Startup Resources: Photos and Graphics

Images, photos, graphics, clip art, icons, and image editors you can use in your startup. See the "Idea, Design, MVP" chapter in Part I, Products for more info.

  1. Free Stock Photography
  2. Paid Stock Photography
  3. Free Clip Art and Icons
  4. Image Editors

These startup resources are based on the book Hello, Startup: A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams by Yevgeniy Brikman. These resources are a work in a progress. They are also open source, so you can add your contributions by submitting a pull request to the Hello, Startup GitHub Repository. To see how these resources fit into the bigger picture, check out the The Startup Checklist, which is a comprehensive collection of everything you need to do to launch a startup.

Free Stock Photography

splashbase

http://www.splashbase.co/

Find free, public domain, hi res photos


Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.


Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/

Use the advanced search feature and select Creative Commons


Unsplash

https://unsplash.com/

Free High-Resolution Photos


picjumbo

http://picjumbo.com/

Totally free photos for your commercial & personal works


Little Visuals

http://littlevisuals.co/

Sign up to get 7 hi-res images zipped up in your inbox every 7 days.


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Gratisography

http://www.gratisography.com/

Free, use as you please, high-resolution pictures




New Old Stock

http://nos.twnsnd.co/

Vintage photos from the public archives free of known copyright restrictions.


StockSnap.io

https://stocksnap.io/

Beautiful Free Stock Photos



Superfamous

http://superfamous.com/

CC Attribution 3.0 license photos



IM Free

http://www.imcreator.com/free

A curated collection of free resources, all for commercial use.



Free Clip Art and Icons

Font Awesome, the iconic font and CSS toolkit

http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/

Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized — size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS.


glyphicons

http://glyphicons.com/

GLYPHICONS is a library of precisely prepared monochromatic icons and symbols, created with an emphasis on simplicity and easy orientation.








Image Editors

Adobe Photoshop

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopfamily.html

The most famous image editor in the world. Very powerful, but expensive.


GIMP

http://www.gimp.org/

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.


Paint.net

http://www.getpaint.net/

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows.


Pixlr

https://pixlr.com/

An online, in-browser photo editor


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SumoPaint

http://www.sumopaint.com/home/

Sumo Paint is an online image editor, without need to install anything to your device. It's the most versatile photo editor and painting application that works in a browser.