Nowadays there are a lot of free stock websites that can help you out with your projects. Weather you need images for your template design, photo manipulation, blog or to test actions on, I’m sure you’ll find something from this list of free stock photo sites.
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Unsplash.com
10 new free hi-resolution photos every 10 days. Direct download, no need to sign up. No Copyright.
Gratisography.com
Free high-resolution pictures for personal and commercial projects. All pictures were captured by Ryan McGuire of Bells Design. Free of copyright restrictions. New images added weekly. Direct download.
SplitShire.com
SplitShire offers you delicious free stock photos for commercial & personal use without limitations. Direct download.
PicJumbo.com
Free photos for your commercial & personal work. Photos by Viktor Hanacek. Direct download.
RGBstock.com
Huge number of free stock photos. To download you’ll need to sign up.
Stock.XCHNG
They claim to be the leading source of free stock photos. Nice slection of photos but finding the right photo might require to digging. Registration required.
Pexels.com
Free stock photos for personal and commercial use. CC0 License. Direct download, no registration.
Morguefile.com
Another great free high resolution digital stock photography site. Direct download, no registration.
Superfamous.com
Photos suitable for composites. Photos are available under a CC Attribution 3.0 license, wich means that you can use the work for your own purposes, including commercial use as long as credit is provided.
JayMantri.com
Free CC0 (do whatever you want) photos. 7 new photos every thursday. Direct download.
Picography.co
Free hi-resolution photos. Use them however you like. Direct download.
Designerspics.com
Free photographs for your personal and commercial use. This includes Websites, Presentations, Brochures/Packaging/labels, HTML/PSD Templates, T-Shirts. Direct download.
Stokpic.com
Use these high-resolution pictures for personal and commercial projects for free. All pictures on stokpic.com are free from Copyright Restrictions. Direct download.
FreeStock.ca
Free images for personal and commercial use. Creative Commons 3.0 (credit and link back). Direct download.
Lifeofpix.com
Free stock photos, high-resolution, for personal and commercial uses. New pictures added weekly!
Kaboompics.com
Free stock photos for personal and commercial use. Direct download.
Foodiesfeed.com
Free High Resolution Food Photos. 5+ photos added every week.
Scatter Jar
Delicious free high resolution food photographs for creatives.
FreeFoodPhotos.com
Free food related photos. Direct download. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Littlevisuals.co
Photos that you can use anyway you want. You can also Sign up to get 7 hi-res images zipped up in your inbox every 7 days. N sign up.
Deathtothestockphoto.com
Free photos sent to you by email every month. For commercial use, your blog posts, social accounts and mockups.
Getrefe.tumblr.com
Free Refe mobile photos. Royalty-free and high-quality. Direct download.
PhotoRack.net
Lot of nice photos but small resolution. Can be useful for templates where you need small photos. Direct download.
Snapographic.com
free high-resolution pictures for personal and commercial use.
StockSnap.io
Hundreds of high resolution images added weekly. All photos are free from copyright restrictions – No attribution required. Direct download.
Twnsnd.co
New old stock. Vintage photos from the public archives Free of known copyright restrictions.
Publicdomainarchive.com
100% free Public Domain Images New free stock photos added weekly No attribution required. No need to sign up.
Dreamstime.com
Dreamstime has nearly 10,000 royalty-free images licensed under their Limited Royalty Free License (RF-LL) that gives you the same terms as their regular Royalty Free license but with a maximum amount of 10,000 copies.
CGtextures.com
Most popular website for textures but you can also find stock photos.
DeviantArt.com
You can find great images for you photo composites. Before using the image on your art work, please read each authors rules on using the stock. Registration is not required.
Pixabay.com
Nice selection of photos on CC0 license. Registration is required.
Stockvault.net
For each image view the Usage Guidelines to see the restrictions of usage. Download without registration.
Freerangestock.com
Free stock photography for commercial or non-commercial use. Registration required.
Everystockphoto.com
Everystockphoto is like publicdomainarchive.com it is a search engine for free stock photos. Free photos are listed under creative commons, public domain and other free licenses. Worth checking out. No registration needed.
Freepixels.com
offers free high resolution stock photos for use in both personal and commercial design projects. No registration.
Imcreator.com
A curated collection of free resources, all for commercial use. No registration
Goodfreephotos.com
Free public domain photos. No registration.
I hope you find this list of stock photos useful. Know other free stock photo sites? Share them with us all and comment below. If your suggestion is good enough I’ll add it to the actual article.
