Searching for the right photos to use on your blog post or website that don’t have stringent copyright restrictions can be challenging. Here is list of 20 best places to get free stock photos and royalty free images that bloggers can download to use on their blogs.
Photo Pin
Photo Pin is a free tool that helps bloggers and designers find beautiful photos for blogs and websites using Creative Commons licensing.
Compflight
Compfight is a powerful visual search engine that helps you get free stock photos for the advertising community including images of creative commons and public domain.
everystockphoto
Stockvault
Pixabay
Pixabay is a curated repository for finding and sharing public domain images. All of the images on Pixabay can be used freely in digital and printed format, for personal and commercial use.
Fotolia – Free Royalty Free Images
A large stock photo website with over 20 million premium royalty-free stock photos, Fotolia also offers some of its photos for free.
morgueFile
MorgueFile has a large selection of free photos
Stock.XCHNG
Different photos have different restrictions, so be sure to check the copyright and attribution requirements before you use a photo.
Fotor
Wikimedia Commons
Freerange Stock
Pixel Perfect Digital
Open Photo
Flickr
To find free photos that are available for use on your blog, begin by searching using creative commons license. Be certain to provide attribution and link back to the source.
Imagebase: Free Stock Photography
deviantART
Historical Stock Photos
FreeDigitalPhotos
FreeDigitalPhotos site is an excellent resource. There are thousands of high-quality photos of people in settings ranging from weddings to business situations.
Free Pixels
Thinkstock
