Ctrl+Pic

Select text in Google Docs, press Ctrl/Cmd+C, and search it on Pexels, Unsplash, Pinterest or Google Images.

Ctrl+Pic turns any words in your Google Doc into a stock photo search. Writing a doc and need an image to go with a section? Highlight the text you want to illustrate, press Ctrl+C (or Cmd+C on Mac), and a small bubble appears with two buttons: Pexels and Unsplash. Click one and that search opens in a tab, already filled in. No retyping your query, no switching windows, no losing your place in the document. Both sites are free stock photo libraries, so the images you find are ready to use. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open a Google Doc 2. Select some text 3. Press Ctrl+C / Cmd+C 4. Click Pexels or Unsplash in the bubble that appears WHY THE COPY SHORTCUT? Google Docs draws your document onto a canvas rather than as normal web text, which means extensions can't read your highlighted text the usual way. Chrome's own "Search Google for..." right-click option doesn't appear inside Docs for exactly the same reason. Copying is the one reliable signal Docs gives, so that's what Ctrl+Pic listens for. SETTINGS Click the toolbar icon to choose how results open: - Reuse the same tab — keeps one Pexels tab and one Unsplash tab, updated with each new search so they don't pile up - New tab each time — every search gets its own tab PRIVACY No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no analytics, no ads. The text you copy is used to build a search link and nothing else. It is never stored, logged, or sent anywhere except to Pexels or Unsplash as your search terms. Ctrl+Pic runs only on docs.google.com and does nothing on any other site. Ctrl+Pic is an independent extension and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google, Pexels, or Unsplash. ## What's new (for the 1.0.1 update) ``` Added two more image sources: Pinterest and Google Images, alongside Pexels and Unsplash. You can now choose which sources appear in the bubble from the extension's settings — turn off any you don't use to keep it compact. ```