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30 Free Stock Photo Sites: Ultimate Collection

By Dainis Graveris • October 24, 2008

title-free-photo-sites 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.

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. stock 2. EveryStockPhoto EveryStockPhoto site is becoming more and more popular, now there are 4,4 million free photos! every-stock 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. morgue-file 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. flickr 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. deviantart 6. Kavewall All images are  separated in 18 different categories with really handy navigation. kave-wall 7. StockVault More than 11,000 stock photos are available for now. stock-vault 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. image-after 9. CreatingOnline creating-online 10. AllDigitalDreamer free-stock-photography 11. FreeFoto FreeFoto.com is made up of 122879 images with 157 sections organized into 3386 categories for now, pretty impressive indeed. free-foto 12. DreamsTime Over 4 million photographs are over here for free or 0.20$/image. dreamstime 13. FreeRange All images are at least 2400 x 1600, and photos can be used for commercial or personal projects. freerange 14. FreeDigitalPhotos freedigitalphotos 15. FreeStockImages free-stock-images 16. TurboPhoto turbo-photo 17. Visipix visipix 18. FreePhotosBank freephotosbank 19. Cepolina Over 8,000 photos available for now, each photo can be downloaded in five formats – up to 1024×768px. cepolina 20. BigFoto This interesting site offers high resolution and really beautiful photos of continents. bigfoto 21. OpenPhoto 20 different categories with high quality nature and architectural photos. openphoto 22. ShutterStock 4,9 million royalty-free stock photos with almost 80 000 new photos every week. shutterstock 23. PdPhoto Several thousands of royalty free pictures here and free for use. pdphoto 24. FromOldBooks FromOldBooks site offers scanned images, engravings and pictures from old books oldbooks 25. FreeImages 2500 original stock photos for free. freeimages 26. DexHaus dexhaus 27. PublicDomainPhotos More than 5,000 free photos out there and free for commercial use. public-domain-photos 28. FreeLargePhotos freelargephotos 29. ImageBase Every picture is free to use and really high resolution – from 1600×1200 until 3072×2048px! image-base 30. PhotoRack All pictures listed at PhotoRack are Free to use for personal and commercial projects. photorack If You know some more good free stock photo sites, please share with us, to evolve our design community!!

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72 Responses to “ 30 Free Stock Photo Sites: Ultimate Collection ”

  1. Benek Oct 24th, 2008 at 01:38

    How could you forget istockphoto.com?

  2. Dainis Graveris Oct 24th, 2008 at 01:51

    @Benek as far as I know there is not free photos available, so I didn’t include it..

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  4. Mike Smith Oct 24th, 2008 at 02:17

    Nice article here. Good collection. Thanks for sending this to me through stumbleupon.

  5. pab Oct 24th, 2008 at 03:18

    Awesome collection, Some news ones I hadn’t heard of.

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  6. River Girl Oct 24th, 2008 at 03:40

    Great post and beautiful site!

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  9. Janko Oct 24th, 2008 at 10:30

    Nice post. There are some new sites for me..

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  10. Valerio Vaz Oct 24th, 2008 at 11:58

    Hey, Great collection over here. Some i didn’t know about. Got to try some.

    Thanks for sharing

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  11. Endure Graphic Design Oct 24th, 2008 at 15:21

    Great list! I only knew of a few of these sites, glad there are more to choose from! Thanks!

  12. v2lmedia Oct 24th, 2008 at 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.

  13. Swedish For Idiots Oct 24th, 2008 at 17:50

    Dang! What a great list!

  14. backslashW Oct 24th, 2008 at 19:25

    Whoao!!! What a great list!!!!
    Thanks a lot, i’m bookmarking this site right now.

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  15. IhateDesign Oct 24th, 2008 at 19:28

    Thanks for the resources, really appreciatte!

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  16. CoolProducts Oct 24th, 2008 at 19:49

    I love DeviantArt! It has a GREAT collection of work from people around the world on all skill levels! Great addition to the list!

  17. Dainis Graveris Oct 24th, 2008 at 20:17

    Thanks people..for all those many responses..:) Appreciated! :)

  18. Rahul Oct 24th, 2008 at 21:21

    A must have collection for web developers and designers like me. Thanks for the effort for bring up this article. Cheers.

  19. manu Oct 25th, 2008 at 01:14

    Really nice list.
    There is also http://pixdaus.com/, which is my preferred:)

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  21. Johnson Koh Oct 25th, 2008 at 04:48

    Excellent list Dainis!
    You’ve just given me more choices on places to source images :D

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  22. ethnicomm Oct 25th, 2008 at 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 :)

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  28. Simon Vallee Oct 25th, 2008 at 20:34

    Nice roundup. Much thanks!

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    Nice collection of stock photo sites. Very useful.

  34. eduardo Oct 27th, 2008 at 13:17

    this post is very very very very usefull! thanks!

  35. Joel Drapper Oct 27th, 2008 at 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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  36. Joel Drapper Oct 27th, 2008 at 14:17

    Stupid me. http://everystockphoto.com is a search engine.

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  43. Internet Trend Nov 6th, 2008 at 05:18

    Very cool collection! thanks for sharing this to us. :)

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  52. rajkumar Jan 21st, 2009 at 16:02

    i like much your site it hepls to desiging

  53. Bmiller Feb 3rd, 2009 at 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.

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  55. Photo seller Feb 28th, 2009 at 00:24

    Thanks for the links, used some of them in my own list.. imo, sxc is one of the leading resources in the free stock photo industry =)
    I may add one more from myself – some conceptual images on http://co-photo.com/ – not big, but growing bit-a-bit.

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    Thanks for the listings. I found thousands of good quality royalty free images at http://www.sunipix.com

  58. WAP KIDS Mar 18th, 2009 at 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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  63. John May 16th, 2009 at 01:56

    There are a few photos and illustrations on stockazoo too.

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  64. Naresh May 18th, 2009 at 08:08

    i like much your site it hepls to desiging. Jangid

  65. cedric May 19th, 2009 at 11:58

    I propose http://phovoir-images.com, specialised on european countries

  66. cedric May 19th, 2009 at 12:01

    http://www.phvoir-images.com

  67. Tom the Webmanager May 26th, 2009 at 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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  68. Naresh Sharma May 26th, 2009 at 21:35

    Mast!!!!!!!!

    Cool Information..

  69. Naresh Sharma May 26th, 2009 at 21:37

    It is very nice information for Users..

    Thanks
    Naresh Jangid

  70. Mobile Jun 16th, 2009 at 23:36

    Hey,

    Great collection here. Thanks For All.

    Thanks

    Mobile

  71. Paul Jun 21st, 2009 at 16:09

    Hey! Nice job here! I’ll be dropping by from time to time :)

  72. Stop Dreaming Start Action Jun 26th, 2009 at 18:21

    yes agree, this is really ultimate collections

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