Tip: Where To Find Free Images For Your Website or Blog

Where can you find free images for your website or blog? This tip shows you where! 

Want an Apple image for free?

Most of these sites selected allow the use of the images for many purposes (including on your website or blog as well as some commercial purposes) without attribution, but the policy can differ from image to image, so do check carefully before you use! Here’s the list of top 6 places to get your free images: 

1) Stock.xchng (www.sxc.hu)

 This is one of the largest and most popular sites, with almost 400,000 images online. The images are of high quality and include illustrations and vectors for free. You can check out their image use policy. One thing to note – you will have to sign up (it’s a simple process) in order to download the images.
Assessment: One of the best!

2) Morguefile

This site was set up in 1996 and is “by creatives for creatives”. The images now number more than 260,000. They are mostly of high quality and they are free too! There’s also a search function which can come in useful. You can check out the Morguefile license. One good thing is that you do not need to register in order to download any image.
Assessment: One of the best!

3) Pixabay

This is another site with thousands of high-quality images. These are all free to use personally and commercially without attribution, according to the terms of use). You also do not need to register to download any image. The design of the site is also very clean and easy to use.
Assessment: Another one of the best!

4) Freerange Stock

This site was formed with the goal to “provide quality stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use. For free.” The images are either shot by Freerange themselves, from their archives or contributed by their community. The images also go through processing (e.g. sharpening, colour correcting, cropping, keywording), so the quality of the images is very high. This makes the collection slightly smaller, but it’s still sizable (and of very high quality!) One thing to note – you will have to sign up (it’s a simple process) in order to download the images. Check out their license.
Assessment: A great site.

5) Pixel Perfect Digital

Pixel Perfect Digital is a site with some photography news, but one of the main attractions is that it has a stock photo collection. You can use the images on your websites, according to the terms of use. The collection (at around 16,000 images) is a little smaller than the others, but the images are good quality ones.
Assessment: A good site.

6) US Government image collections

While most of the photos and images are in the public domain and may be used and reproduced without permission or fee, some photos and images may be protected by license. In addition, the government agencies do ask for attribution when using the images – for example, the photolibrary of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and NASA, so use with care.
Assessment: An amazingly rich collection, but check license before use.