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16 WEBSITES TO GET FREE IMAGES Staff | September 22, 2015 | Tips And Tricks
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There are many popular websites that provide high quality paid images but every blogger may not afford paying license fee to get images for each of its blog post. So, to their help, we have put together some great resources to obtain high quality free images. Before start, we want to let you know that the high quality images not only add the grace and elegance to your blog post, but also add the weight to the web page. So, you should always optimize them before using on the post. In earlier post, we have described some free tools to optimize images without losing their visual quality. You may optimize your images using them. Let us get back to the topic now, and here you go with the free image resources.
1.Pixabay
The Pixabay is a very large website to get free images. All the images on Pixabay are released under Creative Commons Zero(CC0) license. That means, you can use the images without attribution. You can also modify the images as suitable for your purpose. The images are of high quality. The Pixabay provides every detail of the image such as time of upload, views, downloads, and the specifications of the
camera. You are also given the option to choose the size of the image while downloading.
2.DesignersPics.com
Another source of high resolution images is DesignersPics.com. From here you can find free images for business blogs, nature blogs, food and drink blogs, technology blogs, wild life and miscellaneous things. To use the images downloaded from here, attribution is not required.
3.IM FREE
IM FREE has a wide range of high quality photographs, available under creative commons license. You will have to attribute to the creator of the photograph for using it in your blog post. While downloading the image, you are given the options to choose the dimension of the photograph.
4.SplitShire
You can download Abstract, Animals, Automotive, Fashion, Interiors, Nature, People, Landscape, Technology, Wedding, blurry background, low poly background, street,
and some miscellaneous images from the SplitShire. To use the images downloaded from here, you won’t have to include attribution even.
5.STOKPIC
From 16 categories, you can download as many images as you want, for free. STOKPIC’s photographs can be used without attribution. Since, there are more than a dozen of categories, you can probably fulfill all the photographic needs of your WordPress blog.
6.GRATISOGRAPHY
GRATISOGRAPHY provides high quality images. Their collection is very cool and awesome. A half dozen categories are there on this website to browse the photographs in. Though, all photographs are great, those of Whimsical category are truly amusing. This site gets new pictures added every week. No attribution is required to use GRATISOGRAPHY’s images.
7.PICOGRAPHY
You can search images using tags from the PICOGRAPHY. With every high resolution image, the details as to camera and the place where shot has been taken are also given. No attribution is required to use PICOGRAPHY’s image in the blog. Apart from downloading the images of your like, you can leave your remarks for the photographer as well. This website is however not as big as above ones but, provides fantastic images.
8.Magdeleine
The Magdeleine provides nice search ability to the users. On the site, you can find nature photographs, City and Architecture images, Tech images, Objects and Abstract images, Animals and People images, Food images. For searching images, color filters and tags can be used. Some Magdeleine’s images are licensed under CC0-public domain. While, some images require attribution.
9.PhotoPin
The PhotoPin offers a huge collection of images to download for free. You will have to include attribution in the end of the blog post, if you use an image from PhotoPin. You can find images for almost any niche from this website.
10.JAY MANTRI
JAY MANTRI’s photographs are scenic. Nature, abstract, buildings, and travel photographs are available for free download. No attribution is required. You can use the photographs as you want. Moreover, you can modify the photographs, if doing so is required for the perfect matching with your blog post.
11.STOCKPHOTOS FOR FREE
This is a very big website providing unlimited free images. You can find images related to every subject you can imagine. To download the free images from this website, you are required to create an account. After that you can download illimitable images.
12.FREEIMAGES
A superabundant quantity of photographs is there on this website. More than two dozen categories consist more than 388 thousand photographs and illustrations. The categories cover Animals & Wildlife, Business & Finance, Industry, Architecture, Celebrities, Fashion and Beauty, Sports & Fitness, Automotive, Textures & Patterns, Movie & Music, and more. You can search free images using tags as well. Attribution is required for using the images.
13.Unsplash
Though, categories are not there, a search bar has been given on the top right corner of the website to search the images. You can download and use free images got from Unsplash as per Creative Commons Zero license terms. So, you are not required to attribute the source for using them.
14.Picjumbo
As the name speaks, Picjumbo is a jumbo website offering free images. From here, you can find high resolution free images for Technology, Business, Food, Fashion, Nature and Architecture blogs.
15.Life Of Pix
The look and feel of this website is similar with Unsplash. The website is comparatively small, but the photographs it offers are worthwhile. You can find photographs of sea, birds, castle, flowers, nature, city, and of some miscellaneous niches from this website. No attribution is required to use the images.
16.Freepik
The very last free image resource is Freepik. The Freepik works as an engine, which crawls many websites to find the free images. Therefore, it provides us free images by different websites, most of which we’ve covered above. To use the free images downloaded from this website, attribution is required.
17.LibreShot
As requested by Martin Vorel owner of the above website www.libreshot.com we are adding it to our free stock images websites list.
Wrapping it Up We think that these 16 websites are enough for you to find the suitable images for your blog posts. Almost zero probability is there that you don’t find images perfectly suitable for your posts. In fact, most of the image source websites allow to modify the images too. So, if you do not find the original image suitable for your blog post, you can modify it to make suitable.
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