The Best Free Stock Photography Websites

34 Comments / Design Resources / By Photoshop Tutorials Staff

ShutterStock

Shutterstock has a free file every week and they usually pick pretty good photos.

PhotoDune is one of the newer stock photo websites but they have a free photo download every month. Unlike buying a photo, the free download doesn’t get saved into your account downloads so be sure to keep a backup!

Fotolia

Three free downloads every month! Simply click on the “Free Images” link on the bottom of their website.

Thinkstock

A microstock subscription site by the popular Getty Images! As you can guess, their photos are high quality stock photos and you can download a free one every week. The free photo link is located on the homepage after you login.

Big Stock Photos

Bigstock has a free image download weekly.

Crestock

Crestock also has free stock photos that they give away.

CanStockPhoto

To download the free download, you’ll need to login first. The link can be found on the homepage after you login.

Lightstock

Lightstock the best website for faith-focused stock photography. There is a new free image download every week.

PIXTA

Another website that offers a free weekly download. The free downloads can be found on the bottom-half of the page.

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IMG Photos

1 year ago

thanks for your sharing, lately img.photos is also great.

Lexi

4 years ago

I use http://mediabakerymoments.tumblr.com/ when I’m searching for stock photos. They update their site every 2 weeks with 20 photos. All high res and under the CC license! Another great source to note.

Gabriel

6 years ago

Guys, http://www.iregioes.com.br site has many free photos of cities in Brazil.

Maidul Islam

Very interesting, easy and useful for everyone. Thanks for sharing.

PerfectExposure.org

Me and my friend are amateur photographers (although we do some paid work every now and then) and we have created this website

http://www.perfectexposure.org

We believe in free culture and we are going to post all our photos in full resolution on our website and can be used under following creative commons license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
That means you can
remix, transform, and build upon the material
for any purpose, even commercially.
100% free of cost.

We have just started this project and within months there will be thousands of photos available.
If you like our work and want to promote free culture then please spread the word to everyone who might want to build upon our work.
If everything goes right then our plan is to recruit more like minded photographers and make this site really rich with 100% free stock photos
Thank you for supporting us

Kind regards,

Roy

Anggi Krisna

Hi maybe you miss about http://www.hiresstock.com free hires stock photo for designers :)

Martin Vorel

good list, here is my site with free images for commercial use: http://freepix.eu/

Martin

7 years ago

Large free photos mostly from travelling: http://freepix.eu/

Kerioak

There is also kerioakimages.com part of the new and growing Symbiostock network of experienced independent stock image artists. Currently 130 members and over 170,000 images both increasing every day.

Brian

Another freebie site with higher res photos is http://www.adigitaldreamer.com/gallery/ which offers 1000+ images. Might be worth adding. :)

Bob

I prefer pixabay and morguefile over the others because all the photos are public domain. Other “free” places have restrictions on how the photos can be used, which defeats the purpose of the whole thing. You can also check out my site http://www.goodfreephotos.com for thousands of photos I’ve released into the public domain.

Check out http://www.goodfreephotos.com for free stock photos. Thousands there.

john

Thanks for the resources. that is what i have been looking for my website

John

Here is another free stock photos site with Pinterest like layout:

http://stockphotos.io

Linda E.

Thanks a lot for the info. I am sure i can get few of the required images from above sites.
We also use a website called http://pickupimage.com.
If you are a website designer, blogger here you can download high resolution Free stock images for free.

Steve Borsuk

Great list!! Thanks for Sharing with us.

Andrew

Stockpholio.com is good stuff and so is photoshoptutorials.ws =D

Cris DeRaud

A good alternative to sxc is rgbstock.com

Lynn Jackson

Not sure why “dreams time” is on any list? Personally, I found nothing FREE! And I will never purchase any images from these companies, advertising “LARGEST SELECTION OF FREE STOCK IMAGES”