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 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. 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.
- Pexels provides free stock photos, royalty free images & videos shared by creators.
- BetterAllies has a collection of diverse imagery with people of color, different abilities, ages, and gender identities.
- Unsplash has high resolution images with a variety of themes. Note: many of these now require purchase.