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Amanojorge's avatar

The Netherlands Rijksmuseum also has a huge collection of high resolution works of art (840,302 according to the website): https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

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Lis Soderberg's avatar

Thank you!!

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Wordy Ramblings's avatar

THANK YOU SO MUCH OMG NOW I DONT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PLAGARIZING TO MAKE MY THUMNAILS

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C M Reid's avatar

You’re most welcome!

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Julianna | Earth Listening's avatar

As an artist, thank you. Pixabay and pexels are both free resources- also you could hire an artist (like myself! Who will likely do something quick but sincere! 😁

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Alexandra Wendt's avatar

Thank you for this!! It really is easy to use non-AI images that don't have copyright restrictions... I love Public Work by Cosmos; my husband found it a while ago when I was looking for architecture images to use. It's so cool!

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C M Reid's avatar

I love the way the 360 degree scroll works on it!

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Dyverse Musings's avatar

Add https://pixabay.com/ to the list of quality free images. When you download an image you can thank the artist, give credit for use or even donate.

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Max Reidly's avatar

This is exactly what I was searched today! Great article!

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Evan Maxwell's avatar

News I can use….thx.

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Lou Savoir's avatar

Thank you this is great

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Vanessa Couto's avatar

Thank you so much for sharing these links! So appreciate this! You rock!

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M. D. Robertson's avatar

Shouldn't Wikimedia Commons be on that list?

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

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C M Reid's avatar

Yes it 100% should! Since publishing this post I've stumbled over so many more websites, I'm collecting them up at the moment and planning a second article to include them all. Wiki commons will be on there.

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Lotta's avatar

This is so important! Thanks for making the easy choice of supporting artists over AI even easier :)

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Dreamhorse's avatar

fantastic, thank you so much

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psyduck's avatar

thank you for this! I am collage artist and I run out of material to cut and the closest half prize books to me is 40 minutes away!

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Jason R Ward's avatar

This is really helpful, thanks. I also write on Medium and have two websites and occasionally - not often - use AI images as they are easy. The downside of your list is that I suspect I will now spend a few hours browsing fascinating images and not doing any work. (Looking forward to it though.)

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C M Reid's avatar

Haha! I wouldn't say downside. I tend to browse these sites instead of doom-scrolling on social media so it's a win-win for me!

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Issa's avatar

Thank you!!!

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Benjamin's avatar

Incredible

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