My Top 20 Royalty Free Photo Resources

April 13, 2009 in Main

Like me you’re probably on a constant lookout for where to find decent free royalty free images. I use them when I’m putting together my content sites, and in the past used to find it a constant struggle to find the right pictures for my sites. Especially since I only used to know of a couple that I had pretty much tapped out…

In any event, I have compiled a short list of 20 resources I use for royalty free images (note: these links open in a new window):

1. Turbo Photo: Over 2000 free stock photos in over 10 categories. http://www.turbophoto.com/Free-Stock-Images/

2. Stock Vault: A free Stock Photo sharing site. All images are free for personal and non-commercial use. http://www.stockvault.net/

3. Font Play: Free photos for any occassion. No need to give credit for both personal and commercial use.

http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/

4. Every Stock Photo: A search engine for free stock images. These images are license specific so be sure to check out the license for each photo by clicking on it.

http://www.everystockphoto.com/

5. Stock.xchng: Check out the gorgeous shots organized into lots of different categories, making your search as easy as possible. http://www.sxc.hu/

6. The Morgue File: Public Image Archive for professionals. Free High Res images for both corporate and public use. http://www.morguefile.com/

7. Gimp Savvy: A community indexed photo archive with over 27,000 free photos and images. http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/

8. Flickr Creative Commons: Users of Flickr who offer their photos under the Creative Commons license.

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

9. Free Foto: These guys claims to be “the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet.” They’re available for offline projects as well, as long as you’re not using them to make a profit. http://www.freefoto.com

10. Kave Wall: Look for images and textures in unique categories like tattoo, smoke, and food. http://www.kavewall.com/stock/

11. A Digital Dreamer: Free Royalty Free Stock Photography: Unlike other sites with free images, these are also royalty free. http://www.adigitaldreamer.com/gallery/index.php

12. Free Photos Bank: This features a handful of the newest photos in their directory, so check back often. http://www.freephotosbank.com/

13. Free Digital Photos: Thousands of royalty free photos for websites, newspapers, magazines, video and TV productions, PowerPoint presentations, forums, blogs and school work. http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/

14. PD Photo: Public Domain Digital Photo Database. Browse through the categories and subcategories in this site’s database, most of which depict the urban and rural landscapes of the United States. http://pdphoto.org/

15. Visipix: The largest fine art and photo “museum”. Free copyrights for private & commercial use. Search over a million photographs and fine art pieces. http://visipix.dynalias.com/

16. Cepolina: Over 8000 free photos are available for download. On cepolina, you can choose to save photos in up to five different formats (up to 1024X768 pixels). http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/

17. DexHaus: A fast growing image catalog with images not easily found in a “regular” database. http://www.dexhaus.com/v2/

18. Free Stock Images: Improve your content with these beautiful stock images. http://www.freestockimages.net/

19. Public Domain Pictures: A repository for royalty free stock photos. All pictures are free for commercial and personal use. http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/

20. Free Photographs: Online Repository for Royalty Free Images for non-commercial use. http://www.free-photographs.net/

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I hope you find this list helpful…

Enjoy!

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8 Responses to My Top 20 Royalty Free Photo Resources

Sunshine April 13, 2009 at 9:58 am #

Steven,

Thanks for this extensive list. Will definitely come in handy.
executive gifts expert April 17, 2009 at 12:43 am #

Thanks for the information that you posted.
rizal May 9, 2009 at 2:01 pm #

I guess, this the best information for me..thanks
kenny May 14, 2009 at 7:25 pm #

Great list! I really save lots of my site just bookmark your page.
Jerry Lovejoy June 12, 2009 at 11:18 am #

Thanks for providing such helpful information freely. We all can help each other!
alex August 12, 2009 at 11:00 am #

just what I was looking for, thanks steven very helpful
Mental Health and Anxiety | Questions and Answers October 14, 2009 at 1:54 pm #

Thank you Steven,
A great post at the WR and a great post here, the info is priceless. you really should be charging a small fortune for this stuff.

Moncef from the WF.
picdrome August 4, 2011 at 9:43 am #

Hi,
Thank you for the list!
I’d like to add http://www.picdrome.com , a growing Public Domain picture collection, free of copyright and licensed under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication.