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Free stock photos and videos from Pexels and Pixabay

Search a royalty-free library from the Elements panel and drop a photo straight on your page

Overview

The Design Studio carries thousands of free photos and videos from Pexels and Pixabay. Open Elements in the left sidebar, click Stock photos or Stock videos, search, and drag a result onto your page. They are free for commercial use, with no copyright restriction and no attribution required, so you do not need a stock subscription to illustrate a flipbook.

Find a stock photo or video

  • Open the flipbook you want to edit from Content.
  • Click Elements in the left sidebar.
  • Under Graphics, click Stock photos or Stock videos.
  • Type what you are looking for in Search stock photos, or browse a category and click See all.
  • Drag the one you want onto the page.
The Elements panel open in the Design Studio with Stock photos and Stock videos under Graphics

Turn a stock photo into a video

Select a photo on the page and click AI Animate in the toolbar above it. Flipsnack turns the still into a short video clip, so a photo other people are also using becomes something only your flipbook has. Living Visuals: how to turn a static image into an animation covers the settings.

Note: AI Animate spends AI credits from your workspace. A 4 second clip costs 25 credits, and 6 or 8 seconds costs 50.

The Stock photos panel with its search box and categories, and AI Animate in the toolbar above a selected photo

Upload your own images and videos

Click Uploads in the left sidebar, then Upload media. Your files and your team's sit in the same panel under My uploads and Team uploads. Drag one onto the page to use it.

The Uploads panel with the My uploads and Team uploads tabs and the Upload media button

Edit a photo or video on the page

Select it and the toolbar above the page offers Filters, Style, Crop and Flip, with boxes for the exact position, size and rotation. Image filters covers the filter presets.

The image toolbar with Filters, Style, Crop and Flip, and the Flip menu open on Flip horizontal

Two more things worth knowing while a photo is selected.

  • Select two or more and group them so they move as one, or put one on every page: in the Layers panel footer, click the Add on all pages icon.
  • Lock a logo in place with the padlock in the toolbar, so nobody moves it while editing the rest of the page.

Elements on a flipbook page being grouped and ungrouped, with the Layers panel open beside them

A logo being locked on a flipbook page, with the Layers panel listing the page's layers

Make a photo or video clickable

Select it and click Action in the toolbar. Go to URL sends a reader to a website, Go to page jumps them to another page of the flipbook, and Open an overlay shows a popup with your own text in it.

The Action button in the Design Studio toolbar with an element selected on the page

Add GIFs and stickers

GIFs and Stickers sit beside Stock photos under Graphics in the Elements panel. Search, then drag one onto the page. How to add GIFs in your digital publications with Flipsnack covers uploading your own.

A GIF being dragged from the Elements panel onto a flipbook page

Turn stock media off for your workspace

If your brand guidelines rule stock imagery out, take it out of the panel rather than asking people not to use it. Go to Settings, click Feature management, and turn on Disable stock images and videos in the Branding section. Disable stock GIFs and Stickers in the Design Studio section does the same for the other two.

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