If you want to add some spice to your content, it’s essential to be able to find free images online.
You don’t need a subscription to a stock photo site or money on hand; there are plenty of places with high-quality photos you can use for free. All you have to do is search for them!
We’ve gathered ten of our favorite sites where you can find free images—and they’re all free once you sign up (or log in). So, get ready because there’s no limit on how many times you can use these fabulous photos in your projects.
1. Pexels
Pexels is one of the largest free stock photo sites online. The site has over 500,000 high-quality images, and all photos on Pexels are free for commercial use. All photos on Pexels are licensed under Creative Commons Zero (CC0), which means you can use them in your work without asking permission or giving attribution.
Pexels’ images have various categories, including nature, food, objects, and architecture. You can also browse by keyword or search by image type, such as “food” or “people.
2. Unsplash
Unsplash is a popular free stock photo website where you can download images for free. It has many ideas, including landscapes and cityscapes, people, food and drink, animals, transportation, and more. Some photos are also accompanied by quotes that can be used as captions.
Unsplash was founded in 2011 by Mikael Cho (who also co-founded Crew) to create an online community for photographers to share their work with others.
Today Unsplash has grown into one of the most popular free stock photo sites, with over 15 million monthly users worldwide.
3. Kaboompics
Kaboompics is a free stock photo site that offers a good selection of images. The search functionality on Kaboompics works pretty well and allows for quick indexing of keywords that are relevant to your searches. Their database contains an extensive list of categories, each with hundreds of photos.
Kaboompics also has a “free commercial” section which provides more than 1 million images for your commercial projects without any restrictions or attribution required.
Pixabay is one of the most popular websites for free images. It has a wide range of photos from different photographers and categories, so it’s easy to find an image that could fit your needs.
The site is easy to navigate and searchable by keyword or category. You can also browse by “popular” images, which will show you what other people are looking at on Pixabay at any given time.
5. Snappa
Snappa is one of my favorite sites for free images because it’s easy to navigate, has a wide selection of photos and graphics, and doesn’t require attribution or watermarks.
The site has an extensive library of free stock photos, vectors, mockups, and templates categorized by industry (e.g., technology), scene (e.g., cityscapes), and more.
It can be a little hard to find exactly what you’re looking for as there are so many options; if you have trouble finding what you want in Snappa’s search engine, try clicking on one of the categories listed above to narrow it down some more.
6. Freerange
Freerange is a photo agency that offers free and premium photos.
The site has a wide range of subjects, including nature, animals, food, etc. Photos are high-quality, royalty-free images you can use commercially if you choose.
One of the best places to get free images is Shutterstock. They have a collection of over 70,000 royalty-free images that are available for commercial use, and they don’t watermark their photos.
You can search through the site’s entire collection or narrow it down by category (e.g., animals or nature). You can also download all images in full resolution or view them as thumbnails on their website.
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