56 Free Graphics Websites: Free stock photos and images. Lots of sources. Do what you want!
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Here are some great websites for tracking down great free photos and free images that you can use in creating your book covers, graphic quotes, and other images for your website and blog posts.
My favorite free images sites include Unsplash, Snap Wire Snaps, Unprofound, Morguefile, MMT Stock, Life of Vids (for videos), Cupcake, and Open Clip Art.
Benkyou Studios: http://www.benkyoustudio.com/Textures — All Textures on this website were based on photos or scannings taken by me. You are free to use them for any purpose such as games or artwork, commercial or non commercial with the exception that you may not sell them unaltered in as is as part of a texture collection.
Big Foto: http://www.bigfoto.com — Most of BigFoto’s pictures have been contributed by amateur photographers who want nothing more than to see their images on the internet. They are happy for you to use their work on your own website, as wallpaper on your computer desktop, or to print off and hang on your wall. You can even use the photos free of charge for commercial purposes with a link to the website
Clker: http://www.clker.com — Free clip art you can use for anything you like. This site also provides image editing tools.
Comic Book Plus: http://www.comicbookplus.com — Features public domain comic books (over 30,000 of them) and cartoon strips.
Cupcake: http://cupcake.nilssonlee.se — ll photos 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.
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com — Many of the photos people share on this network come with permission for others to use.
Fotolia: http://www.fotolia.com — By Adobe. 888-674-2299. Download 3 high-definition stock photos and illustrations for free each week (https://us.fotolia.com/Info/Images/FreePicsOfTheWeek). Fotolia’s royalty-free licenses allow you to use our free images anywhere in the world for as long as you like. Otherwise: $249.00 per year for 25 downloads per day.
4 Free Photos: http://www.4freephotos.com — Topics: abstract, architecture, business, food, industrial, interiors, nature, science, sports and recreation, textures, transportation, and travel. The photographers are offering these images and illustrations to the public, to use them for most of the commercial and personal purposes, free of charge under a Creative Commons license. The images do not have a model release so please be careful when using the images featuring products, trademark, people, works of art and propriety in commercial purposes or to endorse products or services. Please note that we, the photographers, have offered these images for free to be useful for people in their projects without limiting how they are used, but we are not able to provide any legal counsel or warranties of any kind on the way they can be used in projects, especially commercial ones. The images are offered as is and without warranty.
Free Images: http://www.freeimages.com — A Getty Images site offering 388,000 free photos and illustrations. Read their terms for using their content: http://www.freeimages.com/license. Note that they have some key restrictions on using their content. Read carefullly.
Free Images: http://www.freeimages.red — Search high quality free images with creative commons Zero CC0 license.
Free Photos: http://www.freephotos.se — The purpose of the FreePhotos.se web site is simply to share photographs that everyone can freely use. The photos are taken by me and members of my family (Magnus Rosendahl). All photos on this site are free for use by anyone for any purpose! Use them anywhere and anyhow you like, for commercial or non-commercial use.
Freerange Stock: http://www.freerangestock.com — Motto: Good photos. Totally free. But limited commercial use. They share ad revenue with their photographers. With free photos, the following license applies: You can do nearly anything with the images, commercial or not. Just don’t redistribute them. This means don’t host the images or repackage them, just post a link to this site and let others sign up download them, just as you did. You cannot offer images for sale or as part of printed products (no Zazzle, Cafepress, etc.). Be sure to check the license for any image you want to use.
Freebies Gallery: http://www.freebiesgallery.com — You can freely use resources featured on this website. You can use these resources, free of cost, for personal as well non-commercial purposes. You are free to seek design inspiration from them or modify them in any way you like. You can also feature these resources on your website or blog. We’ll, however, encourage you to acknowledge their ownership by providing attributions and back-links to the original source – Freebies Gallery. More info here: http://www.freebiesgallery.com/terms-of-use.
Good Free Photos: http://www.goodfreephotos.com — 7,577 free and public domain photos, images, clipart, pics and vectors and counting.
Gratisography: http://www.gratisography.com — Free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. Click on an image to download the high-resolution version. New awesome pictures added weekly! All pictures were photographed by Ryan McGuire and free of copyright restrictions. An incredibly versatile photographer of animals, nature, objects, people, urban locations, and whimsical.
Image Base: http://www.imagebase.net — These images are totally free to use for anything you want including commercial, non-profit, business, print, web, screen, film or personal applications.
Jay Mantri: http://www.jaymantri.com — Motto: Free pics. Do anything. Make magic. Wonderful photos.
Life of Pix: http://www.lifeofpix.com — They do royalty-free videos (http://www.lifeofvids.com) as well as royalty-free photos! See their terms in the graphic above.
Little Visuals: http://www.littlevisuals.co — This site has some wonderful photos. It’s no longer updated since the founder died a few years ago, but there are some great photos while the site remains live.
Logo Design Web: http://www.logodesignweb.com/stockphoto — All the photos in this site is free to use. Read more about image usage terms before you download.
Magdeleine: http://www.magdeleine.co/license/cc0 — Handpicked free photos you can use, divided by nature, architecture, people, animals, food, technology, abstract, and objects.
MMT Stock: http://www.mmtstock.com — Free for commercial use photos by Jeffrey Betts. CC0 license. Lots of great photos.
Morguefile: http://www.morguefile.com — Motto: Free photos for creatives, by creatives. We are a community-based free photo site, and all photos found in the Morguefile archive are free for you to download and re-use in your work, be it commercial or not. The photos have been contributed by a wide range of creatives from around the world, ranging from amateur photo hobbyists to professionals. Lots of great photos. To use Morguefile photos, you must modify, change, and/or alter such photos in some way. OR if you use them unchanged, they must be used with other content and you must credit the photographer for such use.
Moveast: http://www.moveast.me — This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving that decided that every photo should be used for free. Help yourselves and use them wherever you want (CC0).
My Public Domain Pictures: http://www.mypublicdomainpictures.com — Now only features travel-related photos (and some food and garden photos). All personal pictures taken by our members are being released into the public domain. We are releasing these pictures into the public domain so therefore users of this blog are free to download and use our photos for whatever purpose but users of our images are solely liable for unlawful use of these images. We did not obtain model release from people as well as copyrighted subjects such as buildings, logos, brands, etc. so please obtain their permission before using them for commercial use.
New Old Stock: http://nos.twnsnd.co — Features vintage photos from the public archives free of known copyright restrictions.
1,000,000 Free Pictures: http://www.1millionfreepictures.com — A repository of thousands of 100% free pictures! No registration required. No fees collected. No annoying watermarks. No accounts needed. Just free pictures. All pictures in this photo blog are dedicated in the public domain. This repository of original amateur free pictures is perfect for bloggers, webmasters, students, or anyone looking for amateur free pictures for their projects. The goal of this free photo blog is to provide an alternative source of free images for those who cannot afford to purchase or buy from commercial stock photo websites.
Open Clip Art: http://www.openclipart.org — Each artist at Openclipart releases all rights to the images they share at Openclipart. The reason is so that there is no friction in using and sharing images authors make available at this website so that each artist might also receive the same benefit in using other artists clipart totally for any possible reason.
How may their clip art be used? Here are a few answers: https://openclipart.org/may-clipart-be-used-comparison.
Open Game Art: http://www.opengameart.org — Art especially for games, but not all are in the public domain.
PD Photo: http://www.pdphoto.org — If you want to use these images: Go ahead. I’ve placed most of them in the public domain. However, while most of them are public domain, a few aren’t. Be sure to read the license under each of the enlarged pictures. Notice: You should assume no model release was obtained. And pictures featuring products or property should be used with care.
PD Pics: http://www.pdpics.com — PDPics.com is a repository of free public domain pictures. All images have been clicked by our in-house photographers.
Pexels: http://www.pexels.com — All photos on Pexels are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. This means the pictures are completely free to be used for any legal purpose.
Photo Public Domain: http://www.photopublicdomain.com — Currently 871 images. All images on Photopublicdomain.com are for free. You can even use the images for commercial purposes. We publish loads of new images every day.
Photos Public Domain: http://www.photos-public-domain.com — Topics: nature, animals, holidays, seasons, places, objects, food, textures, and more. All of the photos, pictures, clipart and images on this site have been released into the public domain (Creative Commons CC0 designation for international use). This means that you are free to download them and use the photos for any use including commercial purposes, however, you may not claim the copyright as your own. Be aware, that no model releases were obtained from any people in the photographs, and you should also use great care when using photographs that contain identifyable brand names or logos for commercial purposes.
Picdrome: http://www.picdrome.com — Picdrome.com is a growing Public Domain digital photography collection, free of copyright and licensed under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication. All images are free to download for personal, educational and commercial use, without restriction. Whether you are a designer, photo editor, student or blogger, we are offering completely free photographs.
Pickup Image: http://www.pickupimage.com — Pickupimage is the largest collections of free photographs. Free download high quality premium free stock images, public domain photos. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
Picography: http://www.picography.co — Motto: Free hi-resolution photos. Use them however you like.
Pixabay: http://www.pixabay.com — Over 670,000 free stock photos, vectors, art illustrations, and videos. All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.
Pond5 Free: http://www.pond5.com/free — Motto: Download thousands of historic media files for your creative projects. Completely free & made available by Pond5. Includes over 9,700 video files, 2,750 audios, and 63,800 images.
Public Domain Archive: http://www.publicdomainarchive.com — New 100% Free Stock Photos. Every. Single. Week. Everything you need for your creative projects, all public domain images!
Public Domain Photos: http://www.public-domain-photos.com — 5,000 free photos and 8,000 free clipart images. All photos on this web site are public domain. You may use these images for any purpose, including commercial. But if some photo contains logos and products you need to be careful. Using someone else’s trademark commercially can get you sued.
Public Domain Pictures: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net — 156,687 free photos. If you intend to use an image you find here for commercial use, please be aware that some photos do require a model or property release. Pictures featuring products should be used with care.
RGB Stock: http://www.rgbstock.com — Over 100,000 beautiful stock images. You may use the Image: In digital format on websites, blogs, multimedia presentations, broadcast film or video and on your cell phone or personal computer as screen background or desktop wallpaper. And in printed materials such as magazines, newspapers, books, brochures, flyers, text books, wherein the image or images used are for the purpose of illustration and not the primary content for sale. Note: By downloading a recognizable image of a person or child from RGBstock.com, you acknowledge your personal responsibility to request and receive a signed, written model release prior to using the image publicly.
Skitter Photo: http://www.skitterphoto.com — All images on this website are completely free to use for any purpose. When pictures are published on skitterphoto, they are released into the public domain using creative commons CC0. A credit is appreciated, but not necessary. If you are looking for a stock photo to use on you blog, website or ad; browse our categories or search a photo.
Snap Wire Snaps: http://snapwiresnaps.tumblr.com — Get 7 free beautiful photos every 7 days. Then you can license and commission photos from 200,000 of the world’s most talented photographers (order custom photos here: http://www.snapwi.re). Photo above courtesy of https://www.snapwi.re/user/lupugabriela.
Splitshire: http://www.splitshire.com — Instant download high quality free stock photos without copyright, do whatever you want. Daily updates!
Startup Stock Photos: http://www.startupstockphotos.com — Free photos for startups, bloggers, publishers, websites, designers, developers, creators, and everyone else. Startup Stock Photos was started as an outlet for photos we were already taking on a regular basis. It’s grown to be much more than that. People and organization all over the world have used these photos to make some really awesome things. We’re happy to have helped.
StokPic: http://www.stokpic.com — Free Stock Photos For Commercial Use. Basically You can do anything apart from redistribute.
Travel Coffee Book: http://www.travelcoffeebook.com — Sharing beautiful travel moments. All photos are listed under cc0. That means you can do whatever you want with them.
Turbo Photo: http://www.turbophoto.com/Free-Stock-Images — Topics: activities, animals, cities, flowers, food, landscapes, objects, people, plants, and transportation. 2,000 free stock images, plus a partnership with Shutterstock for paid stock images.
TypeSlab: http://www.typeslab.com — Allows you to make graphic type quotes like the one above.
Make graphic quotes with TypeSlab. It’s easy, quick, and fun!
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UnProfound: http://www.unprofound.com — Free cool photographs sortable by color. 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.
Unsplash: http://www.unsplash.com — Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos. One of my favorite free photo sites. Great photos.
Get inspiring Unsplash photos in your Google Chrome tabs:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unsplash-instant/pejkokffkapolfffcgbmdmhdelanoaih.
Veezle: http://www.veezzle.com/stockphotos — A search engine for finding absolutely free stock photos. Type in any word or words, and locate graphics matching that. Warning: Not all of their images are actually free. They also allow you to search websites, news, and social media posts for specific words. A useful search engine.
Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org — A database of 32,197,452 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute. Almost all content hosted on Wikimedia Commons may be freely reused subject to certain restrictions (in many cases). You do not need to obtain a specific statement of permission from the licensor(s) of the content unless you wish to use the work under different terms than the license states. Their images often require content creator attribution.
Free stock photos and images. Lots of sources. Do what you want!
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