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LibreStock – do-whatever-you-want stock photos

125 pointsby davegriover 9 years ago

13 comments

anigbrowlover 9 years ago
OK interface I guess. I don&#x27;t like that there&#x27;s nothing about the author of the photo or any other metadata and that you have to click through to (maybe) see that. I would be extremely reluctant to use any of these in a commercial or potentially commercial context without being able to verify and archive the rights clearance information. Also, the tag curation is bad.<p>If you look at a real stock photo site you see the professionals put in a ton of extra work, eg they&#x27;ll have maybe 20 photos built around the same model&#x2F;theme so that if one&#x27;s not quite right another is, or to give a feeling of depth above and beyond individual pretty photos.<p>Personally I would not use this service. Stock photography is already cheap and it&#x27;s already hard enough for photographers to make a living without competition from free, even if it&#x27;s not free-as-in-beer. I would much rather buy the rights or do the work myself than spend all my time wandering around the Libre Landfill. A term like that might sound cruel or dismissive, but I don&#x27;t care for the way that the cult of the amateur and the availability of very cheap technology has massively devalued the craft of professional photographers. This is part of a much longer historical trend in which the artistic&#x2F;creative input to a piece of work is systematically undervalued and more is invested in marketing it than producing it. Selling is important, but the problem is that salespeople generally don&#x27;t care what they sell as long as they get paid for doing so.
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ommover 9 years ago
Searching for &quot;hospital&quot; didn&#x27;t go as expected <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;wCfA2Q2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;wCfA2Q2</a>
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yaps8over 9 years ago
It is unfortunate that the suggested example triggers no result.<p>&quot;0 Results for silly face&quot;
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15charlimitover 9 years ago
A search for &quot;bees&quot; return tons of &quot;beer&quot;-tagged images with nothing bee-related in them.<p>It also returns actual bees, but why the beer? Is it not an exact match search?
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supersanover 9 years ago
This is an amazing find! I&#x27;m wondering if anybody knows of a site for stock music tracks. I&#x27;m writing a mobile app (free) in which I want to include some stock music for my app&#x27;s users to create their mixes but I can&#x27;t find a single site which allows you to bundle their tracks inside your app. Anybody know anything?
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pmiller2over 9 years ago
I&#x27;m really confused. I searched for &quot;water&quot; and it tells me I have 842 results, but then only displays 15 of them and doesn&#x27;t give me any kind of paging mechanism. What gives?<p>Edit: I get the intended scrolling mechanism when I page down in Firefox, but not in Chrome.
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bariumbitmapover 9 years ago
Results for &quot;bald&quot; are somewhat puzzling.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;hrNitqk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;hrNitqk</a>
zechoover 9 years ago
It sucks.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;librestock.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;?query=laughing+woman+eating+salad" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;librestock.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;?query=laughing+woman+eating+sa...</a>
Retr0spectrumover 9 years ago
I searched for &quot;computer&quot;, and I had to scroll down a surprisingly long way to get to anything that wasn&#x27;t an apple product. I guess photographers are all mac users.
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obersteinover 9 years ago
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;morguefile.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;morguefile.com&#x2F;</a> is a lot better.
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hamhamedover 9 years ago
this is cool, i was using <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unsplash.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unsplash.com&#x2F;</a> but their search feature was shity. Can you also setup a favicon for this so i can bookmark it properly?
skrowlover 9 years ago
What is their business model? How do they pay for this bandwidth?
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yarrelover 9 years ago
So that&#x27;s gratisstock, then.
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