34 Free Stock Photo Sites For You
Free stock photo sites are a great resource available to all on the internet.
Lot’s of people need to use photographs in their work, and and aren’t in a position to supply their own.
These include blog owners, graphic artists and people requiring them for social media.
When someone is starting a website with a limited budget, they’re extremely useful.
There’s the option of buying photographs from stock or micro stock sites, and they’re not all very expensive.
However there are also the free stock photo sites, where free photographs are available.
Free stock photo sites are a great resource for people who are just starting out and haven’t a big budget.
Generous photographers provide free stock photo sites
These are only available because some photographers make their images available to sites that host free stock photos.
They don’t have to, they could offer them to paid stock sites, and make money with them
Those photos that weren’t accepted by the paid stock sites could be just forgotten about.
Instead they make them available for free, to allow others to make money with them.
Generally they don’t even insist on attribution for their generosity.
However if you do use some, if possible do give them an attribution.
Always check the licence
Even though the photograph are provided free of charge, they are all subject to a licence.
For the most part these licences allow very generous use with little restrictions.
However some of the licences do have things that have to be adhered to.
Always check the licence to see that what you want to use the photo for is allowed.
If you don’t like a condition of one sites contract, leave it, and try another.
There are plenty of free stock photo sites so you should find what you want.
The Free stock photo sites
Below is a list of 34 sites offering free photos for commercial use.
Just click on the links to check them out.
1. Unsplash
2. StockSnap.io
3. Reshot
4. Morguefile
5. Pexels
6. FOCA
8. Picography
10. Pixabay
11. Rawpixel
13. ISO Republic!
14. Free Images
15. Stockvault
16. Freerange
17. SkitterPhoto
18. FoodiesFeed
19. Fancy Crave
20. RGBStock
21. Grallim Stock
22. Picspree
23. Picjumbo
24. Jay Mantri
25. Pikwizard
26. Kaboom Pics
27. Little Visuals
28. Libreshot
29. New Old Stock
30. Life of Pix
31. SplitShire
32. Negative Space
33. Stokpic
Bonus Site; PikWizard
Did you find what you wanted
I hope you found something that helped you achieve what you wanted.
If the licence attached to the photos you chose asked for an attribution, give one willingly.
It’s a small price to pay for a photographer’s generosity.
In the long run you may buy a camera, and learn to take the photographs you need, yourself.
