There is nothing more frustrating than scouring for the perfect piece of artwork to complete your project and then getting floored by the sticker price of some stock image site. Luckily, today we have a lot more stock art options. Gathered here are the more than 100 free stock image sites from the great to the ok (totally subject, you be the judge).
Updated June, 2016
About stock image licensing
I am not a lawyer. I repeat. I am not a lawyer. Every single site should be checked for its own licensing by you, before use of images and content. However these sites have been gathered here because most of them offer free images, request attribution or nothing at all and/or have varying degrees of participation in Creative Commons licensing.
The Mega List of Free Stock Image Sites
- Stokpic
- Kaboompics
- FancyCrave
- StockPhotos
- RawPixel
- Instastock
- Stocka
- Splitshire
- Pexels
- Gratisography
- Life Of Pix
- Startup Stock Photos
- PicJumbo
- Made In Moments
- Unsplash
- Death To The Stock Photo
- ImFree
- Stock Snap
- Pixabay
- Little Visuals
- Photo Pin
- Dotspin
- New Old Stock
- Superfamous
- Jay Mantri
- Travel Coffee Book
- Look & Stock Photos
- Designer Pics
- Picography
- Find a Photo
- Albumarium
- Magdelaine
- Public Domain Archive
- Foodies Feed
- Barn Images
- Epicva
- Snapwire Snaps
- Good Free Photos
- Good Stock Photos
- Negative Space
- Photos By People
- ISO Republic
- MMT
- Jeshoots
- GetRefe
- Free Nature Stock
- Free Images
- Wikimedia
- Free Range
- Wylio
- 123RF
- 500px
- Ancestry Images
- BigFoto
- Camarama
- Compfight
- CreativeCommons.Photos
- Crow the Stone
- Death to Stock Photo
- DesignersPics
- Dreamstime
- Epicantus
- Every Stock Photo
- FindA.Photo
- Foter
- Free Images
- Free Media Goo
- Free Range Stock
- Free Stock Image Point
- FreeDigitalPhotos.net
- FreeImages.Pictures
- FreePhotosBank
- GetRefe
- Good Free Photos
- IM Free
- Image Finder
- ISO Republic
- Jeshoots
- Little Visuals
- Lock & Stock
- Magdeleine
- MMT.li
- morgueFile
- Moveast
- New Old Stock
- Photo Everywhere
- Photo Pin
- Photober
- Pickupimage
- Picography
- Pixel Perfect Digital
- Public Domain Archive
- Raumrot
- re:splashed
- RGBStock
- Skitter Photo
- Smithsonian
- UHD Wallpapers
- Snapwire Snaps
- Splashbase
- SplitShire
- Startup Stock
- StockPholio
- StockPhotos.io
- Stokpic
- Superfamous
- Travel Coffee Book
- Unsplash
- UPICM
- Wikimedia
- ScatterJar
- One Left Media
Leave a comment with your favorite free stock image site, I’d love to hear about it.
And for even more stock image awesomeness, the fine folks over at Canva have amassed this collection of 73 more resources.
And for affordable paid stock image sites, check out my favorite site, DepositPhotos for affordable pay as you go plans and subscriptions plus great content.
Awesome List, I have started a personal project called http://www.sketchjar.com . We upload two hand picked pictures every day and all pictures are under creative commons zero license. Do consider including it in your list.