Free Images for Blogs and Marketing (34 sites)
Free images for blogs are important as the owners don’t usually make a lot of income form their sites. However free images are also needed by marketers working for businesses to lower production costs.
In marketing a great image can often be a key component of the message. Constant need for images can dig deep into your pocket when using commercial stock photography. If you need a specific image then it probably makes sense to pay a bit for the stock images. It will be a lot cheaper than to hire a photographer.
What to do when you constantly need images but their marketing lifespan can be measured only in days, maybe hours. Images for Facebook posts, email newsletters, individual slides in presentations that you use only once… Paying 10 or 20 dollars per image for these is a lot. So where do you get free images?
I have collected a bunch of sites that give you exactly that… free images for commercial use.
I encourage you to share your own images in public platforms under similar licenses. So you give back for the value you get… Here are some of my pictures (free use no credit needed).
Free images, videos, illustrations, and more
freeimages.com — a free image site with almost 400,000 images for free use. The site contains paid and free images promoting iStockPhoto paid services.
flickr.com — Flickr is a granddaddy of all image sites. When users upload their images then they can select a license that is applied to the use of that image. Use the license filter and select one of the following:
- Commercial use allowed
- Commercial use and mods allowed
- No known copyright restrictions
- U.S. Government works
These selections give you images that you can use for free. Check the license for attribution and other restrictions.
designerspics.com — free high resolution images for personal and commercial use. Attribution not required!
splashbase.co — free photos and videos, hi res.
unsplash.com — Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.For 10 new photos every 10 days.
foodiesfeed.com — free food pictures.
jeshoots.com — Cool & free photos for business or personal use in high resolution.
splitshire.com — free stock photos and images for commercial use. Download high quality free stock photos without copyright, do whatever you want. Updates everyday!
picjumbo.com — totally free photos for your commercial and personal work.
lifeofpix.com — free high-resolution photos, no copyrights restrictions. Images for personal commercial use. New photos added weekly! All images are donated to the public domain. Hand-made with love by Leeroy advertising agency in Montreal & its network of photographers.
gratisography.com — free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. New awesome pictures added weekly! All pictures were photographed by Ryan McGuire and free of copyright restrictions.
publicdomainarchive.com — new 100% free stock photos. Every. Single. Week. Everything you need for your creative projects, all public domain images!
imcreator.com/free — A curated collection of free web design resources, all for commercial use.
cupcake.nilssonlee.se — free (do what ever you want) photos. All photos are licensed under the Creative Commons license CC0, which means that you are free to use the images without any costs. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking for permission.
getrefe.com/downloads/category/free — lots of free images.
isorepublic.com — Free and premium stock photos.
stokpic.com — free stock photos for commercial use (Stokpic License). Basically you can do anything apart from redistribute.
kaboompics.com — Great place to get breathtaking free pictures for business or personal projects.
sitebuilderreport.com/stock-up — searching 13,000+ free stock photos across 26 websites
raumrot.com — free stockphotos for your commercial and personal works. COPYRIGHTFREE stock photos for your website, blog and printdesign. Creative Commons license CC0.
mmt.li — free for commercial use photos by Jeffrey Betts. CC0 license.
moveast.me — free images. This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving that decided that every photo should be used for free. Help yourselves and use them wherever you want (CC0).
barnimages.com — Free photos, what else…
startupstockphotos.com — Free photos for startups, bloggers, publishers, websites, designers, developers, creators, and everyone else.
pexels.com — all photos are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. This means the pictures are completely free to be used for any legal purpose. Currently over 6,000 free stock photos. And every month at least 1500 new high resolution photos will be added.
jaymantri.com — free pics. Do anything (CC0).
pixabay.com — free images and videos you can use anywhere. All images and videos are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty-free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.
images.superfamous.com — images are available under the conditions of a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. This means that you can use the work for your own purposes as long as credit is provided. All images by Folkert Gorter.
magdeleine.co — You guessed it! Free images!!
nos.twnsnd.co — free vintage photos from the public archives. Free of known copyright restrictions.
visualhunt.com — 354 million+ Creative Commons Photos. 55k+ CC0–100% free high quality photos
mazwai.com — lots of free videos.
allthefreestock.com — Get all the free stock images, videos, music and icons in one location. All of the sites offers images listed under the Creative Commons Zero license, so you are free to use these images in commercial projects.
freepik.com — find free vector art, illustrations, icons, PSD and photos for using in websites, banners, presentations, magazines.
There are a lot of site and the selection is huge! Quality of the images is varing but you can almost always find something that works for your project. However searching trough the images may be time consuming and sometimes it makes more sense to get your image quickly form commercial stock.
Read How to Use Images to Make Your E-Commerce Site Sell More.
