Images & Photographs

Using the Flickr API, it lets you easily search for any image topic and filter the results by license. If attribution is required, Compfight gives you what you need to copy and paste to comply.

The Creative Commons website features a handy search tool that allows you to look for free images on several third-party sites, including Google Images, Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and Pixabay. The search tool includes options to look for images available for commercial purposes and images that are available to modify, adapt or build on. Creative Commons gives you a quick way to search multiple sites at once that containing professional and amateur photography, video, and illustration that could be useful for your projects.

If you’re happy to wait for an email to arrive, Death to the Stock Photo is a service you can join to receive free monthly photos for all your creative needs. You’ll get twenty fresh images straight to your inbox which you can use on your blog, your social accounts and for commercial purposes.

The Foter website contains over 335 million stock photos, 220 million of which are licensed under the Creative Commons license system. You can search for images by keyword or browse by category, as well as sort by commercial and non-commercial use. One really handy feature of this site is that you can click on any image to add it to a lightbox so you can find it later (you must be logged in to do this). You can also download images in different dimensions or get an embed code if you prefer. Make sure you check the license information and copy any attribution code that’s needed.

The GetRefe website features a collection of natural looking and modern premium photographs which are mostly of high-resolution street scenes and landscapes. The photographs in their FREE category are all free to download and use in all your projects.

If you’re looking for quirky or unusual images to spice up the content on your site, Gratisography is the place to go. It offers a free high-resolution collection of images you can use for both personal and commercial projects and all images are copyright free.

IM Curator Free is a curated collection of free images, all for commercial or personal use. The photography covers a wide range of subjects including people, technology, sport and fitness, and education. IM Free sources the images from different third-party sites, such as Flickr so, as always, it’s best to make sure you check the licenses on individual images before downloading and using them in your projects.

The Jay Mantri website features beautiful images mainly of outdoor city and coastal scenes. The photographs are free to use under the Creative Commons 0 License and come with no copyright restrictions at all, so you can pretty much do what you like with them. As the website says, “Free pics, do anything, make magic”.

Little Visuals is a small website and what you see is what you get, with no new uploads planned. You will find some great photographs though, and the website owners allow you to use the images however you want, with an optional donation if you want to support their charity.

Magdeleine features high-resolution works submitted by photographers who want to make their work freely available. The majority of photographs are vintage in style and shot outdoors, but you will also find some nice product images on the website. The ability to search, filter by category and even look for images by dominant color are just some of the great features of the Magdeleine website. All photographs are also tagged, which definitely helps when searching.

PhotoAC is part of the AC Works group, a company that provides high-quality photo-sharing services, with 2.3 million users in Japan and growing. The website has more than 1,242,251 photographs which can be searched by keyword, or you can browse through any of the 20 categories. Attribution is not required if you use any of their images in your projects.

The PhotoPin website was designed to help bloggers find relevant images for their posts. You can search for image very quickly thanks to the site’s use of the Flickr API to search the free Creative Commons index. It’s relatively easy to find an image to fit your needs, but the quality of some images can be a bit lacking as the majority of them have been snapped by amateur or hobby photographers.

Picjumbo offers free images for both commercial and personal works. The site includes a category listing, which makes it easy to filter the types of images you’re looking for and quickly find what you need. There is a wide variety of different high-resolution images covering food, nature, people, technology, and fashion, among other categories. All photos are free to use, but the author asks for attribution when you use his photographs in your projects.

The beautiful, natural-looking photos you’ll find on the Picography website are free of any copyright restrictions so feel free to use them how you wish. You can search for images by keyword, although there are no categories to browse through. You could also click on the any of the popular tags at the bottom of the page.

All 1.5 million images on the Pixabay website can be downloaded under the Creative Commons public domain CC0 so are safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist, even for commercial purposes. This license allows you to “copy, modify, distribute and use the images, even for commercial purposes and without attribution.” Be careful though because you will also see some Shutterstock sponsored images which you will have to pay to use. There is also an application available for iOS and Android if you prefer to do things on your mobile.

The Public Domain Archive site offers a one-stop-shop for finding free public domain images. It was created as a repository for the site’s author to feature the free, high-quality images he finds throughout the interweb. Navigation is easy, with categories that allow you to filter the types of images you are searching for so you can quickly find product images, landscapes and other kinds of photography.

Over 89777 royalty free images snipped away from their backgrounds. Professionally cut out images down to the fine detail. Fully layered PSD files retaining the original background in case you need it. 1000s of PNG images completely free.

The StockSnap website features beautiful free stock photos, with hundreds more added week. All of the images on the site are available to use under the Creative Commons 0 license, so are free from copyright restrictions. Search by keyword or category, or click to see images that are currently trending.

Unsplash features 100’s of beautiful photos in a variety of styles gifted freely by talented photographers from around the world. You’ll find everything from landscapes and animals to product images and people, and everything in between. Ten new images get uploaded every ten days. All images on Unsplash are covered under Creative Commons and have no copyright, which means the photographers have dedicated their work to the public domain and waived all rights to the work worldwide under copyright law. Unfortunately, there is no search facility so it can be a little hard to find what you’re looking for.