Shopify Free Images, Free Stock Photos
Where is the Shopify image library? A lot of people seem to ask that question. When I opened a Shopify store, I remember seeing a link somewhere saying Shopify Free Images. When I went to look for it, I couldn’t find it anywhere. I searched online and had a hard time finding it that way as well.
Shopify Image Library
Finally I found a site where the smug person said: “Shopify doesn’t have an image library…”, he was kind of right, Shopify has an image website, called Burst, it’s not really a separate site, it’s a subdomain.
There’s a link at the very bottom of the Shopify homepage that says Free Stock Photos and that goes to the subdomain https://burst.shopify.com
They also have a section on Burst in the bottom nav with the heading Business Starter Kits, which has articles on ideas for online businesses…which makes sense for them to do.
The very first link under Business Starter Kits is Business Ideas. This is a list of the first 6 ideas:
- Sell Women’s Fashion Online
- Sell Art Supplies Online
- Sell Makeup & Cosmetics Online
- Sell Camping Equipment Online
- Sell Socks Online (I guess there’s a market for everything)
- Sell Kitchen Supplies Online
But I digress…
There are a ton of images and backgrounds and all free. You don’t even need to sign up. When you go there, click on an image, you can download hi-res or low-res, there will be a pop-up that asks for your email address, but that is unnecessary for you to do, just click outside of the pop-up and it’ll go away. The download dialogue box will pop-up and you save it to your computer.
Even the low res-images are good, like the picture of the Pug above. It’s much bigger and I compressed it even more. The original was 925 x 617 and 65.6 kb, I knocked it down to 555 x 392 and 26.7 kb. I then resized it more for this post, but that was done in WordPress and doesn’t change the weight of the image.
Good luck if you start a store, there are other platforms besides Shopify that you may want to try out. Shopify came out at the right time and their marketing was/is good. Their verification process is out of date and needs to be overhauled though.
A brief example of why I think that: Normally to prove that you are the owner of the store, a platform will text a code, email a code or you’ll have to use an app like Google Authenticator…not Shopify, you have to log into your store and get the code from there.
That sounds easy enough right? It is, that is, unless you can’t log in, which was my case. Shopify has a lot of bugs that I found while in this situation, but we’ll stick to the main bug.
Several things happened that made their system prevent ANYONE from logging in. I waited for someone on their chat support, BECAUSE THEY QUIT PHONE SUPPORT, I clearly said to the person, “I can’t log in”. What was their response? “You have to log into your store and get the pin so we can make sure it’s you”.
The whole story goes deeper and lasted about a month…maybe I’ll do a post about the whole mess. There were a couple times where I couldn’t help think about the episode of South Park where they had the Smug Alert…
If you open a store on Shopify, MAKE SURE, if you’re going to pay and keep the store, you pay BEFORE the free trial ends, because that’s where the trouble started for me, they haven’t seemed to figure that part out completely. Normally, if that happens with ANY OTHER SITE, you pay and everything goes back to the way it was…not with Shopify. Just think everything through, pay before the free trial ends and hopefully you won’t discover any new bugs.
Peace, Love & Blessings To All!
Oliver
p.s. If you’re looking for ways to make money online, check this post out.