An excellent list! I use a mix of my own artwork and photographs and stock from Unsplash.
Another resource for anyone writing scifi: ESA/Hubble's images are licensed as CC0. They require a credit line (which should be done anyway even if they didn't), but they have a beautiful gallery of space images available for free usage so long as properly and clearly credited.
The Affinity suite of products is what I use for my Substack illustrations (Affinity Designer more so than Photo, but Photo is incredibly useful as well). It's worth noting that Affinity products do go on sale at various points of the year, and it's an absolute steal to get such robust photo editing / illustrating tools in perpetuity for such a low price.
Sketchbook (https://www.sketchbook.com/) is another good one for people who may be interested in illustration. No overpriced subscription (looking at you, Adobe Illustrator), just a cheap one-off purchase with a free trial. It did crash occasionally when I used it on my Samsung tablet, but it was a good newbie-friendly tool when I was taking my first stabs at the hobby.
Phenomenal list here! I've used Unsplash for years myself, but a lot of these are new to me. Really appreciate it!
Thanks Bradley! I’m going to be adding many more in a postscript next week.
An excellent list! I use a mix of my own artwork and photographs and stock from Unsplash.
Another resource for anyone writing scifi: ESA/Hubble's images are licensed as CC0. They require a credit line (which should be done anyway even if they didn't), but they have a beautiful gallery of space images available for free usage so long as properly and clearly credited.
You’re the best for this. Included with links is the cherry on top. THANK YOU. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
You’re very welcome!
So many sites I haven't heard of! I usually use pexels, but thanks so much for widening my pool of resources, this is such a useful list.
You're very welcome!
There’s a few new ones in here for me — thanks! Great post.
Some great recommendations here!
The Affinity suite of products is what I use for my Substack illustrations (Affinity Designer more so than Photo, but Photo is incredibly useful as well). It's worth noting that Affinity products do go on sale at various points of the year, and it's an absolute steal to get such robust photo editing / illustrating tools in perpetuity for such a low price.
Sketchbook (https://www.sketchbook.com/) is another good one for people who may be interested in illustration. No overpriced subscription (looking at you, Adobe Illustrator), just a cheap one-off purchase with a free trial. It did crash occasionally when I used it on my Samsung tablet, but it was a good newbie-friendly tool when I was taking my first stabs at the hobby.
Great recommendation there for Sketchbook — the Adobe ecosystem is not the only software editors out there!