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Here is what you need to know before you start. The following terms will come up often when you go to free image sites. Read the terms and conditions of each site you try so that you know exactly when and what type of license and attribution is required.

What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. There are different types of Creative Commons licenses, ranging from allowing any type of use without attribution to allowing only certain uses without modification.

What is the public domain?
Public domain works are those whose copyrights have expired, been confiscated or are unenforceable. Just because something is on the internet does not mean it is in the public domain.

What is a royalty-free image?
Royalty-free images are not necessarily free. In most cases, you will have to pay a one-off fee to obtain the rights to use the image. You can then use it as many times as you like. The word "free" in "royalty-free" only means that you do not have to pay royalties to the owner of the image every time you use it. For more information on royalty-free images, see Amos Struck's guide.

https://unsplash.com/

Unsplash has its own license, Unsplash offers a large collection of free high-resolution photos and has become one of the best sources for stock images. The Unsplash team combs through new submissions and features the very best photos on their homepage. All photos are released for free under the Unsplash license.

   

Pexels

Pexels also has its own license, Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through their discover pages..

      

Free Images

Free Images provides over 300,000 free stock images under its own licence. The licence allows a very wide range of uses, although it lists several restricted uses (which is quite common for most free image sites).

      

Pixabay

The images on Pixabay are licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, which means you can use them without asking the artist's permission or crediting them (although this is always appreciated). Pixabay kindly reminds you to check that the content of the images does not infringe any rights.

     

Burst

Burst is a free stock photo platform for entrepreneurs, offered by Shopify. The images are both free and royalty free. (Burst has a cool business ideas section, with tips and high-resolution images to get your business off the ground).

Vecteezy

Vecteezy has over a million free stock photos and a curation team that manually reviews every image submitted to the site. Their search is powerful – you can filter the images results by color, orientation, style, number of people, age of people, and more.

Vecteezy requires attribution but includes signed model and property releases for every free photo. This protects you (and your projects) from legal risks

Canva

Canva is an online graphic design tool that also offers free stock photos. One advantage of using Canva is that you can quickly turn an image into a custom graphic to use on social media or your blog.

     

Stocksnap.io

Stocksnap uses the Creative Commons CC0 license so its photos are free to download, edit, and use for both commercial and non-commercial projects.

Flickr

Flickr is an image hosting platform where you can find images that can be used and modified for commercial purposes. Select "Commercial Use and Modifications Allowed" under the "Any License" filter to find these images, and remember to check the license for each image as it varies.

   

Getty Images

This may come as a surprise to you (as it did to me). You can use Getty Images for free on your non-commercial websites by embedding them. Uploading an image and putting it on your website is still not allowed, you have to embed it. Embedding is a little more intrusive than simply adding a photo to your article: embedding retains its own frame, share buttons and branding. Nevertheless, for many blogs, it is an option worth considering.

      

iStock

iStock releases a new batch of free stock files every week when you sign up for a free membership.

Depositphotos

Depositphotos offers a sample of free images, vectors, editorial content, and footages, which is updated every week. You can also sign up for an account to get the free stock files every week.

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