# Finding licence-clear photographs past the stock picks > `osy photo find` searches Openverse — openly licensed photographs, no key needed — under several wordings of the subject, skips the top results everyone else takes, keeps one picture per photographer and shows each one's licence. `--take` downloads the ones you chose into `model/textures/` and appends their credit to `CREDITS.md`. ## Summary {#summary} Anything people look at in an app — a hero, a product, a place — wants a real photograph, shipped with the app and credited. `osy photo find` finds candidates whose licence lets an app use and crop them, past the handful of pictures every other site already used, and `--take` brings the ones you chose into the project with their credit line written. ## Signature {#signature} ```console osy photo find "" [--skip ] [--json] osy photo find "" --take 2,5 [--name ] ``` ## Description {#description} ### Searching {#find} Name what the picture SHOWS. The subject is searched four ways — as written, as a detail, with people in it, and as an interior — so the list is not one photographer's answer to one query. In each, the top three results are skipped (`--skip` changes it): they are the stock picks a hundred sites share. Then one picture per photographer is kept — ten frames from one shoot are one look, not ten choices — and anything whose long side is under 1000px is left out. ```console $ osy photo find "harbour at dusk" Photographs of "harbour at dusk" — Openverse, licence-clear for an app; the top 3 of each wording skipped, one per photographer 1 Harbour lights — … · CC BY 2.0 · 1024×683 · https://www.flickr.com/photos/… 2 … — … · CC0 (public domain) · 1600×1067 · https://commons.wikimedia.org/… … Next: open the ones that might fit, then `osy photo find "harbour at dusk" --take 2,5` — into model/textures/, credited in CREDITS.md. ``` Every candidate carries its licence. Only licences that allow commercial use AND changes are asked for (CC0, public domain, CC BY, CC BY-SA): an app crops, and a no-derivatives licence does not cover that. ### Taking them {#take} `--take` names the candidates by the numbers the list printed. Each is downloaded to `model/textures/_.jpg` — the folder a `Textures.` reads ([[ui-image#texture]]) — and a line is appended to `CREDITS.md`: ```console $ osy photo find "harbour at dusk" --take 2 ✓ model/textures/harbour_at_dusk_1.jpg — "…" by …, https://…, CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) Credited in CREDITS.md. OPEN each file before using it — a title can say what the picture is not. ``` `--name` sets the stem (letters, digits and `_` — the texture name is made from it). Open every file before you use it: a title is the uploader's words, not a description. A CC BY or BY-SA picture must be credited where the app is seen as well — an about page or a footer line from `CREDITS.md` does it. ### Why Openverse {#source} [Openverse](https://openverse.org) is an open catalogue of openly licensed media (Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, museums and more) with a public API that needs no key, and it states the licence and the author of every result — which is what an app shipping a picture needs to know. Without a network the verb says so and writes nothing. ## See also {#see-also} - [Showing a picture on a page](https://osysharp.com/reference/ui/image/) — showing a photograph, and `Textures` - [Designing an app that looks designed — direction, type, colour, composition and motion](https://osysharp.com/reference/ui/design/) — choosing a direction the photographs sit in - [Checking whether a theme is a stock look](https://osysharp.com/reference/local/checking-a-look/) — `osy design check`: is the theme a stock look? - [Looking at a reference site before you design](https://osysharp.com/reference/local/looking-at-a-reference/) — `osy design look`: rendering a reference page