60+ Place Where You Can Find Great Free Stock Images – Part 1
Photography has always been an integral part of web design, but finding free images of high quality is a tedious task – due to copyright issues, attribution requirements, or simply the lack of quality.
Thankfully, there are a variety of places where you can find great stock images at no cost. These sites provide high-resolution, professional and stunning photography and other images perfect for commercial and non-commercial uses.
Although these sites feature free stock photos, you should read the terms, limitations, and licensing of each work that you use.
1 – skitterphoto.com
All images on skitterphoto.com are available for download, they’re free to skitter around the world. All uploaded content is public domain.
Are you looking for a wallpaper or a free photo for a website, blog, magazine or advertisement? Skitterphoto means:
- All photos are license free under the CC0 license. Use and customize them, even commercially. For more information on CC0 license, see the information on the web site of creative commons;
- We upload a new image every day;
- No log-in required;
- All photos are taken by three skitter photographers residing in Groningen, The Netherlands;
- We have the most of the .raw source files, they are available upon request;
- No payment required, donations are welcome.
2 – splitshire.com
splitshire.com is the place where you can download free high quality photos with no copyright restrictions and real look.
3 – crowthestone.com
Free photos to use any way you want
4 – designerspics.com
designerspics.com – FREE Hi-Res photo each day for your personal & commercial use. Attribution not required!
5 – unsplash.com
The site refreshes with 10 new photos every 10 days, so there’s almost always something new to choose from.
6 – lifeofpix.com
Free high-resolution photos with no copyright restrictions. New pictures are added weekly.
7 – nos.twnsnd.co
New old stock – Vintage photos from the public archives. Free of known copyright restrictions.
8 – isorepublic.com
ISO Republic provides high-quality, free photos for creatives. This website was launched in September 2014 by Tom Eversley, a designer and photographer from England, who realised he had a large archive of unused images that needed putting to good use..
9 – picjumbo.com
picjumbo.com – totally free photos for your commercial & personal works.
10 – travelcoffeebook.com
Sharing beautiful travel moments. 10 new photos every 10 days. All photos are listed under cc0 that means you can do whatever you want with them.
11 – jeshoots.com
On JÉSHOOTS you may find and share images free of copyrights. All pictures are published under Creative Commons public domain deed CC0. You can copy, modify, distribute and use the images, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission and without paying attribution.
12 – lockandstockphotos.com
These photos under the Creative Commons License ShareAlike 4.0. If you use any of these photos, please link back to the main website, ajmontpetit.com, as an attribute.
13 – moveast.me
This is a journey of a portuguese guy moving east that decided that every photo should be used for free. Help yourselves and use them wherever you want (CC0).
14 – gratisography.com
Free hight-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. New awesome pictures added weekly! All pictures were captured by Ryan Mcguire of bellsdesign and free of copyright restrictions.
15 – littlevisuals.co
Sign up to get 7 hi-res images zipped up in your inbox every 7 days. Use them anyway you want.
16 – pixabay.com
Finding free images of high quality is a tedious task – due to copyright issues, attribution requirements, or simply the lack of quality. This inspired us to create Pixabay – a repository for stunning public domain pictures. Your source for free vectors, free drawings and free photos. You can use any Pixabay image without attribution in digital and printed form, even for commercial applications.
17 – deathtothestockphoto.com
Free photos sent to you by email every month. For commercial use, your blog posts, social accounts and mockups. We aim to be just like coffee for the modern creative.
18 – cupcake.nilssonlee.se
All photos here on www.cupcake.nilssonlee.se are licensed under the Creative Commons license CC0, which means that you are free to use the images without any costs. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking for permission. Although, you’re more than welcome to let me know if you use images for a website, illustration or whatever, it’s inspiring to see the results.
19 – foodiesfeed.com
Free food pictures in high resolution for any personal and commercial use! Get beautiful food photography for your blog posts, articles, website’s sliders and headers or any kind of design.
20 – snapographic.com
snapographic.com – Free Stockphotos for personal and commercial use.
You can use this high-resolution pictures on your personal and commercial projects for free. All pictures on the website snapographic.com were captured by Thomas Mühl and free of Copyright Restrictions (CC0 1.0 Universell) . A backlink is not necessary, but it would be nice. Have fun with it! 😉
21 – en.freejpg.com.ar
Free Image Bank for Commercial and Editorial Use.
22 – jaymantri.com
Free download and do anything with images. 7 new photos every thursday.
23 – stockvault.net
Stockvault.net is a stock photo sharing website where photographers & designers can share their free photos, for non-commercial usage.
24 – kaboompics.com
Kaboompics is the best way to get Free Photos for personal and commercial usage.
25 – goodstock.photos
Good Stock Photos is a collection of photos free for you to use anywhere. No fees. No credits. No limits. Because everyone should have the chance to see and share the world
26 – photober.com/free-photos
Photober is FREE of charge photo downloading site for personal or commercial use. All images are free to commercial reuse, and reuse with modification. You can download photos and do nearly whatever you like. Just don’t redistribute them or offer image for sale, or offer images as part of printed products. If you need high resolution of any of the photos on the site for print, please contact us. When possible, please include a photo credit. “Free Image via Photober.com”. Enjoy FREE photos !!!
27 – 500px.com/creativecommons
500px is a photo community for discovering, sharing, buying and selling inspiring photography powered by creative people worldwide.
28 – unprofound.com
This collection of photos is for anyone to use in just about any way they’d like. You may NOT, however, redistribute these photos individually or en masse, as photos, to any other websites or offline buyers. The photos themselves are still the intellectual property of their respective owners and you are merely receiving permission to use them in your designs, your art, your personal and professional projects, as your desktop backgrounds…
29 – sitebuilderreport.com/stock-up
Search the best free stock photo websites in one place.
30 – Goodfreephotos.com
Good Free Photos (Goodfreephotos.com) is a gallery of thousands of unique and free public domain stock photos. All photos are categorized by location for travel photos, species for animal and plant photos, and types of objects for other photos. All photos are released under the public domain license so you can use the photos for whatever reason you want. Goodfreephotos does not claim to have model releases for photos that may need them, please read the license terms if you think a photo needs a model release.
31 – uhdwallpapers.org/
uhdwallpapers – Public Domain and Creative Commons Photos.
32 – albumarium.com
The best place to find & share beautiful images.
33 – snapwiresnaps.tumblr.com
Get 7 Free Photos Every 7 Days.