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Beautiful images of nature and architecture
The pretty pictures and pictures they have always been a fundamental part of a good design, of a good presentation. Unfortunately, we have gotten used to the fact that there are only quality illustrations Y pretty pictures that enact the payment to obtain them, but if we search well through the world of algorithms, the Internet, we can identify different portals and image banks good and beautiful are accessible.
In most of our architecture projects, urban planning, environment or nature will always require a pretty picture, that surprises the observer, but … Where download free images and where can we find free images on the net?
Fortunately, there is a spectacular growth of portals that offer beautiful stock images, quality photos, and best of all, they are free.
In this article, we provide a list of awesome websites where free photos and free for download is possible, assigned with the label creative commons.
Incised about the free images according to license:
Many of these nice pics they are free from copyright restrictions or have been assigned the Creative Commons public domain license. With these assignments that label the illustrations We may copy, modify, distribute and reproduce the work, even for commercial purposes, without asking for permission.
However, we must bear in mind that some photos may require assigning the author attribution, and this is specified when tap. We have made the best possible selection and trying to find, mainly, portals with good quality images that our projects may require beautiful photographs.
Websites with beautiful images of nature and architecture
1.- From Gratisography
From the Gratisography website (Consult from HERE Gatisography) offers high resolution images - they are large and weigh down to download - that can be used in personal and commercial projects. New Awesome photos are added weekly and are free of restrictions, no copyright.
All images are captured by Ryan McGuire of Bells Design, an excellent photographer with high-impact nature images.
Also, an important issue is we can optimize images in photo quality, it is not always easy and, for that, we have created an extensive article on how to increase the quality of photos quickly.
2.- Unsplash
The Unsplash portal (Check Unsplash from HERE), possibly one of the best repositories of image download that we can find on the net. Infinity of designers use this portal in order to download the best photo.
Normally 10 new photos are released, every 10 days, and surprisingly or by natural altruism they are under the license Creative Commons Zero which means that they can be copied, modified, distributed and used even for commercial purposes, without asking permission or providing attribution to the photographer or Unsplash.
3.- Superfamous Studios
It's a Los Angeles studio of Dutch interaction designer Folkert Gorter (Consult from HERE Superfamous Studios). You can use the work for your own projects - including the Commercial use - at the time credits are due. Includes various collections of aerial photography of beautiful nature, biology, geology, and more much more.
As data, from WWF we can see beautiful photos and find the splendor of wild and forceful nature from here.
4.- Splitshire
Splitshire is a collection of Photographs Intimate and with a "delicatessen" touch (Consult from HERE). Free photos signed by digital designer Daniel Nanescu. They are for personal and commercial use.
5.- Little Visuals
If you subscribe to Little Visuals (Check from HERE Little), then you receive seven illustrations every day, or so they pretend from a portal they offer high quality images. Photos are published under license Creative Commons in the public domain so that we can enjoy and use them in our daily work.
6.- Death to Stock Photos
We could translate the title as "The Death of Archival Photos" that you can check from HERE. Every month, a 10-pack of photos you can have in your inbox if you wish. The goal is to offer a great variety of pretty pictures to use for any architecture and urban planning project.
Free photos for #architecture and #urbanism projects with extreme quality!
7.- Life of Pix
Pretty photos with a high resolution and without copyright restrictions. on the Life of Pix website that you can check from HERE. Every week they are adding for portal users, so we make sure to see new photo collections to be able to use freely and at any time.
8.- Snapographic
All photos on the website are captured by Thomas Mühl that you can consult the beautiful photos from HERE and they are free of restrictions of copyright. We can also get all of the current photos for a $ 15.00 donation.
It has a section of images of interesting textures and another of beautiful nature images, undoubtedly a photography rig that we should review thoroughly.
Since we have an image of a texture, you should see our article on how to make visual textures for 3D quickly, free and with many good applications.
9.- Architecture wallpapers
Always, we have to have a good collection of free resources on photography for the order screen, although there are many libraries, of few we can download a free wallpaper. We have to go to Wallpapershome to be able to enjoy an extensive catalog and without the need to register.
They are images of HD and ultra HD quality wallpapers that are amazing. To enjoy the best wallpapers for architecture…
10.- Snapwire Snaps
Receive 7 free photos every 7 days. The photos are in the public domain and free of restrictions as to copyright and you can see photos from HERE. It has some beautiful nature illustrations, so we think we understand that it is a good contribution to our photo catalog this repository that undoubtedly gives us nature images surprising. (As data, we can see the winners Geographic Photo Contest HERE)
11.- New Old Stock
In this case, we enter the world of old photograph, from vintage photos free of copyright restrictions that we can consult from New Old Stock.
To lose ourselves in looking for more images about nature and architecture, obviously many of you will think that there are a million sites and, indeed, it is so. What we want with the previous contribution is to show the portals that we liked the most. Now, we will show otherphoto portals where we can download them freely.
Image banks to search like crazy:
- Wikimedia Commons
- Stock.XCHNG
- MorgueFile
- Flickr / Creative Commons
- CC Search
- POT
- Public Domain Sherpa
- Free Digital Photos
- Free Images UK
- Images Philippines
Trick how to search for images:
Sometimes we wonder how to download pretty images?… The royalty free photos they are not always easy to access if we are looking for quality. From Google, who are always very smart, they have a portal exclusively for images that we can see HERE how it works. Where through this search engine we can, as an example, drag an image or URL that we have seen somewhere on the Internet and we search for the websites that contain it or "similar" images.
Another option is through the "typical" Google search engine. We search for the word we want to recognize to find an image, and we willImages> Tools> Rights of use… We already have what we want (The example from HERE) As you can identify in the following image, we will select the tab that we want according to the "Right of use":
Since we are talking about Google we want to inform about the new advances that are taking place in the field of Street View where users can already contribute their images in a community, from Street view to Google Maps you can learn about the new applications that surround a very useful tool. Useful.
At the end of the article, let's remember the post «Timelapse architecture and cities« where 17 Timelapse surprise us with their images of cities, of spaces that enhance the observer's imagination.
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