Stock images are the images which can be used for your personal use for free and you dont need to pay any royalty fees for using these images. Royalty fee is a licence for stock photos which provides the images for use in any type of media for free.
| 1 | Title: Stock Exchange Description: Stock Exchange is one of the biggest if not the biggest free stock photos archive with over 252 000 free stock images. The license of each image is determined by the creator and therefore it is advised that you check the usage permissions below each image. Stock.XCHNG was launched in February 2001, as an alternative for expensive stock photography. The idea was to create a site where creative people could exchange their photos for inspiration or work. In about two years the site evolved into this massive community you see now – there are over 1.000.000 registered users and more than 250.000 photos online! |
| 2 | Title: MorgueFile Description: MorgueFile is probably the largest free stock photos archive of images that can be used for commercial projects. The idea to build the web’s morguefile was conceived by Michael Connors as a college student in 1996. It is currently a collaborative effort between brothers Kevin and Michael Connors who own and maintain the world wide web’s morguefile. This site is dedicated to the Connors family. Dorothy, Dennis and Jean Marie Connors who are deceased. Dennis and Dorothy Connors were special education teachers who devoted their lives to educating children with special needs and behavioral disorders. In utilizing this web site, you help us honor the memory of our parents and sister. |
| 3 | Title: StockVault Description: Stockvault has it’s roots dated back to 2001 when designer and amature photographer, Bjorgvin Gudmundsson, started a small online gallery with his own images under his personal site, www.b-man.dk. The main idea was to collect and provide these so called “stock photos” for designers to use in their artwork and “photoshop battles”. This concept is still in use here at stockvault.net, but the gallery and userbase has just gotten a bit bigger. An archive of almost 5000 free stock photos that are available for personal use (No commercial use is allowed) |
| 4 | Title: Piotrix Description: A gallery of about 2000 free images available for personal use. Most images are 2MP in size. Larger sizes are available after registration. Piotr.Pix is an image database providing free high-quality images. I currently have nearly 2000 items in my collection and more to come. My free pictures come in a resolution of 1600×1200 pixels and are ready for download and deployment in your projects (read the rules before doing so). To access the larger versions you must register for an account. |
| 5 | Title: FreeRangeStock Description: A collection of about 2000 free stock photos with a minimum resolution of 3MP. Requires registration (free) but the images can be used for commercial projects. Freerange Stock was formed with the goal to provide quality stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use. For free. We feel that free stock photos can be good photos. Freerange is an advertising revenue supported photographic community – photographers get paid when users click on the ads that appear next to their submissions. |
| 6 | Title: ImageAfter Description: Large well categorized collection of photos available for both free and commercial use.Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial. |
| 7 | Title: OpenPhoto Description: Almost 3500 free images are available at OpenPhoto. There isn’t a universal license so it is reccomended to check the license of each image individually. |
| 8 | Title: BigFoto Description: Collection of free photos categorized by location and theme. The photos can be used for personal projects freely and for commercial projects with proper attribution. |
| 9 | Title: Pixel Perfect Digital Description: Online archive of more than 4000 free images available for personal and commercial use. |
| 10 | Title: FreeFoto Description: A really large collection of almost 100 000 free stock photos for personal use.FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet. The comprehensive, yet easy to navigate site, offers images that are free for on-line use, with higher quality versions available for sale. |
| 11 | Title: FreeImages.co.uk Description: Offers about 2500 free stock photos that can be used for both personal and commercial projects. Attribution is required.Free images is a high quality resource of digital stock photographic images for use by all.All images are free to use on websites and printed materials. |
| 12 | Title: Free Photo Station Description: Categorized collection of free stock photos. There is no mention on the site if the photos can be used commercially. |
| 13 | Title: FreePixels Description: Archive of about 2000 photos and raster illustrations that can be freely used for personal or commercial projects |
| 14 | Title: FreePhotosBank Description: Collection of free photos that can be used for personal and commercial projects |
| 15 | Title: DesignPacks Description: Archive of mostly textures photos, free for bot personal and commercial use.We offer free, high quality image collections that can be use in both personal and commercial web design projects. Each collection features a group of 15 images that share a common theme. We’ve created dozens of collections based on a variety of themes. New sets are added monthly so be sure to bookmark us and check back often. |
| 16 | Title: Cromavista Description: Photos by Ricardo Martín Herrero that can be used without limitations (Spanish Site) |
| 17 | Title: BurninWell.org Description: Offers more than 2000 public domain photos |
| 18 | Title: GeekPhilosopher Description: A library of free stock photos created by the owners of the site as well as public domain photos collected from the web.These photos are labeled “Photo courtesy of GeekPhilosopher.com – your premier source for free stock photos.” We took these photos and we own the copyright. You are free to do whatever you want with these photos except redistribute them. |
| 19 | Title: Cepolina Description: Offers more than 3500 free images for download. |
| 20 | Title: TextureKing Description: The stock photographs on this site are free for use in any situation by anyone with only one exception. DO NOT sell, redistribute, or host any of the stock photos that are found on this site.Archive of free textures that can be used for any purpose (reselling is prohibited) |
| 21 | Title: PDPhoto Description: Provides about 2000 public domain photos for download.PDPhoto.org is a repository for free public domain photos. Unless something is clearly marked as being copyrighted, you can assume it is free to use. But if you intend to use an image you find here for commercial use, please be aware that standards for such use are higher. |
| 22 | Title: Flickr Creative Commons Description: Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through photos under each type of license.Literally millions of pictures license under different Creative Commons licenses |
| 23 | Title: GIMP Savvy Description: The photo archive at Gimp-Savvy.com has more than 27,000 free photos and images, consisting of over 2.5 Gbytes of data.A collection of almost 27000 public domain images collected from sources like the NASA and NOA |
| 24 | Title: Free Photographs Network Description: The Free Photographs Network is an online resource for royalty-free stock photographs for non-commercial use.Provides free photos for Non-Commercial use |
| 25 | Title: FreePhotos.com Description: Offers close to 1500 free stock photos with no usage restrictions |
| 26 | Title: Aarin Free Photo Description: We offer free images for personal and commercial use. You may download and use our images on your web site, print ads, brochures or any end products.Offers more than 950 images for personal and commercial use |
| 27 | Title: FreeStockPhotos.com Description: Every FreeStockPhotos.com photograph used must retain the domain name: FreeStockPhotos.com when used on the internet, in a web page, in printed publications, or in any product, advertising, or packaging. This credit, however, may be cropped out or digitally removed from the photograph if it is included in readable type near each photograph, group of photographs, in the text, or in the credits.Provides free photos for personal and commercial projects. However, some restrictions apply (listed on the front page) |
| 28 | Title: FreeImages.com Description: Site owned by JupiterImages, provides about 2300 free images. It is advisable to read the terms before using the images |
| 29 | Title: Barry’s Free Photos Description: Another site owned by JupiterImages that provides free stock photos. Terms |
| 30 | Title: Pyed.net Description: Small collection of free photos for personal use (requires attribution) |
| 31 | Title: Pictures from Old Books Description: A collection of more than 1300 pictures scanned from old books. Most of them are in the Public Domain.Over 2,015 high-resolution images scanned from more than 100 different old books, with extracts from the books! Remains of Ruined Castles, Deserted Abbeys, Old Manor Houses, mansions and stately homes; also engravings, woodcuts and pictures of Old England and Wales; symbols, photographs and clip-art, Pictures of old books, and much more, scanned from old books by Liam Quin. |
| 32 | Title: USDA Image Gallery Description: More than 2000 free photos.The Image Gallery is provided as a complimentary source of high quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff. |
| 33 | Title: FreeDigitalPhotos.net Description: Offers almost 3000 free photos for personal and commercial use. Thousands of royalty free photos for websites, PowerPoint presentations, newsletters, forums, blogs, schools and homework. Our images can also be used for artist’s reference, and video productions. |
| 34 | Title: FreeMediaGOO Description: FreeMediaGoo.com was created for developers by developers. We provide a way for developers to gather assets that can be used in print, film, TV, Internet or any other type of media both for commercial and personal use. Offers free photos that can be used for commercial and non commercial projects |
| 35 | Title: AmazingTextures Description: Offers free textures for personal use. Welcome to our texture library, we have hundreds of free textures to download, high-resolution textures, images, backgrounds, wallpapers and texture maps. |
| 36 | Title: Photocase Description: Online communitty that offers free photos for personal and commercial use. Terms |
| 37 | Title: Woophy Description: Interesting website that categorizes photos by location. Low resolution photos are free for personal use.Woophy stands for WOrld Of PHotographY, a website founded by a Dutch collective of photo aficionados and internet designers who believe navigation on internet can be more visual, logical and associative. The goal of Woophy’s founders is to create an accessible, visual, current, democratic and collective work of art comprised of a database picturing our remarkable world. |
| 38 | Title: ImageBase Description: From the site “What does Free To Use Actually means? It means you can use the images for whatever you want, personal, commercial of non-profit use for free. You cannot copyright the images nor can you resell them unaltered. Any others questions?“ |
| 39 | Title: YotoPhoto Description: A really nice site that doesn’t offer free photos but is a free photos search engine. |
| 40 | Title: Studio25.ro Description: Offers over 2500 free high quality stock images. TOS |
| 41 | Title: Digital Library System Description: Provides access to quite a few image libraries that contain public domain photos such as the Alaska Image Library, Pacific Image Gallery and much more |
| 42 | Title: Images of American Political History Description: A collection of over 500 public domain images of American Political History. |
| 43 | Title: US Geological Survey Photographic Library Description: More than 400,000 photographs taken during geologic studies, all are in the Public Domain.The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Central Regional Library maintains a collection of over 400,000 photographs taken during geologic studies of the United States and its territories from 1868 to the present. |
| 44 | Title: ImageBlowout Description: Offers a small collection of uncategorized free stock phos |
| 45 | Title: FontPlay Free Photos Description: A gallery of over 8000 free stock photos that can be used for bot personal and commercial projects. These are free photos that may be used by anyone for any artistic endeavor, personal or commercial without having to give credit or a link etc. |
| 46 | Title: Public Domain Stock Photos Description: Categoized gallery of photos released in the Public Domain |
| 47 | Title: Demmy.nl Description: Small colletion of free stock photos |
| 48 | Title: ImageTemple Description: Gallery of free photos for personal and commercial projects. |
| 49 | Title: Pixalia Description: Site is in Spanish and requires registration (free) to access the free stock photos. Really nicely done site |
| 50 | Title: Graphics Arena Description: Small gallery of free wallpapers and stock photos. Doesn’t clearly state the Terms of Use |
| 51 | Title: One Odd Dude Description: Collection of free stock photos and backgrounds for personal only use |
| 52 | Title: Truly Free Stock Description: Categorized collection of truly free stock photos |
| 53 | Title: T8 Software Free Stock Photos Description: Small collection of free stock photos. Requires attribution. |
| 54 | Title: LightMatter Description: Stock photo gallery that provides images licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. |
| 55 | Title: Insecta Description: Gallery of insects images licenced under a CC Licence |
| 56 | Title: Diwiesign Description: Offers free stock photos for non commercial use |
| 57 | Title: DNS Fotografia Digital Description: Brazilian website offering free stock photos. I am not sure about the exact license since auto translators don’t work that great. |
| 58 | Title: Photoshocked Description: Stock photo gallery that provides images licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. |
| 59 | Title: AboutPixel.de Description: Large German site offering almost 40000 photos contributed by users. Requires Registration |
| 60 | Title: BajStock Description: Offers almost 650 free stock photos |
| 61 | Title: Insect Images Description: Offers insect images for personal and educational use. Requires attribution |
| 62 | Title: Yellowstone Digital Slide File Description: Offers almost 13000 pictures in the public domain from Yellowstone |
| 63 | Title: Star 29 Description: Offers about 120 free stock photos |
| 64 | Title: NASA Images Description: Most pictures are in the Public Domain, however attribution is required |
| 65 | Title: FWS Pictures and Graphics Description: Attribution for the use of images is required |
| 66 | Title: Public Health Images Library Description:Library of images related to health and science from the Center of Diseace Control. Most of them are in the public domain |
| 67 | Title:NYPL Digital Gallery Description: “NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 480,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.” Images are free for for personal and educational purposes only. |
| 68 | Title: Graphic Maps Description: Collection of map and flags clipart that can be used for free |
| 69 | Title: Great Images in NASA Description: Collection of historical images from NASA. Some of them are copyright free. |
| 70 | Title: NASA Images Description: Provides links to all NASA websites offering images for download. |
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That was a really great long list.Images for all occasions.thanx
Very good collection dear… This list is too Big to check.. I have bookmarked this Will check it later… though i saw randomly some they are awesome 🙂
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I use http://www.sxc.hu/
But not sure if it exists in your list or not..thata’s big list..a perfect linkbait too
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I hope the whole list helps everyone who is looking for royalty free images.
Do let me know if you guys find any other royalty free photos websites.
No need of more images there(at the sites u listed) we can find too many images..
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cool list 🙂 will use it to get inspired for my snapsots 😉
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Exhaustive list. Will certainly help bloggers.
very useful submitted to digg.
A useful list, thanks! Used some of them for my own one..
Time passed, but sxc is still the best one.. and now it’s also a good way to market your own images and galleries..
A useful list. I would like to add another site.
http://www.photovaco.com
It provide high resolution photos for both personal and commercial projects with any restriction and yet completely free.
You may also find more than 5000 free images at http://www.sunipix.com
A brand new free stock photo site.
http://www.rgbstock.com
high quality free stck photos
Nice list. I am always on the lookout for freebies, widgets, fotos e.t.c.
I often find the images at the Jeyjoo Gallery http://jeyjoo.com/gallery
and it isnt in your list!
Why?
They add new images every day
They are absolutely free
They are very high quality
I also find that they are generic and can be used in a variety of projects.
Definitely add to your list