Top 10 Websites to Get Copyright Free Stock Images:
If you are looking for Alternatives to Stock Photo Sites, you have come to the right place. Royalty free photo sites are becoming more and more popular nowadays since the number of bloggers and designers using them are increasing each and every day. A good Image is a key piece in assembling a great website. Visitors are always attracted to images, which is why article with pictures gain more visitors when compared to the rest.
But sometimes finding such beautiful images to use can be difficult. That is why we have gathered this list of websites where you can find awesome copyright free stock images.
1) Picjumbo
The pictures shared in Picjumbo are from Viktor Hanacek’s own photography collection and you are allowed to use it commercially, however limited in terms of sharing the photographs. One wonderful feature I found in the site is “Test drive image” feature which allows you to look at how a particular image can be used. At the time of composing this article, Picjumbo claimed 4,055,196 photo downloads since Nov 3, 2013. Finally Picjumbo also has a Photoshop plugin, which allows creatives to get direct access to new images, from within Photoshop, as they are released every day.
2) Pixabay
Pixabay is another site which has good variety of copyright free stock images. You are free to adapt and use them for commercial purposes without attributing the original author or source. What’s nice about Pixabay is how well it is organized. You can search for images by category, color or background.3) SplitShire
SplitShire is new to the list and it offers you delicious free stock photos for commercial & personal use without limitations.4) Pexels
Well, this was a surprising new find. Pexels has a very good variety of photos and wallpapers, which are free and can be used for personal and even for commercial use. You are allowed to modify the images, copy and distribute the photos. All without asking for permission or setting a link to the source. So, attribution is not required.5) StockSnap
Stocksnap is a Free stock photos website owned by the Snappa guys. They have nothing but the highest resolution pictures which are added to the database on a daily basis. All then pictures in Stocksnap are released under Creative Commons - CC0. Hence, they do not require attribution.6) StartupStockPhotos
This website offers free high quality images for use but it doesn’t even have a logo. Yes, you heard that right. This is the simplest website you will see in this list. Not even a single sentence, logo or categories can be found, just a plain page with pictures and share icons. It makes it easier for the website to load faster but hard to search pictures ending up clueless.7) Gratisography
Gratisography is my personal favorite. This is a personal website of Ryan McGuire, of Bells Design. All the pictures found in this site are photographed by Ryan McGuire himself. On Gratisography, pictures are added on a weekly basis which is completely free and high-resolution too. You can use it on your personal and commercial projects since Ryan offers all his images free of any copyright restrictions.8) Unsplash
Unsplash is a hugely popular website known for copyright free stock images in recent time and is often used by many bloggers and designers. All photos published on Unsplash are licensed under Creative Commons Zero which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing any attribution to the photographer. Unsplash has a long, infinite scroll feed of high quality, and hi-resolution photos. But, one major disadvantage with the sites design is that there is no separate category section to select from. Unsplash is updated every 10 days with at least 10 new photos and Unsplash credits all its photos with submitters.9) FreeImages
Freeimages is free-to use copyright free stock images and illustrations website. Previously known as stock.xchng is now owned by Getty images and renamed as Freeimages, which offers over 390,162 free photos and textures. You need to register for free for downloading images.10) FREE REFE REAL LIFE PHOTOS
Refe Real Life Photos is a website hosted on Tumblr which offers free real life photos. Refe Real Life Photos is a sub-project of Refe, a site offering both free photos and a premium curated marketplace and monthly premium subscription newsletter. Refe has been uploading the images to its archive since January 2014.
If you come across any other website where you can get copyright free stock images, please let us know in the comments section. So that we will try to update this post regularly.
