Are you spending too much time looking for free stock photo site? It can be ridiculously time consuming!
Usually when I run across stock photo images, there is a high cost associated with each one.
After much research, I have a handful of free stock photo sites that I use on a regular basis for beautiful images from many categories.
I used these free stock photos for my blogs, Instagram, Facebook, Google Plus and other social media sites.
Today I have a list of 7 free stock photo sites that you can use too.
I recommend when using these amazing photos for your blog that you brand them with your website or Instagram name.
You can also create awesome memes or inspirational quotes images.
Use a free online tool like PicMonkey.com. I use it daily and it does everything I need.
Free Stock Photo Images
Here’s a curated list of free stock photo image websites. If you have any to add, I’d love for you to leave a comment. These are my favorites.
Pixabay
A repository for stunning public domain pictures and one of my most used free stock photo sites. Your source for royalty free stock photos and copyright free vector graphics. You can use any Pixabay image without attribution in digital and printed form, even for commercial applications.
Copyrights: No restrictions.
Photo Website: http://pixabay.com
Pexels
It’s hard to understand complex licenses that is why all photos on Pexels are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. This means you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the photos. The pictures are free for personal and even for commercial use.
Copyrights: free of restrictions.
Photo Website: http://www.pexels.com/
Unsplash
All photos published on Unsplash are licensed under Creative Commons Zero which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the photographer or Unsplash.
Copyrights: free of restrictions.
Photo Website: http://www.unsplash.com
Gratisography
Free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. All pictures were photographed by Ryan McGuire and free of copyright restrictions.
Copyrights: free of restrictions
Photo Website: http://www.gratisography.com/
Morguefile
Search morgueFile for free reference images. Yes, they’re all completely free.
Copyrights: free of restrictions
Photo Website: http://www.morguefile.com/
PicJumbo
Free stock photos, taken by Viktor Hanacek. The website is an ad-funded.
Copyrights: free of restrictions
Photo Website: http://picjumbo.com
New Old Stock
I love this free photo website! These are vintage photos from public archives. They are free of known copyright restrictions.
Copyrights: free of restrictions
Photo Website: http://nos.twnsnd.co/
Do you love these free stock photo sites? Be sure when searching for photos to use, always check copyright information. Only use photos with no copyright restrictions or attribution required.
great post with information that I was not aware of… had to bookmark each of these… thanks for sharing Lisa
You are welcome! People are constantly asking me about free stock images so I finally put together a list of my favs. Hope you get some good use of the sites! There are some awesome images to choose from.
awesome post and cool stuff!
Ok! I am saving this page!!! awesome ideas!! thank your sharing your wisdom. I will share with my team as well. thank youuu1!!
You are very welcome! Glad you can get some good use from this free stock photo resources. I frequently use Pixabay – great selection!
Great post! I wasn’t aware of all this. Glad you shared it!
Lisa, you never seem to fail to amaze me. I’ve been a web designer for years and I’ve never heard of some of the resources you discovered and shared with us. This is just freakin’ awesome!
Glad you like them! It’s good to have these on hand for awesome looking social media posts and blog posts.
Have a great weekend!
Lisa
Thanks Lisa for sharing these sites.
I remember that I use to just use a select few until a few more friends introduced me to even more sites that I had no clue about.
Unsplash and Gratisography were two of them and I did find some really amazing images on those sites. I know I’ve seen a lot of them around now but I think when you create it to make it your own they do stand out still.
I appreciate you sharing these resources and I’ll be sure to do the same.
~Adrienne
You are welcome Adrienne! I love all the images. One of my favorites is the vintages images – they definitely can make a point for certain types of content. I agree, making the image your own helps make it stand out even more!
Thanks again!
Lisa
Wow! Awesome list! I’m only using pixabay and app.boundforstyle for a very long time. Haven’t heard some of the list here. Thanks for sharing.
Adore your post!
Chances are you’ll like http://Blogpiks.com . This is a free stock image site for private and commercial use.