Seconding 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.
Be 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.
I never realized I could favorite a comment on HN. Thanks!
For anyone wondering how:
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This is probably off topic and will irritate designers around the world. But personally I disable all custom fonts. I have two. Helvatica equivalent and a monospace. Sizing is limited to 8-14 depending on screen resolution
Another reason to block Google Fonts is that it's (yet another) source of tracking data for them, not sure if you can self-host those though. Personally from the sites I've looked at with and without Google Fonts, it's not much of a loss.
I agree why give google everything?
You could try http://brick.im/fonts/
brick fonts is at least a choice..
I have used it and it seems fine..I have yet to expand use of brick fonts but on some sites I see no issues..
nice choice of fonts as well
WHOLLY! Thank you very much. I'll be going through and every one of those. Though judging from the popularity of this thread, probably likely other startups will have the same images as me :)
Hey, yeah its a super good list. As others have pointed out, it really depends on what you wanna do with the picture.
A few of my favorites are Stocksy and Cavan.
On the more user generated side you have eyeem and 500px.
And on the high high end you have getty.
Check out Haystack.im and let me know if its helpful.
Thanks. I'll check it out. I just want to avoid those cheesy, unprofessional stock images - just looks tacky and the people in those images look way too fake when we show our website.
If you let us know a bit more about what you are looking for (two people in a coffee shop ; shark attack ; Williamsburg hipster on a penny farthing) and a budget I can put a gallery together for you....
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.
What do you mean by "high end"? 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.
Note 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!
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 148 ms ] threadBurst https://burst.shopify.com/
Death to the Stock Photo http://join.deathtothestockphoto.com/
New Old Stock http://nos.twnsnd.co/
Superfamous (requires attribution) http://superfamous.com/
Picjumbo http://picjumbo.com/
The Pattern Library http://thepatternlibrary.com/
Gratisography http://www.gratisography.com/
Getrefe http://getrefe.tumblr.com/
IM Free (requires attribution) http://imcreator.com/free
Jay Mantri http://jaymantri.com/
Women of color in tech https://www.flickr.com/photos/wocintechchat/
Public Domain Archive http://publicdomainarchive.com/
Magdeleine http://magdeleine.co/
Foodiesfeed http://foodiesfeed.com
Picography http://picography.co/
Raumrot http://www.raumrot.com/10/
ISO Republic http://isorepublic.com/
Source: https://medium.com/@dustin/stock-photos-that-dont-suck-62ae4...
https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
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
I had no idea and this makes a big difference with my new website.
1) FREE under Creative Commons CC0 - https://pixabay.com/
2) Mix of FREE & Sponsored / Paid - https://unsplash.com/
https://stocksnap.io/
http://www.free-images.cc/
https://unsplash.com/
https://www.pexels.com/
http://librestock.com/
http://skuawk.com/
http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/stock-up
http://finda.photo/
http://foodshot.co/
http://growthtext.com/free-stock-photos/
https://www.stockified.com/
https://www.negativespace.co/
https://everypixel.com/
http://startupstockphotos.com/
https://foodiesfeed.com/
https://picjumbo.com/
https://www.stockio.com/
hope this helps ツ
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.
http://cssicon.space/
https://fontawesome.com/
https://thenounproject.com/
http://ionicons.com/
https://zurb.com/playground/foundation-icon-fonts-3
http://s-ings.com/typicons/
http://fontello.com/
https://useiconic.com/
https://material.io/icons/
https://fonts.google.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.
www.unsplash.com
https://www.eyeem.com/
They talk about their curation algorithms here:
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/understanding-aes...
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!