Save time searching

with stock image filters

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Searching online for that elusive stock photo, for your latest campaign or project, can take a long time. However, using the available filters, can help you find the perfect stock photo quickly, without getting bogged down in hundreds of thousands of irrelevant image results.

With some stock image sites, there are a plethora of options, so, here are some top tips for how to use them effectively and make your next image selection both speedy and stress free.

Previous searches – choose from other search criteria related to yours

Keywords – select relevant words to pinpoint your preferred results

Orientation– choose portrait, landscape, panoramic or even square

Image type – select photo, vector, video or illustration

Image size – choose by pixels or minimum height and width

Usage – select editorial or non-editorial depending on what you are working on

Colour – choose the background or predominate picture colour

Categories – select from a comprehensive list that includes everything from education and textures to nature, science and vintage

People – choose with or without people and if people images are required you can further refine it by gender, age, ethnicity or the number of people

Recent – select new images using a defined time frame

Popular – choose widely used or undiscovered images

And so, the list of filters goes on and on. Our advice is to experiment with them now when you’re not in a hurry, so that when the times comes you will be able to narrow your search down as far as possible in order to save time and have access to the most relevant images for your project. Or if it all sounds too much like hard work, don’t forget that you can pay us to do the searching for you!

Our advice is to experiment with them now when you’re not in a hurry, so that when the times comes you will be able to narrow your search down effectively

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