Unsplash 5.0 — Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.

Hey everyone! Unsplash 5.0 is our first major update since we spun Unsplash out into its own company (https://medium.com/unsplash-unfi...) a few weeks ago. Unsplash 5.0 includes 5 major things: Following - follow your favorite people on Unsplash Notifications - get insights into activities like: who's following you, download milestones, etc. Unsplash Stories - ability to add a short story behind each photo you capture Unsplash S (for Speed ;) - Unsplash is way way faster now Unsplash Local (https://unsplash.com/local) - connecting the Unsplash community offline Official Unsplash 5.0 announcement is here: https://medium.com/unsplash-unfi... Feel free to take us for a whirl today. I'd love to hear what you think. :)

Unsplash is amazing! Thank you Now who will be the one to make Unsplash Video first. I have many videos I would like to contribute.

I'm delighted to see the updates by the awesome Unsplash team. I've been a fan from their first days, and it's so exciting to see how the product is evolving. So yes, I love the updates that make me even more delighted as a user. But as a super loyal user, I',m interested more about how the Unsplash team is planning to maintain and develop the relationships with the community? Would be great to know more about that.

Big thanks, guys, for everything you do: I suppose lots of users will agree that now the platform presents the reliable source of not only great and stylish photo-content, but also aesthetic inspiration. Unsplash is my love from the first sight and I never spend a day without checking the updates to get amazed. Thanks for you hard work and great style, keep rocking!

Congrats on the update, Unsplash team! Seriously great work. As a relatively new member (though a long time user!) I've quickly found both the platform and the community to be far beyond anything I've experienced elsewhere. The addition of notifications is particularly great, and will no doubt bring the community even closer together. 👏👏👏 Keep up the kick-ass work! 👍

I'm amazed by what you achieved since the first days as a tumblr. Congrats guys :pray: (and don't forget to check out my profile ;) https://unsplash.com/@jpvalery ;) )

A huge collection of HD images that you can use on your website or upload to Canva to design beautiful graphics for social media.

Pros:

One of the best stock image sites on the internet. And the best thing? It's totally free!

Cons:

None

Pros:

There's no service that has saved me more time and money in my work than Unsplash. I wish all contributors happy things - all the time.

Cons:

Better filtering

Unsplash has been one of my favorite sites for a long time, and this update looks great. Thanks for building this, you guys rock!

Thank you for making web a better place where people use Unsplash photos/videos instead of a cheap clipart.

You guys make my life so much easier. Thanks for making my social media posts and websites not have sucky stock photos.

I've actually used Unsplash a little longer than a year, but a "1 Year" button is all that's available to select on Product Hunt. Unsplash gets more new stock photos to use all the time, which is a great thing. Other than the search engine needing keyword updates, this is great for all bloggers, writers, designers, and so on.

Pros:

What are you waiting for? One of the biggest and best selections of free stock photos to use--sign up today and make your projects better!

Cons:

The search engine needs to be updated to include specific keywords--too easy to be distracted by the wow factor while browsing for pics!

Clients always comment on the photos and ask where I get them and I happily say Unsplash :)

Pros:

Amazing high resolution photos that act as the cherry on top of my copy.

Cons:

Search engine could be improved. The keyword matching is sometimes annoyingly inaccurate.

Unsplash left it's competition a long time ago. They have something for every project. Free to download by the world’s most generous community of photographers. You can use them for commercial and non-commercial purposes.

Also, check out https://madewith.unsplash.com/?u... if you are in need some extra inspiration.

Pros:

The best free stock-image database.

Cons:

Navigation could be better.

There's literally thousands of images that I'll never see if only because there's so many to choose from and I always find one I want within moments.

Pros:

The number of available photos is mind-boggling

Cons:

Bulk download would be wonderful

I love the way the pictures are organized on the website. Its design is highly user-friendly and minimalistic. The downloading and sharing processes are seamless. Also, I like the recommendation system which picks similar images. Without exaggeration, this is my favorite service for finding photos on a given topic. Many thanks to all the creators for making this wonderful product! @mikaelcho, @timmycarbone, @lukechesser, @stephliverani, @kirillz, @mtlbagelboy, @lukechesser

Unsplash is an amazing resource. When I started designing/developing purchasing expensive stock photos was one of the only ways of consistently getting images to use in design/web projects.

With Unsplash and Pexels, etc. though now I have access to an almost unlimited library of images. I've used Unsplash for projects all the way from mobile apps, websites, to billboard advertisements. Best part is I can just sent my clients the link and they can browse through the images themselves and send me the ones they like.

Overall an AWESOME resource. There are some minor annoyances like the addition of features that I feel just add clutter and don't add to the core value proposition (but that may just be me, and I won't name them so you can form your own opinion). My FAVORITE feature though is where they suggest giving the photographer credit - SO important and underrated.

When you have people providing as awesome resource as this it's only fair to thank them. Unsplash is a fantastic site and I highly recommend it to everyone... My one gripe is that I don't think they need to keep adding features.

Pros:

Free, Great selection, High resolution, Easy navigation, Simple, Reminder to give photographers credit

Cons:

Some common keywords are lacking (TOTALLY understandable), Sometimes images are hidden in "collections", some clutter w new features

@mikaelcho Could you please create a blog post or tell more about the stack or behind the scenes of Unsplash? Having 1 billion views per month and 3 downloads per second is not a joke and it would be really great to learn what and how you have done for everything to work smoothly. Thank you!

Free isn't free, Crew did a great post on how much Unsplash costs them: https://crew.co/blog/what-does-u...

Hey Mikael we love Unsplash and we’ve been using it for our contents and site since the first version (when it was only your side-project) 😄 It’s a great tool and we hope to find even more amazing Music pictures to use! Keep up the great work, you guys rock! p.s. It happens that today also our startup Bantamu is featured on PH. Feel free to send us your feedback if you like what we do - we are Crew for the Music Industry 😉 You find us few votes below Unsplash!