Stock Images

Imagery can significantly enhance a website's visual appeal, making content more engaging and inviting for visitors. Stock images can be a great solution if you're short on time to take photos or are looking for something generic to add color to a text-heavy page. This guide outlines some of the places where you might seek out images.

SALLIE

 SALLIE  is the Stanford image repository. It includes a wide variety of free Stanford images. They can make great additions to any Stanford website, whether you need a beautiful image of a campus building or landmark, or are looking for shots of science, teaching, groups of students, or anything else Stanford-related. 

Additional Stock Image Repositories

If you need additional image inspiration for your websites, we also love the following sources:
  •  Stanford Historical Photograph Collection  has historical photos of the University. 
  •  Smithsonian Open Access  collection is a large source of content from their museums and research centers. 
  •  Unsplash  has high resolution images with a variety of themes. 
  •  BetterAllies  has a collection of diverse imagery with people of color, different abilities, ages, and gender identities.

Related Resources in this Guide

  • To ensure images display clearly on your site, check out the guide on  📷⁠⁠Image Sizes⁠ .
  • Information about adding  ⁠⁠Banner Images in the Full-Width Region⁠ 
  • See how images can be added to various  ⁠⁠Components in the Main Region⁠  or how to incorporate  ⁠⁠Images In Text Area⁠ .