Branding, design, software, and more resources for running your business online.
Tools
TinEye is a reverse image search. Find an image you like on the web, it will help you find the source for that image, so you can see if it's available to purchase/use.
Stock Sites (Premium)
These sites offer a huge databases of thousands of photos with a wide range of topics. Prices and licensing terms vary per site.
- Stocksy
- 500px
- Shutterstock
- Dreamstime
- Deposit Photo
- Adobe Stock
- iStock
- Big Stock Photo
- 123RF
- Can Stock Photo
- Alamy
- Pond 5
- Offset
- Photo Dune
Graphics, Design Elements, Templates (Premium)
- Creative Market good for patterns, textures, design elements like ribbons
- Etsy good for paper textures, design elements like swirls, arrows with a handmade feel
- Vecteezy vector images
- Vector Stock vector images
- Graphic Burger free design resources
Photoshop, Illustrator resources (Premium + Free)
- Brusheezy Photoshop brushes
Niche Resources (Premium + Free)
- Kate Max Stock styled stock photos, flat lays
- Death to Stock Photos Premium
- The Photo Forest
- BRWN Stock Imaging a stock website with a specific focus on providing images featuring people of color.
Food Images (Premium + Free)
- Foodies Feed Premium
- Food Shot Handpicked high resolution food photos, free.
- Free Food Photos
- The Picture Pantry
- Stock Food
- Scatter Jar free food photographs for creatives
Product Images
Dunnk iPhone, Android, Macbook, iPad mockup photos
Magic Mockups free real-life product/app mockup generator
Placeit digital product mockups, apparel and print mockups
Creative Commons Licensed images:
You can read all about licensing here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ and here http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Free photos:
Always check the license and usage rights on these sites.
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- A Prettier Web styled desktop photos
- Barn Images
- Death to the Stock Photo
- Designers Pics
- Every Stock Photo features Library of Congress and NASA searches
- Fancy Crave
- Foodies Feed
- Foter
- Free Images
- Freerange Stock
- Gratisography
- IM Free
- ISO Republic
- Jay Mantri
- Life of Pix
- Magdeleine
- Morgue File
- Moveast
- New Old Stock
- Pattern Library
- Pexels
- Photogen
- Pic Jumbo
- Pickup Image
- Picography
- Pixabay
- RGB Stock
- Spiltshire
- Startup Stock Photos
- The Stocks
- Travel Coffee Book
- Unsplash
Public Domain:
- Can We Image This site searches and displays results from Wikimedia Commons.
- Public Domain Archive
3D Product Images
- 3D Package Online
- My ECover Maker
- PSD Covers (Photoshop actions)
- Place It
Finding color inspiration online:
- Colour Lovers
- Adobe Color
- Color Schemer
- Design Seeds
- Colr
- Color Palette Generator
- Colrd
- Coolors
Color Palette Resources:
Pre-made color palettes
Design your own color palettes
Make a color palette from a photo
Identify a color
Convert Color Codes: CMYK, RGB, #Hex
Design Inspiration
Finding inspiration online:
Fashion
Interior Design
Art
Crafts
Branding
E-books
Finding Cover Inspiration
Spend some time browsing the wide range of book cover designs out in the world!
- Amazon be sure to look in your niche to see what’s happening there
- Book Cover Archive
- NY Times Books
- The Book Designer - check out the monthly e-book cover design awards
- Book Covers Anonymous
- Face Out Books
- Pinterest - search for book covers
- Beautiful Book Cover Design
- Inspirational Showcase of Book Cover Designs
- 2013 Cover Trends
- 20 Most Iconic Book Covers Ever
- Coverjunkie (magazine covers)
E-book Publisher Links
Start with the publisher to gather this information. Where possible links below lead to cover specs. Some publishers provide this information in help/support sections of their sites, which are available after you sign up for an account.
Classic fonts for non-fiction book covers
San Serif
Serif
Software to Make Interactive PDFs
- Adobe Acrobat Pro (Mac + PC)
- PDFpenPro (Mac)
- PDF Escape (Web app)
- Nitro Pro (PC)
Logos
Finding Logo Inspiration
- Brands of the World
- Stock Logos
- Logo of the Day
- Logospire
- Logo Design Love
- Logo Pond
- Pinterest search for logos
- Behance search for logos
- My pinterest boards look for boards with logo in the title
Really Good Emails Example emails for inspiration.
Software
Photo Editing - Desktop Apps
Photo Editing - Free Web Apps
Document Design
Word Prcessing
Interactive PDFS
- Adobe Acrobat Pro (Mac + PC)
- PDFpenPro (Mac)
- PDF Escape (Web app)
- Nitro Pro (PC)
- SmallPDF (Web app)
Transcription
Typography
Where to find fonts online:
Fonts for Sale for Commercial Use
Free for Commercial Use Fonts
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- **Google Fonts
- Font Squirrel
- DaFont - some free for commercial use, check licenses
**offers licensing for web fonts
Identifying Fonts
Font Combination Resources
ifontyou - shows examples of popular font combinations in designs
Hongkiat.com - fonts used in popular brand logos
Four Techniques for Combining Fonts