10 Absolutely Free Websites to Download Stock Images

Apart from quality content, it is important that we must take care of the presentation of the article too. To enhance any article presentation you should add a relevant image to the article because:

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You might have noticed that we use images with all the articles in our blog to make articles more attractive. There are many images available online but it is important that you use only those images on your blog or for other projects which are allowed by the owner to be used.

I’m not going to talk about image licensing here and straight away share my list of Websites to download free stock photos. Yah, you heard me right and it’s completely free.

Thanks to all the commentators who have made this list more resourceful by suggesting many other free stock images website. I suggest you do check comment section and feel free to suggest one which you are using for your use. These images can be used for commercial purposes as well.

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Free Stock Images Websites for Commercial or Blogging use:

1. FreePik

FreePik is most popular website in 2020 to download free pictures. It is a freemium website that offers free + paid images, and it definitely stand out from the rest.

It offers modern vector images, characters which will make your website or landing pages stand out.

Visit Freepik

2. Gratisography:

I discovered this website in February 2016 & since then I’m in love with this website. Unlike other sites, here you can download the high-quality images & use it for your personal & professional projects without giving any credits. Yah! You heard me right. And the quality of images you gonna find here is par excellence.

Go to Gratisography

3. Pixabay:

After trying Gratisography, I got really includes to use beautiful looking stock images. The one with more colors & emotions. I believe in 2020 & in the coming years, we will see a lot of trends around it in the stock image industry.

You should also bookmark Pixabay as it offers a wide range of images from people all around the world. These images are free to use even for commercial use. Attribution is not required.

Checkout Pixabay

4. Pexels:

This site is suggested by Shouter Dipal & it looks pretty solid. All pictures here are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, that means you can use these images for commercial uses too.

The CC0 license was released by the non-profit organization Creative Commons (CC). Every month they add 1500 new HQ photos & right now they boast about having more than 10k+ pics.

Checkout Pexels

5. Stocksnap:

This is another free stock photos site where you can download high quality pictures for free. All images are licensed under CCO license (Same as above).

Visit Stocksnap

6. Flickr

Flickr is one of my favorite websites to search and download free images for websites. It has a huge database of royalty-free images and whenever I am in a hurry to download any image for my article then Flickr is the website that I visit.

To download any image you just need to visit creative common category and search for the image, you will get lots of relevant images of different size and you can download any image which suits your article. You can read more about Flickr in the following articles:

How to find images for your blog using Flickr

Search for free stock photos using Flickr advanced search

7. MorgueFile

Morgue File is one of the best free Stock image sites, which makes it easy to search the images via category. You can select the category of images to make more relevant search. It have clean and clutter-free landing page and easy navigation. It gives you option to crop the image at same time and makes it easy to post on your blog. You can read more about MorgueFile in the review of MorgueFile.

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8. FreeRangeStock

You can download images from FreeRangeStock for personal and commercial use. To download images you need to do a quick and free registration on FreeRangeStock website.

Apart from downloading images, if you are a photographer then you can also upload the images and earn money with their Adsense revenue sharing program.

You can also edit directly on Pixlr before downloading it on your computer. The only thing which you might not like about Free Range stock is the interface, as it’s quite old and is not so friendly. Though at the price of zero, would you really mind it?? 🙂

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9. FreeDigitalPhotos

Apart from downloading free royalty images from FreeDigitalPhotos, you can also download Powerpoint, Word , Educational projects, Photoshop projects and more for personal and commercial use. It also provides greeting cards but it’s not allowed to use for commercial use. Thus if you are looking for something more than just images then do head to FreeDigitalPhotos.

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10. Photogen

Photogen also provides free images for personal and commercial use. Photogen provides you categories of images such as animals, cultures, nature, business etc. You can select the one suits your requirement. Photogen provides very relevant search and good quality images. It is simple to use and easy to search for free images.

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11. Stock Photos for free:

This is another popular Website that let you download free stock photos for your personal or commercial use. You can create a free account and start downloading images right now. You can also mark images as favorite and download it later.

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When you are not in the budget and need free images for your project, above mentioned free sites will work as a rescue. Make sure you read every site’s terms of usage to be clear about where you can use or where you can’t use these download images. Most of them don’t allow using downloaded images for the pornographic site or for the trademark.

Fotor:

This is another popular site where you can find 335 MILLION Premium Royalty-Free Stock Photos From The Foter Community. Though it requires attribution.

For further reading:

Where to find images online

Do you prefer to use Royalty Free Stock Images on your blog, if yes, then do share with us which stock image website you prefer to use for downloading images?

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69 thoughts on “10+ Absolutely Free Websites to Download Stock Images”

Hammad
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I only used Pixabay, didn’t know that there are these other excellent websites to download free images. TBH! you made my day and solved my biggest problem Harsh, thanks for sharing.

Mp3 Man
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Thanks a lot for sharing this.I was aware of Flickr but others are new to me.Keep providing good content.

Istiak Rayhan
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Gratisography seems to be a good one. Never heard about it.

I’ve been using Pixabay for a while. It has a huge collection of incredible images on its directory. Previously, I used FreeDigitalPhotos. It has some good images too.

Thanks for sharing this awesome list. Loved it.

Shibam Kar
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Thanks Harsh Sir, for sharing this informative post with us. Can you tell me, Can I use these website’s pictures to my blog ? Will it affect my Adsense account ? I mean are those pictures copyright free ?

1. Harsh Agrawal
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  @Shibam
  Yes, you can use images from these sites & it won’t affect your AdSense account. Pictures from first 3 sites are copyright free.
  
Raghu
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Harsh!

You are a life saver, my friend! I was clueless about where to get images for my new blog! and lo! you wrote a wonderful and comprehensive post about just that! Thanks once again!

Raghu

Vikash Sharma
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Thank you for sharing such a great list of free stock images providers websites.
I have been using Pixabay and Flickr for a long time and they are awesome. you get high definition pics absolutely free. one of the such website is pexels.com which also provide high definition images for free.

Pankaj Dhawan
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Hi Harsh,

This post came right on time. I was looking for this information from some time and this is perfect, thanks for sharing this information. I am going to use images from these sources and hope it works out well for me.

Thanks again!

1. Harsh Agrawal
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  Hey Pankaj,
  
  Glad that it helped you.
  
Anthony
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Hello Harsh,
I always prefer to stay away from copyright issues of images but no more, because you have shared some great resources where I can find and use stock images for my blogs.
Thank you so much.

Dumaji
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I never heard about Gratisography before. I like the image quality and i will be using this images lot. Thanks Harsh.

Palash
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I like Pixabay free photo stock site for my blog post photo. It’s more populer site. That’s why, It has over 6,00,000 free photos, vectors & art illustration. All images are high quality & attractive.

Vinod k. Singh
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What i was searching for i got here. amazing list you provided here. thanks a lot. Now i will have no trouble in searching images for my blog.

1. Harsh Agrawal
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  @Vinod
  Happy to help & best of luck for your blog.
  
  1. Emil Paz
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    Even lot of people have the trick to download the free images from shutterstok, any idea about that ?
    
    Thanks
    
Mohd Imran
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Hi Harsh,
I want to build a online powerpoint themes store for this can i use the images from the above mentioned website. Plz reply me soon. Thanks

David
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Great post. I think there are a few more out there. but it would be great if we all got our images from different places. This would be better for our readers too.

Jack Harold
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Well done man! I have always been trying to find time to search for websites that will provide free images other than Google Images. This is a god damn AWESOME post!

James M
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The site I use the most is http://www.veezzle.com, which is actually more like a search engine for any free images on the web. It searches Flickr, morguefile, rbgstock, and more. A search will land you plenty of results if you use broad terms.

Jacqui
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Nice list. I have some success with FreePhoto.com and Stock.xchng. Sometimes I give up and create my own on Photoshop. That is a desperate move, though.

Pankaj Sharma
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Thanks a lot for sharing this.I was aware of Flickr but others are new to me.Keep providing good content.I would like to add http://www.istockphoto.com/ in this list.This site also provide great images.

1. subha
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  Pankaj istockphoto is not free
  
2. Josh
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  iStockphoto is not free. You have to buy the image license for using them in your website or any where else.
  
Nick
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I do not know any of these sites except flickr thanks for sharing. I have used http://www.pdphoto.org/ for royalty free photos.

Nicholas Teo
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Thanks for the intro, at least now I know where to find stock photos. The only place on the list I know is Flickr.

Vivek Parmar
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As a blogger i know it is necessary to insert qulaity images in articles aprt from flickr all are new to me. thanks for sharing