Sources for Aesthetic™ Images for your headers/icons/moodboards/Notion/pages/etc that aren't Pinterest
Because eeegh it's a pet peeve of mine whenever I see idk, content and stuff that just uses "credits to pinterest" or "credits to the original creators" without linking back to the actual source, so here are some places you can find images to use that you can find who to credit easily.
Note: some of these resources have specific terms, and not all of them can be used for moodboards/headers/notion/websites/icons/etc. Pls read them on their respective websites first and credit when necessary!!
Ghibli's released screencaps of their movies, for free!
Unsplash has a lot of good photos - just type in the keyword and you can also filter by orientation and color! There are also a bunch of user collections you can look through if you have a specific theme in mind
Some keywords you can use if you're lost on what specific things to look up: [rainy/foggy/sunny/etc] window view, messy desk, vintage, urban, vending machine, hands, grunge aesthetic, crystal/gemstone, skull, foggy/hazy, flower/pressed flower, knife, jewelry, neon, minimal, crown, fountain pen, pearls, pantone
Pexels is kinda similar to unsplash
Art images from museums and libraries
Creative commons
the #transparent png, #transparent tags here on tumblr - please be mindful though that some, if not most of these images don't have clear rules or boundaries for their use, so as a little tip use the ones crediting and adding the source, credit them yourself, and use for your personal use only - dont make stuff with them that you plan on selling!
Some blogs I've found in the tags above that do credit the image source of their pngs: @/strawberry4milk, @/neptunepngs, @/honeyrolls, @/mirai-e-jump, @/png-heaven, @/soapmermaid
Pixabay illustrations
thegraphicsfairy for vintage and antique looking graphics, art, and images
Free design resources (the site also has more than just graphics!)
Pixel Surplus too!
Country Daze Graphics - old webcore style graphics, for personal, non-commercial, credit-required use on webpages. You can read more about their terms of use on the site!
Another old webcore style graphics | 1 | 2 | 3
Old web buttons gifs (caution: full of flashing and eyestrain-y gifs)
Gifcities has those too (also content warning for flashing, sometimes inappropriate looking gifs that would get you ios banned yaknow)
Foxfable - pixel art, for personal use only and requires credit
Animation screencaps | Movie screencaps - for non-commercial, entertainment use
