Free images sources

RGBstock

Absolutely free images

"All images on RGBStock are free for personal and commercial use. You may use them in digital format on websites, blogs, multimedia presentations, broadcast film and video or in printed material such as magazines, books, brochures, flyers and text books....."

But! Read carefully the License Agreement to confirm You can use image for particular design type!

Join to find out more (FAQ)

©jana_koll

Brusheezy

Photoshop brushes and other Photoshop-related materials

Place to share and get free resources (patterns, textures, actions, shapes, styles)

Although all content is copyrighted, You may contact the individual artist and be granted permission by them to use their works or check if they publish under a Creative Commons license. Similar rules to sxc.hu.
Read the FAQ

©PeHaa

SXC.hu = Stock.xchng

IstockPhoto Free Images Library

Here is where I started to share my own free images. You're welcome to use them for free for commercial and personal purposes.

There are near 400 000 free images available
Most of images are free for any use according to the standard Image license agreement.

To confirm allowed use for a particular photo feel free to contact the image author directly. I've been asked near about 100 images by email and quite a few comments got left on my pictures.

Browse most popular images

There is no option to buy cheap pictures. You would need to register for free on IStockPhoto (the owner of SXC).

Dreamstime

Professional images

Dreamstime offers a free section, fully searchable and constantly updated with photos and graphics (Raster/Vector)
(check the license)

Join Dreamstime for free.

You can also buy there images starting below $1

Affiliate program: available

©Fatbob

Lost&Taken

Need Textures?

Lost & Taken royalty free textures are made freely available for use in both personal and commercial projects including web templates, designs, and other materials intended for distribution.

Attribution is appreciated, but not required, read terms

See the free textures gallery
See the premium textures

CGTextures

" CGTextures strives to be the world's best texture site"

Free use
"Use of the Textures is only allowed under the following conditions:
- Private or commercial use
- Use in 2D or 3D computer graphics, movies and printed media
- Incorporation in computer games, 3D models
- Selling 3D models bundled with modified versions of the textures, when the texture is customized for the 3D model"

It is NOT permitted to: read license and FAQ
Register for a free login with a 15MB daily download quota

Texture King

"Permitted Product Usage
You are permitted to use our textures to design as many projects as necessary, including those you are creating for your clients. You may not resell or redistribute the textures in any other way, modified, unmodified, standalone or combined with another product without prior written (email) consent from us."

Always read Full terms

Pixmac

high quality images

Not just another microstock

This is mainly a fast and efficient search engine and download site gathering pictures from other partner services.
All images published are after the reviewing process.

Free Images available under the Creative Commons license, link is visible on each image page.

Affiliate program: available

©SPX1MSD

CutCaster

photos and stock vectors for use with as many rights as you need

Need an image to help tell a story?

Browse free images library.

Finest photographers and illustrators from around the globe offer image buyers and picture researchers a simpler and more refined way to find outstanding creative imagery.

Join CutCaster for free and read free images license agreement

Affiliate program: available

©Dmitry Fisher

123RF

ROYALTY FREE STOCK PHOTOS

123RF is a royalty-free photo library offering stunning, practical stock photos at the most affordable price.

You may download for free and use the blog res images under a Free Image Licensing Agreement (limited to 10,000 copies usage) from 123RF.com.

Affiliate program: available

©plrang

BigStock

millions of royalty-free photographs

BigStock offers a small selection of high quality images free of charge. Use them for print projects, web sites, or almost anything else. Standard BigStock Image Usage Agreement applies to these images: you may not use them on merchandise or resell them.

Browse free images. As elsewhere You can switch from getting free images to buying cheap pictures.
Affiliate program: available

©visual28

Fotolia

royalty free stock images

Fotolia offers only a tiny collection of few free images daily, but it's also full of cheap pictures

Join Fotolia for free
Prices starting below $1. Check out the licenses available
Affiliate program: available
©plrang

Photl

Photo laboratory photl.com

"Free photos (Free Stock Photo Images) of high resolution for commercial purposes. All the photo images are subject to extended license on usage (Extended Royalty Free). They are absolutely free and are intended to be used in commercial activity.

All the photo images can be used as a whole and also partially (their fragments)."

Always read: license and FAQ

©TaniFin

Shutterstock

the largest subscription-based stock photo agency in the world

Shutterstock offers only one free image a week. You can get it from the main site. Better way is to monitor their blog.
Unlike other sites it's selected by their staff with asking the author first. High quality is a priority.

Maybe it's not the best formula to find a photo but the quality is great and there is always a way to find the right use for it.

Join Shutterstock and check out subscription plans. Join and browse for free
Affiliate program: available

©plrang

FreeDigitalPhotos

free images for use in corporate and personal projects*

Images can be used by designers and editors on websites and printed media such as newspapers and magazines.

Images are free provided you publish a credit to the person who created the image otherwise you must purchase a licence

Check the FAQ and terms

©Idea go

The 3D Studio

3D and 2D resources

Collection of 3D models, stock photos / images, and textures for programs such as Autodesk 3ds max, Photoshop, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, Maya, Vue, Blender, and many others.

Product/Content downloaded at no charge from T3DS (free) may be used only for personal non-commercial applications.

Join The 3D Studio site for free
Affiliate program: available | ">overview

©homydesign

StockVault

Free Stock Photos & Images for personal, educational and non-commercial usage

Stock photo sharing website where photographers, designers and students can share their photographs, graphics and image files with each other for free.

Join and read the FAQ

Medium and high resolution photographs that designers and students can share and use for their personal and non-commercial design work.

Appreciation program for photographers

©korneliya georgieva

FreeImages.co.uk

Small library of 6000 original stock photos

"Free images is a high quality resource of digital stock photographic images for use by all.
All images in our collection are free to use on websites and printed materials"

Browse images

You must link to or credit this site if you use these images.
Read detailed terms

©image: www.freeimages.co.uk

Flickr

online photo management and sharing

Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.

For example: You can copy, distribute, display, and perform copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if giving a credit to the author.
Sometimes it's not easy to find anything but it's another useful source

©cogdogblog

If You can't find any proper free picture

try the StockBlend