Free Stock Photos
Stock photos are an essential part of web and graphic design. There are tons of stock photos agencies that offer high quality photos, however, the price is not always affordable especially when working on a tight budget or sometimes with no budget at all. The solution in this case is finding free stock photos something that isn’t always easy, in order to make this process easier I have compiled a list with sites that offer free stock photos. Enjoy
Stock Exchange (highly recommended)
Morguefile (highly recommended)
Image After
Free Photos Bank
OpenPhoto
BigFoto
USDA
NASA
NOAA
NPS
Earth from Space
FWS1
FWS2
Picture Station
Geek Philosopher
Free Images
Pixel Perfect Digital
FreeFoto
Image Base
Cepolina
Amazing Textures
Texture Warehouse
PDPhoto
Image Blowout
Piotrpix
Mandragora
Fotogenica
Mayang
Free Photo Station
Cromavista
Afflict
Creativity 103
The Photo Repository
Aarin Free Photo
Stockvault
Designpacks
Unprofound
Four Bees
Insect Images
Free media Goo
Burning Well
A digital Dreamer
Freestockphotos.com
Freewebpics
Lightmatter
Majestic Imagery
Triparalbum
Demny Onink
Twice Pix
AboutPixel
Woophy
Pixelquelle
Litetek
PIX
tOfz
Fontplay
Orangetrash
ArtFavor
ImageTemple
LogoDesignweb
Fotodatebank
Bajstock
Pixelbag
NWYH Stock Images (Thanks Richard)
PhotoCase (Thanks Ingo)
NPS Digital Image Index (Thanks Jersu)
Gimp-Savy (Thanks Jared)
DeviantArt
Finally don’t forget to visit
Yotophoto Free photos search engine
and Flickr (be sure to check the licence before using any of the photos).
If you know of any others stock photo resources reave a comment and I will add them to the list.
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December 30th, 2005 at 12:07 am
Very nice, thanks a lot!
December 30th, 2005 at 9:45 am
Awesome resource thank you!
December 30th, 2005 at 10:05 am
Great list! Here’s another one I don’t see on your list:
http://www.nwyhstockimages.com/default.aspx
December 30th, 2005 at 10:06 am
http://www.fotolia.com also offers many affordable and free stock photos. Membership is free.
December 30th, 2005 at 10:11 am
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December 30th, 2005 at 10:12 am
Thanks!
December 30th, 2005 at 10:23 am
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December 30th, 2005 at 10:38 am
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December 30th, 2005 at 11:17 am
thnx alot dude ,,
really great collection
just add :
http://www.sxc.hu
which is the best i found in both quality & variaty ..
December 30th, 2005 at 11:22 am
Here’s another one:
http://www.photocase.com
December 30th, 2005 at 11:38 am
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December 30th, 2005 at 12:19 pm
Here is more from the national park service:
http://photo.itc.nps.gov/storage/images/
December 30th, 2005 at 12:40 pm
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December 30th, 2005 at 12:46 pm
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December 30th, 2005 at 1:42 pm
http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/index.html
great list -
this is one of my favs
December 30th, 2005 at 3:14 pm
I love the stock xchange!
December 30th, 2005 at 3:52 pm
http://www.istockphoto.com
Not free, but the pictures are so cheap that it mights as well be free. If you’re a photographer you can sell your work there too.
December 30th, 2005 at 4:27 pm
I have added a few more resources suggested, thanks everyone if you know any more keep them coming.
@Everyone. Thanks for the nice comments and the suggestions.
@Waleed. SXC.hu is already included in the list, thanks anyway for the suggestion.
@Chad and Marky. Thanks for the suggestions of microstock sites but I wanted to include only completely free sites to the list. I may post about microstock sites in another post (I am a contributing photographer at most of them)
December 30th, 2005 at 6:17 pm
what about free stock video? anyone?
December 30th, 2005 at 6:40 pm
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December 30th, 2005 at 6:59 pm
Just a couple of days ago I was looking for some stock images. Although they were “royalty-free,” they were not free to acquire. Thanks a ton for this listing!
December 30th, 2005 at 7:34 pm
Great list, thanks for sharing.
Btw, happy new year
December 30th, 2005 at 7:38 pm
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December 30th, 2005 at 10:05 pm
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December 31st, 2005 at 1:29 am
deviantArt.com
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 31st, 2005 at 2:24 am
Thanks for compiling that list. I would like to share a link to my own stock-photography site: Get Pixel at http://www.getpixel.net.
Thank you and Happy New Year,
Michael
December 31st, 2005 at 3:19 am
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December 31st, 2005 at 4:00 am
Fenomenal post!
December 31st, 2005 at 7:43 am
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January 1st, 2006 at 10:03 am
Awesome list. I’m sure to make great use of this.
January 2nd, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Very nice list… thanks =)
January 2nd, 2006 at 11:59 pm
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January 4th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Thanks for the great resource!
January 4th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
[...] I’m always looking for great places to find free images on the Web, and so this list of free stock photos was a lifesaver. Includes about fifty different places you can go on the Web to get free, quality images that you can use in your blog or website without any royalties or strings attached. Free Stock Photos [via populicio.us] This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 4th, 2006 and is filed under Images, Freebies. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [...]
January 5th, 2006 at 7:19 am
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January 5th, 2006 at 10:46 am
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January 5th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
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January 6th, 2006 at 6:16 am
Geez..just exactly what i’m looking for..thank u!
Here’s one I’ve found couple of days ago:
http://www.free-stockphotos.com
January 6th, 2006 at 6:23 am
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January 6th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Nice photoblog archive!
January 6th, 2006 at 9:52 pm
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January 7th, 2006 at 8:03 am
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January 7th, 2006 at 8:30 am
Nice work. Blogged about this page over at http://thewebdesignblog.com
January 9th, 2006 at 10:34 am
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January 10th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
Great list. Thanks!
January 13th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
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January 14th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
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January 18th, 2006 at 9:59 am
Free good images for your blog
Presentation Zen has a list of free and almost free but good images. Free (but not bad)(1) Morgue File Providing …free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits.(2) Flickr’s Creative Commons pool Search the myriad photos people are
January 18th, 2006 at 10:05 am
Gratis Fotos für Deinen Blog
Presentation Zen hat eine Liste von Agenturen oder Seiten bei denen es gratis Fotos oder Bilder gegen eine geringe Gebühr gibt. Gratis (aber nicht schlecht)(1) Morgue File (2) Flickr’s Creative Commons pool (3) Image*After (4) Stock.xchng(5) Picture…
January 18th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
awesome list, thanks a lot!
January 23rd, 2006 at 5:37 pm
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February 3rd, 2006 at 8:27 am
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February 8th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Hi guys,
I am a web designer, and I am looking for a big collection of quality stock photos and images (icons etc) to use in site design that is all on CD (multiple CDs hopefully)… any ideas?
February 20th, 2006 at 10:58 am
Try Free Range Stock (http://www.freerangestock.com) - and add it to your list!
High-resolution stock photos, totally free, keyword searchable, and nice images.
tx!
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February 24th, 2006 at 7:38 am
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March 8th, 2006 at 8:59 am
> Ed Ber Says:
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> December 30th, 2005 at 6:17 pm
> what about free stock video? anyone?
Here it is…
http://websearch.about.com/od/searchtipoftheday/qt/freemovie.htm
March 15th, 2006 at 5:47 am
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March 16th, 2006 at 5:43 am
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March 27th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
http://www.veer.com/
http://www.istockphoto.com/
March 28th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
Well, its a huge list but I guess we need to be in amongst them.
We’re a small Australian stock photo company with images covering the whole continent coast to coast. Got cities, beaches, deserts, tropical forests, Aboriginal rock art, hillbilly hovels, funny stuff - the works.
We just want the world to know that we exist.
Regards
Neil Cameron
Beaut Photos.
April 11th, 2006 at 8:58 am
Very nice collection, thanks a lot!
Here’s another (german) list -perhaps you’ll be able to find new sites?
-> http://www.mediengestalter.info/forum/13/linkliste-57485-1.html#901306
April 13th, 2006 at 11:56 am
Another microstock photo library:
http://www.buydigitalimages.com
April 22nd, 2006 at 12:20 am
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April 30th, 2006 at 5:57 am
[...] I have mentioned StockVault in an earlier post about sites that offer free stock photos. Now it’s time to take a closer look at this really useful site. Let’s start with the site’s aesthetics, since my lost post StockVault has gone through a major redesign. The new look of StockVault is really fresh and pleasant in the eye with nice use of colors. But that’s not really what is important about StockVault, the most important is what it actually offers designers and webmasters. So what here is a list of what you can find at StockVault: Free Stock photos personal and non-commercial usage. Free Photoshop Brushes Photoshop and Web Design tutorials Design related articles Photopacks for commercial use Design related Directory [...]
May 19th, 2006 at 1:43 am
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May 27th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Nice site.
Check out this introduction article on Stock_photography:
http://www.articleworld.org/Stock_photography
Content:
1.History
2.How it works
3.Client/ buyer options
4.Photographer options
June 4th, 2006 at 8:34 am
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June 9th, 2006 at 10:33 am
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June 28th, 2006 at 7:25 am
I’m starting a new site giving out free stock photos… though the collection is small, but it is slowly growing…
Check it out…
http://www.dslides.com
July 15th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
[...] The second resource for all you designers out there is a list I found of some of the best free stock photo galleries there are Online. This once again plays into the whole needing something but can’t find it category. There are dozens of Web sites listed, so inside one of them you should be able to find that graphic of a server you have always dreamed of finding. [...]
July 29th, 2006 at 1:36 pm
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August 3rd, 2006 at 7:13 am
I’m building a free-stock-photo search site at http://www.picfindr.com. It does not host photos but searches several of the sites listed here simultaneously - more in the vein of yotophoto, but a different search technology, so you’ll get different results. Still under development (most of the advanced search options don’t have any effect yet) but please try it out and let me know if/how you like it and how you would change it. Thanks!
http://www.picfindr.com
August 21st, 2006 at 8:49 pm
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September 4th, 2006 at 5:54 am
Just launched! Unique images from arouns the world, free for educational and personal use.
September 11th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Very nice collection of images and artwork http://www.playcolors.com
October 3rd, 2006 at 7:15 pm
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November 4th, 2006 at 11:14 am
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November 7th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
[...] While the above two resources tend to be enough for me, you might not find what your looking for. In that case you can always search del.icio.us for “free stock photography”, visit Flikr (although be sure to check the license on each image), search the creative commons or browse the stock photo resources listed on this website. [...]
November 12th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
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