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Bruno Joseph

Pexels 3.0 - Best free stock photos in one place

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Pexels is a search engine for free stock photos you can use today. This should be your go-to destination when searching for a photo for your next project, or anything.

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Jack Smith
there seem to have been lots and lots of stock photo websites posted to product hunt. does any one have any insights as to how they compare?
Ingo Joseph
Maker
@_jacksmith Compared to other free stock photo providers Pexels has a huge and a fast growing library with only high-quality pictures. Moreover, we have a powerful search and we’re constantly improving Pexels.
Scrivs
@_jacksmith To be honest they are all starting to have the exact same photos. Hitting up aggregators like allthefreestock.com always seems to be my course of action.
Cody
@scrivs I agree @_jacksmith They all seem to have the same images at this point.
Elia Morling
@_jacksmith I like to be open minded, loving and caring. However, why the heck do we have a new photo aggregation site at the top on PH every week? Can someone please explain?
Ross Currie
@_jacksmith I've used a few. Pexels is user friendly and has a good selection. Licensing details are very clear and easy to find. They're also not pushing the premium photos in your face like some of the other free stock aggregators
Bruno Joseph
Maker
We just launched the third version of Pexels. With this version we want to make it even easier to find completely free stock photos. What has changed since the last version? - You can like photos to save them for later and to motivate the photographer - We now add 20 new images per day (twice as many as before) - You can upload your own photos to Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/submit-ph... - A new discover page (https://www.pexels.com/discover/) - API (https://www.pexels.com/api/) - Many design improvements (new header, larger preview images, beautiful new photo details, …) We hope you like the changes. If you have any question about Pexels I'll be more than happy to answer them.
Joshua Dance
@3runjo Any plans to allow image tagging?
Sam Schooler
@joshdance @3runjo I think they already have tagging in the sense that I'm thinking of. When you upload right under the picture there is a form for tags.
Siddharth Gupta
@joshdance @3runjo just about to say this. Pexels is by far the best resource for free images, but I find that the in-built tagging categories are too broad.
Steven Lam
@3runjo If your stock photos are free. How can Pixel be sustainable as a business model? Will Pixel indemnify all of these free stock images being offered on your platform?
Pedro Wunderlich
@3runjo In my opinion, the best free stock photos website of the bunch. Great interface, phenomenal selection. Congrats on the launch!
Gabriel Reynard
Pexel is one of the best sources for high quality stocks. This new version makes it easier to find and download images.
Bruno Martins
I've tried a lot of different free stock photos websites and Pexels as been my number one go to source for my needs. Great work on the update guys!
Pedro Wunderlich
@bruno_mart Same here. It's just awesome.
Diego Iglesias
awesome work, best free stock image site no doubts
Matt Hagner
Pexels has definitely been the most user friendly stock photo website I've used. Glad to see they are still working at it and making improvements.
Nikola Novakovic
I love Pexels. Found a few sweet wallpapers for my mac :)
Daniel Pichel
I love it! Great stuff @3runjo
Adam Cochran
First let me say that Pexels is awesome. Second, and perhaps more importantly - thank you for all the work you've done on it. I've been using Pexels for quite some time and at the end of the day there is simply no other source of high quality cc0 pictures that compares. No questions here, just wanted to make sure you got the appreciation you deserve for this kickass site.
Ingo Joseph
Maker
@adamscochran Thanks a lot!
Ed DeCaria
I've spent a ton of time on stock photo sites recently and Pexels is a clear #1, in my opinion. Easy search functionality, fast browse/load, great quality, clear terms, etc. And video.pexels.com is a hidden treasure. If you search PH for stock photo sources it is true that you will find a bunch of listings, many with 100+ upvotes, but having spent time on nearly all of those listed I'd say save yourself some time and just use Pexels (especially because, as has been pointed out, there is a lot of overlap in terms of the photos themselves). FWIW, others that I've had some success with are stocksnap.io, jaymantri.com, and unsplash.com.
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