Where to find pictures worth keeping.

The places people who make things look, grouped by what you make, with the gesture that brings each picture into your library.

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In your browser. Option-click any image (free extension). It keeps the address of the page it came from.

9 browsers, and where to get the extension

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Anywhere on your screen. When a site will not let you save, capture the area you want.

Open the picture on its own page first. Grids show small versions, and Option-click keeps the size the page shows you.

To look at.

References: other people's work, kept for yourself the way you keep a folder of screenshots. The pictures belong to their authors; ask before you publish one.

Product and UX screensFor product designers, UX and product managers

Refero
Screens and flows from web and iOS products. Open a screen for its full-size picture.

Free to look; most of the library is paid.
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Page Flows
Recorded user flows from mobile and web apps, as a video and step screenshots.

Paid, with a short trial; the first steps of each flow are open.
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Mobbin
Screens, flows and animations from iOS, Android and web apps.

Account needed to browse; the free plan is limited.
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Websites and landing pagesFor marketing, founders and front-end developers

Land-book
Website designs, sections and motion. A site's own page holds the full-page screenshot.

Free to browse; search is limited without Pro.
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Recent
A daily selection of websites, launch videos and app screens, from the team behind Godly.

Free.
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Awwwards
Websites given awards, with the jury's scores.

Free to browse.
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A curated showcase of websites, by style and type.

Free.
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Art direction, graphic design and typeFor art directors, graphic designers and anyone who builds a mood

Cosmos
Spaces of images and videos gathered by designers. Open an element for its full size.

Free.
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Are.na
Channels of images, links and notes that people gather around an idea.

Free to browse.
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Typography in the world, each use credited with its typefaces.

Free.
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Boards of images and videos saved by designers.

Account needed to browse; there is a free plan.
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To use.

Pictures whose licence lets you use them in your own work. Each licence is the source's own; read it once, it is short.

Free photosFor mockups, slides and your own pages

Unsplash ⌥click

Free photos. Those marked Unsplash+ are paid and stay outside the free licence.

Unsplash License: free to use, commercial use included

Modern white corridor, Amanda Marie, 2017-07-14
Pexels ⌥click

Free photos and videos.

Pexels License: free to use, no attribution required · not for resale as is

Open archivesFor pictures no one else in your field uses

NASA Image and Video Library ⌥click

Photos and videos from NASA's missions.

Generally not under copyright in the US; logos and any sign of NASA's endorsement excluded

Fog Bank, Namib Desert, Namibia, Africa, NASA (STS-44, Johnson Space Center), 1991-12-01
Wikimedia Commons ⌥click

Freely licensed photos, scans and illustrations.

A licence per file, often asking for attribution

A Specimen by William Caslon, William Caslon, circa 1734
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Themed sets of historical photographs, prints and posters.

Free to use and reuse

Photography exhibition, Anthony Velonis, Federal Art Project, [1941]

Then find any of them again by describing it.

Download for MacSend to my Mac

14-day free trial, then $29 once · Apple silicon, macOS 12+

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