Best Free Stock Photo Sites
By kpfingaz
Stock Photography Sites
Stock photography sites provide a well needed service not only to the internet community but to whoever may need graphics for whatever purpose.
Whether you just need a photo to spice up your hub, make an article more attractive with the use of an picture or to use on a brochure or website template, you can find some images for use at internet free stock photography sites.
Most of the images on free stock photo sites are submitted by users who are amatuer or professional photographers. Some of the photos may not be high quality and are offered free while some of the higher quality photos which have been edited using photo editing software are sold for as low as $1. These higher quality photographs are used on website templates, in magazines and in brochures and other commercial productions.
Google Images?
You can do a search by keyword and bring up relevant images on Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines. This however is not a recommendation!
While you may not get into trouble for downloading some photos, it is not recommended that you "right click and save picture" when browsing these images. Some of the images may have copyrights which means that you could get into legal trouble if you do use these images on your website, blog or other content.
For this reason it is best to stick to free stock photo sites when you need pictures for your website, blog, hub or other content.
sxc.hu - Best Free Stock Photo Site
This is just my opinion, but I would say that the best free stock photo site is sxc.hu also known as Stock Xchng. I always use this site when I need photos to add to a hub or landing page or website that I own.
The best thing about them is that I can search their large database for a picture and I always find one that matches what I'm looking for.
Another good thing about them is they do not require you to link back to their website nor do they have their name on the photos. Some stock photo sites will let you use their photos but you have to link back to their site or they have their domain name on the photos.
Stock Xchng also refers its users to StockXpert, a royalty free stock photo site they created which offers higher quality photos for as low as $1. There are benefits in buying these higher quality photos but if you just need some to spice up your content then no need to use this service as you can just download free stock photos from Stock Xchng.
Great site - they offer the best of both worlds.
Other Great Free Stock Photo Sites
- Morguefile.com
Morguefile.com free stock photos - FreePixels.com
Another good site for free photos. - FreeRangeStock - Totally Free Stock Photos
Not just royalty free, totally free. - EveryStockPhoto.com
Features stock photos from the other stock photo sites mentioned here. - Flickr
I find some cool photos here sometimes too
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Free Stock Photo Sites I Forgot To Mention? Feedback/Comments?
This is great information. Thanks so much for this Hub!
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This is wonderful!. I've been looking for pictures to add to my hubs to make them more interesting. I must say thank you kpfingaz for becoming my fan without which I would not have found this information.
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Excellent info - thanks so much for writing this hub and letting us know about stock photos
Thanks, I haven't heard of some of these. Thumbs up!
Thanks.. glad I could help.
i like photography
great! stock photo works
Great information. I've been reluctant to use these "free" photo sites until now, but I'll begin searching these sites for good pictures. I'm still trying to find my way around the computer world. Thanks.
Great hub! I love Stock Xchng---use it all the time :-) I'm not familiiar with some of the others. I'll have to check them out.
Thanks for the information. It is very useful.
This is a great list. I have been looking for sites like these. Thanks
Thank you. I needed more variety and perhaps better sources for photos. Very helpful!
Another great Resource,
THANKYOU!
Thats great thanks for th help
Good information. I have been using other sites so far. I can add some of these sites to my collection.
Thanks. Maybe you can suggest those sites and I'll add them.
I'd like to suggest another free stock photo site:
It offers totally free photos and backgrounds for commercial and personal use
Perfect! Just what I was looking for. Thank you
Thank you very much for telling us about it. The problem is that most of us do not know any more site other than corbis regarding photos. But this is an ideal hub to share information about free photos sites.
Please keep posting more.
I also found good quality free images at www.sunipix.com
Another site that offers totally free photos for commercial and personal use
Thanks, I found this hub and some comments useful.
Thank you
Thanks very much!
Thanks. One more fre photos site for your list:
I would suggest also database of stock images: http://www.StockPhotos.it
This database contains tons of free images, vectors and illustrations. Commercial images are included as well.
thank you for suggesting this site!
Don't forget RGBStock, StockVault etc...
As described here: http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-find-great-high-qua
I have just created a post on how to find free stock images online. I would like your opinion on that
http://rgbstock.com is great, they have over 60,000 free photos now. You can also grab a few free photos from http://stockfresh.com
This was very helpful thank you
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Comments
I love photography
Great article, thanks for sharing...!
Hi!
You can use my photos for free at http://freeartisticphotos.com - all of them are taken by me and made Public Domain ; hope you enjoy them!
Cheers, Husac!
I hope that you found it interesting!
Great hub, I am looking for a new source for images and really appreciate the information. Many of the pix I use are my own, some from the stock exchange.
At last! I can stop my search, thank you. I have been searching for free photos for ever and never seem to find the right sight. Very helpful info.
Good information, thanks for your hub :)
Good to know. Thank you for writing this.
Shane
taylorblue 4 years ago
Thanks so much for this hub...I love Stock Exchange too! They have that great search feature....Amazing list...thanks again.