Creative Commons wants to find the perfect app so that, for once, not having to depend on image banks to be able to access all kinds of photographs of great quality. And this could mean that paid stock photography could pass away, if among a large number of users they begin to collect all the images that different agencies or users request through an app known by The List and that is now available. in beta for Android.
The List is a app developed by the non-profit organization Creative Commons that allows users to request and use each other images under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. This app arises so that all kinds of NGOs, media, cultural institutions or people have the option of adding photographs to their projects or work for free thanks to the images of any user who uses their camera to upload them through the application.
The perfect app to find free, high-quality photos
In Internet we have access to different blogs They use to shoot high-quality photos completely free of charge, although it often happens that for a certain image needed for a project, it may not be the desired one.
The List was born with the great objective of providing a list of locations, people and events of which photographs are needed. So when a user is in the right place at the right time, a photo can be taken and uploaded through the application.
All images on The List are licensed for free, so anyone can use them. It is precisely the Creative Commons Attributtion license, so attribution is required for commercial use to its original author. So if it were the case that a photo you have taken is used for a project for commercial purposes, your name would appear in the credits.
The list up close
Application It is currently only on Android in beta phase. It can be downloaded from the project's own website. The List arrives to open a new way for users to become collaborators and share their photographs with those who need them through the app.
From the moment we launch the app, we will access the most important information in order to go through a series of questions. Some questions that They are worth to know what kind of photographs we usually take how are people, nature and animals, objects, places and cities, clothing and fashion, and finally food and drink. We select all the ones we want or have a predilection for them and go to the next section.
Now the main screen will appear where we find the different images that are being requested by many users, from a photo of a pasta dish, an ice cream or even a truck. We select one and two options appear, take a photo or select one from the gallery. In this way we will upload the photo and help to collaborate with all kinds of photos.
The other important section is the side navigation panel where we find a series of options such as the order list, my photos, my categories, place an order and two related to the app. As you can create a Creative Commons account for free, from this panel we can access the login. The app has an obvious design to Material Design, so we have the floating FAB button at the bottom to access new orders for photos that we will select.
Una very interesting proposal from Creative Commons as a collaborative tool both to share our photographs taken with our phone and to get a specific one that we need for some reason.