What method could be better than a nice photo if you want to put some beauty to your blog or web page. But often when I search through my photos after those nice ones, I realize what an aesthetic catastrophe my image collection is. For some reason, the images have a tendency to be gloomy and boring. Hours of heavy image searching just leads to despair (not really, but almost). One of the most time consuming tasks for bloggers and designers is to find suitable photos. A free stock photography site will be a welcome relief for any Internet entrepreneurs tormented nervous system.
Wikipedia: Stock photography is the supply of photographs licensed for specific uses. It is used to fulfill the needs of creative assignments instead of hiring a photographer.
Cashrevelations.com presents 10 Free Stock Photography sites where you can find high quality images and illustrations you can use for your articles or webdesign.
Instead of showing you screen shots of the stock photography sites we choose to show an example image from their collection. To acknowledge the photographers and also the different stock photo sites we link the photos directly to the original image source.
Again, remember to acknowledge the artist’s efforts and credit the photographer in a suitable way. That is common business etiquette and simply humanly decent.
10 Stock Photography Sites
1. morgueFile – Free Stock Photos
The morguefile contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site. Free high resolution stock photographs and reference images for corporate or public use. No registration required.
2. Wikimedia Commons – Public Domain & Freely-Licensed Media Content
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed media content to everyone, in their own language. This is another favorite with a huge amount and variety of quality images. No registration required.
3. stock.xchng – Free Stock Photography Site
Stock photography community – browse stock.xchng’s huge gallery for high quality stock photos or share yours with others. This site is one of my personal favorites and I can sincerely recommend them as a source of images and inspiration. Registration required.
4. FreePixels – Free High Resolution Stock Photos
FreePixels offers free high resolution stock photos for use in both personal and commercial design projects. Almost 4,000 images are featured in 40 categories, but there is no image updates since August 2009. No registration required.
5. ImageBase – Free Images
ImageBase by David Niblack provides you with free images you can use for whatever you want – personal, commercial and non-profit. The ImageBase site also offers various nice and free PowerPoint Templates. No registration required.
6. Free Stock Photography – A Digital Dreamer
FreeStockPhotography by A Digital Dreamer offers you both free and royalty free stock photography. The main site also has some information and articles for those interested in graphic design, animation and photography. No registration required.
7. Stockvault – Free Stock Photos And Free Images
Stockvault.net is a stock photo sharing website where designers and photographers can meet to share their stock photos and images. All images on Stockvault.net are free for personal and non-commercial usage. No registration required, but advised.
8. The Library Of Congress – Flickr
The Library of Congress has over 8 000 stunning images from their collection on Flickr. Represented here are legendary photos and photographers like Dorothea Lange (with the photo Migrant Mother), Jack Delano and Walker Evans. No registration required.
9. Every Stock Photo – Search Engine
Search engine for free stock photos and clip art for the stock photography community including images of creative commons and public domain and other free licenses. The images come from many sources with the license specified. No registration required.
10. Photogen – Free Stock Photos And Images
Search and download free stock photos in high resolution of animals, agriculture, nature, architecture, backgrounds, concepts, transport, travel and destinations, business and industry – free for commercial and personal use. Registration required.
There is one thing you must not forget if you want to use images from the sites above: read the Terms of Use carefully and do not break them with intention. If you do want to use them in any other way that the license allow, contact the administrator of the site or the photographer or author and ask for permission. Better to be safe than sued.
This is very refreshing. I finally found a list that could help. Most stock photo websites are not even close to free, but google searches normally bring up “royalty free” pictures which is no help.
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Keep up the good stuff! Very enjoyable content!
i have tried some these sites and sometimes have problems at downloading pics. And usually i use Photl.com. So far have been satisfied with the project)
Great info, thanks for useful post. I am waiting for more
Excellent article i am sure that i will come back here soon
I’ve tried several stock photography sites without a lot of luck, does anyone have a better experience of them?
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