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Huh, I know there are maybe even too many articles about places, where to search for photos and images, but those articles were usually very old, many sites do not work anymore and that kind of stuff. So my goal was to create ultimate collection with the best places where to search for and get nice quality images. I think every site of this list is worth checking out, although in most cases with sxc.hu site alone is enough.
The leading free stock photo site. If You don’t know about this site and call Yourself a designer, I’ll feel ashamed – MUST KNOW site offering an impressive collection of many high-quality photos taken by amateur photographers from around the world. There are more than 380.000 quality stock photos. If You are searching for something this is the first place where to look, totally my favorite one.
EveryStockPhoto site is becoming more and more popular, now there are 4,4 million free photos!
Pixabay.com is an international community for sharing outstanding public domain images. Pixabay currently offers about 65,000 copyright free photos, cliparts, and vector graphics that may be used freely and without attribution for any purpose (Creative Commons CC0 dedication exclusively).
One more site worth looking for. “This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photographs and reference images for either corporate or public use. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for illustrators, comic book artist, designers, teachers and all creative pursuits.” – Quote from their homepage.
Everybody know about this site with their main purpose as photo management and sharing application. Great place for inspiration and searching for good photographs, but don’t forget to check author’s license, before using them.
Very popular community and also very good photos sometimes can be found there, but yes, don’t forget about license and asking authors first for their permission.
All images are separated in 18 different categories with really handy navigation.
More than 11,000 stock photos are available for now.
Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial and currently there are more than 20,000 free textures and images available.
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FreeFoto.com is made up of 122879 images with 157 sections organized into 3386 categories for now, pretty impressive indeed.
Over 4 million photographs are over here for free or 0.20$/image.
All images are at least 2400 x 1600, and photos can be used for commercial or personal projects. 
Over 8,000 photos available for now, each photo can be downloaded in five formats – up to 1024x768px.
This interesting site offers high resolution and really beautiful photos of continents.
20 different categories with high quality nature and architectural photos.
4.9 million royalty-free stock photos with almost 80 000 new photos every week.
Several thousands of royalty free pictures here and free for use.
FromOldBooks site offers scanned images, engravings and pictures from old books 
2,500 original stock photos for free.
More than 5,000 free photos out there and free for commercial use.
Every picture is free to use and really high resolution – from 1600×1200 until 3072x2048px! 
All pictures listed at PhotoRack are Free to use for personal and commercial projects. 
If You know some more good free stock photo sites, please share with us, to evolve our design community!!
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Thursday, March 29th, 2012 05:47
Yow! This post contains a good list of stock photo sites but my favorite site for free stock photography is missing. Take a look at this site: http://www.kozzi.com. It’s truly full of awesome photos and images. ^^__
Thursday, July 14th, 2011 17:10
hey, check http://depositphotos.com/free-photos.html , they offer free trial subscription for new users.
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 01:04
I like your post – All of these sites have some free stock photos – I found that the best way to search and find all the real “Free” images that agencies offer is to use http://www.oseeris.com using the Free tab -
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 03:19
just read the topic! Awesome job.
Monday, September 20th, 2010 15:37
I came across this superb quality post while surfing web this morning. Thanks for the quality info and I just bookmarked it and would help newbies and other industry masters walk over this post.
Keep up the quality work 32 !!
Monday, June 28th, 2010 21:47
Thank you for putting it all together. All great sites in one plcae, Thats what everybody needs. I like and often use some of them. But still there is another cool site, which has a big collection of free photos (www.photl.com). But they have mainly studio photos.
Saturday, May 15th, 2010 13:55
Nice listing.
And what about this one? Database of stock images: http://www.StockPhotos.it
Maybe you will find it useful. Contains a lot of free but also commercial images.
Friday, March 12th, 2010 14:04
here’s another one to the list:
http://www.rgbstock.com
decent place, nice collection of images.
Monday, March 8th, 2010 12:55
Fantastic post, this is a gem. To find these websites manually it’s a pain because the sites themselves do not make it easy to know if they are free, low cost, cheap etc etc etc…
Thanks
Sunday, March 7th, 2010 14:39
Good to see everystockphoto getting a mention near the top. it’s pretty supr but I guess they could be doing with grabbing images and photos from some of the other 30 you mentioned. Great list and certainly going into my bookmarks too :D
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 14:51
A brand new free stock photo site:
http://www.rgbstock.com. In 2 month time more then 30.000 photos on line.
Sunday, February 28th, 2010 01:06
There are some great quality photos with NO LIMITATIONs at:
PulicDomainPictures dot Net
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/browse-category.php?c=flowers&s=2
Saturday, February 13th, 2010 06:24
Hi, I offer free small size versions of my commercial images at http://asiastockimages.com , there are more than 1000 images to choose from. Very useful for blogs and web sites.
Saturday, January 30th, 2010 21:53
a brand new hight quality free stock photo site: http://www.rgbstock.com
Check it out!
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 22:57
http://www.KosherStock.com offers weekly free photos for personnal and commercial use. KS is a royalty-free microstock site (photos, illustrations and cliparts) focusing on the Jewish life, culture and religion.
Thursday, December 24th, 2009 16:46
Nice collection, thank you. I often use sxc.hu – a very handy site to often find everything I need in one place, but sometimes I can’t quite find everything there, and your list here looks good to go through when that happens.
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 21:08
Now I have unlimited access to great resources for images.
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 21:37
It is very nice information for Users..
Thanks
Naresh Jangid
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 21:22
I love searching for pics at these photo sites, even if i do not search for something special it is just cool to see the great pictures at this sites!
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009 01:56
There are a few photos and illustrations on stockazoo too.
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 12:41
Hey, Great collection here. Thanks For All. How could you forget http://www.corbis.com and http://www.veer.com?
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Joel Drapper
Monday, October 27th, 2008 14:14
Wow! There are some great sites listed here. You saved me a lot of money buying them from iStockPhoto.com :P
Maybe I should make a tool to search them all. If I ever get round to it I will post it here.
Thanks again!
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Dainis Graveris
Friday, October 24th, 2008 01:51
@Benek as far as I know there is not free photos available, so I didn’t include it..
Simon Vallee
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 20:34
Nice roundup. Much thanks!
ethnicomm
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 06:17
Great post – thanks for sharing. I’ve been a big fan of sxc.hu and morguefile but you’ve now opened up a wide range of options for me :)
Johnson Koh
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 04:48
Excellent list Dainis!
You’ve just given me more choices on places to source images :D
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Joel Drapper
Monday, October 27th, 2008 14:17
Stupid me. http://everystockphoto.com is a search engine.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008 05:18
Very cool collection! thanks for sharing this to us. :)
Bmiller
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 04:14
I would like to suggest another site for free stock photos:
Free Stock Photos Webphotomart.com
The site offers thousands of free stock photos and clip art illustrations submitted by staff photographers and other sources.
rajkumar
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 16:02
i like much your site it hepls to desiging
valuestockphoto
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 03:57
have a look at valuestockphoto.com we have 1000′s of images that are free for blogs and website use with the code provided. Also our sister site at photoeverywhere.com where we have 1000′s of high resolution images available for free under a creative commons license.
Susan
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 16:09
This is a must to add to your list.
http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/
IhateDesign
Friday, October 24th, 2008 19:28
Thanks for the resources, really appreciatte!
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manu
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 01:14
Really nice list.
There is also http://pixdaus.com/, which is my preferred:)
River Girl
Friday, October 24th, 2008 03:40
Great post and beautiful site!
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pab
Friday, October 24th, 2008 03:18
Awesome collection, Some news ones I hadn’t heard of.
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Benek
Friday, October 24th, 2008 01:38
How could you forget istockphoto.com?
Mike Smith
Friday, October 24th, 2008 02:17
Nice article here. Good collection. Thanks for sending this to me through stumbleupon.
Endure Graphic Design
Friday, October 24th, 2008 15:21
Great list! I only knew of a few of these sites, glad there are more to choose from! Thanks!
Janko
Friday, October 24th, 2008 10:30
Nice post. There are some new sites for me..
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v2lmedia
Friday, October 24th, 2008 17:30
Hey this is a pretty good collection. I was aware of most , but see a few here that I don’t even have. Good Stuff.
Rahul
Friday, October 24th, 2008 21:21
A must have collection for web developers and designers like me. Thanks for the effort for bring up this article. Cheers.
Dainis Graveris
Friday, October 24th, 2008 20:17
Thanks people..for all those many responses..:) Appreciated! :)
Valerio Vaz
Friday, October 24th, 2008 11:58
Hey, Great collection over here. Some i didn’t know about. Got to try some.
Thanks for sharing
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Friday, October 24th, 2008 19:25
Whoao!!! What a great list!!!!
Thanks a lot, i’m bookmarking this site right now.
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