Unsplash are a leading source of free images online, and it's easy to add images from Unsplash to your Shorthand stories.
To do so, click on any "Edit Media" button in the story editor:
The "Edit Media" panel will open and show landscape and portrait representations of the images that are currently being used. Overlaid on each representation of the images are buttons to "UPLOAD" a new image, and access the "MEDIA LIBRARY" which includes a library of images from your other stories and access to Unsplash:
Clicking "MEDIA LIBRARY" opens the library, at the top of which are two tabs: one for Story images, and one for Free images (Unsplash)
Click the Free images (Unsplash) tab, and you'll see a set of default images.
A set of buttons provides shortcuts to some Unsplash image collections.
A search box on the right allows for searching Unsplash's large library. Doing so then provides a set of filters to further refine the results to images in 'landscape' or 'portrait' orientation, and images containing a certain colour.
After searching for an image, clicking in its top right will show a larger preview version, which can similarly be closed by clicking in its top right:
Previewing a larger version of the chosen image
Clicking 'INSERT IMAGE' on any of the smaller thumbnail images in the Unsplash panel will add the selected image ( and a caption and alt text provided by Unsplash) to the media panel:
You are free to update the caption and alt text to anything you wish.
Click "SAVE CHANGES" and the image will appear in your story.
Chosen image added to the media panel.
And that’s it! A simple way to add beautiful, free images to your stories.
License and attribution
Unsplash images can be used for free and without attribution (although it is appreciated). You can view the Unsplash license and terms for more information.
Please note: We are required by Unsplash to include tracking in published stories that indicates what images are being used.
The tracking consists of the Shorthand App ID (so that they know its being using in a Shorthand story), the ID of the image being used (so they know which image it is), along with your IP address, user-agent and referrer which is standard for any HTTP request.