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Add a photo when you have not got one

Search a free photo library from inside PostPop, drop one onto your post, and frame it for every size — without spending a post or leaving the page.

~1 minuteBeginnerYou need: a postResult: a photo that fits
STOCK PHOTOS
What you search
1the post topic
2this slide’s words
3your brand kit
What you get
1Empty living room
2Handing over keys
3Kitchen at dusk
4Five slides, five pictures
A. RodriguezM. OkaforJ. LindP. NakamuraL. MoreauS. AdeyemiUSEDK. BergerR. CostaThe name on the tileis the name that ends upin your caption. Better tosee it while choosing thanto meet it afterwards.
A post to put it on
~1 minute
Free · no post spent

Do it in 5 steps

1

Open the library

It is on the photo field in the Studio, and on any finished post under Edit slides. The second one matters: you can change the picture on a post you made last week without generating anything again.

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Search the slide, not the topic

This is the one habit worth forming. If your post is about “three things buyers get wrong” and you search that, every slide in the carousel gets a version of the same picture. Search what is on the slide in front of you — “empty living room”, “handing over keys” — and the deck stops looking like one photo repeated five times.

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Pick one

Every tile carries the photographer’s name, because that name ends up in your caption and you should see it while choosing rather than meet it afterwards. A photo already used elsewhere in the same post is marked, so you do not repeat yourself by accident.

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Frame it for each size

A stock photo was composed for nobody’s frame. Square, 4:5, story and landscape each get their own crop from the full picture, so the subject is never sliced off in the size you actually post. Reframe as often as you like — nothing is baked in.

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The credit is already handled

PostPop adds “Photo: Name / Pexels” to your caption when you copy it. Nothing is written on the image, so your post stays your post. It is part of the licence rather than a setting, so there is no switch to forget.

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Three ways it stays out of your way

The parts people usually have to remember, handled.

It does not spend a post

Searching, picking and swapping are free on every plan and do not touch your monthly allowance. Only generating writing does.

FREE0 posts spentSearch, pick, swap — all freeOnly writing costsa post.

Copied, never borrowed

The picture is copied into your account the moment you choose it. Libraries remove photos; a post that renders today and breaks in March would be worse than no picture at all.

KEPTcopied into your accountNever linked, so itcannot vanish later.

In the caption, not on the art

The photographer is named where a caption goes, so nothing is stamped across the image you are going to post.

CREDITyour pictureCAPTIONPhoto: A. Rodriguez / Pexels
TIP
Worried it will look like stock? It will, if you search the vague thing. Search the specific thing on the slide — a place, an object, a moment — and it reads as a choice rather than a placeholder. See Guide 13 · Edit a slide by hand.

Searching the slide beats searching the topic

Same carousel, same library. One looks like five pictures. One looks like one picture, five times.

Searched the post topic

Five slides, five versions of one picture. It reads as a placeholder.

Searched each slide’s own words

Five slides, five pictures. It reads as a choice.

Common questions

Does it cost anything?+
No. The library is free on every plan, and searching or swapping a photo never spends a post from your allowance.
Can I use these photos commercially?+
Yes — the library is licensed for commercial use. PostPop adds the photographer credit to your caption, which is what the licence asks for.
Can I turn the credit off?+
No, and that is deliberate. A switch that removes attribution is a licence breach with a switch on it. It sits in your caption, never on the picture.
Can I change the photo on a post I already made?+
Yes — open the post, Edit slides, and swap it. The images re-render; the writing is untouched and no post is spent.
What if the library is down?+
You can still upload your own photo. The library being unavailable never blocks making a post.

Your post is one photo away.

Free on every plan · no post spent · credit handled for you.

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