http://imcreator.com/free Jay Mantri http://jaymantri.com/ http://jaymantri.com/ Women of color in tech https://www.flickr.com/photos/wocintechchat/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/wocintechchat/ Public Domain Archive http://publicdomainarchive.com/ http://publicdomainarchive.com/ Magdeleine http://magdeleine.co/ http://magdeleine.co/ Foodiesfeed http://foodiesfeed.com http://foodiesfeed.com Picography http://picography.co/ http://picography.co/ Raumrot http://www.raumrot.com/10/ http://www.raumrot.com/10/ ISO Republic http://isorepublic.com/ http://isorepublic.com/ Source: https://medium.com/@dustin/stock-photos-that-dont-suck-62ae4bcbe01b https://medium.com/@dustin/stock-photos-that-dont-suck-62ae4...
- mrhappyunhappy 9y agoAwesome list! I’ve been a death to stock photo subscriber for a while and love their work!
- sharemywin 9y agoI use fotosearch.com
- markwaldron 9y agohttps://deathtothestockphoto.com/ https://deathtothestockphoto.com/
- Angostura 9y agoMonthly subscription required - my least favourite model.
- nguggs 9y agohttps://www.pexels.com/ https://www.pexels.com/
- tomc1985 9y agosxc.hu has a pretty good free section
- fecak 9y agohttp://pixabay.com http://pixabay.com
- lprubin 9y agoBelieve it or not, I've found a decent amount of high quality photos to use on flickr's creative commons search: https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
- ideonexus 9y agoSeconding this recommendation. A former hobby of mine was photographically cataloging museum exhibits and uploading them to flickr cc-licensed. I've pulled tons of cc photos from flickr for picture books and other projects. It's a fantastic resource, and only costs you attribution.
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- toomuchtodo 9y agoHave a list of those Flickr users or albums? Want to grab them and put them in the Internet Archive before Flickr degrades further under Verizon.
- yodon 9y agoBe careful if the photo includes a person’s face prominently. If it does, the person in the photo has likeness rights in the photo[0] which the photographer cannot assign to you without a signed model release form from the subject of the photo. Most Flickr photographers are amateurs who don’t have model release forms for their photos. Plenty of lawsuits have occurred around the use of Flickr photos without model release forms (there is also a major sub-plot in the Kevin Smith movie “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” that revolves around likeness rights). Creative Commons is not enough when there are prominent faces in the photo. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
- 650REDHAIR 9y agoThank you so much! I had no idea and this makes a big difference with my new website.
- justboxing 9y agoI've used the following 2. 1) FREE under Creative Commons CC0 - https://pixabay.com/ https://pixabay.com/ 2) Mix of FREE & Sponsored / Paid - https://unsplash.com/ https://unsplash.com/
- lovegoblin 9y agoAll photos on Unsplash are free.
- whitingx 9y agohttp://pixabay.com/ http://pixabay.com/ https://stocksnap.io/ https://stocksnap.io/ http://www.free-images.cc/ http://www.free-images.cc/ https://unsplash.com/ https://unsplash.com/ https://www.pexels.com/ https://www.pexels.com/ http://librestock.com/ http://librestock.com/ http://skuawk.com/ http://skuawk.com/ http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/stock-up http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/stock-up http://finda.photo/ http://finda.photo/ http://foodshot.co/ http://foodshot.co/ http://growthtext.com/free-stock-photos/ http://growthtext.com/free-stock-photos/ https://www.stockified.com/ https://www.stockified.com/ https://www.negativespace.co/ https://www.negativespace.co/ https://everypixel.com/ https://everypixel.com/ http://startupstockphotos.com/ http://startupstockphotos.com/ https://foodiesfeed.com/ https://foodiesfeed.com/ https://picjumbo.com/ https://picjumbo.com/ https://www.stockio.com/ https://www.stockio.com/ hope this helps ツ
- tlarkworthy 9y agoAwesome, hn favourited so I can come back to this
- programbreeding 9y agoI never realized I could favorite a comment on HN. Thanks! For anyone wondering how: Next to the username of the comment you want to save it will show how long ago the comment was left (ex: "40 minutes ago"). Click on that time and then there is a link at the top where you can click favorite.
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- rb808 9y agohttps://marketplace.500px.com https://marketplace.500px.com but it isn't free
- ballenf 9y agoistockphoto.com I always start with the free sites, but usually end up using a paid option especially for images that include people. High quality free landscape type photos seem more common.
- Gladdyu 9y agoTrain yourself a GAN and parameterise/create whatever stock image you want!
- anon1253 9y agohttps://www.shutterstock.com https://www.shutterstock.com
- clandry94 9y agohttps://burst.shopify.com/ https://burst.shopify.com/
- gthinkin 9y agoUnsplash is the best in my opinion. www.unsplash.com
- bcjordan 9y agoI like https://pond5.com https://pond5.com, also great for sound effects, music, video footage, illustrations.
- garethsprice 9y agoWhat do you mean by "high end"? http://www.gettyimages.com/prestige http://www.gettyimages.com/prestige is about as high-end as it gets in stock photography, but you'll also be paying handsomely for it.
- davidp670 9y agoI have a bookmark folder for these: https://bookmarkos.com/f/PZ_8FUO6Sqw https://bookmarkos.com/f/PZ_8FUO6Sqw My favorites are Unsplash and Pexels
- themango 9y agohttps://pexels.com https://pexels.com
- ducttape12 9y agoI always liked LibreStock.com
- mauricemooij 9y agohttps://www.stocksy.com/ https://www.stocksy.com/
- aantix 9y agoThese guys are using deep learning/convolutional neural networks to train their models to detect beautiful/thoughtful photographic images. https://www.eyeem.com/ https://www.eyeem.com/ They talk about their curation algorithms here: https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/understanding-aesthetics-deep-learning/ https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/understanding-aes...
- geetfun 9y agoMore to this awesome list. https://swagpix.com https://swagpix.com
- diggum 9y agohttp://stock.adobe.com/ http://stock.adobe.com/
- gnicholas 9y agoNote that depending how you find an image, the price may be wildly different. I searched on iStock and found an image for 30 bucks. Then when I later went to purchase it, my google search led me to a page where it was listed for $400. I was eventually able to find it on the $30 page again. For what it's worth, I did most of my searching in incognito windows to try to avoid this type of problem. It sure didn't work this time!
- nametube 9y agohttps://burst.shopify.com/ https://burst.shopify.com/
- sbashyal 9y agoShameless plug: http://aiphotosearch.com http://aiphotosearch.com
- reillyse 9y agoIf you want your stock photos to look authentic and high quality check out https://www.twenty20.com/ https://www.twenty20.com/
- amorphid 9y agoFor the occasional quick & dirty search, Google images could work. You can filter for usage rights. Example screenshot... https://imgur.com/a/dZ3VH https://imgur.com/a/dZ3VH I didn't see the usage rights filter on the mobile site, but it showed up when I flipped to the desktop version.
- yatsyk 9y agoI have same question but for not processed images. You can find high quality but highly shopped images on sites like unsplash or low quality not processed images on flickr creative commons search. But it's very hard to find hight quality images without film effects or other filters.
- vachi 9y agoHey @tixocloud, check out https://www.haystack.im https://www.haystack.im Let me know what you think, I am one of the founders.
- tixocloud 9y agoThanks. Will check it out.
- pashariger 9y agohttps://www.haystack.im/ https://www.haystack.im/ is a really great aggregator and search tool.
- arowatbk 9y agoAs a few other folks have pointed out it really depends on what you mean by 'high-end'. The stock photo world is divided in a few different segments: free, microstock, midstock, and premium (as well as commerical and editorial). Starting at the cheaper/low end you have 'free' imagery (some flavor of Creative Commons Zero [cc0] license) that lots of sites listed here offer. The one caution with free (as I think someone else mentioned below) is that the licenses aren't always clear (what you can and can't use it for) and in some cases the attribution / provenance of the image is wrong / unclear. Meaning that what you think you are ok to use, may have actually been appropriated from someone else; and you are potentially infringing on copyright. I haven't spent enough time on the different free sites to see what their policies are regarding provenance, so your mileage may vary. Then you have the microstock stock imagery - images that are in the $1-$5/range. Companies in that realm include folks like Shutterstock, 123RF, Dreamstime, and a slew of others. Shutterstock's public filings says that their per image license is something like $2.25 (or it was when I looked maybe a year or two ago). These images are often the ones that people refer to as 'stock' in that they look like stock. Not all of course, but I am sure you know what I am talking about. Then you have the realm of 'midstock', which is somewhere between (you guessed it) the low end and the highend. There are a lot of players in here, but iStock (from Getty) is probably one of the biggest ones; as well as Adobe's offering (from when they bought a library called Fotolia). This area of the industry is increasingly being carved out as prices either go down down down, or the more unique and premium imagery hold their own. At the high end of the stock world you have what is called the 'premium' stock photography folks - this includes Offset (from Shutterstock), Getty Images, and the new Premium offering from Adobe. Those are the three big players at the top end of the spectrum, and then you have a lot of smaller studios that sell directly to end consumers and also place their imagery with the big three. So in some cases you can find the same imagery across a lot of different providers. My background is a photographer and I have images with a bunch of these more premium folks and looking at my royalty statements the average sale is more in the $110 range/image. Or ~50x the low-end of the market. So it really depends on how much $$ you are looking to spend and whether the quality of the image (beauty in the eye of the beholder and all that) is important to you. The other site (full disclosure, I am one of the founders) to check out is https://haystack.im https://haystack.im that aggregates from a couple dozen different stock agencies all in one place (including several listed here like Stocksy, EyeEm, 500px, Cavan, Maskot, ImageSource, and a science-focused site called SciencePhotoLibrary). You can pick one/several agencies to search at any given time and then we boot you off to them for the final license. So we are more like a premium stock photo search engine than a distributor of the stock itself. Think Kayak not Delta. Hopefully that makes sense. Hit me if you have any stock industry/photography questions. I am at: andrew@haystack.im
- culturalzero 9y agoWill keep this in mind
- jacamat 9y agoUnsplash. Just use Unsplash. :D
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- ktkization 9y agoFor African related photos https://africanstockphoto.com https://africanstockphoto.com
- jacobduchen 9y agohttps://deathtothestockphoto.com/ https://deathtothestockphoto.com/
- akvadrako 9y agohttps://pxhere.com https://pxhere.com Lots of 16+ MP CC0-licensed works and good filtering options.