Where to find good and legal free pictures

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

More than 60 resources with images for all occasions.

All listed sites allow you to use photos for free. However, copy conditions may differ for different images. For example, some authors require their mentioning or prohibit changing the original. So don't forget to look through the help information on the download page.

Universal photo stocks

Multi-theme resources with images for every color and taste.

• … About a million images, grouped by thematic collections and tags.
• … Another million-plus stock with convenient search and well-structured catalog.
• … A database of more than 20 million photos uploaded by users to Wikipedia. There are many historical photographs and photocopies of paintings.
• … Lots of great shots, many of which are available in very high resolution.
• … A huge community of photographers and at the same time a repository of their pictures. Many authors allow their work to be used for free - you can search for such photos.
• … A curated collection of links to free photos from Flickr. Pictures are grouped into categories and thematic selections.
• … Private collection of photographer and designer Viktor Khanasek, made publicly available by the author.
• … A large archive of images, replenished by the community of professional photographers and amateur photographers.
• … Russian photo stock with 50,000 high-resolution images. Files are uploaded by users, but carefully moderated.
• … A repository of free images created by the PDP photography team.

• … Hundreds of thousands of free images carefully grouped with categories and tags. The resource team aggregates images from other free stocks and moderates photos added by Pexels users.
• … A large collection of high-quality, professional images. The site is owned by Shopify, a platform for building online stores. Therefore, Burst has a lot of business-oriented photo content.
• … The resource focuses not on the quantity, but on the quality of the images. Pictures are strictly hand-selected, so they don't look like typical free stock photos.
• … A collection of photos, textures and illustrations, which is replenished by users. This stock is primarily aimed at designers, but others will find a lot of good pictures here as well.
• … A catalog of diverse photos that can be filtered by categories, colors and tags.
• … Author's collection of a girl named Karolina - a designer and photographer from Poland. More than 14 thousand images are available on the site.
• … The resource allows you to download photos in low resolution (about 800 by 534 pixels) for free. But some of the images are available without restrictions.
• … After registration, any user can download 10 images a day from the free section.
• … Lots of high quality photos on a variety of topics. The best ones can be found in the Trending section.
• … A collection of over 1,000 photographs by photographer Daniel Nanescu. New works appear almost every day.

• … Photos of the Canadian advertising agency LEEROY Creative Agency, which the company allows to use for free.
• … A small but varied collection of quality images.
• … A huge photo library of designer Jeffrey Betts, which he kindly shares with everyone.
• … Another personal collection in the public domain. Photos by photographer Jay Mantry. There is no easy navigation on the site, but all content is free.
• … Thousands of high-resolution images grouped into thematic collections.
• … Although Refe is a commercial photo stock, it has a section with free shots. This will be especially useful if you need technology photography: you can find many pictures with gadgets here.
• … Base of images on the site of a popular graphic editor. Some of them can be downloaded for free.
• … More than 100,000 pictures from a team of professional photographers and designers.
• … You will not find free photos on this site. But if you subscribe to the mailing list, the administration will send you 20 cool pictures every month.
• … Every two weeks, photographer Ed Gregory sends 10 pictures to his subscribers. You can subscribe or download previously submitted photos on the Stokpic website.

• … One of the largest photobanks in the world. You can only download pictures for money. But Gettyimages allows you to use its content for free on non-commercial sites. To add a photo to your resource, you need to copy the special code and paste it on the landing page.
• … Here you can find many images that have not yet become familiar on the web.
• … A small author's photo library of designer and entrepreneur Joshua John. Lots of creative photos.
• … Here you can find a large number of amateur photographs. Many of them cannot be called works of art, but they are quite suitable as illustrations.
• … Private collection of photographer Martin Vorell, which includes images of people, architecture, nature and technology.
• … Thousands of photos, icons and vector illustrations. Images for the resource are selected by professional photographers and designers.
• … A lot of amateur shots. Most of the images are not of the best quality, but noteworthy works come across as well.
• … Large database of images of different quality. The content is not organized into categories, but you can search for the images you want using keywords.
• … Well-structured database with millions of high-quality photos and videos.

Niche photo stocks

Sites with collections of images on a specific topic, be it nature, food, or history.

• … A dedicated section on the Google website that contains millions of historical photographs.
• … Lots of vintage photos from public archives.
• … A collection of photographs on culinary themes. Many of the pictures are as good as if they were taken from glossy magazines.
• … Photographs of paintings and other antique artifacts from several French museums.
• … Stock of funny, unusual and creative photos. Moreover, all images are of excellent quality and are available in high resolution.

• … Pictures from the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The collection consists of archival and contemporary photographs on the topic of astronautics. Most of the images can be used freely, but only on non-commercial resources.
• … Another photo collection of the agency, but these files are allowed to download and publish without restrictions.
• … A collection of images of a famous space company. Photos of technology and space - everything can be used for free, but only for non-commercial purposes.
• … Photo collection on the website of the New York Metropolitan Museum. There are many digitized paintings and photographs of various museum exhibits.
• … Gallery of the photo agency of the same name with amateur and professional photographs on a travel theme. Images are sorted by region, country and city.

• … Lots of vintage illustrations and maps.
• … A small author's selection of patterns. It can come in handy if you need a background image.
• … Thousands of digitized illustrations from old books.
• … Digital copies of old paintings, illustrations, photographs, postcards and other graphic content that are no longer under copyright.
• … Huge collection of vintage images digitized by the National Library of Great Britain.

Free Image Search Engines

These sites do not contain their own photo databases, but they help to find free images on other resources.

• … The official search engine for the Creative Commons organization that develops open source licenses for images.
• … The service searches for free pictures at the same time on 30 different photo stocks.
• … Another search engine that indexes three dozen stocks.
• … This service started out as a convenient search engine on Flickr, but later began to index other resources as well.
• … Another option for easy search on Flickr and other photo stocks.
• … You can also quickly find free photos from Flickr on this site.
• "". Good old Google image search. If you click "Tools" → "Usage Rights", you can select the search mode for images that are allowed to use for free.