30 Free Stock Photo Sites: Ultimate Collection
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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 1024×768px.
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
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 3072×2048px!
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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How could you forget istockphoto.com?
@Benek as far as I know there is not free photos available, so I didn’t include it..
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Nice article here. Good collection. Thanks for sending this to me through stumbleupon.
Awesome collection, Some news ones I hadn’t heard of.
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Great post and beautiful site!
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Nice post. There are some new sites for me..
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Hey, Great collection over here. Some i didn’t know about. Got to try some.
Thanks for sharing
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Great list! I only knew of a few of these sites, glad there are more to choose from! Thanks!
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.
Dang! What a great list!
Whoao!!! What a great list!!!!
Thanks a lot, i’m bookmarking this site right now.
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Thanks for the resources, really appreciatte!
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I love DeviantArt! It has a GREAT collection of work from people around the world on all skill levels! Great addition to the list!
Thanks people..for all those many responses..:) Appreciated!
A must have collection for web developers and designers like me. Thanks for the effort for bring up this article. Cheers.
Really nice list.
There is also http://pixdaus.com/, which is my preferred:)
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Excellent list Dainis!
You’ve just given me more choices on places to source images
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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
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Nice collection of stock photo sites. Very useful.
this post is very very very very usefull! thanks!
Wow! There are some great sites listed here. You saved me a lot of money buying them from iStockPhoto.com
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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Stupid me. http://everystockphoto.com is a search engine.
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Great resources, and I love the new design here!
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Very cool collection! thanks for sharing this to us.
Another amazing list. Thanks so much!
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This is a must to add to your list.
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