Finding the perfect photo for your website is very challenging. This article outlines the stock photo sites I use for various projects.
Free Stock Photos
- A Digital Dreamer Free stock photography. (1022 Hits)
- AMG Media Works Inc All these digital photos (taken with Nikon Coolpix) are 72dpi. (800 Hits)
- Backgrounds Archive Free quality desktop wallpapers and myspace backgrounds (723 Hits)
- Big foto Really large images. (710 Hits)
- Cepolina Photos If you are looking for images of places, this one is pretty good. (738 Hits)
- Free Digital Photos Nice design, nice pictures. The trick here is you use the web images for free then you pay for the print versions. One of my most awesome free stock photo sites. (573 Hits)
- Free Foto This site is old but free. You might find a rare gem here. (674 Hits)
- Free Images Free stock photos, absolutely one of the best free stock photo sites. Used to be stock exchange. (765 Hits)
- Free Photo Bank Small bank of photos (708 Hits)
- Free Range They claim to be totally free, but require registration. (832 Hits)
- FreePhotoBank - Creative Commons licence This gallery is created using Gallery 2. (816 Hits)
- Geek Philosopher This is a famous site, I don't find it to useful (but I'm not artsy). (769 Hits)
- Historical Stock Photos Free Historical Stock Photos for Emails and Personal Websites. (773 Hits)
- KAVE WALL STOCK The site doesnt work in Firefox, but there are some really good images and textures here. (710 Hits)
- Mayang's Free Texture Library Mostly textures, there are over 3,800 images here. (685 Hits)
- MorgueFile Free stock photo search utility, pretty good License. (832 Hits)
- PD Photo Royalty Free, Public Domain, Stock Photos. The site looks like it is from the 90s, but the images are pretty good. (684 Hits)
- Photo Rack Great photos! Huge Archive, and many categories! (1388 Hits)
- Public Domain Photos 5,000 free phtos and 8,000 free cliparts (594 Hits)
- Stock Vault Contains Images and textures. (709 Hits)
- Studio25 - Free Pictures Lots of categories. (755 Hits)
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Unsplash
Free HD Stock Photos
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Do you have any photo sites I've not listed here? Have you had any good/bad experiences with the above? Please leave a comment