When you are promoting a brand, you often need tons of pictures to establish your social media posts, website articles, newsletters, and so on. As a designer, you also need to find high quality, suitable and CC-licensed (non-copyrighted) photos on the Internet to synthesize your media products. Today, iBorn Media will introduce several popular resource websites with CC-licensed free photos/illustrations, which assist you in media creation without using Ps or Ai.
Why download from these galleries? What is a CC license?
Before introducing the free resource platforms, do you really understand the benefits of CC licensed photos? The so-called CC license (Creative Commons license) is a public copyright. Works that comply with the CC license can be used for commercial or personal purposes, and can be modified or shared without permission. Of course, there are different types of CC licenses on the Internet. Before downloading these images, remember to pay attention to the guidelines established by the authors/platforms.
Free stock photos recommendation
Unsplash provides more than one million high-quality, free photos. After free registration, users can search for images based on the Hashtag at the top of the website. When downloading desired photos, Unsplash also provides different photo sizes for you to choose from. If you encounter materials you like, you can add them to your collection. The process is similar to what you would encounter on Pinterest. Since the photos on Unsplash are provided by professional photographers, the standard is relatively high in composition, quality and resolution. In addition, since Unsplash is an english website, searching keywords in english could offer you more results.
2. Freepik
Freepik offers vector graphics and illustrations. Users can download a large amount of free materials without registering any account; some resources provide PSD files, so that you can freely adjust the color, size and combination. Whether you are looking for icons, product mock ups or poster templates, you can find pretty well-quality materials on Freepik.
3. Pexels
Pexels Plguin
Pexels and Unsplash are the same type of free stock photo platforms, with a large number of high-quality photos provided by photographers. It is worth mentioning that Pexels has its Chinese search interface, as well as external plug-ins for application, Chrome, Figma, Photoshop and other software, which allow you to directly search for related stock materials in your browser or software.
