Before Lummi.ai, AI-generated images were weird, boring, and most of the time, problematic. I mean, I know artificial intelligence can create cool stuff, but that doesn’t mean that all people will.
Lummi.ai is a website that I found not long ago and quickly fell in love with. It’s a minimal, easy-to-use, and robust website with royalty-free images. Most of its collection is based on AI-generated images, which most of the time look great. They’re high-quality too, which makes it even better. Their license is simple, you can download anything you want and use it as you please, either that’s for personal or commercial purposes. And there’s no trap behind it.
If you’re a creator or photographer or love the idea of AI-generated content and you have already made some cool stuff with it, you can contribute by filling out a simple form and linking to your portfolio. Lummi.ai is not a simple website with stock images either, it has some neat tricks under its sleeve that you can use to make your life a bit easier.
Looking for some great-looking AI-generated and royalty-free stock images? Meet Lummi.ai, a place with thousands of the best and coolest free stock images, and features that let you edit an image before you download it.
Apart from having thousands of images that you can download and use for free, it’s also a great search engine, as you can search for a photo by colour, orientation, luminance (dark, light, or neutral), the amount of people, and the focal point. But that’s not even the best part, as Lummi.ai lets you edit an image before you download it, including changing the exposure, brightness, contrast, saturation, and hue.
You can also apply duotone, either by choosing some of the default options or creating your own. You can also flip an image.
We curate thousands of AI stock photos every day to help you find the right image for your project. – Lummi.ai
What’s even more neat is the additional HEX codes for the image’s basic colours, which will make your life a whole lot better. I didn’t even know I needed such a feature in a website with stock images, but it helped a lot when I was designing a website for a client and wanted similar colours without the need for a third-party tool such as Adobe Photoshop or GIMP.
For every image you also get a few tags to look for similar images, and there’s the creator with basic statistics such as the views, downloads, and from how many users it has collected. Last but not least, by scrolling down you’ll find a few more similar images to the one that you’re looking at. You can also sort your results by trending, featured, and most recent.
The best way to use Lummi.ai is by registering for a new account, and you can use either your email address or Google account. Once you have done that, you’ll be able to create your own collections, which is great when it comes to organizing the images for specific uses.
Note: Users who haven’t registered for an account have limited daily downloads, so it’s important to create one if you’re looking at downloading more than a few royalty-free stock images from there.
If you’re using popular tools such as Canva, Figma, Webflow, or Adobe Express, you can easily use the images by sliding them right into any of these tools. That will save you a lot of time from downloading, finding, and then uploading the image every time.
I’ve left the best and my favourite feature for last; While browsing through the thousands of images, you can apply duotone to all of them, edit their exposure, brightness, contrast, and more, and flip all of them to a specific direction.
If you always edit the images after you download them or you’re using duotone for all of them, this feature is a life saviour. But if you don’t find it useful, you can simply deactivate it by clicking on your profile’s photo at the top right corner and turning off the “Effects menu”.
With a collection of royalty-free AI-generated stock images that keeps on growing, Lummi.ai is surely one of the best places for content creators, website owners, designers, and whoever wants AI images for their projects. Unfortunately, they aren’t as high-quality as you’d expect, with many of them not being bigger than 3,000 pixels, but they’ll get the job done.
Have you ever used Lummi.ai to download royalty-free stock images? And if so, how was your experience and what did you like and hate the most about it? Feel free to share the websites that you’ve been using to download stock images in the comments below.
