Hi there. In this video we're gonna look at where  to get free images from and what royalty free images are. Okay, we'll start with the free images. Okay, so, um, good places to go. The best places is probably this one called Free images.com. Okay?

There are lots of stuff in here. Um, you just need to log in  and you can use them commercially,  which is quite cool if I need a picture of a rose. Okay? Um, what you need to do is you need  to ignore these premium ones over here. This is how I guess this site makes its money,  is it shows you some stuff that's half decent  and then goes, what about these ones? Okay, so these are the ones that you're gonna end up paying  for and there's no problem with that.

But if you're looking for free, um, my big tip for using any  of the free sites is obvious. Um, on the site here they say relevancy. Most of them will start with that. You want to go to the one that says most downloaded. I find that will bring the kind of like cream  of the crop to the top. Okay?

The ones that'd be most downloaded. You can see they're all varying sizes. Some, some of them are really big  and some of them are quite small. Like this one here is quite nice. It's already been cut out on white, okay? And yeah, free images.com.

Now another um, cool site to go to is,  this is actually just like a directory for lots of other  of the smaller, um, free images. Okay? Now I know this is a big long link, okay? Up the top here. Uh,  but if you Google, I'll leave a link, um,  in the description somewhere. Okay?

But if you just Google Spotify 22 awesome websites  for stunning free stock images, you'll end up here. And what's really cool about it is they're quite niche. Like some of the sites only have like, they'll,  they'll put up one free image a day,  but some of them are really beautiful,  like I've been looking at this guy's hair, uh,  Greta Graphy, okay? This guy, he's a photographer, Ryan, okay, McGuire. He, he does some real cool stuff  and he allows 'em to be used commercially. Well done, Ryan.

Okay? And, um, yeah, you can go through, there's more kind  of commercial stuff in here, um, with models,  whereas say free images.com often is just kind of like  real kind of standardized stock library. So have a look through that list, okay? And there's lots of different stuff in here,  but free images is the main place in terms of the,  uh, royalty free. Okay? Royalty free doesn't mean free, it just means  that you pay for it once and you get to use it over and over  and they'll range between $20 and $40 us to buy  and then you get to reuse them.

And the three main players, okay? iStock, Shutterstock, and this one here called Adobe Stock,  and they all have a very similar sort  of library doing a similar sort of thing. I'm using Adobe Stock mainly lately  because it ties in so well with the creative cloud  and that's, its probably as biggest perk over the others. They all have slightly kind of different awesome interfaces. And so use the one you like the most. I'm using Adobe stocks to say for our site, right?

I want to put in some designy images, okay? So I just typed in designer, actually let's put in graphic  designer and see what comes up. Okay? And very similar. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna grab inspirational  looking designy things. And what I'm gonna do is  remember earlier on in this tutorial I've made this library  called, or is it the illustrator?

Do I know Dan's portfolio is what I called it? Okay. So I've saved a preview to Dan's portfolio. So if I jump into Illustrator right now,  all right, I forgot to open Illustrator  And I hit this little update button. There we is there, okay? And the nice thing about it is  that I haven't paid for it yet, okay?

You can see it's got the watermark, but it's a nice big copy  and I can start presenting this to my client  and say, these are the images,  this is what I'm thinking about. And give them a kind of a cost for those images as well. And what's really nice is if I start designing this, okay,  and I start adjusting it and cropping it  and changing the colors, what I can do is in here,  I can right click it and just say license image. Okay? And if I've got, you know,  if I've got say a subscription to Adobe Stock, um,  I think you get 10 images a month for something like 20  US something around that. Um, it will just license it and update this thing.

I don't have to kind of relink it  or reimport it or any of that sort of jazz. So it's pretty cool. So what I'm gonna do is for this is I'm gonna go through  and grab some designer images. I'm gonna type in ux,  my favorite word, okay? And I'm gonna say yes, I want that one to be part of it. And you can see there's a buy one,  but there's also just a save preview.

So I'm gonna save that preview. I'm gonna save  that preview, okay? I'm gonna save that one. I'll save you and I'll save you. I'm pretending this is like my portfolio. I've totally not made these things, okay?

I'm just downloading them. Um,  and you'll see in here, hopefully we should get a bunch  of our little images that we can start working with. Awesome. All right. So whether you are using Adobe stock,  there'll be a link on the screen here to go to Adobe Stock. If you've never used it before  and wanna sign up, use my little link.

Why? Because I get a cut from Adobe. It doesn't cost you anything else. Um, but they give me a bit of, uh, a bit of a cut  of your subscription. It's win-win. Yeah, win for me mainly,  but, um, yeah, try Adobe Stock or I stock is really good  and Shutter Stock is another one.

Maybe go and compare those ones  and see which one you want to use. All right, so free images, go to free images.com. And if you want to get royalty free ones that you can buy  and use over and over again for lots of different projects,  go to stock.adobe.com.