With human brains processing images much faster than text, good photos are vital for grabbing attention and getting messages across. Unfortunately, we’ve grown accustomed to seeing cheesy stock images of people in suits shaking hands. These stock photos not only lack quality, they also cost a lot of money. Thankfully, there’s been a growing number of websites with beautiful free stock photography popping up all over the web. We selected the best free stock image websites available beginning of 2021.
Pexels
Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Pexels license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through our discover pages. Pexels has hundreds of thousands free stock photos and every day new high resolution photos will be added. All photos are hand-picked from photos uploaded by our users or sourced from free image websites. We make sure all published pictures are high-quality and licensed under the Pexels license. Pexels is run by Bruno Joseph, Ingo Joseph and Daniel Frese.
Unsplash
Over 550,000 free (do-whatever-you-want) high-resolution photos brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers. With a huge library of photos and thousands more being added each day, chances are Unsplash got a photo for you. Find inspiration in the new photos Unsplash hand-selects every day or use our search to find and download exactly what you’re looking for. It helps to be able to organize content. See some of the industry’s curated collections of free photos (Nasa, Trello, Apple, InVision). Or start collecting your own!
Pixabay
Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images and videos. All contents are released under Creative Commons CC0, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes. You can copy, modify, distribute, and use the images, even for commercial purposes, all without asking for permission or giving credits to the artist. However, depicted content may still be protected by trademarks, publicity or privacy rights.
Stocksnap
Stocksnap knows how crucial finding precisely the right image can be to the success of your creative project. Whether you're building a business website, creating a print brochure, crafting a digital or magazine ad, or some other brilliant creative project, you know that a great image helps your content transcend "good" and become "great." Compelling, eye-catching, attention-grabbing work on the web especially needs sharp, arresting visual images to succeed. That, in essence, is why StockSnap exists. Stocksnap offers beautiful, high quality stock photos for just about any use you can think of - including commercial usage - for free. No tricks, no gimmicks, no fine print; just dazzling images for your creative projects.
Burst
Burst is a free stock photo platform that is powered by Shopify. Their image library includes thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images that were shot by our global community of photographers. Burst was built to provide designers, developers, bloggers and entrepreneurs with access to beautiful free stock photography. You can use Burst pictures for just about anything - your website, blog or online store, school projects, Instagram ads, facebook posts, desktop backgrounds, client work and more. All Burst photos are free for commercial use with no attribution required; you can read more about this on our license page.
Reshot
From seasoned pros to those with a newly-discovered creative spark, Reshot will help you elevate your creative projects. All photos from Reshot are free for commercial and editorial use, under the Reshot License. Giving photo credit is not required, but our photographers do greatly appreciate it when possible! The free stock photos on Reshot are sourced from individual contributors and via partnerships with other photography communities. For example, some Reshot photographers have photos on Reshot to gain extra exposure for their work.
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