About Specimen Gallery

Specimen Gallery is an open collection of high-quality, transparent-background specimen images. It exists to provide illustrators, designers, researchers, and builders with clean cutouts for visual reference, diagrams, and creative work — with licensing that stays simple and reusable.

How uploads work

  1. 1 Upload a specimen image (PNG, WebP, or JPG/HEIC with background removal)
  2. 2 Add a display name (what people should see) — scientific/taxonomic name is optional and helps classification
  3. 3 Optionally enable automatic background removal to generate a transparent PNG
  4. 4 If the name is recognized, your specimen goes live immediately — otherwise it's queued for review
  5. 5 Community members can confirm or suggest IDs to help verify specimens

Licensing

Contributors choose how their images can be reused:

  • CC0 Waive rights to the extent possible (no attribution required).
  • CC-BY Free to use, but credit is required.

Quality guidelines

  • • Clean cutout with minimal artifacts or background remnants
  • • Accurate labeling when known — uncertain IDs may be flagged for review
  • • Only upload work you own or have rights to share under the selected license
  • • No sensitive, illegal, or inappropriate content

Questions? See our Terms or contact us.