Relevant as well as quality images makes site visiting experience happy for the visitors. Using good camera and clicking good pictures is one option but you need to invest lot of time to do so. There are ready made solutions available for getting professional looking high quality images
for your website.
Free Image Sources for your Website
Let us take a look at some of these:1- Unsplash
Unsplash.com has a collection of high quality pictures. A lot of landscapes, objects images can be found on this site. Pictures that can be used as page background, header images etc unsplash has it all and the best part being all the images are available for free. Under the creative commons public domain license, every 10 days 10 new photos are released by unsplash. You can go on and on scrolling and select the picture you need.
2- 500px.com
This site is free as well as paid. You get to sort from its wide section of pictures (even more choices if you check out paid section as well). The quality of pictures is good just like unsplash.com. You can the best royalty free photos on 500px marketplace. You get to explore from 65 million pictures that too very inspiring.
3- IMFree
Under the creative commons license, you are free to use the images. On IMFree. It features different categories in its collection or to put it in other words we can also say that it covers range of industries. These categories goes like templates, people, business, icons, technology, food & drinks, sports & fitness, fashion & beauty, education, arts & music, lifestyle, nature, occupation and various others. This bifercation makes photo searching job easier for the users. IMFree website has curated collection of free web design resources/images for commercial use. One of the best platforms to find high quality industry specific pictures.
4- Pixabay
This website has stock of over 640,000 free stock photos to choose from. Under the creative commons license the photos released by pixabay are free of copyrights. You can use them royalty free for anything you want. Downloading, distribution, modification is all allowed. You can even use them in commercial applications. Attribution is voluntary. Moreover its users are bloggers, authors, journalists, advertisers, graphic designers.
5- StockSnap.io
Another platform with huge collection of beautiful free stock photos. Browsing through thousands of images is quite easy here because of the handy search feature. Views and downloads are tracked by the site. This makes it easier for the people to reach the most popular photos available on the stockSnap.io. Hundreds of photos are released under the creative commons license every week leaving visitors with wide choice to make. As far as attribution is concerned, it is not required.
6- Gratisography
The website offers you free, use as you please photos (in its words), high resolution photos for personal as well as commercial purposes. Gratisography is a project by Ryan McGuire that has some really nice photos that are completely free of copyright restrictions. Free of any copyright restrictions, new pictures are added on weekly basis here.
7- Negative Space
Negative space has frees stock photos in high resolution released under creative commons CCO. The photos can be easily searched and sorted category wise, color wise or by copy space. Negative space releases 20 new photos every week.There are various other platforms wherein you can find free stock of high resolution images. Let us quickly jot down their names below :-
· Splitshire
· Life of Pix
· Little Visuals
· Superfamous Studios.
· Picjumbo
· Death To Stock Photos
· New Old Stock
· Getrefe
· Freestocks.org
· Snapwire Snaps
· Tookapic Stock
· Jay Mantri