Finding the right image for your blog could be a real pain. Good images are hard to find and often come at a price that seems too expensive.
Images not only decorate your article, but good images are also like a compliment to tour writing.
They help to influence the reader’s mind.
There are many services which offer free images. In this article, I would bring you five free resources which allow free download and use for personal and commercial use.
In fact, the last resource is an aggregate of about 30 small sites. I bet you would not need to spend any penny on the photo that you require to use on your blog.
Here we go.
Pixabay
Pixabay offers thousands of photos that can be downloaded for free.
All pictures are free for personal and commercial use. Attribution is not required.
Yes! That means you can download a photo and use it any way you wish to [Of course sensibly :-)]
All pictures are released under Creative Commons CC0 into the public domain.
That means you can copy, modify, distribute, and use the images, even for commercial purposes, all without asking for permission or giving credits to the artist.
You may use Pixabay images on social media platforms like Facebook too.
One caveat though. The depicted content may still be protected by trademarks, publicity or privacy rights.
The Pixabay image can be downloaded without opening an account but if you choose to sign up, you can get rid of the CAPTCHA that is presented every time when you ask for download.
Pexels
All photos on Pexels are free for any personal and commercial purpose.
You can choose from thousands of photos being offered on the site.
All pictures are free for personal and commercial use. Attribution is appreciated but not required.
Similar to Paxabay, all photos on Pexels are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. This means the pictures are completely free to be used for any legal purpose.
The pictures are free for personal and even for commercial use.
You can modify, copy and distribute the photos.
Attribution is not required.
The only restriction is that identifiable people may not appear in a bad light or in a way that they may find offensive.
StockSnap
StockSnap also offers thousands of photos that can be downloaded for free for personal and commercial use. Attribution not required [but appreciated]
Unsplash
Another great site for downloading free stock photos and images. Unsplash offers thousands of photos that can be downloaded for free.
All pictures are free for personal and commercial use. Attribution is appreciated but not required.
Stock Up
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Stock up is a project by Site Builder Report which tests and publishes about website builders.
Stock Up actually aggregates free stock photos across dozens of free stock photo sources and have a large database.
Because Stock Up aggregates many different free stock photo websites, the license for each photo will vary. Each photo on Stock Up will show the license when you hover over it. Most photos are Creative Commons 0. Some are public domain.
Here is the list of Websites it aggregates from:
- Unsplash
- Life of Pix
- Jay Mantri
- Splitshire
- MMT
- Public Domain Archive
- Refe
- Picjumbo
- Kaboom Pics
- Good Stock
- Skitter Photo
- New Old Stock
- Picography
- Cupcake
- Snapwire Snaps
- Free Nature Stock
- Free iMage Bank
- Barn Images
- Libreshot
- Bucketlistly Photos
- Good Free Photos
- Tookapic
- MyStock Photos
- Brain & Storm
- Looking Glass
- Negative Space
- Enhlin
- Knockout Prezo
So! That removes your image finding problem almost completely. Now get busy with writing.
If you have a source of images you would like to share, please do that in the comments.
