Awhile back, I wrote a post about five great sites to find free stock photos for personal and commercial use. Not too long after putting that article together, I began finding an endless pool of additional resources, and knew I needed to share them. Take a look at my roundup below to start finding amazing free photos for use across your website, social media posts, marketing materials, and more.
Keep in mind that, while I've researched the current license and attribution requirements of each site listed below, that things can and often do change over time. I would advise double checking each, especially before using in a commercial work, just to play it safe!
Photos are free for personal and commercial use under the site's own license.
To start receiving photos, simply sign up for a free account, and they'll deliver a fresh pack of stock photos to your inbox each month.
If you're anything like me, you'll be delighted to see the new pack delivered to your inbox each month—and you'll immediately start planning on how you're going to use each and every lovely photo. Click here to check it out!
Attribution requirement varies depending on the photographer.
To start receiving photos, simply sign up for a free account.
Freeimages gives users the option to browse through categories or to search their galleries of over 350,000 quality stock photos from over 30,000 photographers. Click here to check it out!
Simply visit the website, and start downloading for free immediately!
Freepixels offers over 5,000 free photos in 40 different categories, and also features a great breakdown of the site's image library. Click here to check it out!
Above photo courtesy of Freepixels.
Photos are free for personal and commercial use per the creator's statement on the website.
Attribution is not required, but you are requested to share the site if you find the photos useful.
Function offers a few small collections of totally free stock photos, and has the nice capability to download the entire collection as a .zip file. Click here to check it out!
Photos are free for personal and commercial use under Creative Commons Zero.
Gratisography offers a seemingly endless collection of creative and high quality photos, all allowed for personal and commercial use with absolutely no strings attached. Click here to check it out!
The ISO Republic image collection contains a nice search feature, and features tons of images from different categories like architecture, nature, people, textures, and more. Click here to check it out!
Jay Mantri, inspired by the awesome Unsplash project, releases seven new, amazingly artistic photos each and every Thursday. It's a fun site to bookmark and check back in on frequently. Click here to check it out!
Simply visit the website, and start downloading for free immediately, or subscribe and receive them in your inbox each week.
Little Visuals ships out their freebies via email each week, or you're welcome to come and grab them yourself from the site. This is an especially great freebie site for nature and abstract stock photos. Click here to check it out!
Morgue File features a great community of amazing photographers sharing their quality photos for free. Additionally, the images can easily be searched and can also be filtered by tags like popular, new, and last downloaded. Click here to check it out!
This unique site features a wide array of vintage photos from the public archives—all photos are free of known copyright restrictions, and may be the perfect solution for certain projects. Click here to check it out!
Picjumbo is nicely organized—the photos are broken up into categories like abstract, business, fashion, technology, etc. and everything is tagged for even more advanced filtering. Click here to check it out!
Picography features a nice collection of totally free high resolution photographs. The site is equipped with a handy search function, and all images are tagged so filtering is a breeze. Click here to check it out!
Smaller photo sizes can be downloaded without an account; larger photo sizes will require you to sign up for an absolutely free account.
Pixabay features a large collection of photos, vectors, and illustrations that are easily filterable through an easy to use search interface. Click here to check it out!
Photos are free for personal and commercial use. No direct license is listed, so I would recommend contacting the photographer to receive a copy of the usage agreement.
Refer offers up an interesting little collection of completely free, high resolution stock photos. Click here to check it out!
SplitShire is an awesome free photography project featuring plenty of categories to sort through, including food, landscapes, technology, people, and more. Click here to check it out!
Photos are free for personal and commercial use under Creative Commons 3.0.
Superfamous is the Los Angeles-based studio of Dutch interaction designer Folkert Gorter. His artistic photography is available for free download, and he features various unique collections to choose from, including aerial, biological, social, and more. Click here to check it out!
Unsplash is a rather new free image site, but it's quickly becoming one of my personal favorites! This awesome site features ten new totally free, high-resolution photos every ten days. You are free to do whatever you'd like with these downloads. Click here to check it out!
And that sums up the collection! Know of any free stock photo sites I'm missing? Leave a comment below and let me know!
I hope you like it and thank in advance for sending in your feedback!
I haven't seen this site before—thanks so much for sharing! Looks like a nice variety of free high-res photos!