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Finding images you can use for your website can be tricky because you have to make sure
that you not only find a fitting image but also have the rights to use it.
Here are some great sources for 100% free to use (including for commercial purposes)
images for your site. Please note that policies can change over time, so always double-check
to make sure you have the appropriate rights for any image before publishing it.
1. Pixabay
Pixabay is a great place to search through thousands of images available for commercial use.
You’ll find some high-quality shots for almost any keyword you can think of.
2. Pexels
Pexels is a searchable database of free images, very similar to Pixabay. The collection is
smaller (at the time of this writing), but the quality standard is high.
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3. PicJumbo
Most of the images on PicJumbo are created by the site’s owner. The collection is fairly small,
but all the pictures are very high quality.
4. Unsplash
On unsplash, you’ll find 10 new free pics posted every 10 days. They are usually landscape
photographs often in subdued tones, which makes them good as background images.
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5.Stocksnap
On Stocksnap.io you can find hundreds of photos that are free from copyright restrictions. If
you opt-in, you can get new stock photos send to your inbox immediately.
6. Creative Commons Search
This is a search engine you can use to find images and you can set the filter to only look for
images that have a free, commercial use license. You can use it to find suitable images via
Google, flickr and other sources. Note that the filtering doesn’t always work perfectly and it’s
important to double-check the licenses of anything you find here.
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Free Icons Photographs can be very useful, but depending on what you’re writing about, they aren’t
always ideal. Sometimes, icons and simpler graphics are more useful as illustrations to go
along with text. Here are some of my favourite sources:
7. IcoMoon
IcoMoon lets you pick from dozens of font icon sets (many, but not all of them free to use)
and generate your own custom icon sets that you can use both online and off.
We like IcoMoon so much that we’ve integrated our products with it, so you can use your
custom icon sets directly in Thrive Themes, Thrive Content Builder etc.
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8. FontAwesome
FontAwesome is a hugely popular icon font with icons for almost any purpose you can think
of. You can download it directly, but we recommend simply loading FontAwesome into
IcoMoon and generating your custom sets that way.
9. IconFinder
IconFinder is an icon search engine that you can use to find image icons. It has useful filter
settings that let you search for icons that are free to use for commercial purposes.
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Image Editors What to use when you want to tweak an image or create a custom featured image or social
media image? Here are some free image editors worth checking out:
10. Canva
Canva is perhaps the most user friendly image editor anywhere. It’s super easy to create
images for various purposes and you can even use pre-defined templates for Twitter cover
images, Facebook ad images and many more. Check out this video we made about it.
11. PicMonkey
PicMonkey is an online image editing tool that is a bit more advanced than Canva. On the flip
side, it also has more of a learning curve and is a bit more time consuming to use.
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12.Pixlr
Pixlr is another step up in terms of complexity, offering even more features and options, but
also requiring more learning time.
Fonts Fonts are a very important design element on any web page. Where can you get good fonts?
13. Google Fonts
There are countless sources of fonts online, but there’s no real need to look any further than
Google Fonts, unless you’re a total typography junkie. Fonts are nothing to mess with, so we
always recommend sticking to the more popular and less fancy ones.
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14. FontPair
Combining fonts is tricky. Unless you’re a typography nerd yourself, it’s best to “outsource”
this kind of decision and FontPair is one of the places where you can find pre-created font
pairings that look good.
15. Beautiful Web Type
Another great source of inspiration when it comes to Google Font pairings.
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Design Inspiration Sometimes, the key to good design is to “steal like an artist” and find some great designs,
color combinations and layouts you can use as inspiration for your own site. Here are some
great sources:
16. Note & Point
A showcase of beautifully designed slideshow presentations. Great for creating your own
presentations and also a great source of basic design styles and color combinations.
17. Dribbble
A vast and growing collection of design examples, usually on the cutting edge of what’s cool
right now.
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18. SiteInspire
A pure web design showcase. The designs are all very cool and slick, but be warned: sites
presented in showcases like this are usually too cool for their own good. These are websites
that look great but not websites that convert. Take elements from these designs, but stay
away from copying them overall.
19. Design Seeds
On the Design Seeds website, you’ll find color palettes based on pictures. You can easily copy
the colors or browse the gorgeous website for inspiration and good vibes.
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20. Colourlovers
On this website, you’ll find millions of user generated color palettes. You can browse the
catalogue and see which palettes are most popular. If You find color combinations you like,
you can easily see the HEX codes of all color palettes
21. Adobe Color CC
If you’re looking to find matching colors to a color you like, Adobe Color Wheel got’s you
covered. You can use their color rules to find matching colors or browse the gallery to get
inspiration. If you wish, you can even upload a picture to get the color palette right away.
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Other Here are some other useful links that don’t fit into the categories above:
22. AwesomeScreenshot
AwesomeScreenshot is a very handy browser extension for taking screenshots of websites
and annotating them. Very useful for saving designs you like and communicating with others
about design work.
23. Jing
Jing is also a screen capture tool, but it’s not tied to your browser. So, for any screenshot
outside of the browser, this is the one to use. Also makes it easy to annotate and share
images.
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24. PSD Covers
A huge collection of Photoshop actions you can use to render ebook cover graphics and other
“cover shots” of various formats.
25. VideoHive
VideoHive is a marketplace, so the stuff you find here is not free. However, if you do video work, this is a great place for finding predesigned assets to add a professional touch to your videos (e.g. intro strings, lower thirds etc.).
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Thank You! Thank you for downloading our design resources guide! We hope you find this useful. And
remember: if you want to make sure your sites and landing pages come pre-vetted by design
professionals and conversion experts, Thrive Themes has got you covered.
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