If you follow the training blog here, then you have almost assuredly heard of Unsplash.com. It is a free stock photography website that offers unbelievably flexible rights to the images.
To sum their rights up – you can do just about anything you want with their images – full commercial rights included. About the only thing you can’t do is copy the images to start up an Unsplash clone.
From their own words…
All photos published on Unsplash can be used for free. You can use them for commercial and noncommercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated when possible.
More precisely, Unsplash grants you a nonexclusive copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash. This license does not include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service.
One of the limitations of the website is that the pictures aren’t organized that well. You can search for certain images, and that works well enough, but this requires the photo uploader to tag images properly. That doesn’t always happen…
Unsplash does offer user created “Collections”. These are often decent, but sometimes the images don’t relate to the collection titles at all.
As a courtesy to our readers (and members) I have been creating self-help based photo collections. Each collection is based on a different self-help topic.
We have currently compiled 100s of high-quality pictures across 34 different topics. …And there are more to come!
A few examples:
*These collections will be regularly updated, tweaked and added to. You can bookmark the link above, or if you have an Unsplash.com account you can follow us there.