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I love photographs.
Great pictures attract more people as compared to regular ones, so we all love to see great images on a daily basis.
We need
So everyone is looking for the free stock images so that we can use them without any legal issues.
When I started blogging, I was using images after searching on Google and then used them directly on my blog without giving any credit to actual owners.
Using images directly on my blog seems to be illegal, so I decided to read more about the licence of images.
One day while surfing the internet I came across an article saying “Legal Lesson Learned: Copywriter Pays $4,000 for $10 Photo.” This was completely shocking to me as I was also using images after finding from the internet.
Here we are going to talk about some of the best sites which will help you to grab copyright free images which you can use in your blog posts. But before proceeding further I would like to explain about license of images.
You must always search images with a creative common licence, because these are the images which can be used in your blog posts.
Watch this video about creative common.
This image will help you to understand what a creative common licence is.
You can copy, distribute, and display the photo or image placed under a Creative Commons license providing the photo or image is correctly attributed to the owner.
Creative common license are applicable worldwide, they are non-revocable, not exclusive, and lasts for the duration of the works copyright.
All images on Internet has various licences so always check the licence before using any image online.
Here are few of them.
For more details, you can check this Infographic: “Creative Commons: free photos for bloggers.“
In this article, we are going to see some of the awesome free stock images sites from where you can download high-resolution pictures for free.
These royalty free stock photos are available in various sizes so you can download them in the required sizes or reduce them later with your favorite photo editing software.
Here are 70+ Sites For Bloggers to Get FREE Stock Images (Copyright Free Images)
1. Unsplash
Unsplash is one of the best sites to get free images for the blog posts, featured images, Pinterest graphics and various online marketing activities.
They have images from all
2. Pexels
We personally use Pexels a lot. We love the ease of image downloading at Pexels. Just select the image you want to download, select the size and just download it in your computer.
3. Pixabay
Pixabay is one of the top
4. Death to the Stock Photo
They have pretty an awesome name to say that we provide you professional stock images from free.
You can subscribe to them and start getting awesome stock images in your inbox every week.
5. Gratisography
Gratisography is known for having images which add humour.
Like all other sites mentioned above, you can used Gratisography to download some of the awesome stock pictures for free.
6. PhotoPin
I love this site more than any other site. The design of this site is so awesome that this is on my first preference when I start searching images for my articles.
They have fetched all the images from Flickr, which are under creative common licence so you can use them in your blog posts and on various other places.
From this site, you can download images of various sizes, and they provide attribution code which you can place directly on your blog after copying.
See screenshot
You can download images of various sizes and directly copy-paste the code in your blog post.
7. FreeDigitalPhotos
This was the very first site I started using for finding free images. Almost all old articles on my blog have images found from FreeDigitalPhotos.net.
They offer royalty free images for business and personal use. You can use these images for your blog, advertising purpose, various newspapers, your ebooks and on various other places.
By surfing their categories or using search option, you can grab many premium looking images at free of cost.
8. StockVault
On StockVault, you will get a very high-quality collection of stock photos, as well as logo templates, clip arts, textures and backgrounds.
The quality of the images is damn awesome, and professional designers can pick images from here for non-commercial use.
9. Stock.Xchng
stock.xchng is other great option for getting free images.
When you will start searching images here (like all other sites) then they will suggest you premium images form other image providers. So if you are not satisfied with the free images, then you can spend a little money and buy from there also. As the images which they will show as premium will be very much targeted to your search keyword.
They have over 350,000 awesome images uploaded by 30,000 photographers from world-wide, so finding images on this site will be much easier for you.
10. Fotolia
Fotolia is a large website having 20 million premium royalty-free stock photos, Fotolia offers few photos for free.
Image sizes vary from about 425x280px up to 3,400×2,300px. Both crowd-sourced and professional images can be found on this site.
11. Flickr
Flickr is one of the oldest sites to get free images. All the images uploaded at this site are
Images having a creative-common license are free to use.
12. Burst
Burst is a platform launched by Shopify.
All the photos on their platform are offered under the CC0 license, which means you’re welcome to use the photos for any purpose.
13. Albumarium
This is an awesome free stock images site created by Vilem Ries. They have listed some of the awesome clicks by professional photographers which you can download for free.
14. Magdeleine
Magdeleine shares one high-resolution photo every day.
They have images with different licenses which you can choose by setting the filter at the right.
They have added an awesome filter which lets you choose the images as per their
15. BarnImages
Here, you will find only quality photography that’s fresh, with nothing that duplicates the stock photography you’ll generally find elsewhere.
16. NegativeSpace
Another CC0 licensed images site to get awesome pictures for your blogs.
17. Skitterphoto
18. Jay Mantri
19. Polar Fox
20. Good Stock Photos
21. Travel Coffee Book
22. Free Food Photos
23. Startup Stock Photos
24. KaboomPics
25. Pic Jumbo
26. Negative Space
27. Morguefile
28. Stokpic
29. ColorUBold
30. Freerange
31. LibreShot
32. Fancy Crave
33. StockSnap.io
34. SplitShire
35. Life of Pix
36. HubSpot
37. ISO Republic
38. New Old Stock
39. ReShot
40. FoodiesFeed
41. Freestocks.org
42. Picography
43. MMT Stock
44. Little Visuals
45. Epicantus
46. ShotStash
47. StyledStock
48. DesignerPics
49. RealisticShot
50. FancyCrave
51. StartupStockPhotos
52. Scatter Jar
53. TravelCoffeeBook
54. GoodFreePhotos
55. 4FREEPhotos
56. Adigitaldreamer
57. BigFoto
58. Freeimages.co.uk
59. FreeNatureStock
60. StockUp
61. FreePik
62. Nomad Pictures
63. GetRefe
64. PublicDomainArchive.com
65. Flazingo
66. IMCreator.com/free
67. Plixs
68. Commons.Wikimedia.org
69. Rawpixel
70. IvoryMix
71. Focus Fitness
72. The Pic Pac
73. StreetWill
74. PicoGraphy
Final words
If you are using images after searching on Google then STOP.
I have shared these excellent resources for you so that you can find some quality images from here and use them in your articles to make them more professional.
We are personally using many of the free stock images to create featured images for our niche blogs and social media graphics as well.
Most of the Pinterest graphics we are creating with stock images only and they are bringing pretty awesome results for us.
If you are using any good sites other than these, then please share with us so that we can get some more awesome images.
Are these images in webistes safe for Adsense?
And do I need to provide “Credit: ___” below the image?
And do they have images which satisfies the need of Technology blogs?
And the images in Wikimedia Commons also copyright free?
Hope you answer these questions 🙂
1. Yes they are safe for AdSense.
2. Providing credit would be a great way to respect the creator/owner.
3. They have images for all categories.
4. Yes, the images from Wikimedia Commons are also good to use.
Finally thanks a lot Anchit for asking great questions. These will help many other people. (Y)
You’ve displayed some valuable sources for bloggers to get images for their blog posts Nagi 🙂
Yeah, it would not be good to use the image of other without giving proper credits.
I used to take pictures from Google Advanced image search with the option “free to use or share, even commercially” and Flickr.com
Will give a try to these stock images sites, thanks for sharing 🙂
Glad to see you around Nirmala. You are already doing awesome job by using Advance search option so no worry for you. 🙂
Now start finding more awesome images for your blog posts. (Y)
Hiiiii Kulwant,
What’s an amazing post Bro. You fulfilled the wishes of all Bloggers who where finding this types of information from where they can get free stock images. I am also much happy to know about these five websites. Thanks for sharing this useful and helpful article with all of us……!!
Amit, before knowing about these sites I was trying hard to find great images for my blog posts, but after little research I found them.. Hope you will start using them and make your readers more happy. 🙂
Thanks for stopping by and appreciating my work.
I always want stock images as searching image on Google image is not much good. But getting free images is great. thanks
Am happy to see list of websites where I can get free images for my blog posts.
I really appreciate your good effort here.
hey kulwant
this is a nice article to get awareness among the newbies to get quality images with legal license.
Great Work
Hey Mate..
Great list..
But disappointed that none of these sites have any quality images that is specifically suiting for blogging Niche..
Flickr was always my last resort..But google is damn serious about distribution of copyrighted images especially from flickr
Anz, I am using PhotoPin from last too many months and it satisfy my need always. 🙂
Hi again
Good thing that you pointed out.I did had a quick look at photopin & typed ‘Blogging’ in the search bar.
images did appear ,except that it was too centralized to pictures having caption ‘blog’ in them…(which is common and is used by many)
Don’t you thing ‘uniqueness ‘ should be our key for blogging success??
Regards
Anz, in this case you can try other sites.
Awesome Collection of Sites. And Sites have Awesome collection of Images.
Thanks for posting resources. I think all-free-download.com should be include in above post.
Hello Kulwant sir,
I am always using google images for my article and never heard about above places, I will use images from those in the future.
Thanks for such an informative article.
Now start utilizing them, Swapnil. You will get tons of quality images from there.
Very late to this party, but I’ll add that Dreamstime also has a ton of free images:
http://www.dreamstime.com/free-photos
And you can also find images with usage rights on Deviant Art, although they tend to be more “artsy” and less your sort of generic stock photo type:
http://www.deviantart.com/
Thanks for recommending more sites. Have a good day. 🙂
I think you really have lot of good content on your website. This was another good stuff that is going to be very useful because we all use images but don’t know its harmful effects if used improperly or infringing copyrights. Thanks for the share!
Hey Kulwant Nagi thanks for sharing this awesome article but i want to know that providing license is necassary or i can use without license? If i used photos from the PhotoPin without giving any license what will happen means will i got any message or not?
You should give them credit, even if you are using free images.