13 ultimate free stock photo sites

The 13 ULTIMATE Free Stock Photo Sites

(All free for commercial use)

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for your Presentation or Online Course

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Content Marketer & Designer @teachablehq @allisonhaag

Hi! I’m Allison!

Have you ever experienced the HUGE pain of finding GREAT stock images

Most searches for free stock photo resources are filled with low quality, cheesy options

Most searches for free stock photo resources are filled with low quality, cheesy options

Wait! Is that Dave

Franco?!

Great presentations and online courses demand images that are 1. non-cheesy 2. high-resolution 3. public domain (that means they’re free for commercial use)

Great presentations and online courses demand images that are 1. non-cheesy 2. high-resolution 3. public domain (that means they’re free for commercial use) social media

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I’ve put together a list of the best stock photo websites whose images can be used completely

for free

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presentationsonline courses

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I’ve used some of the websites on the list for years. Others are newer finds from these trusted resources:

Buffer blog nu School

Bootstrap Bay

My list only contains websites that fall under the Creative Commons Zero

license (CC0)

My list only contains websites that fall under the Creative Commons Zero

license (CC0)

AKA the images are free to use for your commercial and personal needs!

Ok, now the good stuff.The 13 best free stock photo resources

Unsplash

My go-to. Curated by Crew. 10 images in your inbox every 10 days

unsplash.com

GratisographyAll photos by Ryan Mcguire. New photos added weekly gratisography.com

Death to the Stock Photo

Photographers Allie Lehman and David Sherry send you a downloadable image pack every month

deathtothestockphoto.com

Negative Space

London based photographer Luis adds 20 new photos every Monday. Can’t

find the exact image you were looking for? Tweet and you may receive

negativespace.co

picjumboSince Viktor Hanacek started picjumbo

in Nov. 2013, his photos have been downloaded over 1.5M times

picjumbo.com

Insta Stock

All images taken on an iPhone 6 by Dylan Simel. It’s a smaller collection, but he uploads a new photo daily

instastock.co

SplitShire

Italian photographer & designer Daniel

Nanescu’s stock site is “Made with love

in Italy”

splitshire.com

Life of PixLeeroy, an advertising agency in Montréal, built this stock site with their own images and through their

network of photographers. They add new photos weekly

lifeofpix.com

Startup Stock Photos

Produced by social media marketing agency Sculpt and photographer Eric Bailey, the site focuses on the image needs of startup companies: technology, office shots, coffee shops, etc.

startupstockphotos.com

HubSpot StockHubSpot decided it was time again to help its readers stress less over creative license agreements and copyright laws. HubSpot hired a photographer to build their own stock photo arsenal to give away for free! No fees. No attribution required

blog.hubspot.com/marketing/75-free-stock-photos-im-ht

Now, for three stock repository sites…

The StocksAn aggregated tumblr site that

pulls free images from 14 different websites, like some of

the ones I listed above

thestocks.im

PexelsA stock photo aggregator that pulls its images from Unsplash, Gratisography,

Little Visuals and other CC0 sites. About 10 new free photos are added daily

pexels.com

Stock SnapA CC0 photo repository that collects stock images from around the world and through daily submissions by photographers. A cool Stock Snap feature is that you can search by trending and most viewed images

stocksnap.io

Let’s go further, here’s a bonus just for you!

Let’s go further, here’s a bonus just for you!

Two free CC0 sites for icons & one site to create your own images

Endless IconsThis vector icon website was created as a side project by designer and developer Min Kim, who is in the process of building his own stock image site

endlessicons.com

iconmonstrA vector icon gallery made in Germany by Alexander Kahlkopf. You can download various PNG and SVG sizes

iconmonstr.com

CanvaOn Canva you can design your own images for social media, presentations, posters, and photo collages

canva.com

But if you really do want to pay for your photos…

Here’s a quick list of some not-so-free stock image sites

Getty gettyimages.com Corbis corbisimages.com

ShutterStock shutterstock.com Thinkstock thinkstockphotos.com

iStock istockphoto.com

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