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best site to obtain public domain images
Pixabay seems to be one of the best sites to obtain high-quality images that can be used freely. https://pixabay.com/en/editors_choice/ I've noticed that they only accept images starting at something like 6 MP (at least 3000 pixels in width). Is it likely they will bump that lower limit even more in the future? Surely people are not going to print these pictures to fill up entire walls? I'd reckon 2 or 3 megapixel images should still be fairly useful for many purposes if they are good pictures. Thinking in particular of finding images useful to create digital collages: https://i.imgur.com/GiJFTRw.jpg |
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 14:57:17 -0800 (PST), sobriquet wrote:
Pixabay seems to be one of the best sites to obtain high-quality images that can be used freely. Hi sobriquet, I remember you from the mobile phone newsgroup. You're an adult, so it's worth spending effort with you. I first admit I know nothing about the topic. So others with EXPERIENCE will come in, I'm sure, to help you. Meanwhile, I did a bit of googling to wee which come out on top in reviews. o 17 Sites for Finding Free Public Domain Images o https://www.webfx.com/blog/web-design/sites-public-domain-images/ 1. PublicDomainArchive 2. Pixabay 3. The Public Domain Review 4. Unsplash 5. New Old Stock 6. My Public Domain Pictures 7. PDPics 8. Picdrome 9. Public Domain Photos 10. Good Free Photos 11. Flickr: The Commons 12. Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Category 13. Little Visuals 14. Phototeria 15. The Public Domain 16. Gratisography 17. Viintage.com Let's see if there's a Venn Diagram overlap in the next set. o 7 Best Sites to Get Free Public Domain Photos o https://brandongaille.com/7-best-sites-to-get-free-public-domain-photos/ 1. SplitShire 2. Gratisography 3. Snapographic 4. New Old Stock 5. Unsplash 6. Life of Pix 7. Picjumbo Well there. That's not a lot of overlap. Moving on... o 31 free public domain image websites (use with care) o https://99designs.com/blog/resources/public-domain-image-resources/ Let's take just the top dozen in the list 1. Wikimedia Commons 2. Unsplash 3. Flickr Commons 4. Public Domain Pictures 5. Magdeleine 6. Old Book Illustrations 7. ISO Republic 8. Public Domain Vectors 9. 1 Million Free Pictures 10. Free Stock Photos 11. Jay Mantri 12. Realistic Shots (I skipped the rest.) Still, not a whole lot of overlap - which isn't a good thing. This list is _exactly_ the same as that above: o Top 35 Free Public Domain Image Websites https://www.designhill.com/design-blog/top-free-public-domain-image-websites/ Let's try this one: o Where to download free stock photos and public domain images o https://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/where-to-download-public-domain-images/ I just skimmed these articles to see which come out on top the most: 1. Creative Commons 2. Every Stock Photo 3. Wikimedia Commons 4. Flickr (huh?) 5. IM Free 6. Unsplash 7. Dreamstime 8. Death to Stock Photos 9. NASA 10. Pexels Well, some of those are topic specific. Moving on, let's try to see if we can get overlap consensus. o 65+ Sites To Find Awe-Inspiring Public Domain Images & Clipart For Your Blog + Social Media Posts For FREE] http://shaebaxter.com/public-domain-images/ 1. Pond5 - The Public Domain Project 2. Pixabay 3. Flickr Commons 4. Unsplash 5. PublicDomainPictures.net 6. Free Stock Photos 7. Photos Public Domain 8. PDPICS.com 9. StockSnap.io 10. Phototeria 11. New Old Stock 12. Gratisography (I skipped the rest.) Well, what comes up the most? Shows up five times: Unsplash Shows up four times: Flickr Commons Shows up three times: Gratisography New Old Stock Wikimedia Commons Shows up twice: Free Stock Photos PDPics Phototeria Pixabay Public Domain Pictures Shows up just once: 1 Million Free Pictures Creative Commons Death to Stock Photos Dreamstime Every Stock Photo IM Free ISO Republic Jay Mantri Life of Pix Little Visuals Magdeleine My Public Domain Pictures NASA Old Book Illustrations Pexels Photos Public Domain Picdrome Picjumbo Pond5 - The Public Domain Project Public Domain Photos Public Domain Vectors PublicDomainArchive Realistic Shots Snapographic SplitShire StockSnap.io The Public Domain The Public Domain Review Viintage.com (Note: They may show up more depending on how they spell them.) Given that, the FIRST HALF DOZEN I'd consider checking out might be: 1. Unsplash 2. Flickr Commons 3. Gratisography 4. New Old Stock 5. Wikimedia Commons 6. Free Stock Photos NOTE: That wasn't scientific; it was just a quick skim & then a sort. (I was _only_ seeking Venn Diagram overlap!) Sometimes that works if a clear winner exists. Often it fails if there is no clear winner. https://pixabay.com/en/editors_choice/ This site, Pixabay, did come up high in the list of some. Good luck. Please let us know what you learn from the effort so that every thread benefits everyone. Thanks! |
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On Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 6:09:21 AM UTC+1, arlen holder wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 14:57:17 -0800 (PST), sobriquet wrote: Pixabay seems to be one of the best sites to obtain high-quality images that can be used freely. Hi sobriquet, I remember you from the mobile phone newsgroup. You're an adult, so it's worth spending effort with you. I first admit I know nothing about the topic. So others with EXPERIENCE will come in, I'm sure, to help you. Meanwhile, I did a bit of googling to wee which come out on top in reviews. o 17 Sites for Finding Free Public Domain Images o https://www.webfx.com/blog/web-design/sites-public-domain-images/ 1. PublicDomainArchive 2. Pixabay 3. The Public Domain Review 4. Unsplash 5. New Old Stock 6. My Public Domain Pictures 7. PDPics 8. Picdrome 9. Public Domain Photos 10. Good Free Photos 11. Flickr: The Commons 12. Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Category 13. Little Visuals 14. Phototeria 15. The Public Domain 16. Gratisography 17. Viintage.com Let's see if there's a Venn Diagram overlap in the next set. o 7 Best Sites to Get Free Public Domain Photos o https://brandongaille.com/7-best-sites-to-get-free-public-domain-photos/ 1. SplitShire 2. Gratisography 3. Snapographic 4. New Old Stock 5. Unsplash 6. Life of Pix 7. Picjumbo Well there. That's not a lot of overlap. Moving on... o 31 free public domain image websites (use with care) o https://99designs.com/blog/resources/public-domain-image-resources/ Let's take just the top dozen in the list 1. Wikimedia Commons 2. Unsplash 3. Flickr Commons 4. Public Domain Pictures 5. Magdeleine 6. Old Book Illustrations 7. ISO Republic 8. Public Domain Vectors 9. 1 Million Free Pictures 10. Free Stock Photos 11. Jay Mantri 12. Realistic Shots (I skipped the rest.) Still, not a whole lot of overlap - which isn't a good thing. This list is _exactly_ the same as that above: o Top 35 Free Public Domain Image Websites https://www.designhill.com/design-blog/top-free-public-domain-image-websites/ Let's try this one: o Where to download free stock photos and public domain images o https://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/where-to-download-public-domain-images/ I just skimmed these articles to see which come out on top the most: 1. Creative Commons 2. Every Stock Photo 3. Wikimedia Commons 4. Flickr (huh?) 5. IM Free 6. Unsplash 7. Dreamstime 8. Death to Stock Photos 9. NASA 10. Pexels Well, some of those are topic specific. Moving on, let's try to see if we can get overlap consensus. o 65+ Sites To Find Awe-Inspiring Public Domain Images & Clipart For Your Blog + Social Media Posts For FREE] http://shaebaxter.com/public-domain-images/ 1. Pond5 - The Public Domain Project 2. Pixabay 3. Flickr Commons 4. Unsplash 5. PublicDomainPictures.net 6. Free Stock Photos 7. Photos Public Domain 8. PDPICS.com 9. StockSnap.io 10. Phototeria 11. New Old Stock 12. Gratisography (I skipped the rest.) Well, what comes up the most? Shows up five times: Unsplash Shows up four times: Flickr Commons Shows up three times: Gratisography New Old Stock Wikimedia Commons Shows up twice: Free Stock Photos PDPics Phototeria Pixabay Public Domain Pictures Shows up just once: 1 Million Free Pictures Creative Commons Death to Stock Photos Dreamstime Every Stock Photo IM Free ISO Republic Jay Mantri Life of Pix Little Visuals Magdeleine My Public Domain Pictures NASA Old Book Illustrations Pexels Photos Public Domain Picdrome Picjumbo Pond5 - The Public Domain Project Public Domain Photos Public Domain Vectors PublicDomainArchive Realistic Shots Snapographic SplitShire StockSnap.io The Public Domain The Public Domain Review Viintage.com (Note: They may show up more depending on how they spell them.) Given that, the FIRST HALF DOZEN I'd consider checking out might be: 1. Unsplash 2. Flickr Commons 3. Gratisography 4. New Old Stock 5. Wikimedia Commons 6. Free Stock Photos NOTE: That wasn't scientific; it was just a quick skim & then a sort. (I was _only_ seeking Venn Diagram overlap!) Sometimes that works if a clear winner exists. Often it fails if there is no clear winner. https://pixabay.com/en/editors_choice/ This site, Pixabay, did come up high in the list of some. Good luck. Please let us know what you learn from the effort so that every thread benefits everyone. Thanks! Yes, unsplash also seems pretty good. Some sites like flickr commons seem to be targeted mostly at graphic and historic work. At least, that's the impression I get from running a typical search for something like "pattern texture" https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=...s_commons=true Other sites like pixabay and unsplash yield a more varied and expected result searching for those same terms: https://unsplash.com/search/photos/pattern-texture https://pixabay.com/en/photos/pattern%20texture/ It seems that many of those public domain photo sites look like clones of each other and you can often find the same pics on multiple sites. |
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:57:17 -0000, sobriquet wrote:
Pixabay seems to be one of the best sites to obtain high-quality images that can be used freely. https://pixabay.com/en/editors_choice/ I've noticed that they only accept images starting at something like 6 MP (at least 3000 pixels in width). Is it likely they will bump that lower limit even more in the future? Surely people are not going to print these pictures to fill up entire walls? I'd reckon 2 or 3 megapixel images should still be fairly useful for many purposes if they are good pictures. Thinking in particular of finding images useful to create digital collages: https://i.imgur.com/GiJFTRw.jpg I've always use Google image search, which finds stuff from other sites anyway. You can specify what size you need, and select if you want public domain photos or not. There are quite a lot of options in the menu at the top. |
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On Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 3:06:21 PM UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:57:17 -0000, sobriquet wrote: Pixabay seems to be one of the best sites to obtain high-quality images that can be used freely. https://pixabay.com/en/editors_choice/ I've noticed that they only accept images starting at something like 6 MP (at least 3000 pixels in width). Is it likely they will bump that lower limit even more in the future? Surely people are not going to print these pictures to fill up entire walls? I'd reckon 2 or 3 megapixel images should still be fairly useful for many purposes if they are good pictures. Thinking in particular of finding images useful to create digital collages: https://i.imgur.com/GiJFTRw.jpg I've always use Google image search, which finds stuff from other sites anyway. You can specify what size you need, and select if you want public domain photos or not. There are quite a lot of options in the menu at the top. Maybe some sites prevent google from exploring their collection. For instance, pixabay has lots of "sand texture" pictures and they are free to use/adapt. But when I search in google for pictures using those same keywords, no results from pixabay are coming up. Not that google images isn't very useful as well to obtain public domain pictures, I'm just curious what governs the decisions behind the scenes which affect whether or not images show up in the search results. https://pixabay.com/en/photos/sand%20texture/ https://tinyurl.com/yb6kt5tt https://www.google.com/search?q=sand...&bih=599&dpr=1 |
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:30:22 -0000, sobriquet wrote:
On Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 3:06:21 PM UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:57:17 -0000, sobriquet wrote: Pixabay seems to be one of the best sites to obtain high-quality images that can be used freely. https://pixabay.com/en/editors_choice/ I've noticed that they only accept images starting at something like 6 MP (at least 3000 pixels in width). Is it likely they will bump that lower limit even more in the future? Surely people are not going to print these pictures to fill up entire walls? I'd reckon 2 or 3 megapixel images should still be fairly useful for many purposes if they are good pictures. Thinking in particular of finding images useful to create digital collages: https://i.imgur.com/GiJFTRw.jpg I've always use Google image search, which finds stuff from other sites anyway. You can specify what size you need, and select if you want public domain photos or not. There are quite a lot of options in the menu at the top. Maybe some sites prevent google from exploring their collection. For instance, pixabay has lots of "sand texture" pictures and they are free to use/adapt. But when I search in google for pictures using those same keywords, no results from pixabay are coming up. Not that google images isn't very useful as well to obtain public domain pictures, I'm just curious what governs the decisions behind the scenes which affect whether or not images show up in the search results. https://pixabay.com/en/photos/sand%20texture/ https://tinyurl.com/yb6kt5tt https://www.google.com/search?q=sand...&bih=599&dpr=1 Google takes bribes from all over the place. It's why they're so rich. You can pay to get your search results at the top, or to hide them completely. They're also in cahoots with China to censor Tibet. Untrustworthy buggers to say the least. |
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On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 12:07:47 AM UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:30:22 -0000, sobriquet wrote: On Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 3:06:21 PM UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:57:17 -0000, sobriquet wrote: Pixabay seems to be one of the best sites to obtain high-quality images that can be used freely. https://pixabay.com/en/editors_choice/ I've noticed that they only accept images starting at something like 6 MP (at least 3000 pixels in width). Is it likely they will bump that lower limit even more in the future? Surely people are not going to print these pictures to fill up entire walls? I'd reckon 2 or 3 megapixel images should still be fairly useful for many purposes if they are good pictures. Thinking in particular of finding images useful to create digital collages: https://i.imgur.com/GiJFTRw.jpg I've always use Google image search, which finds stuff from other sites anyway. You can specify what size you need, and select if you want public domain photos or not. There are quite a lot of options in the menu at the top. Maybe some sites prevent google from exploring their collection. For instance, pixabay has lots of "sand texture" pictures and they are free to use/adapt. But when I search in google for pictures using those same keywords, no results from pixabay are coming up. Not that google images isn't very useful as well to obtain public domain pictures, I'm just curious what governs the decisions behind the scenes which affect whether or not images show up in the search results. https://pixabay.com/en/photos/sand%20texture/ https://tinyurl.com/yb6kt5tt https://www.google.com/search?q=sand...&bih=599&dpr=1 Google takes bribes from all over the place. It's why they're so rich. You can pay to get your search results at the top, or to hide them completely. They're also in cahoots with China to censor Tibet. Untrustworthy buggers to say the least. One downside of google is that you often get fake search results. The image it shows looks nice with a good resolution, but then when you try to open it, you have to hack your way to actually reach a good resolution version of the image (like using the F12 key in Chrome to reveal a link to the image in the source code of the website after opening the link to the page associated with the image in a new tab). For instance this one, which shows a dodgy preview of an image that supposedly is 3008x2000 resolution: https://i.imgur.com/2r9gyql.png And upon right-clicking to open the image in a new tap, you get to see a crap version at low resolution, where you'd expect to get a high-res version: https://i.imgur.com/s7CzXXi.png |
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On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 5:45:42 PM UTC+1, sobriquet wrote:
On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 12:07:47 AM UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:30:22 -0000, sobriquet wrote: On Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 3:06:21 PM UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:57:17 -0000, sobriquet wrote: Pixabay seems to be one of the best sites to obtain high-quality images that can be used freely. https://pixabay.com/en/editors_choice/ I've noticed that they only accept images starting at something like 6 MP (at least 3000 pixels in width). Is it likely they will bump that lower limit even more in the future? Surely people are not going to print these pictures to fill up entire walls? I'd reckon 2 or 3 megapixel images should still be fairly useful for many purposes if they are good pictures. Thinking in particular of finding images useful to create digital collages: https://i.imgur.com/GiJFTRw.jpg I've always use Google image search, which finds stuff from other sites anyway. You can specify what size you need, and select if you want public domain photos or not. There are quite a lot of options in the menu at the top. Maybe some sites prevent google from exploring their collection. For instance, pixabay has lots of "sand texture" pictures and they are free to use/adapt. But when I search in google for pictures using those same keywords, no results from pixabay are coming up. Not that google images isn't very useful as well to obtain public domain pictures, I'm just curious what governs the decisions behind the scenes which affect whether or not images show up in the search results. https://pixabay.com/en/photos/sand%20texture/ https://tinyurl.com/yb6kt5tt https://www.google.com/search?q=sand...&bih=599&dpr=1 Google takes bribes from all over the place. It's why they're so rich. You can pay to get your search results at the top, or to hide them completely. They're also in cahoots with China to censor Tibet. Untrustworthy buggers to say the least. One downside of google is that you often get fake search results. The image it shows looks nice with a good resolution, but then when you try to open it, you have to hack your way to actually reach a good resolution version of the image (like using the F12 key in Chrome to reveal a link to the image in the source code of the website after opening the link to the page associated with the image in a new tab). For instance this one, which shows a dodgy preview of an image that supposedly is 3008x2000 resolution: https://i.imgur.com/2r9gyql.png And upon right-clicking to open the image in a new tap, you get to see a crap version at low resolution, where you'd expect to get a high-res version: https://i.imgur.com/s7CzXXi.png With the F12 trick you can find the actual high res version: https://get.pxhere.com/photo/sand-wo...ring-74983.jpg But it's a bit of a cumbersome hassle to go through all the extra hoops. https://images2.imgbox.com/eb/27/tH7sfQmR_o.jpg |
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In article sobriquet wrote: Pixabay seems to be one of the best sites to obtain high-quality images that can be used freely. https://pixabay.com/en/editors_choice/ I've noticed that they only accept images starting at something like 6 MP (at least 3000 pixels in width). Is it likely they will bump that lower limit even more in the future? Surely people are not going to print these pictures to fill up entire walls? I'd reckon 2 or 3 megapixel images should still be fairly useful for many purposes if they are good pictures. Thinking in particular of finding images useful to create digital collages: https://i.imgur.com/GiJFTRw.jpg It should be noted that Pixabay has changed their license from CC0 to "Pixabay License" as of January 1, 2019. The really bad things about this is that they are either claiming that this new license applies retroactively to all content uploaded to the site under the CC0 license, or they are claiming that people will just have to take a chance as to whether or not when they download is governed by CC0 or the "Pixabay License" restrictions. Either way, I think that they may have stepped in a legal pile of something stinky. And I know that they have lessened the usefulness of Pixabay to a lot of people. |
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:45:39 -0000, sobriquet wrote:
On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 12:07:47 AM UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:30:22 -0000, sobriquet wrote: On Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 3:06:21 PM UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:57:17 -0000, sobriquet wrote: Pixabay seems to be one of the best sites to obtain high-quality images that can be used freely. https://pixabay.com/en/editors_choice/ I've noticed that they only accept images starting at something like 6 MP (at least 3000 pixels in width). Is it likely they will bump that lower limit even more in the future? Surely people are not going to print these pictures to fill up entire walls? I'd reckon 2 or 3 megapixel images should still be fairly useful for many purposes if they are good pictures. Thinking in particular of finding images useful to create digital collages: https://i.imgur.com/GiJFTRw.jpg I've always use Google image search, which finds stuff from other sites anyway. You can specify what size you need, and select if you want public domain photos or not. There are quite a lot of options in the menu at the top. Maybe some sites prevent google from exploring their collection. For instance, pixabay has lots of "sand texture" pictures and they are free to use/adapt. But when I search in google for pictures using those same keywords, no results from pixabay are coming up. Not that google images isn't very useful as well to obtain public domain pictures, I'm just curious what governs the decisions behind the scenes which affect whether or not images show up in the search results. https://pixabay.com/en/photos/sand%20texture/ https://tinyurl.com/yb6kt5tt https://www.google.com/search?q=sand...&bih=599&dpr=1 Google takes bribes from all over the place. It's why they're so rich. You can pay to get your search results at the top, or to hide them completely. They're also in cahoots with China to censor Tibet. Untrustworthy buggers to say the least. One downside of google is that you often get fake search results. The image it shows looks nice with a good resolution, but then when you try to open it, you have to hack your way to actually reach a good resolution version of the image (like using the F12 key in Chrome to reveal a link to the image in the source code of the website after opening the link to the page associated with the image in a new tab). For instance this one, which shows a dodgy preview of an image that supposedly is 3008x2000 resolution: https://i.imgur.com/2r9gyql.png And upon right-clicking to open the image in a new tap, you get to see a crap version at low resolution, where you'd expect to get a high-res version: https://i.imgur.com/s7CzXXi.png That's the fault of the evil Getty Images. They took Google to court for allowing people to view images on any website. Now a large proportion of the full resolution images are hidden - it used to be that clicking any image showed the full resolution. Most of them you can still right click and save, and you get the large image on your local hard disk, but some don't. Getty images are evil ****ing capitalist *******s, who believe that everyone should pay for their photos. |
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