The Big List of Free Stock Photo Websites for Visual / Web Design

by Edward Chung, PMP, PMI-ACP, ITIL Foundation ·

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Summary: This post list a few websites which offers free stock photo download services. Bloggers and designers can make use of these sites to download free photo for blog or website design. Some of the stock photos can even be used in commercial projects.

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Unsplash

Unsplash offers 10 free handpicked hi-resolution photos every 10 days. The selected photos are royalty free for both personal and commercial projects (CC0(Creative Commons Zero) license with all the copyright waived). These are ideal for commercial use. You may subscribe to the site and new photos will be emailed to you. Bloggers can get tons of free photo for blog use.

unsplash.com

Stock Xchng

Stock Xchng is a community contributed photo sharing site. It features a search engine for the free image. However as Stock Xchng is acquired by istockphoto.com previously, paid photos will also be shown in the search results. Use of photos of the website is governed by the licensing agreement. You need to create a free account to download the photos.

Stock Exchng

Stock Exchng

Freepixels

Freepixels offers free download of 5000+ stock photos for use in personal and commercial projects. Use of photos of the website is governed by the terms of use. However the quality of the photo is not always superb.

Freepixels.com

freepixels.com

Photl.com

Photl.com offers high quality photos featuring Western models. Use of photos for free is limited to personal/education/in-house usage. These free photo for blog are ideal for bloggers. There is a limitation of a maximum of 10Mb free download each day. Using in commercial projects and downloading higher resolution images may require a small fee.

Photl.com

Photl.com

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It is hoped that with the above websites can provide you with free photo for blog or website design use.

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Edward Chung

Edward Chung aspires to become a full-stack web developer and project manager. In the quest to become a more competent professional, Edward studied for and passed the PMP Certification, ITIL v3 Foundation Certification, PMI-ACP Certification and Zend PHP Certification. Edward shares his certification experience and resources here in the hope of helping others who are pursuing these certification exams to achieve exam success.

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