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Top 10 FREE Stock Photography Sites
27 Jul2009
Stock photos [or images] are an absolutely great option and an asset to those who need a certain type of photograph for use in their work.
Why is stock photography so beneficial? Well, simply put, publishers, advertising agencies, graphic artists, and others use stock photography to fulfill the needs of their creative assignments.
Stock photography consists of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific uses.
A customer who uses stock photography instead of hiring a photographer can save time and money, but can also sacrifice creative control.
Needless to say, but in most cases, there is a shot out there, readily available, perfect for one’s needs.
Without further delay, here are the top 10 FREE stock photography sites that we’re KEEN on.
Stock.XCHNG, the leading FREE stock photo site!
Whether you just want to browse our huge image gallery or want to share your own photos with others, this is the site for you!
Browse through the categories of our huge gallery containing over 350.000 quality stock photos by more than 30.000 photographers! Need a wallpaper for your desktop or illustration for your blog? Need a pic for your commercial website design? Looking for inspiration? Have a look around.
Share your photos with fellow designers! SXC is a friendly community of photography addicts who generously offer their works to those who need them free of charge. If you have some nice photos that you’d like to share with others, join us! Not only it feels great to share, you will also get a huge exposure for your work!
PhotoXpress.com is the world’s largest free premier-quality image bank, providing creative professionals a vast and legal image library for both personal and professional use – including Web site design, brochure illustrations, advertisements and editorial illustrations. Launched in May, 2009, and based in Hartford, CT, PhotoXpress.com features more than 350,000 images in 22 categories, with subjects ranging from people in professional settings to international scenic shots.
PhotoXpress works with professional stock imagery providers worldwide to provide our members with the best free content available. Our partnerships allow our already vast image library to be updated on a daily basis, with up to 1,000 new images being added each and every day.
welcome to everystockphoto.com
We are a search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo’s license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. Membership is free, without advertising, and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos.
Now searching: 4,529,031 free photos
• Note: As of this post date, morgueFile is offline; however, should be returning ASAP. [They had some issues with lost data on their drive array; they are in the process of restoring.]
Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not!
It’s also easy to add your own photos to the morgueFile. So, give back because this archive is for creatives by creatives.
Welcome to the free section of Dreamstime!
If you are a designer, here you can search for and download high resolution stock images for free, while also having the option to purchase RF licensed images.
If you are a photographer, the heavy traffic of this section offers you the opportunity to achieve great portfolio exposure by offering free images.
Stockvault.net is a stock photo sharing website where photographers, designers and students can share their photographs and images with each other. Stockvault’s sole purpose is to collect and archive medium and high resolution photographs that designers and students can share and use for personal and non-commercial designs.
For years Stockvault.net has catered it’s visitors with free imagery, “ready to use” web layouts and logos and helped those who don’t have the means to turn to the royalty free agencies. We are in no way trying to compete with royalty free stock, but rather to fulfill the need for “somewhat” free stock imagery.
Woophy stands for WOrld Of PHotographY, a website founded by a Dutch collective of photo aficionados and internet designers who believe navigation on internet can be more visual, logical and associative.
The goal of Woophy’s founders is to create an accessible, visual, current, democratic and collective work of art comprised of a database picturing our remarkable world.
Over 8000 free photos are available for download.
Each photo can be saved in five formats (up to 1024X768 pixels).
You can download any photo for private or commercial use.
Our photos for your ideas. Simple concept, huh? There’s no catch. There’s no art. It’s all subjective anyway, isn’t it? We feel your pain, and hopefully you’ll see ours. Use it, abuse it, just let us know where we can see it. That’s half the fun of it. Well, actually all the fun… but we don’t want to empower you too much.
This collection of photos is for anyone to use in just about any way they’d like. You may NOT, however, redistribute these photos individually or en masse, as photos, to any other websites or offline buyers. The photos themselves are still the intellectual property of their respective owners and you are merely receiving permission to use them in your designs, your art, your personal and professional projects, as your desktop backgrounds.. if you are unclear as to whether or not your plans for a photo fall under our requirements, frequently asked questions. If you don’t find an answer there, ask me.
We’ve sorted the photos by the basic colors. The white isn’t really white though.. it’s more of an “everything else” category. There’s also a half-assed search engine, but it’s not very complex. So keep it simple there. Good searches would be words like abstract, macro, architecture, trees, woman, etc. Less is more here. Cheers.
openphoto.net – an archive of stock photography for use in personal or commercial projects.
1 Response to Top 10 FREE Stock Photography Sites
ForestWander Free Stock Nature Photography
October 30th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
These are some great sites.
Although some stock photography site offer a lot of pictures that are simply “stock”
There seems to be a lack of creativity and uniqueness about the quality of the images offered at stock photography sites.
When you can find unique photography that is offered free then that is really a niche and something of true value and passion.
Typically unique artistic photography work is high priced especially if it is in large format.
I would like to suggest a website called ForestWander Free Stock Nature Photography
This site has a lot of great work that others would charge a lot of money. But all that this site asks is that you give them credit for their work.
You do not see this very often.
Maybe this is something that will catch on.