Photos are the very first need of any website and the quality of photos really matters. Photos are the only way to attract users on our website and to rock our first impression and we all have heard that first impression is the last impression. So in one line we can say that we need best royalty free stock photos to use in our website.
But for god sake now we haveroyalty free stock photography sites which gives us royalty stock photos for free and for commercial use.
What about Licenses?
You must be thinking of images license. There are few types of licenses these images have like few of them license doesn’t allow us to downloads the images and few of them allows us to download the images but we can’t use these photos for our commercial use and some of them allows us to download the photos and use them for our commercial use but without editing them. But we want the stock photos which we can download freely and edit it and the use it in commercial work (in our blog) all according to us.
These types of photos are licensed under creative commons public domain dedication which means we can download and edit photos and can use for any purpose even without asking any type of permission. The photos in the sites which I’m suggesting you to download free stock photos are licensed under this creative commons public domain license, but still we want you check the sites terms and conditions before using their photos for the safer side.
Now let’s directly come to the point, best places to get free stock photos –
10 Best sites to get free stock images:-
1.Gratisography
Gratisography is website which is made to fulfill our all desires, god bless the owner of this site (Ryan McGuire) Lol. ;-) This site offers us royalty free images with high quality and all the images in this site are free of copyright restrictions & new pictures are added weekly.
2. Picjumbo
This is also the best place to get free stock photos for your blog & commercial work. Daily new photos are added for you. Their stats say 3,759,588+ downloads since day one. And the best part is that no attribution required at all.
3.Flickr
Flicker is the one which I like to use for my blog. This site is the best place to get royalty free images. You should absolutely try this one to download free stock photos.
4. Unsplash
Unsplash is also an awesome site to get stock photos for free. They offers the best landscapes I have ever seen & you don’t have to search the photos too much just need to scroll down the home page .
5.Pixabay
Pixabay is the site which will not let you down in any way because you will find every single photo there which you can’t image & no attribution required.
6. MMT Stock
MMT Stock is also one of my favorite. They have a huge collection of breath taking images for free. I just wanna say thanks to Jeffery Betts for this awesome site.
7.Picography
Picography is the site which anybody can handle in first time. All the images you’ll get on their home page.
8.Stocksnap
The photos in Stocksnap is also licensed under CCO which means this is useful for us. This site also offers us high resolution images with a wide range of categories.
9.IM Free
IM Free is a very simple site to get free stock photos for your website. You should also check this out.
10.LittleVisuals
LittleVisuals is also a great site to get free stock photosfor free. You can submit your email address their and then you’ll get a bunch of 7 photos in your email in zip file & no attribution required at all.
Extra's- Goodfreephotos
One of my friend suggested this awesome new site for free stock photos website. There are thousands of unique public domain photos, all high-resolution and free to use for any purpose. They specialize in photos by location as document cities, national parks, state parks, national landmarks, and many more.They updates 20+ photos each week. You should try this once... :)RAWPixel -
This is also suggested by my friend in comments, I have personally checked it out & really trust me I'm shocked that how can I leave this. I have seen this site for first time and it really fully impressed me. I suggest you to check it out once. it will not let you down at all. We just have to signup once and it's all set to download our photo.Your Turn –
I have tried to make this list of 10 best sites to get free stock photos best of best. But if I have missed some of the best sites then please let me know in comments bellow.
Do you use royalty free stock images in your blog (absolutely Yes if you have a blog!) then let me know which website do you use to download free stock images?
Thank You :-)
