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Last Updated on October 26, 2020 by Yovana
When you create a site or blog of your own, you need images to go along with your content. There is not much design to your site or blog if you have no images. Without a nice design, you are basically looking at craigslist (slight chuckle). Don’t get me wrong, I love craigslist. However, it is boring to look at.
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Here are some free blogging resources that have helped me on my blogging journey. Maybe they can help you too?
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Images help break up the content on your posts and make the reading experience more enjoyable as it is pleasing to the eyes. People are more likely to click on a shared post that includes an image than one that does not. The success of your blog depends on the success of your content, all of your content, including your images.
Remember, you can’t just grab any old image off of google or another site without them being legally free to use. This means the images you use within your site or blog content must be images that have been released free of copyrights. You might think these are hard to come by but actually, they are surprisingly easy to find if you know where to look.
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To help you out I have compiled a list of the top 11 places for free stock photos.
These top 11 resources are ones I regularly visit to grab free stock photos as they are the best out there, in my opinion.
Adobe Stock – Free 30 Day Trial
Let’s start with the mother of all stock photos, Adobe! The head honcho! It may not free forever but for 30 days, that works for me!
Pixabay
Pixabay’s images and videos are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. This makes it possible for you to download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free. You can use them for anything you like, even in commercial applications.
Pixabay also offers an app for both android and iphone.
Pexels
Pexels is much like Pixabay in which all the photos are free to download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free. You will sometimes see some of the photos that you see on Pixabay, come through the search results on Pexels as well.
Pexels also offers a Chrome extension, an app for both Mac and Windows, and a Photoshop plugin!
StockSnap.io
StockSnap offers free beautiful stock photos and adds hundreds of new ones every week! They are all free from copyright restrictions and also offer a graphic editor.
Unsplash
Unsplash has free high resolution photos and are licensed under Creative Commons Zero. I know we have been over what that means but for those who just skim through, that means they are free from copyright restrictions. Subscribe and you get the best of Unsplash sent right to your mailbox!
FreeStockPhotos
When you think there couldn’t be anymore more resource websites offering an unlimited amount of stock photos for free, think again. This is another one offering awesome high quality photos for free and have no copyright restrictions! Go crazy!
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Freerange Stock
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Death To The Stock Photo
Death To The Stock Photo offers to send beautiful photos straight to your inbox for free. Although you can get their photos for free, they offer even more in their premium service!
Picjumbo
Picjumbo is another great resource for free stock photos. You can sign up for free, for their mailing list where they send you free photos or sign up for their premium service to get brand spanking new, never before published photos! Check this one daily because they add new ones nonstop.
Bucketlistly
Bucketlistly was created by Travelistly founder and UI/UX designer Pete R. It features a collection of over 5000+ travel photos from all over the world and anyone is free to use them as they have been released under Creative Commons. Be ready for these, they are absolutely breathtaking.
Lifeofpix
Alright so Lifeofpix doesn’t have the largest selection of stock photos but they are still great quality photos. They are free so you can’t be too demanding about the selection sometimes, it is not like you are paying for a promised service. These are some of the best high quality stock photos out there that you can get for free and some of them you won’t find at every other resource (like some of the photos through these sites will be duplicated and seen on others…I guess some of them pull from the same feed?).
After you pick out your photos, head over to PicMonkey and follow along my tutorial on How To Create Stunning Images For Your Blog In 5 Minutes!
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This is a pretty useful list, thanks ???? I’ll recommend also https://imageric.com with tons of free photos, vectors and videos under CC0 licence (Public Domain).
Awesome, thanks for the addition!
???? Thank you for the list! âš¡ At https://123PhotoFree.com we have thousands of free photos under Creative Commons licence (CC0) with 7 social sites dimensions (for Facebook, Twitter and more)…
This would be another good resource for free stock photos. Thanks!
That’s very informative and interesting post! All those tips are brilliant and thanks for sharing them with us! Btw. Thanks for keeping us updated!
Thanks for this- I’d never heard of Life of pix in particular.
Haha it did make me laugh when you mentioned Craigslist. I agree great sites have both good content and imagery and there is certainly nothing wrong with stock photos. Sometimes I have to write posts where I need stock photos so I will be pinning this post for future reference x
I only use Pexels and FreeStockPhotos so thank you for sharing more options, I’ll certainly use them in the future! Free stock photos are always a bit hard to find and for a blogger they’re quite important.
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Very helpful information. I’ve been searching for some good photos for my blog. Going to check out Pexels. Thanks for sharing.
This is interesting as recently I was looking for a photo of a particular person for a post I was doing and I’m not really sure if it was free or not… Anyway I always use my own photos and will going forward. Buts its good to know these sites are there if I need one.
I’m always looking for free stock photos that doesn’t include any watermark. I really prefer using my own photos but there were really times that these stock photos come in handy without breaking through some copy right issues. I haven’t used any of these resources you mentioned but I will definitely give them a shot… bookmarked your post ^_^ thanks for sharing it with us
Indeed a very informative post for bloggers. I knew some of these but some are new for me, so I’ll check them out now.
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Very well written article. It will be supportive to anyone who utilizes it, including me. Keep up the good work – looking forward to more posts.
This is so helpful, I rarely use stock photos for my main account but I do use them all the time for my business account.
Great stock photo resource!!! I use pexels and pixbay most of the time! I very rarely use stock photography though so they do the trick the hand full of times I do
Hello,
thank you for your list! I think you may also like https://avopix.com as a source of free stock photos (public domain, commercial use, no attribution required). We have more than 125 000 free photos, direct download, favorites, etc. What do you think about it?
Best regards,
Martin from Avopix.com
i agree that visuals play a huge role in blogs/websites. Thank you for this list! I am always searching for creative pictures to use.
Great list and you’re right – so so important to have images where you’re not infringing on rights! I’m a big fan of Unsplash but you’ve given me some great new ideas here of sites to check out. Thanks!
Great list – I’m a huge fan of Haute Chocolate and Ivory Mix for stock photos. It saves me so much time not worrying about having to take photos which means I can really focus on my content instead
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It’s important to have good resources when you’re a blogger. It’s not always easy to go on a photoshoot for a post. I think these websites make blogging easier.
I rarely use stock photos since I am a photographer. This is a great resource list for those who have a need for it. Thanks for sharing.
I personally never use stock photos but maybe it’s because I haven’t found a great resource for them. Great tips, thank you!
Hi, very informative article.
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Great List! I use lots of icons and vectors in my graphics so I use Freepik and Vecteezy. My photo fave is unsplash and also rawpixel.
Stick photos have saved my butt! I love knowing where to go. I didn’t know about some of these spots!
Having a travel blog these are very useful. I tried looking for free stock images for a while now but never could fine any quality ones. Now I will try each website listed above. Thanks a lot! Bookmarked your site.
I’ll have to check out these resources. I take all my own pictures for blog posts, but sometimes I do wish I had access to stock photos for when I want certain lifestyle shots.
Great list! I use quite a few of the ones you listed, upsplash being one of my favorites, but I did learn a couple of new ones. Thank you! Pinned
I’m always looking for good and free pictures for my blog. There are so many rules and I’m always worried about doing it wrong so sites like this are amazing!
Thank you for these resources. I’m always looking for stock photos for my blogs and these really help out when money is tight!
I make it a goal to take all my own photos for my blog, but this is such a great option for when and if I don’t have time to set up, shoot, and edit. It’s a lot of work! Thank you for sharing your resources with us.
I’m a Virtual Assistant and I always get free stock photos from Pixabay! Maybe I should try other resources listed above. These look great!
Saved this page as favourites. Very useful as a blogger.
Thank you! What great resources!
Brilliant tips! I’m always on a look out for great original stock photos and to be fair it seems like everyone and their cat are using Pexels right now which used to be my favourite! About to explore what the other ones have to offer, I’m sure there will be a new favourite of mine:) xx
This is incredible resource. I bookmarked it.
Thanks
First thanks for sharing this post. Really without good and appropriate images, our post become boring.
I was not aware of some of the resources. thanks for sharing btw nice list
Thank you! I love to use pictures, I try to take all my own, but sometimes I want something I don’t have. I am glad to use some of these free resources.
Great tips and nice list so I know where to look for other photos for my articles! I use Pixabay for my article photos and take my pictures of food for recipes.
I didn’t think I needed stock photos since I write a family travel blog, but I’ve been finding myself searching for them every once in awhile. This is a fantastic post and I’m going to save it!
I love unsplash. Good quality photos that never disappoint, but I have never used any of these other websites and I try really hard not to use photos that aren’t mine but sometimes you just have too.
I am so saving this for later! I have been using a half and half mix of stock photos and my own photos, but sometimes I just like a good stock photo!
Right! I love creating my own photos but sometimes the stock photos look a million times better!
Pexels is my personal favorite! I get lots from there. I’ll be sure to check out the rest of these!