Find & Source Images

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Hi there. This is Jason from Grow My Business and today I wanna show you um, how to source good media for your website. Um, so we’ve started off here on Unsplash, but before going into that, there’s a couple things to note. The main one being copyright.

You want to, don’t wanna just Google things and Google images and save them. Um, you will probably be fine, but you also don’t wanna get ped if you’re using someone else’s content. So you always wanna make sure you’re using royalty free or you are paying for the content you’re using.

So we’ll start off here, Unsplash, this is all royalty free, so that means you can use it wherever you want, however you want. That just great images taken by very talented people that they’ve uploaded it’s, and then some of ’em is unpled plus they’ve released it recently.

So obviously though they wanted to give the people that’re taking these photos, a little bit of money for their efforts. Fair enough. So some of the photos will be unpled plus, um, and that means you’ll have to pay for them, but there’s still amazing tons of great photos here.

So, um, so this is just the front page. So you can see we’ve got mainly artsy stuff, little bit of Halloween stuff. It is October. So, um, a lot of unpled plus stuff they like to show a lot, but since the start off is a free platform, there’s still thousands and thousands and thousands. So good one New Zealand. So you can see we’ve got all these lovely mainly landscape photos.

So you can just go through here, find whatever you want and you can just download it. Easy as that. And um, yeah, that’s pretty much it. Tons of great content here, but you know, it is free and for that you do lose a little bit of specif specificity said that completely, terribly, but you get my point, sometimes you can’t quite find exactly what you’re looking for.

It’s great for landscape photos, generic stuff, but that’s when you probably more want to go onto stock photos if you’ve got the wallet for it. Great. So you’ve got things like shutter stock, there’s Adobe stock, um, they’re all kind of the same thing. You pay per image or you can get a trial.

They’ll give you a certain amount of credits a month, I mean a subscription, they’ll give you a certain amount of credits a month and you’ll be able to find a lot more specific things by doing this. Um, I would recommend going this route.

If you have the money, you’re probably just finding like not better quality, uh, but you’ll probably find things that are a lot more relevant to what you’re trying to do. If you’re trying to find something niche like someone standing in front of like a windmill in New Zealand or something, you’re never gonna find that on unspent, but you’ll have a good chance of finding niche things like that.

So yeah, once you get that, pay for them. But I’d always recommend downloading the free copies with the watermarks on them first. I’m pretty sure Shutterstock does that. So yeah, you can try it and they’ll have the Shutterstock thing on it. Just make sure it works with what you’re doing before you buy it.

So you look standardized and woo, That’s expensive, that’s really expensive. So you do pay a price,
but most of them, if you have a subscription and it goes under that, it’s a bit better. But exactly that,
you’re just paying for high quality images.

But, um, once you have your images, you wanna upload ’em to your website, always make sure to optimize ’em. We’ve got a video on optimizing images. Please watch that. It will help you, it will help your website run fast.

Google will love you, will love you. Just please optimize your media before uploading it to your site. But that’s the gist of, um, sourcing good images. Always gotta Unsplash first. ’cause free is always best, but well, not always best, but best for your wallet. Um, but yeah, just shop smartly.

Make sure you know what you want to do before you purchase and yeah, cheers.