Today, almost any type of photo we can dream of exists in the web. And, thankfully, there are many stock photo websites which helps us find them easily.
Here is a list of 12 free stock photo resources that you must bookmark:
stock.xchng
stock.xchng is probably the most popular service which provides free stock photos.
It has 1000s of high-quality images which are very well categorized. Usage requires a free membership.
MorgueFile
MorgueFile lets you to download photos without registration & it has a very open license to use images on almost any type of work.
Besides the free photos, it has an online classroom which teaches about photography & a crowded community discussing in its forums.
openphoto
openphoto is a very straightforward website with no details & extras. It simply presents the photos in categories.
Most of the images are licenses with CC:Attribution-ShareAlike (photo used).
Photo Rack
PhotoRack is a great resource for stock photos where all images can be used in any type of work.
It surprisingly lacks of one thing: a search function.
unprofound.com
unprofound.com is an awesome site which is ran with an amateur spirit.
There are lots of free stock photos to browse, they can be filtered by colors & they are totally free.
Freerange Stock
The site offers thousands of photos which can be used in commercial projects as well.
Photos can be browsed quickly, a popular images page shows you what's hot & more. Download requires free membership.
FreeDigitalPhotos.net
FreeDigitalPhotos offers both free & paid versions of images where the free versions are limited in size and requires a link back to the photographer.
Photos are categorized in detail & no registration is required.
FreeFoto.com
FreeFoto is a huge resource with a bunch of categories & their sub-categories.
Licensing is mostly offers an attribute for online use or a non-commercial offline use (photo used).
FreePixels
Although FreePixels isn't the biggest website, almost every photo included are high quality & beautiful.
They can be used in any type of projects an attribution is required (written or visual).
Public Domain Photos
The website has ~15,000 free stock photos & cliparts listed. No registration is required.
And, as the name states, the photos presented are very open-licensed.
DesignPacks
The website is relatively different than others. It offers downloads as design packs of 15 images.
Although it doesn't have a large database yet, the sets presented are pretty impressive.
Everystockphoto.com
Everystockphoto.com is a website which indexes images from other stock websites.
They are currently offering a search for ~5 million images.
Other Resources:
Here are more amazing resources which has great photos but can only be used in non-commercial projects.- Stockvault is a stock photo sharing website where photographers can upload any number of images & others can use them for free (only non-commercial)
- Woophy is a photo community which focuses on geographical categorization of photos with an interactive search map.
- Historical Stock Photos is a nice resource for finding, mostly black & white, historical photos.
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