The Problem With Finding Free Images for Designs
Every designer knows the pain: you're deep in a project and need a specific image — a diverse team in a modern office, an aerial view of a city, a close-up of fresh produce.
You open a stock photo site, wade through watermarked thumbnails, hit a paywall, and lose 20 minutes of your creative flow.
CollabDraw eliminates that friction entirely. With over 7 million royalty-free images from Pexels and Pixabay embedded directly in the app, you never have to leave your canvas to find the perfect photo.
How the Built-In Image Library Works
The image search experience in CollabDraw is designed for speed:
- Open the Images panel from the left toolbar
- Type any keyword to search across both Pexels and Pixabay simultaneously
- Filter by orientation, colour palette, or source
- Drag any image onto your canvas — it loads instantly at full resolution
Images can be cropped, resized, masked, filtered, and layered with other canvas objects. Your design workflow stays completely uninterrupted.
What Makes These 7 Million Images Special
Not all stock photo libraries are created equal. Here's what sets this collection apart:
Pexels
Hand-curated photos by a global community of photographers. Known for authentic, editorial-quality images that don't feel generic or staged — perfect for marketing materials and editorial content.
Pixabay
Massive in quantity and diversity. Excellent for niche topics and unusual subjects that mainstream stock sites lack. Great for technical, scientific, or specialist content.
Licence benefits
- Zero watermarks — every image you see is the actual full-resolution result
- Commercial licence included — use any image in client work, advertisements, and publications
- No attribution required — though the photographers always welcome a credit
Like and Save Your Favourite Images
CollabDraw lets you like images so you can quickly find them later. Your liked images appear in a dedicated panel, making it easy to maintain a curated personal library of go-to visuals for your style of work.
AI-Enhanced Image Search
Can't find exactly what you're looking for in the stock library? CollabDraw's AI image generator is just one panel away.
Describe the image you need and generate something completely custom — the ideal complement to the stock library when you need something truly unique to your brand or project.