Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?

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Post by aantix » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:37 PM UTC

These guys are using deep learning/convolutional neural networks to train their models to detect beautiful/thoughtful photographic images.

https://www.eyeem.com/

They talk about their curation algorithms here:

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/understanding-aes...

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?

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Post by geetfun » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:40 PM UTC

More to this awesome list. https://swagpix.com

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?

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Post by EGreg » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:42 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #30

whitingx wrote: post #11

http://pixabay.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/ ht…

Great list! Now I'm looking for a similar list for icons. And fonts.

Google Fonts

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:44 PM UTC

ideonexus wrote: post #25

lprubin wrote: post #9

Believe 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/

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.

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Re: Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?

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Post by GoldenHippo » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:47 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #30

whitingx wrote: post #11

http://pixabay.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/ ht…

Great list! Now I'm looking for a similar list for icons. And fonts.

https://resourcecards.com/ is a great resource for literally anything you need :D

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?

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Post by toomuchtodo » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:47 PM UTC

ideonexus wrote: post #25

lprubin wrote: post #9

Believe 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/

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.

Have 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.

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?

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Post by yodon » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:48 PM UTC

lprubin wrote: post #9

Believe 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/

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.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?

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Post by tixocloud » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:48 PM UTC

whitingx wrote: post #11

http://pixabay.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/ ht…

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 :)

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?

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Post by diggum » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:53 PM UTC

http://stock.adobe.com/

Re: Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?

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Post by gnicholas » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 5:59 PM UTC

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!