Use stock pictures and video
Connect your own free key for Pexels, Unsplash, Pixabay or Coverr, then pick their pictures and video in any activity.
The picture and video box in every activity has a Stock tab. It searches free stock services with your own key, so the service's limits are yours and nobody else's. Your organisation does not need to set anything up.
Connect a service
- Go to Account › Integrations and find Stock pictures and video.
- Read What connecting it means under the service. Each one has its own licence and limits, for example how many searches an hour a free key allows.
- Press Connect, follow the link to make a free key on the service's developer page, and paste it into Key.
- Press Connect. The row says Connected. Taktyl never shows the key again.
| Service |
Pictures |
Video |
| Pexels |
Yes |
Yes, on the same key |
| Unsplash |
Yes |
No |
| Pixabay |
Yes |
Yes, on the same key |
| Coverr |
No |
Yes |
Disconnect removes your key. Pictures and video you already placed stay where they are.
Use a stock picture or video
- Wherever an activity takes a picture or a video, press Choose from the library, then Stock.
- If you connected more than one service, choose it. Type what you are looking for.
- Press a result. Its address goes into the field, and for a picture the service's own description, when it has one, goes into the description box. Read it and change it.
A stock result is linked from the service's site, not copied into your library. Pixabay asks that pictures you keep are not linked permanently: download one you mean to keep and add it to your Asset library.
If the search says it could not load, the service is not answering: try again in a moment. If it says nothing was found, try another word.