The list includes free photo sites to meet your design needs for your online presence. The sites included were chosen by ease of use, aethetics and include no paid photo suggestions.
Now, photography is an important part of design. Which until recently has been expensive for small online businesses. However, with the rising trend of open source sites, anyone can create beautiful content. These stock photo sites are a great resource to get beutiful high-quality photos and images. The photos are ideal for your online business needs including marketing, advertising, personal or commercial use. It is also used for digital projects such as publishing websites and blogs, (like The SheStarters Guide) etc.
Take a look at the following handpicked list to start designing with beautiful images.
Lets start with a personal favorite with over 2million freely usable images. The odds are you will find photos matching your marketing needs. These beautiful high-resolution photos are shared by professional and amateur photographers. Whether you need something for your Instagram or WordPress site, you can download the photos in different sizes to fit your design and platform restrictions. This really is the perfect site to create your digital brand identity. Free to join and free to download!
Unsplash photos are made to be used freely for commercial and non-commercial purposes. – Unsplash
Pexels is a free photo hosting site that offers high quality and free photos. Perfect for your your online business or digital projects. It allows you to download photos and use freely to promote your website, blog, social media profile, etc. On the site all photos are searchable making it easy to discover beautiful images for your marketing. This site is a solid second favorite because of its ease of use.
Free stock photos you can use everywhere. ✓ Free for commercial use ✓ No attribution required. – Pexels
Burst is a free stock photo site that is powered by Shopify. The image library includes thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images that were shot by its global community of photographers. The site focuses on high quality professional photography rather than amateur and only accepts photos from accepted contributors.
All our photos are free for commercial use with no attribution required. – Burst
Reshot has a smaller image library than before mentioned sites. The photo site offers the same free concept but lags behind when it comes to filtered search and download size. However, its easy to navigate and a good choice for beautiful photos to build your online presence. Also includes only completely free photos. Hopefully the site will grow to become a strong competitive addition to the open source photo concept.
Uniquely free photos. Yours to use as you wish. Go Crazy! – ReShot
Recently Life of Pix partnered up with Adobe Stock. But don’t dismiss them just yet. All photos in the image library are still free. The Adobe recommendations are very subtle and do not distrupt the on site experience. A smaller photo source but good for your digital projects.
Free high-resolution photos, no copyrights restrictions for personal and commercial use. – Life of Pix
A delicious looking site for those working with food related content. The site works with all favorite features of a top free photo site. Great for beautiful high resolution photos for your online business and digital projects. Only thing is, its dedicated to food. Providing the top food photos from professional and amateur photographers from around the world.
Naturally looking food photos that are completely free to download. – FoodiesFeed