On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:30:22 -0000, sobriquet wrote:

On Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 3:06:21 PM UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:57:17 -0000, sobriquet wrote:


Pixabay seems to be one of the best sites to obtain high-quality
images that can be used freely.

https://pixabay.com/en/editors_choice/

I've noticed that they only accept images starting at something
like 6 MP (at least 3000 pixels in width).
Is it likely they will bump that lower limit even more in the
future? Surely people are not going to print these pictures to
fill up entire walls?
I'd reckon 2 or 3 megapixel images should still be fairly useful
for many purposes if they are good pictures.

Thinking in particular of finding images useful to create digital
collages:

https://i.imgur.com/GiJFTRw.jpg

I've always use Google image search, which finds stuff from other sites anyway. You can specify what size you need, and select if you want public domain photos or not. There are quite a lot of options in the menu at the top.

Maybe some sites prevent google from exploring their collection.

For instance, pixabay has lots of "sand texture" pictures and
they are free to use/adapt. But when I search in google for
pictures using those same keywords, no results from pixabay are
coming up.

Not that google images isn't very useful as well to obtain
public domain pictures, I'm just curious what governs the
decisions behind the scenes which affect whether or not images
show up in the search results.

https://pixabay.com/en/photos/sand%20texture/

https://tinyurl.com/yb6kt5tt

https://www.google.com/search?q=sand...&bih=599&dpr=1

Google takes bribes from all over the place. It's why they're so rich. You can pay to get your search results at the top, or to hide them completely. They're also in cahoots with China to censor Tibet. Untrustworthy buggers to say the least.