Free stock images are difficult to find. Even if you find one, you need to provide correct attribution to the image. In this post, you will see the list of free stock image websites to get royalty-free images to use on your blog.
35 Best Free Stock Image Websites to Get Free Images
Let us see the list of websites to get copyright-free images for your blog.
Using these websites you can get free photos without any attribution ie you will get a public domain or creative commons license.
Hence, using photos from these sites will not trigger any copyright issues.
Pixabay offers copyright-free, cost-free images published under Creative Commons. You can copy, modify, distribute, and use the images, even for commercial purposes. No registration is required
Dreamstime offers a free section that’s searchable and frequently updated. It requires you to create a (free) account.
New Old Stock–Vintage photos from the public archives
Unsplash–10 new high-quality photos released every 10 days. Released under the CC0 license.
Foodie’s Feed–High-res food images. Free to use without attribution; however, they may not be resold.
Death to the Stock Photo–Free images for commercial use. Delivered monthly to your inbox. You do not have the right to claim these photos as your own.
Magdeleine–One free high-res photo every day (and access to a full repository of images). Use the handy filter to find images that are either public domain or require attribution.
Free Photos Bank has a nice collection of free photos available for download without login. They’re extensively categorized with a few different ways to search, too.
ImageFree‘s registered users can download both free and paid images to use in corporate and personal projects. The free selection seems fairly limited, though—my “coffee” search didn’t turn up a free photo I could use.
Public Domain Archive–All images are completely free for personal or commercial use, no link or attribution is required. I personally use this for my latest startup Due to some of the amazing whitepaper images that we’re putting together for the big launch.
Good Free Photos – Public domain images taken by the owner of the site. Offers some good location-based images.
IM Free offers a curated collection of free resources, all for commercial use. Search for a keyword or browse through the stylishly crafted categories.
Free Range Stock-Free high-res images, registration required. It is suggested you link back to the site and give credit to the photographer, but it isn’t required. You cannot resell, distribute, or claim ownership of the images.
Pickup Image –Searchable database of public domain images.
Read: How to Optimize the Images on your blog
Photogen–free for personal or commercial use, but not suitable for resale or redistribution.
Gratisography— a Free collection of amazing images taken by photographer Ryan McGuire. All photos are provided under CC0.
Skitterphoto–License-free photos, free to use under CC0.
Life of Pix–High-quality, public-domain images with no copyright restrictions.
Pexels–Searchable database of CC0 images.
Ancestry Images offers a free image archive of historical prints, maps, and artifact photos, like this print of a New Zealand Maori Warrior from 1817.
Morgue File–A huge repository of free photos. You’re free to use the images for personal or commercial purposes, but you cannot claim ownership of them.
BigFoto is a royalty-free photo gallery in which most of the photos have been contributed by amateur photographers. No login is required.
Stockvault is a stock photo-sharing website where photographers, designers, and students can share their photographs, graphics, and image files with each other for free and use them for personal and non-commercial design work. No registration is required.
Rgbstock is a free stock image site created by photographers and graphic artists. Registration (required) is one-click and the pool of photos is pretty deep.
SplitShire–Free photos with no copyright restrictions.
1 Million Free Pictures–Free amateur public domain images. What they sometimes lack in quality they make up for in quantity.
FreeMediaGoo offers royalty-free, cost-free media that can be used in print, film, TV, Internet, or any other type of media both for commercial and personal use.
Public Domain Pictures is a repository for a wide variety of free public domain images uploaded by amateur photographers.
iStock releases new a new batch of free stock images every week.
pdpics–Public domain images taken by their in-house team of photographers.
New Old Stock is a collection of vintage photos from public archives, free of known copyright restrictions.
Pickup image is a large collection of free stock images mostly focusing on nature
Flickr: Creative Commons–Access to all Flickr photos sorted by license. This allows you to find images under the public domain, non-commercial license, attribution license, etc. Make sure you select ‘Public Domain’ to find images that don’t require attribution.
Wikimedia Commons is a database of 21,049,775 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
PicJumbo offers a variety of free photos for any kind of use—free of charge.
StockPhotos.io is a Creative Commons-licensed professional free stock photos sharing community of about 25,000 images.
Canva This tool allows users to search for the best graphics, photos, and fonts.
Pikwizard It is a free stock photo website launched recently. There are more than 100,000 free
Conclusion
That’s all about the list of free stock image websites.
What free photo sites did I miss?
What tools do you like the most to find or create images?
Hi Umapathy
I have bookmarked this page for future reference. Thank so much.
I recently needed to search more places to get free images and you have done this for me.
Thanks for sharing. Take Care
Hi Ikechi,
Finding free images without copyright issues is a big problem. You can use these sites to get free images without providing any attribution. Glad it is helpful to you.
Have a great week 🙂
~ Umapathy
Hi, Umapathy
Thanks for list of free website. really its very helpful for me.
Regards
Harikumar
This blog is for us because there we got big problem to get free image without copyright.
Thanks for sharing.
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