Free-to-use Picture Resources for Writers
The vast majority of writers on Substack don’t have the artistic/design skills or resources to find or create a striking cover thumbnail that will attract attention; There’s ‘no difference’ between using stock imagery and images created from prompts in Generative AI For the purposes of this post, I’d like to offer my own rebuttal to this first point1: bullshit. My entire professional career as a creative director has been spent working with archive and visual material within the legal framework of copyright law. I can confidently suggest you don’t have to be an artistic prodigy to illustrate a written post without resorting to GenAI prompting. In no particular order, here are ten (mainly) English-language online resources which cumulatively gives you access to millions of free-to-use images that you can illustrate your Substack Publication, blogs, social media posts, newsletters, TTRPGs, poems, short stories, or whatever else you can think of. Disclaimer: read the fine print before you
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