30 Free Stock Photo Sites: Ultimate Collection
Dainis GraverisHuh, 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.
1. Sxc.hu
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.
2. EveryStockPhoto
EveryStockPhoto site is becoming more and more popular, now there are 4,4 million free photos!
3. MorgueFile
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. 
4. Flickr
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.
5. Deviantart
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.
6. Kavewall
All images are separated in 18 different categories with really handy navigation.
7. StockVault
More than 11,000 stock photos are available for now.
8. Image*After
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.
9. CreatingOnline
10. AllDigitalDreamer
11. FreeFoto
FreeFoto.com is made up of 122879 images with 157 sections organized into 3386 categories for now, pretty impressive indeed.
12. DreamsTime
Over 4 million photographs are over here for free or 0.20$/image.
13. FreeRange
All images are at least 2400 x 1600, and photos can be used for commercial or personal projects. 
14. FreeDigitalPhotos
15. FreeStockImages
16. TurboPhoto
17. Visipix
18. FreePhotosBank
19. Cepolina
Over 8,000 photos available for now, each photo can be downloaded in five formats – up to 1024x768px.
20. BigFoto
This interesting site offers high resolution and really beautiful photos of continents.
21. OpenPhoto
20 different categories with high quality nature and architectural photos.
22. ShutterStock
4,9 million royalty-free stock photos with almost 80 000 new photos every week.
23. PdPhoto
Several thousands of royalty free pictures here and free for use.
24. FromOldBooks
FromOldBooks site offers scanned images, engravings and pictures from old books 
25. FreeImages
2500 original stock photos for free.
26. DexHaus
27. PublicDomainPhotos
More than 5,000 free photos out there and free for commercial use.
28. FreeLargePhotos
29. ImageBase
Every picture is free to use and really high resolution – from 1600×1200 until 3072x2048px! 
30. PhotoRack
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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Martha
Posted 55 days ago 68Yow! 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. ^^__
W.K
Posted 100 days ago 67Great compilation! I have a post about top 10 free photo sites: http://goo.gl/UwAe6 . This might be resourceful and helpful too!
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Posted 272 days ago 63Excellent list!
You may want to check http://www.picdrome.com, a growing Public Domain picture collection, free of copyright and licensed under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication.
Thanks
harry
Posted 279 days ago 62a new site in progress for free pictures http://www.photosshare.gr
Haffey
Posted 314 days ago 61hey, check http://depositphotos.com/free-photos.html , they offer free trial subscription for new users.
Charles
Posted 330 days ago 60I 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 -
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Posted 459 days ago 55nice site! I like the design.
check out http://www.freestockfor.us and http://www.allourstock.com both 100% free as far as I can tell (Creative Commons licensing)
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fabry
Posted 633 days ago 53Great collection to sell photos!
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Sarah
Posted 695 days ago 52Thank 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.
jay
Posted 701 days ago 51an other free stock photo site: http://www.rgbstock.com . more then 41,000 free stock photos on line