Where to get Free photos for Canva

Hello. In this video we're going to look at where  to get free images that you can use as part of your business  for your client, for your class project,  for your teaching resources that don't get you into trouble  and that don't cost any money. Main two places is Unsplash and pixels. Let's dive in. Let's have a look. Um, I'm gonna go into elements.

I'm gonna go down to photos. And let's say that instead of camping,  you got a tattoo studio from your random project generator. We know that crown is paid and no crown is free,  but commercially usable. Where did they come from? Uh, let's look at tattoo. Let's go to the little dotted lines.

This one here. Okay. Come from a site called paxels. Very common for people to use images that came from Paxels. Okay? It was shot by Brett.

Brett Sales Sailes. Anyway, Brett decided  to share his photograph on Paxels, okay? For free for people to use  and give people the rights to use them. Okay? So Pexels is a great place. Let's have a look at one of these paid ones.

Let's have a look at this one. This one's come  from Getty Images. Getty Images have licensed this for Canva, okay? And as part of your paid pro account, which is Little Crown,  they'll let you use it, but you actually have to pay for it. Money is exchanged hands between Canva  and your subscription and Getty Images. Getty images are great images.

They're royalty free,  so you don't have to keep paying for them. You don't have to pay for them once. And by paying for them, it just means like paying  for your pro accounts all wrapped up in there. You don't have to pay for them separately. So PS is a good place. Let's have a look.

Often it can be easier just to go straight to pixels  to search your images because the problem  with the free account in Canva is that it doesn't allow you  to filter by paid and free. When you get a paid account,  you can weirdly, okay, they might change that. Have a look If you're in the free account. If you are in the free account, it's easy just to go  to pixels.com, okay? Or Unsplash. Some of them crossover  between them, some of them are different.

I use both of these places. They just have a different curation of images. You'll find some that are on Unsplash  and some that are on pixels. There is probably 20 other good places  to get free images from. I know these two, so that's why I'm sharing them. I like it in here.

Tattoo. Okay? And you will find every image in here will be free. Unless sometimes like this one here, that's an ad, okay? For a company called Ice Stock, who will sell you images,  they're not very expensive, okay? And there's my tattoo ones.

You need to go and double check the licensing,  but you'll find everything on pixels. That's not clearly an ad is free to use. Okay? And Unsplash has lots of free stuff. I type in tattoo. The only thing you need to be careful, not be careful of,  you should potentially pay for images.

You know, photographers are taking their time. There are images that just can't be got,  but sometimes we need free images. So you see this little plus one here. Anything that is plus is something you need to pay for. They're very inexpensive, okay? Whereas this one is not okay,  doesn't have the little plus next to it.

So just have a look around. Free, free, free,  free, not free. And you'll find the ones that have like a really  serious composition. Like man, the lights, the golden hour. It's every likelihood that this tattoo artist is not  actually doing any tattooing. They've just been set up for  this composition to get something  Really, really interesting.

One  of the handy things for both  of these sites is orientation. You can say, I want portrait stuff. If you're working primarily on social media,  it's really handy to have this kind  of like vertical format, okay? Or portrait to get started, rather than trying  to do some weird cropping later on. Alright? Those are two really good places.

Unsplash pixels, if you've got one that you're like, oh,  I can't believe you didn't talk about X, okay,  not X the Twitter, but another website that you really like,  leave it in the comments and other people will see. Oh, one last thing is, let's say you do find this one. You're like, oh, this is cool. If I click on it, okay,  you go inside of it, I can download it for free. This, you can download a small version or a big one  or original size. Sometimes these things can get massive, okay?

They can be really big. So you might get one  that's appropriately sized up to you. Okay? I know that my Instagram post is,  I think an Instagram post is uh, 10 80 by 10 80. Okay? So 1080 wide by 1080 high.

So I could use this, but I have fomo,  so I end up getting the big one anyway,  just squeezing it into my Instagram post anyway. Alright, that's it. Let's how to get free images  for your Canva project.