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15 Best Stock Image Websites

Whether you’re a professional graphic designer, blogger, or marketer there have been times where you needed photos for your creative needs. The biggest problem in finding photos is not knowing if the images are public domain.

I have put together a list of the 15 best stock image websites. Many of the below sites are free, while some simply require a registration and others might charge a nominal fee, but all worth checking out.

All websites listed are public domain – feel free to use any of these images in your next marketing venture as long as you abide by their TOS.

Jupiter Images – Jupiter images has a huge variety of images to choose from. My only complaint about this stock image site is the outrageous prices for high resolution images.

sxc.hu – The top free stock photo website. You can search based on image type, user, file type and more.

iStockphoto – The greatest thing about this photo stock website is not it’s great variety, but it’s one year subscription plan. Thought its great variety is awesome as well.

iClipart – Not only photos but sounds, fonts, and animations available – buy one item at a time or subscribe to them on a weekly, monthly, or yearly basis and download as many as you want within the terms of your contract.

Getty Images – Getty is one of the best stock sites out there. Much like Jupiter, the prices for their highest resolution images are a bit much in my opinion.

Fotolia – Their biggest claim is that they have stock photos starting at 14 cents. Not just photos for sale but also professional vectors.

Free Digital Photos – All of their photos are free and they don’t require registration. Doesn’t get much better then that.

Morguefile - An entire archive of free images that you can either download to use for yourself or upload photos for others to use. Morgue file works because of it’s community.

Open Photo – All photos are easily categorized and labeled for your harvesting.

Photogen – A smorgasbord of free photos for you to choose from based on your search results and desires.

Twice Pix – One of the better free stock image websites out there. They have a great and large variety of images to choose from.

Image After – Free images with no registration required.

Stock Vault – They have a huge variety of photographs and claim they’re all free. Truth: Only some of them are free and some of them cost money but they’re all great.

Free Range Stock – To get access to their huge list of free stock images all you have to do is register on their website. And it’s a huge list!

Free Pixels – Beautiful and free photographs at your disposal.

By Melanie Turner

Comments

Daniel May 12th

Graphic Leftovers has a nice collection of inexpensive images as well and their site is really easy to use:

http://graphicleftovers.com

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ishoot May 12th

Thank you

luv it ♥

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Gino Crescol May 14th

htpp://www.absolutvision.com also offers a few hundreds free stock pictures. Many of them are cutout with clipping path included. Worth to check….

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Maria July 19th

Fabulous!!!! Love it. I already nkow most of these sites))))) BUt still have opened 3 new for me. Apart from these i luv http://www.photl.com. They have so good images, Free, of hgh resolution, mainly studio. But unfortunately not many thematics(

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cheap stock images philippines July 26th

Really thank you for the links, its very informative.

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