Image banks: the designer's best friend

Get good images y Graphic material For us projects is something that everything designer and artist needs to be well tied in each of his projects. Faced with the need to have photographic material and the current speed of work, they have caused the birth of portals on the Internett who are dedicated solely to generate artwork for this purpose, offering much of this material for free and leaving another part at a fairly affordable price. These portals called image banks offer the possibility to download images of high quality, the portals are usually organized very neatly into sections with a search engine to locate material by labels.

If you are a designer, artist or are part of an advertising agency at some point you will have the need to acquire material of these portals for some specific work. There are companies that are exclusively dedicated to generating commissioned material for certain projects, this being a powerful ally for creatives who want to derive part of the work on other professionals with high-level results.

There are thousands of image banks, some of them have been selected (free) They offer high quality and a large supply of images.

In the last ten years, being image Bank we will talk about is vexels. This portal offers high quality graphic material price quotation y without the need to have to register to download content. We can find everything from vectors to mockups and high resolution images. It has a section organized by categories where it is possible to find material in an orderly way, we can also use the internal search engine. We highlight the possibility of downloading files in PSD(Photoshop).

The next portal is unsplash. Offer content price quotation y without the need to have to register to be able to download any image. In order to find content we have to write the searches in English, otherwise no results will be displayed in the search. The content is organized By "collections" where images are grouped, it is a simple system ideal for searching for specific things.

PixabayIs a image Bank quite complete as it offers content price quotation and the possibility of downloading the material with different qualities (resolution). We can download Vectors, images, videos, illustrations and other types of graphic material for free. Its internal search engine offers the possibility of search by category, orientation, size and color, a wide variety of options for more precise searches. To download content is you need to registere but we can do it from Facebook and streamline the time we waste registering.

Freepik is a vector image bank that offers a great variety of graphic material with the possibility of being able to download it in various formats different. Although its main content focuses on images vector, it is possible to download photos even if it doesn't stand out at this point. Your search engine allows you to search for content by format (PSD) and style (pixel or vector) also has a section organized by labels of popular images.

We already have enough material to find content for future graphic projects in which we need images of high quality.

The image banks They are a powerful ally to help us work but we must be careful not always depend on them To create our content, it is advisable to use them for something specific or in a way that only forms a small part of our project.

Thanks to Eva Sánches Clemente for her contribution.