The content provider announced last week that it was planning to file in Delaware bankruptcy court after its near $4 billion merger with rival Shutterstock collapsed due to British antitrust challe…
Because I love companies selling historical images that should be public domain and than adding their fucking watermark to all images of theirs that appear in search engines. Fuck Getty Images.
I saw someone on YouTube made a image archive of a ton of public domain videos and images that is easy to use like Getty. Don’t remember the title though. Was a cool idea.
Maybe just the ones that won’t sue you for your life’s savings if you accidentally use one of their publicly available images on a random ass website receiving 50 visitors a month will survive. The ones people don’t actively hate.
This exactly. Whats even worse, is that so many stock sites now try to pivot fully to AI. As someone who regularly uses stock images and videos at work this is so annoying. I don’t want a fucking inbetween platform to AI generate some slop. Now more then ever there would be value in a site that gives me 100% real images. Like say if I want to illustrate a video about Peru i want videos that were actually shot there etc…
Soon all stock photo image sites will close and we will just have AI images for everything. Uplifting news?
Because I love companies selling historical images that should be public domain and than adding their fucking watermark to all images of theirs that appear in search engines. Fuck Getty Images.
I saw someone on YouTube made a image archive of a ton of public domain videos and images that is easy to use like Getty. Don’t remember the title though. Was a cool idea.
Well fuck all stock photo companies too then eh?
Cut out the worthless middle man. Hire a photographer.
The “worthless middleman” provides images immediately at a much lower cost then hiring a photographer and a helicopter in another country.
Have any idea what a photographer costs?
No money. What now?
I don’t have all the answers. I just think it’s outrageous to have to pay for a photo of Kurt Cobain. I fucking hate Getty Images.
Haha well yeah, in that case I agree that any photo of him has at this point made the money it’s gonna make and it should be free.
Plenty of open source image sites at this point
That are good and have new stuff for free with no attribution? Example please?
https://pixabay.com/
Maybe just the ones that won’t sue you for your life’s savings if you accidentally use one of their publicly available images on a random ass website receiving 50 visitors a month will survive. The ones people don’t actively hate.
I say we just start using text for everything. No more images. Everything would go so much faster. User Interfaces would be so much cleaner too
This exactly. Whats even worse, is that so many stock sites now try to pivot fully to AI. As someone who regularly uses stock images and videos at work this is so annoying. I don’t want a fucking inbetween platform to AI generate some slop. Now more then ever there would be value in a site that gives me 100% real images. Like say if I want to illustrate a video about Peru i want videos that were actually shot there etc…
I was looking for graphics the other day and the stock images sites I’ve used before were virtually all AI slop. Why would I pay for that?
Slippery slope - straw man argument, nothing in the post you respond to says that.
Unsplash.