10 Websites to Download Stock Images For Free

As a blogger, we know the importance of images in blog posts. Some kind of blog posts can’t be completed without related images.

Many bloggers just fulfill images needs from Google Image Search but thats not good as it can make them face copyright claim on the blog which is not good for any blogger. For that, experienced bloggers suggest Stock Photography.

Stock Photography is the “thing”(use correct word) which widely used and suggested. If you haven’t any idea about Stock Photography, read what Wikipedia says about it.

Stock photography is the supply of photographs, which are often licensed for specific uses.

As you might understand that stock photo will help to fulfill needs of photos but kindly understand that there are two types of stock photos available on the internet. Paid and Free.

Some paid stock photography companies are listed below.

Shutterstock
Istockphoto
GettyImages
Fotolia
Stock fresh

These are the companies which sell high-quality stock photos at low prices. You can buy the stock photos and use it on your blogs or projects, but still, there will be few rules you will need to follow.

These stock photos are available on Google Image Search with watermarks, but those are not suggested to use.

But there are few stock photography website which provides stock photos at free of costs. So let’s take a look at those helpful websites.

1. Pixabay

Thats my favorite site to get copyright free images. It has more than 40,000 high-quality stock photos available for free.

Pixabay

2. StockSnap.io

Another great website to get stock pictures for free. Stocksnap.io adds very high-quality stock photos every day. The great things about this website are that it gives fame to photographers too by giving them backlink of their website.

Stocksnap

3. Pic Jumbo

PicJumbo also provides completely free stock images for commercial and personal uses but for extra high-resolution images, there is a premium pack for the subscription which is 6$ per month.

Picjumbo

4. Unsplash
Unspdash is another place for free stock photos but a different thing is on this website is you will find mostly nature photos. So if your blog is natural niche based, then this is heaven for you.

Unsplash

5. Designers Pics

DesignerPics is a single-man website ran by Jessu Jhon who is from India. All pictures you see on this website are taken by himself.

Designerspics

6. IM Free

You can find here many templates and photos which are useful for blogs, websites, and designers. These photos come with high resolution too.

IM Free

7. Flickr CC

Well, you might not know that flickr can be used for free stock photos too. To find stock photos you need to type your keywords and then search. After the results come, click on license tab and click creative commons only. Be careful while picking image because most of the images are not free for commercial uses.

Flickr CC

8. Splitshire

Definitely, spiltshire is another place for free stock photographs. Photos on spiltshire come with high qualities which are helpful for websites developers and bloggers.

Splitshire

9. Stokpic

When it comes to freedom of using free stock photos, you can do everything with images like advertising, mockups, blogs, businesses and using in newspapers. The only thing you can’t to is selling these images.

Stokpic

10. Gratisography

Gratisography cares about all the categories they here for stock photography, and they do regularly add images in all categories. As all above websites, this also provides high-quality stock photo for free.