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Free Stock-photo Sources for your Interactive Content and Social Media Posts

Photographs play an important role in any type of content be it in blog posts and eBooks or interactive formats such as quizzes and calculators. In fact, they engage the audiences on social media. But, what is good content if it isn’t accompanied by compelling images that resonate with your brand and project, eh? Hence, you are now going to discover photo resources that are no less than a treasure!

Since we know how important photo resources are, we thought we will make it easier for you. In order to do that we sat down to compile a list of some of the most incredible websites and projects that publish photos. Actually, the best part is that some photo resources have no copyright restrictions or fall under public domain or Creative Commons license. However, you will also find on the list the premium photo resources which you can use based on your requirement and budget. This is the reason, we recommend that you read the terms of use to prevent any copyright infringement.

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#1 Albumarium: The first one on the list of free photo resources is Albumarium which calls categories as albums and has organized images that way. As of today, these photos are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license and are best suited for social media campaigns.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

Albumarium

#2 Avopix: Avopix has 115,000+ images and over 7.2 million videos that are released under the public domain. What’s even better is that both resource-types can be modified, distributed, downloaded for commercial applications as well as personal use. In our opinion, it’s one of the exhaustive photo resources that you should definitely give a shot.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#3 BucketListly: All in all, this website is an ideal place to find photo resources related to travel. It has a collection of over 5,000 photos from around the world! In fact, the best part is that you can contact Pete Rojwongsuriya, the mastermind behind Bucketlistly and self-proclaimed digital nomad if you need any of those photos in HD!

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Attribution to Pete Rojwongsuriya and a link back to BucketListly Photos must be made along with the image.
Price: Free

BucketListly

#4 Burst by ShopifyPowered by Spotify, Burst has thousands of royalty-free images available for download. What’s incredible is that the wide-range of the collection makes it possible for anyone to use it personally or professionally on websites, or for marketing and social media campaigns. In particular, their ‘business ideas’ photo collection caters to the eCommerce industry. Obviously, it goes without saying that you will find photos that fit your purpose here.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

Burst

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#5 CupcakeAll images on Cupcake are by Jonas Wimmerström and licensed under the Creative Commons License (CO0). As you can make out from one of the photos below, his is a stunning high-res collection of cityscape, nature, food and abstract photographs that he gives you rights to be used commercially and personally. In any case, how about you start using these photo resources and tell us how it worked out for you?

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes, as a courtesy.
Price: Free

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#6 Death to stock photos: They have an incredible collection of photographs and perhaps as the name suggests want to put an end to the stock photos available on most photo websites! Actually, they have their own license agreement which you should check here. In fact, if you want then you can sign-up to receive monthly photo resources with 10 images for free download.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#7 Designer Pics: Designer Pics is an ongoing project by Jeshu John. By and large, you can use his photo resources for free. In fact, on the website, photos can be searched based on categories like technology, architecture, wildlife, and business, etc.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#8 Epicantus: All photographs are by Daria, a visual and UX designer and Lean startup coach. On his website, he says he’s making his images available because, “Finding images that carry the right message usually takes hours, therefore every photo I make in my spare time will appear here for you”. All of her photo resources are free for personal & commercial use. In fact, you can also send Daria a special photo request.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes
Price: Free

Epicantus

#9 EveryStockPhoto: Welcome to the free stock photo search engine! A couple of things you should know before you start using it. First, you can filter and search for public domain images. And, second, the results are from searches through public domain image websites like Wikimedia, Flickr, NASA. Although the results will be copyright-free photo resources, do cross-check the license terms on every photo.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes
Price: Free

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#10 Fancy Grave: Igor Ovysyannykov started Fancy Crave in 2015 and started giving away two free photos from his travel. Soon enough he started making the right kind of noise for his photographs! Now, all his photo resources and fellow photographers have been licensed under the CO0. Presently, he also has a premium collection available only to members where you can pay what you want.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free and Pay What You Want

Fancy Grave

#11 FindA.Photo: It’s a relatively simple search engine where you can browse photos based on sources and categories and attributes like color, saturation, and width. All photo resources are CCO licensed.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#12 Flaticon: Flaticon is a database of vector icons available in PNG, SVG, PSD, EPS and base 64 formats. As a matter of fact, they add about 28,500 every month. Interestingly, as a free user, you get access to 589,500 icons but if you subscribe to the paid premium plan you gain access to additional 115,000 premium icons!

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No for free icons; yes for premium icons.
Price: Free and paid

Flaticon

#13 Flickr Commons: Flickr Commons hosts free public domain images contributed by institutions and libraries from around the globe. Since the photo resources have no copyright restrictions you can just go ahead and use them. However, just to be on the safer side, it is recommended that you read their terms of use.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No, but recommended to verify.
Price: Free

Flickr Commons

#14 Foodie Factor: Foodie Factor is a website dedicated to food and drinks stock photographs created by the owners of ISO Republic. In fact, you would, after looking at the photos wish that they were all edible! Jokes apart, the photo resources can be used for personal or commercial, creative projects.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

Foodie Factor

#15 FoodieFeed: For delicious-looking food photos, hop onto this website where food photographers from around the world share their photographs for others to use for free! In fact, the founder of FoodieFeed, Jakub, himself approves the photographs. Presumably, he does so because he wants only the best photo resources to be available for download.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

FoodieFeed

#16 Foter: They have around 335 million stock photos in their database and 220 million of these are listed under the Creative Commons License! Now, imagine the number of options you get on Foter! Unbelievable, right? In our opinion, you should definitely dive into these photo resources to find images that fit your project and requirement.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes, they have a code that automatically inserts Creative Commons attributions.
Price: Free

Foter

#17 Fotolia: This stock photo site is a part of Adobe and a resource house of over 104 million inspiring royalty-free images, videos and vectors!

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes
Price: Paid

Fotolia

#18 FreeForCommercialUse: FFCU is one of the photo resources, that has astounding lifestyle creatives for everyone who wants to up their project quality. All photos are under the public domain hence copyright free. Although they are still new in the industry their collection is worth a look.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#19 FreePik: Freepik has more than 4.5 million graphic resources. It provides millions of vectors, photos, PSD files, icons, presentation themes, and editable templates. On this tool, you will find free stock photos in several themes such as business, nature, and infographics. Freepik is one of the comprehensive photo resources you need to check out.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

#20 Free Images: They have over 390,530 free-to-use images and stock photos and illustrations to choose from. As a matter of fact, all are listed under the Creative Commons License.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Not for commercial use but for editorial purposes in this format: “FreeImages.com/Artist’s Member Name.”
Price: Free

Free Images

#21 Free Nature Stock: You will find royalty-free nature stock photos on this website created by Adrian Pelletier. They are all listed under the Creative Commons Zero and hence require no exclusive permissions to use them. Ultimately, all it means is that you can use them for free for personal or professional use.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

Free Nature

#22 Freeqration: Freeqration has over 2 million free photos, illustrations, and vectors all of which are curated from stock photo websites. You can browse images from one or more sources or from trends, editor’s picks, etc. Additionally, they also release download packs every week! Perhaps you should make the most of the bonus offer?!

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Click on each photo to check attribution requirement.
Price: Free

Freeqration

#23 Freerange: You can download photos and illustrations that are licensed for commercial use and require no attribution. Although, we must add that they do appreciate it if you can give photo credit. However, to be able to download photos you will need to register first. You may not know but the images from their website have been used by industry stalwarts like Inc.com, The Huffington Post etc.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

Freerange

#24 FreeStocks: All the photographs on FreeStocks are released under the Creative Commons License. Hence, they can hence be copied, modified but not be sold for commercial and personal purposes. If you want, you can support the team by making a token donation through PayPal.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required:

Price: Free

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#24 Getty Images: Also the owner of iStock, Getty Images curates hand-picked premium photos that can be used by purchasing from them. Surely, you will only find quality photos on Getty. Ever tried?

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes
Price: Paid

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#25 Get Refe: Get Refe has extremely life-like and realistic photos on their website. On one hand, you can find photos that can be used without seeking permission and credits while on the other hand, you will find paid photo packs too.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free and paid

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#26 Giphy: It is here where you can search, discover, create and share gifs! Don’t blame us if you end up spending hours on the site just having fun! We feel that these images are excellent to go on your blog or social media!

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Although no attribution is required, you should definitely give them a shoutout!
Price: No

Giphy

#27 Google Image Search: Search any kind of mage through the Google Image Search bar. You can filter image search results based on size, color, type and usage rights.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No, but do verify.
Price: Free

Google Image Search

#28 Gratisography: All the photos are by Ryan McGuire and can be used and modified for commercial as well as personal projects. However, the photographs cannot be redistributed. McGuire has teamed up with Shutterstock; those images are copyright protected and come at a cost.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes
Price: Free; third-party images can be bought
Donate: Yes, whatever your wallet allows!

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#29 IconFinderIconFinder is a team of designers that claims it to be one of the largest collections of icons! Surprisingly, they have about 2.03 million icons for download that can be used on websites, applications, presentations etc. As can be seen on their website, about 105,884 icons are free to be downloaded. The icons are available in SVG and PNG formats.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes
Price: Paid; starter @ $19/month and unlimited @ $49/month

IconFinder

#30 IM Free: IM Free is a curated collection of photographs that can be used free of cost for personal and commercial use too. Equally interesting and surprising is the fact that you can also download website templates for free!

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No, however, it is recommended you see license terms for each image you download.
Price: Free

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#31 Image Base: Image Base runs on a simple search tool and gives 100% free photo results. The site allows instant image previews (i.e. thumbnails) without you having to load individual photos. All photos can be used for educational, commercial, official or personal purposes.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
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#32 ISO Republic: Three-years-old, ISO Republic is making its mark thanks to the HD images available on their website. Since its launch, over 3,000 CC0 licensed images have been published and the team keeps adding more every week. Perhaps, give their repository a look?

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#33 Jay Mantri: A photographer and graphic designer, Jay Mantri’s collection though is small but makes it available to everyone for free under the CC0 license. Above all, the photographs are a breath of fresh air! If you want urbanscape images then his photographs are where your quest ends!

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

Jay Mantri

#34 JeShoots: Founded by Jan Vašek, one of the best designer in the Czech Republic, JÉSHOOTS has free stock photography made available to people under the CC0 license. In simple words, photos can be used in any manner except they cannot be resold, redistributed, sublicensed, transferred or shared.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#35 Kaboom: The founder of Kaboompics, Karolina says, “Kaboompics is one of the most popular source of free images for lifestyle, interior design and specialized bloggers”  You can find free images of the highest quality in every size. The website also has a category called photoshoots where you don’t receive just a single photo based on the entered keyword, but a whole gallery of them taken from many different angles and positions.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No, but appreciate if you do so.
Price: Fre

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#36 Life Of Pix: An advertising agency from Montreal called LEEROY is the team behind Life of Pix. In our opinion, theirs is an impressive collection of photos that can be used free of charge and any restrictions as they are all listed under the Creative Commons License. They release new photographs every week.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#37 MagdeleineIt has hand-picked free, stunning stock photos. However, we suggest that you filter photos to get a search result of CO0 licensed images because some photos require attribution.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes, for photos where the author asks for it.
Price: Free

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#38 Morguefile: Founded by Michael Connors, Morguefile is a free photo archive ‘for creatives, by creatives’. Interestingly, it is a community-based photosite and the photos can be used for work whether it is commercial or not.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes if it is not modified. A suggested credit line, “Photo by <photographer’s username> at Morguefile.com”
Price: Free

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#39 MMT Stock: MMT Stock is a collection of photographs by Jeffrey Betts. He releases new photos every week and all the photos he publishes are copyright-free. In fact, you can use them as per your need, including on print materials, social media, themes, templates, websites, blogs etc. If it helps, you can read about his license terms here.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Would love a shout-out
Price: Free

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#40 Negative Space: From food, technology, fashion, art, typography to animals, architecture, nature and objects, Negative Space has you covered. They release images under CO0. Hence, the image is free for personal and professional projects. Since their search partner is Shutterstock, members can actually get a  20% off on purchase made on the partner website.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

Negative Space

#41 New Old Stock: The website has a unique collection of vintage photographs by Cole Townsend. As a matter of fact, photos in the pro photo packs are majorly from public archives and can be used commercially without attributing the copyright holder. 

Searchable: No
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#42 Pexels: Pexels is “empowering creators” such as writers, artists, designers and programmers by allowing free access to over 40,000 free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license. Interestingly, you can also search for photos by color. Presently, the team hand-picks photographs uploaded by users and publish at least 3,000 high-res photos every month.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#43 Photopin: You’ll find Creative Common photos on PhotoPin which can be used for blogs and other creative purposes.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No, but yes for third party photos.
Price: FreePhotopin

#44 Picjumbo: Picjumbo is a project by Victor Hanacek and was started in 2013. Especially, what’s commendable is that the photos from the website have appeared on Entrepreneur.com, TNW, Buffer etc. Millions of bloggers marketers and designers consider it as their go-to website for stock photos. Victor says, “As a web designer I know every designer needs high-quality photos in full resolution. That’s why I created Picjumbo.”

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes, for premium collection.
Price: Free and paid

Picjumbo

#45 Picography: Picography is a beautiful collection of free-to-use stock photographs by Dave Meier and other photographers.  However, they also release premium photo packs of images with a theme every month.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes for copyrighted ones.
Price: Free

Picography

#46 Pixabay: An incredible repository of 1.1 million public domain images, illustration, vector graphics and videos which can be used for personal and commercial use without seeking permission or attributing the artist. You can search creatives based on camera model and photographers as well. Undoubtedly, you are sure to find the photos you are looking for.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#47 Pond5: It is a premier, go-to source for world-class content like images, videos, illustrations, PSDs, sound effects, graphics, music tracks, motion graphic templates, etc. Either you buy a monthly or annual membership which gives you access to the library that houses works of best-selling contributors.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes for copyrighted creatives.
Price: Free; Monthly membership @ $99 and annual @ $499.

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#48 Public Domain Archive: All the images on this website are high-quality and since they are in public domain they can be used by anyone without seeking permission.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

Public Domain Archive

#49 Public Domain Pictures: Public Domain Pictures have 205,403 free pictures that you can use under the CC0. However, also available are photos that can be downloaded and used by only premium subscribers.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No, but it is recommended to check the license of every photograph as some require you to credit the author.
Price: Free and paid

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#50 Public Domain Vectors: Copyright-free vector images are available in popular formats on Public Domain Vectors. In fact, vector images can be used for unlimited personal and commercial use without any hassles of seeking permission.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No, but linkback appreciated.
Price: Free

Public Domain Pictures

#(Bonus Tool) PikWizard : PikWizard has a great collection of photos – with over 100,000 quality photos completely free. Unlike many other stock image companies, PikWizard has lots of images of people, and are constantly adding to their library with over 20,000 images exclusive to themselves. Almost all images on the website are completely free with no need for attribution, so you can use them anywhere you like.

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#51 Raw Pixel: On their website, they say that they are “changing the way people see stock photos”. Interestingly, you will find very un-stock kind of photographs that is literally helping to diversify the stock photo industry. They have both freeeverything under one roof. Also available to members is the and premium content.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
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#52 Realistic Shots: Not a huge collection but useful if you want them on your personal blog. Apparently, they add seven photos per week all of which are under public domain. Indeed a helpful resource, don’t you think?

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

Realistic Shots

#53 RGB Stock: RGB stock has over 100,000 royalty-free photos and free graphics, wallpapers, illustrations and backgrounds. Brey and large, the free photos can be searched quite easily and can be used for personal and professional purpose. 

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No unless the terms of use state otherwise.
Price: Free

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#54 Shotstash: ShotStash is a vault of free stock imagery that can be downloaded, used, adapted and modified without a fee The team keeps adding images for both personal and commercial use licenses.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No, though a link back to shotstash.com is appreciated.
Price: Free

Shotstash

#55 ShutterStock: Home to over 169 million royalty-free stock images with more than 114,37,515 images added every week, ShutterStock is one of the most popular image banks on the internet. From photos, vectors, illustrations, music to footage, you have everything under one roof. Also available to members is the ShutterStock editor which can be used to edit photographs.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes, for copyrighted photographs.
Price: Free and paid

ShutterStock

#56 SkitterPhoto: All stock photos on Skitterphoto can be used for any purpose, even commercially. They are all published under CO0. Since they are free to download you don’t have to pay unless you want to pay them a token amount on your own using PayPal.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

SkitterPhoto

#57 Snapwire: It is a marketplace for businesses. Brands can connect with visual artists and request for photos. You can do so only if you are a paid member. However, if you are lean on a budget the good news is that they also have a free stock photograph collection! Also, every week they add seven new photos to this free collection!

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free and paid

Snapwire

#58 Splashbase: Splashbase is an aggregator of images that have been published under the public domain on various photo sites like Splitter, Unsplash, Snapographic, MMT, LifeofPix, NewOldStock, etc. You can find background images, templates, icons, etc.

Searchable: No
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

Splashbase

#59 Splitshire: Although it has a relatively small database of photographs, Splitshire has splendid images that can be used for a range of projects like social media campaigns, advertisements, magazines, blogs, etc.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#60 Startup Stock Photos: It has a niche collection of hi-resolution public domain images centered around workspaces, creative brainstorming sessions, and a relaxed office environment. By all means, all photos are under the CO0 license. Hence, you can use them for personal or commercial use.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

Startup Stock Photos

#61 Stockup: Stock Up is your free image search that has about 20k+ free stock photographs. They index photographs from 32 websites as of now. In any case, most photos are Creative Commons Zero, some in the public domain but license, as they suggest, may vary since they are photo aggregators.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No, but recommended to hover your mouse over every stock photo to reconfirm the terms of use.
Price: Free unless otherwise stated

Stock up

#62 Stock Vault: Stock Vault is a free photo website that has over 115,000 free images. Largely, it consists of submissions by various photographers and artists. Above all, the best part is that all submissions undergo quality control. In fact, you will also find illustrations and free textures that are 100% free to use too! The resources are for photographers, designers and students to use for personal and non-commercial purposes.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Check their terms of use.
Price: Free and paid

Stock Vault

#63 StockFresh: StockFresh calls itself a small stock photo agency that promises to give you access to quality photos and illustrations at affordable rates. Seems like you can register for a flexible, credit-based plan or a monthly plan. Consequently, once you download the images you can use them as many times as you like.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes
Price: Paid

StockFresh

#64 Stocksnap: Curator of the highest quality images, StockSnap feature stock images that require no attribution. Actually, what’s noteworthy, anyone can copy, distribute, modify the photos for commercial purposes. Interestingly, upon signing-up, they send subscribers their most popular photos on a weekly basis.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No, but appreciated if you can!
Price: Free

Stocksnap

#65 Stokpic: Ed Gregory is the mastermind behind the stock photo collection at Stokpic. His full, hi-res photos  are available for free.  Just to clarify, it means anyone can use them personally or commercially.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

Stokpic

#66 Story Blocks: Story Blocks is a marketplace where exceptional artists post their works including vectors, images, illustrations, videos, and audios. In fact, they boast a collection of 400,000 images so that you never have a reason to complain of not having found what you were looking for! Every image downloaded is royalty-free and forever to keep. By the way, do check out their 7-day trial package which allows you 20 downloads per day and up to 140 free images.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes
Price: Paid

Story Blocks

#67 StreetWill.co: Scroll after scroll after scroll. You will find top-quality and perspective-rich free, public domain photographs on StreetWill.co! In case you are wondering whose photos they host, let us tell you that they are photographers from around the world. In fact, they submit their creative works that range from urban architecture, landscape, food and drinks to transport and abstract. As a result, you are spoilt for choice!

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

StreetWill

#68 Styled Stock: Styled Stock is a storehouse of feminine stock photographs that are searchable based on categories and colors. For that matter, you can use images quite liberally. In addition, if you subscribe to their newsletter they promise to send you free, exclusive images to your inbox.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No, but a link back to Styledstock.co is appreciated.!
Price: Free and paid

Styled Stock

#69 Super Famous: A repository of abstract and natural images in HD, this website should become your go-to resource solely because of the kind of perspective they lend! For instance, they have aerial shots that show the textures and enormity of nature! Crazy, right?

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#70 TextureZoom: TextuerZoom offers high quality and high-resolution images and free stock backgrounds, design elements and textures for free. Actually, the images that you see on their website are both shot in-house and photographer contributions.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes, as a courtesy.
Price: Free

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#71 The British Library: The British Library has scanned pages of books from the 17th, 18th, and 19th century which were all released in the public domain. It is a goldmine for designers and creative artists who are looking for vintage photos. From typography, animals and instruments to book covers, women, flora and decorative papers, you are sure to invest hours browsing them all!

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#72 The Pattern Library: The Pattern Library is a collection of patterns and images that make for perfect templates, banners, and backgrounds. The contributors are design artists who have now become a part of this movement! Furthermore, if you are a web designer and looking for some inspiration or last-minute picks then this is where you ought to be!

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No.
Price: Free

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#73 The Public Domain Review: The Public Domain Review was founded in 2011 and is a huge favorite among history and art enthusiasts! In fact, first and foremost, you should know that the collection is tastefully done. The curation includes photos, illustrations, audios, films, texts and art that is under the public domain.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes, attribute the original author and The Public Domain Review as the original source. Read more here.
Price: Free

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#74 Travel Coffee Book: If you’re looking for exquisite travel and nature photographs then this is the website where you can download high-res photographs. They are all listed under the CCO. In other words, it means you can download and use them anywhere without having to worry about copyright infringement issues.

Searchable: No
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#75 Tumblr: Although Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking site, it allows people to post multimedia content like gifs, videos, audio clips all of which are highly engaging and entertaining. Obviously, you can obviously use them on your personal or professional blogs if you don’t worry about the quality. 

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No, though you probably should give a shoutout!
Price: Free

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#76 Unsplash: Unsplash calls itself “the world’s most generous community of photographers” where they make voluntary submission of high-res photos that can be used for free. On top of that, you can become a member for free. Also, all images can be downloaded under the Unsplash License.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free

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#77 Viintage: Viintage is home to hundreds of thousands of copyright-free vintage graphics! However, they also have a premium gallery that houses collections available only to members. At any point, if you want to download premium content, you can sign-up to become a member.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: No
Price: Free and paid

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#78 Vintage Stock Photos: Initially, photographs on VSP were charged but now they are available for free to everyone. In fact, we love their repository a lot. It has vintage photos of cities, towns, people, landmarks, attractions, streets and road trips. Moreover, they own the original transparencies for all images.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Yes, as a courtesy.
Price: Free

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#79 Wikimedia Commons:  Wikimedia is one of the free photo resources with a collection of 42,615,787 freely usable media files that include images, sound and video clips. You can use these files freely, but it is better to check the license conditions of each media file on the description page. In addition to this, be wary of the terms of use specified, especially by the author.

Searchable: Yes
Attribution required: Depends on license conditions.
Price: Free

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#80 123RF: 123RF is a digital stock agency that has 89 million+ creative work, 90,000 content being contributed by 300,000 creative contributors and 12 million active users! That speaks volumes about their popularity. In fact, if you are interested in using their photos then you can either pay as you go or apply for a subscription. The good news is that they have 41k+ free images in their database as well!

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