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Museum art and the travel-poster workflow

Turn 600,000 free masterpieces into things you can sell.

01The Art library

The Art button searches the open collections of The Met, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Everything is CC0 or out-of-copyright: edit it, print it, SELL what you make. Credits attach automatically.

02Find good source material

Search terms that work: "travel poster", "japanese print", "botanical", "map", a city, a flower, an animal. Older lithographs and prints vectorize beautifully; paintings give painterly poster results.

03Vectorize: the travel-poster preset

With the inserted artwork selected, right-click ▸ Vectorize. Press Travel poster: saturation and contrast jump, the palette drops to eight flat colours. Create, and the picture is now bold, editable shapes.

04Finish like a poster artist

Pop or Poster the colours brighter, add chunky text in Bebas Neue or Anton, pull a Border around the page, maybe a flat sky rectangle behind. Study any 1920s rail poster: big type, few colours, confident shapes.

05Print-ready output

Page setup goes up to A1, A0 and US 18×24/24×36 poster sizes. Export a vector PDF — razor sharp at any size — and you have a sellable print. The /licensing page answers the "can I really sell this?" question: yes.

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