Top Free Stock Photo Sites

Discover in this article the biggest collection of Free Stock Photo sites to use in personal and commercial projects. Through the images, we can represent our ideas, concepts, and reality. Me as a web designer and mockup artisan I know that. And also every designer of apparel, Image and Sound or Advertising needs high-quality photos in full resolution to use as a medium or contribution to the message.

I always have to create designs for mockups and I find myself tired seeing the same images of elegant people smiling or shaking hands in a meeting room. You know how tedious it’s to search for impacting images for our project, different, natural, familiar, that represent what we really do in our day. Luckily for us, in recent years have been launched new websites that offer stock of free images.

And can be used freely?

Many of the photos on these sites are free of copyright restrictions under the creative commons public domain dedication license. This means that you can use them any way you want: modify, copy, distribute and perform, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. However, there will be images that require retribution so it is your task to determine which one is best for you to use in your project.

1. Unsplash

Unsplash is an elegant and very fluid site that offers a large library of thousands of high-quality photos. The community daily add new photos, save the new photos you like for future projects. All the photos published on Unsplash can be used for free and you can use them for commercial and non-commercial purposes.

2. Pexels

Pexels is not just a free platform of stock photos, but also have a high-quality videos. They create challenges to motivate photographers to bring new content. A site easy to navigate with a content nicely sorted. All photos are free to use for personal an commercial purpose.

3. Kaboom Pics

Kaboompics is a site where you can find images that represent the lifestyle, interior design and much more, coming from the inspiration of a girl with a very good eye photographic moments, she says she is here to help you visualize your world, your business, and your ideas for life. The site I really liked is super easy to use and has some interesting search filters.

4. Burst

Burst is a free photo stock platform powered by Shopify. A huge library that currently includes thousands of photos totally free in high resolution. Most important for any use, both personal and commercial. A project thought for designers, developers and bloggers.

5. Pixabay

Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives who share royalty-free photos, illustrations, vectors, and videos. The content is published under the Pixabay License, making it safe to use for personal and commercial purposes.

6. Reshot

Reshot is a platform to share a sample of the best works of the best emerging photographers in the world for free use in creative projects. Creatives who need visual content can explore and download freely for commercial and personal use.

7. FoodiesFeed

Foodiesfeed is a site with beautiful photos of food. They give a more natural touch to what we want to represent with the photos. In addition, the content is under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.

8. StockSnap.io

StockSnap contains a big collection of high-quality photos. The platform is open, so daily new photos are uploaded to the catalog for contributors. The site contains a good filter which allows to speed up the search as needed. Images are under creative commons public domain – no attribution required.

9. Picjumbo

Picjumbo is a great project that started in 2013 and is one of the biggest sites I know about free stock photos that can be used personal and commercial projects. All the high-resolution stock images, backgrounds, and stock photos are free of charge, with no watermark.

10. Moose

Moose is a really interesting project for those looking for something with a more corporate and formal style, this platform has a collection of realistic photo collage in a single style.

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11. MMT STock

12. SkitterPhoto

13. Life of Pix

14. Little Visuals

15. Picography

16. Freestocks.org

17. Jay Mantri

18. Gratisography

19. Epicantus

20. ISO Republic

21. Freerange Stock

22. Visual Hunt

23. Magdeleine

24. Startup Stock Photos

25. pngtree

26. Public Domain Pictures

27. picspree

28. New Old Stock

29. Freebiespic

30. pikwizard