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10 of the Best Free Stock Photo Websites for Royalty-Free Images

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Unsplash

With a huge library of photos and thousands more being added each day, chances are they’ve got a photo for you. The Unsplash community is super active with over 50,000 photographers. They’ve been used in everything from Apple keynotes to the default theme shipped with WordPress. You’ve probably already seen a photo from Unsplash, you just didn’t know it.

Negative Space

NegativeSpace is about creating communities: A community of photographers who want to share their work. And a community of online visitors who want to use their beautiful, free high-resolution images without any restrictions. Each of the high-quality photographs you find here has been taken by a photographer from the community.

Stokpic

Photographer Ed Gregory generously dishes up 10 new photos every two weeks that you can use on your website, as part of a template, in an ad, and … well, pretty much anywhere.

Pexels

Pexels run by a team of three with a mission to help millions of designers, writers, creators, to get access to beautiful photos that they can use freely which empowers them to create amazing content.

All the photos are creative commons images and handpicked from sources like pixabay, little visuals, and gratisography.

Gratisography

With new photos added weekly, Gratisography is another awesome website serving up high-resolution photos covered under the Creative Commons Zero license.

Hubspot

Hubspot has an amazing collection of high-quality free stock photos that are available to content creators.

Pixabay

Pixabay is a vibrant community of creative, sharing copyright free images and videos. All content is released under Creative Commons CC0, which makes them safe to use without asking permission or giving credit to the artist, even for commercial purposes.

Stocksnap

Whether you’re building a business website, creating a print brochure, crafting a digital or magazine ad, or some other brilliant creative project, you know that a great image helps your content transcend “good” and become “great.” Compelling, eye-catching, attention-grabbing work on the web especially needs sharp, arresting visual images to succeed.

Splitshire

Splitshire makes it easy to get my shots that any and every one can use from designers, bloggers, website creators, social marketing gurus, companies. In the course of almost ten years of photography, I have accumulated many photos, thousands, who were in the hard disk gathering dust.

Fancy Crave

Fancy Crave is definitely bookmark worthy as they get two new photos uploaded daily upon there large library of free copyright images.

They also have a $10/month membership for social media agencies, marketing managers, photographers, entrepreneurs, bloggers, and web designers will adore our wide range of abstract and travel-themed photos, rich with human emotion and expression.