Good imagery makes all the difference to your stories, but if you don't have anything on hand it's been a time-consuming and sometimes frustrating experience to search for and add high-quality imagery to your articles and newsletters. Not any more thanks to our brand new Pixabay integration!

With its giant collection of completely free imagery, Pixabay has always been one of our favourite web resources. Now, that collection of over 500,000 images is available right in Hail — making it completely seamless to search and import high-quality photography.

The advantages of using Pixabay in Hail

Adding your own original photography will generally produce the most engaging stories and these days even our phones have cameras with excellent quality and plenty of resolution. But we can't always get the right shot and often find ourselves needing some stock imagery to make sure our articles stand out in newsletters and social media. So why use Pixabay's images in Hail? 

• Free and legal — All Pixabay images are completely free and released under Creative Commons CC0, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the photographer — even for commercial purposes.
  
• High-quality — The images you find and import through Hail's Stock Images feature will be in beautiful high-resolution every time. Perfect for making your stories and notices really shine on today's large displays and sharp-screened devices.

That's not the case with the vast majority of images found through Google Images which are almost all low-resolution and copyrighted, so illegal to use for your own purposes and often pixelated. Plus, Hail uses Pixabay's SafeSearch filter which blocks inappropriate or explicit images from your search results.

Get importing now!

Both Hail and Pixabay are ultra-modern platforms which combine to create an incredibly fast image search engine. Feel the power as you browse over half-a-million images and add them in seconds.

As seen above, you'll find the new '+ Stock images' option in your Images section now. Just refresh Hail in your browser for all the latest goodies and get in touch with any feedback or questions.

Happy searching!
Team Hail