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(Over) 58 Free Resources for Stock Photos and Graphics

Updated 21 June 2019 – now contains over 58 resources!

Regularly finding stock photos and items for creative projects that don’t require a money tree can be a right pain in the butt. Yes, people deserve to be paid for the photos they take, or the graphics they create, there are no arguments there. Unfortunately for most people, buying images and graphic design items regularly can become a financial headache. We all need a free boost up from time to time.

Thankfully, thousands of generous souls provide their stuff for free. While there are many more options out there, aside from the list below, I’ve included a number of my favourite places for finding content. This list contains websites where the content is available for both personal and commercial use – an important distinction if you are using content for clients, as well as yourself.

Where required, I have mentioned the sites where the stock photos and other items require attribution. That is, whenever you use their items, you must put a link back to the place you got the item from. This is how people receive recognition for their work. For the remaining sites, while attribution is not required, it is polite to acknowledge their generosity by linking back.

Stock photos

    1. Snapwire Snaps  – new images every 7 days
    2. Get Refe
    3. New Old Stock – free vintage photos.
    4. Unsplash – 10 new photos every 10 days.
    5. Death to the Stock Photo – monthly photo packs available by free subscription. To subscribe for the free monthly photos, scroll to the bottom of the home page to find the subscription box. You can also sign up for a paid monthly subscription to have access to their entire catalogue, plus additional photos not included in the free packs.
    6. Albumarium – free with proper attribution.
    7. Pixabay – images, vectors and illustrations. Requires signup.
    8. Startup Stock Photos – stock photos with a business theme.
    9. Magdeleine – attribution required.
    10. Gratisography – some good photos, and some..erm, odd ones
    11. Stocksnap.io
    12. Split Shire
    13. Life of Pix
    14. Epicantus – NB: hasn’t been updated since Oct ’17.
    15. Finda – for searching images across multiple sites. Check attribution on photos.
    16. Foodies Feed – free food stock images.
    17. Pexels
    18. Free Nature Stock – exactly what it says it is
    19. Free Range Stock – requires membership. Be careful when looking at the search results, as there are premium stock photos included above and below the free ones, and you will be redirected to another website if you click on them.
    20. Good Free Photos – check individual photos for attribution.
    21. Iso Republic
    22. Jay Mantri
    23. Je Shoots
    24. Burst – Hosted by Shopify. Credit not required, but appreciated!
    25. MMT
    26. MorgueFile
    27. Move East – Photos taken from locations around East Asia.
    28. Photo Everywhere – attribution required.
    29. Picjumbo
    30. Pickup Image
    31. Skitter Photo
    32. Stockphotos.io – membership & attribution required.
    33. Foter – requires membership. Photos are usable in blog posts using the provided embed code.
    34. RGB Stock
    35. Stok Pic
    36. Superfamous – attribution required. Photos of landscapes, nature and architecture – some great ones if you are looking to create some texture overlays.
    37. IM Creator – check attribution requirements on individual photos.
    38. VisualHunt – VisualHunt contains well over 354 million stock photos, and some are absolutely stunning. Well worth a look!
    39. Kaboom Pics – Attribution is not required, but is appreciated. Turning your ad blocker off is also appreciated, as it helps cover their costs for hosting the site.
    40. The Stocks – The Stocks is a website that has many of the above image links (plus many others I haven’t listed on the site) built into it, so you can access photos, mockups and other visuals from within one area
    41. All the Free Stock – This is another site that lists many free stock photos, video clips, and stock audio in a single place.
    42. Negative Space
    43. Fancy Crave – A stock photo site for commercial use. Each photo submitted to the website is assessed by the Fancy Crave team before it is added to the site, ensuring that only top quality photos are made available.
    44. PikWizard
    45. Nappy – White people are over-represented in most stock photography websites. Nappy is a new site which seeks to correct this by offering high quality images of black and brown people.
    46. BarnImages
    47. Reshot – high quality images, which are displayed in a lazy loading gallery on the home page. Run a search for the images you’re interested in!
    48. Freestocks.org – a small collection of high quality images, curated by a team of three photographers (and occasional friends). These photographers take the photos in their spare time and kindly share them with the world for us to use with no restriction.
    49. Styled Stock – free styled stock photography featuring flatlays, beauty, fashion, lifestyle and more. Styled stock photography is popular with female entrepreneurs, but can get expensive if you’re on a tight budget, so take advantage of these ones! Attribution is appreciated, but not necessary.
    50. Free Stock Photos by Canva – millions of images curated by Canva. Make sure to set the filter on the results to “free”, as it defaults to “free and premium”.

    51. Other

    52. Graph Berry – free PSD templates, mockups, UI kits and icons.
    53. Freebies Bug – free fonts, stock photos, PSD templates, WordPress themes (bear in mind that free themes usually don’t have any support), Illustrator files, Sketch files, website codes and plugins.
    54. Deviant Art – free graphics, vectors and images. Check the licencing (attribution) requirements on each one.
    55. Freepik – free vectors, PSDs, Illustrator files, etc. Have their own exclusive content (marked Freepik), and link to other sites that may require signup and/or attribution.
    56. Vector Portal – free vectors, templates, logo objects and more. Check attribution for each one.
    57. Dry Icons – free vectors and icons. Attribution is required, or attribution-free items can be purchased for a small fee.
    58. Creative Market – Each week Creative Market has a list of six freebies you can download for the week, including fonts, images, vectors, PSD templates, website templates, etc.
    59. Flat Icon – free vector icons, icon fonts and PSD/Illustrator/After Effects plugin.
    60. Texture Zoom – free textures for enhancing photos, etc.

    61. Graphics/Image Editing

    62. Canva
    63. Picmonkey
    64. Design Wizard offers a more affordable price point to Canva and can also be used to make short videos
    65. Fotojet offers a more affordable price point to Canva and PicMonkey, with comparable features
    66. Pixlr X is Pixlr’s replacement for their old Adobe Flash version, giving you basic options for image adjustments such as contrast, brightness, sharpen, smooth, etc. Fantastic for quick adjustments that don’t require you to have Photoshop-like knowledge. For additional editing features, try Pixlr Editor. Go high level with the ability to edit Photoshop and Sketch files with Pixlr Pro, which is $US5/yr (at time of writing). Pixlr also has as a phone app.
    67. GIMP – free open source image editor. Like Photoshop, but with a few less features. There is a lot of help documentation available to navigate this software.
    68. Inkscape – the free equivalent of Illustrator.

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