Well chosen photographs can carry a good design, images tell your story across languages with speed and emotion. Example:
- Rosie Holtom: These photographs show how homeless people wish to be seeing totally changes the story on how you perceive the homeless community
Resources:
- Unsplash: Free photos
- Ui Faces: User photos to use in designs
- Subtle Patterns: Nice Backgrounds
- New Old Stock Photos: Vintage photos from public archives
- Super Famous: Landspace and persona’s photos with attribution
- Little Visuals: 7 hi-res images every week
- Comp Fight: Flickr creative common search
- Gratisography: free hi-res photos
- Wikimedia Commons: Open source images
- Haiku Deck: Presentation app with large photoset (Create a presentation, then view source to get the images)
Make sure you have the right rights for the images that you choose.
Dealing with bad images:
- Crop it
- Blur it (use as background)
- Filter it
- Retouch it (time consuming)
