Stock Images

Search Pexels, Pixabay and Unsplash without leaving the editor, and insert what you find as a layer rather than a download.

Library & Assets

Free photography from three libraries, inserted straight onto the canvas.

The usual stock photo workflow is four steps too long: open a site, search, download, find the file, upload it, insert it. Each step is trivial and together they are enough friction that people settle for the first acceptable picture rather than the right one.

This searches Pexels, Pixabay and Unsplash from inside the editor and drops the result straight onto the canvas as a layer. Browsing by category works too, which is often faster than typing, because you rarely know the word for what you want.

Because it is one step, you try more pictures. That sounds minor and it is the whole point: the quality of a design is mostly a function of how many options you actually looked at.

One piece of advice about free stock in general: the most-downloaded photographs are the ones everyone has seen. Go a few pages deeper than feels necessary, and prefer pictures with room around the subject, because those are the ones you can crop for different formats later.

Where to find it

Assets, then Stock Images

What it replaces

Four browser tabs, a downloads folder and an upload step

What you get

Search across Pexels, Pixabay and Unsplash
Category browsing
Direct insertion as an editable layer
Images land in your own media library
No account or key needed
Part of the free plugin

Requirements

Part of the free plugin. Needs an internet connection to search.

Frequently asked questions

The licenses of all three libraries allow commercial use without attribution, but crediting is good manners and some photographers ask for it. Check the license on the source if a project has strict requirements.

Yes, under the licenses of the three services. For anything involving recognisable people in a sensitive context, read the specific license, because model releases are not guaranteed.

Only if you publish it at that size. Resize before export, or run the finished image through the batch optimizer. There is a piece on the blog about why size matters more than format.

Features

Three libraries at once

Pexels, Pixabay and Unsplash, searched from the same field.

Features

Browse by category

Nature, business, people, food, travel, technology and more, for when you know the feeling rather than the word.

Features

Inserted as a layer

No download, no upload, no file management. It lands on the canvas ready to be masked, cropped and adjusted.

Features

Stays in your library

What you insert becomes part of your own media library, so it is there next time without another search.

Experience Stock Images in WunderPaint

Free photography from three libraries, inserted straight onto the canvas.

Brush & Paint Styles

Paint with six styles that mix pigment instead of blending it, pick from thirty-seven tips shown as real strokes, draw a tip of your own out of shapes, and let the color travel along the stroke.

Collage & Photo Grid

Arrange media library photos as a grid, mosaic, polaroid, filmstrip or contact sheet, tune gaps, corners and frames on a live preview, and insert it all as an editable layer group.

360° Panorama

Describe a place and the tool builds the full sphere around you, or let it rebuild a photo you already have as the whole scene around the camera. What comes out is somewhere visitors can look around, hotspots and all, in an embed that carries its own viewer.

AI Studio

Generate, edit, retouch and clean up images from a prompt or a single click, all in one panel. Many tools run locally with no key; prompt generation uses your own Gemini or OpenAI.

Asset Generator

Gradients, text treatments, shapes and illustrations generated from a prompt, in your brand colors, arriving as editable layers.

Stock Images

Search Pexels, Pixabay and Unsplash without leaving the editor, and insert what you find as a layer rather than a download.

Asset Library

Ready-made designs across social, marketing and seasonal categories, opening as layered documents in a new tab so your current work stays untouched.

Brand Kits

Colors, typefaces, a logo, a watermark and a company profile in one place, feeding every picker, template and generator on the site.

Media Library Manager

Folders and tags that persist outside the editor, semantic search that finds images by what they show, color and orientation filters, smart folders, and a full set of housekeeping tools.

Check Contrast

Audits the text layers in your document, reports the contrast ratio for each and tells you which ones are hard to read.