The Best Stock Images - Free for Commercial Use

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As a designer and developer I build a lot of templates, so I need access high-quality images I can use free of charge on my commercial projects.

A lot of these websites have a wide seleection of images, so some of them may not be suitable for Internet Marketing products, but you can find a lot of diamonds in the rough - especially if are building various niches products or have a knack to create juicy copyedit with unique images.

1. Unsplash - Unsplash

I visit Unsplash almost weekly to find the latest and greatest images to use for projects and mockups.

2. PicJumbo - picjumbo

I like PicJumbo, because they have a great selection in about 10 major categories, so you can quickly refine your search.

3. CompFight - Compfight / A Flickr Search Tool

They have a huge selection of images and you find a ton of great photos and refine the search by using the license search - Creative Commons and Commercial

Business Search - Image search for business / Compfight / A Flickr Search Tool

4. New Old Stock - New Old Stock

New Old Stock provides a ton of free images from the *olden* days and are great if you creative and can come up with catchy copyedit with these unique photos.

5. Death To Stock Photos- Free photos for creative use - Death to the Stock Photo

I love getting my monthly email from these guys and always looking forward to a new set of photos each month.

6. Super Famous - Superfamous - Folkert Gorter

7. Pixabay - Editor's Choice Photos

8. Little Visuals - 8 Unique Places to Find Quality Free Photos – Function

Hopefully these links can help some Warriors find new photos for projects. Sorry if people already know about these resources
#main internet marketing discussion forum #commercial #free #images #stock
  • Nice post. Will check it out when I need something.
  • Wow an excellent resource for developers and designers .... I know some of them, but not all. I think I will definitely make a good use of it Many thanks
  • I found Death to Stock Photo's a couple of months ago, their packages are really good.

    Thanks for the links, there are a few I haven't heard of before.
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    • I agree! I really love the packages they put together. I too found them a couple of months ago and was really impressed with their stuff.

      How many emails have you beens sent so far? Maybe you could send me the links to see if I missed any?
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  • Don't forget about photobank Depositphotos. They also suggest lots of free images.
  • You can also add Morguefile.com to the list.
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  • Well, it use to be that a lot of firms would give out free images. However, when you try to download em. Like they now try to charge you a fee, so it is not really free mon. BTW, sxc is now free images. I still use em. What we really need is free 4K videos for our use.
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    • Great resource. Thanks for posting it. I just signed up for Death to Stock Photos. Looking forward to their packs each week.
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  • These are great since they are compositionally different from most of the photo stock sites out there.
  • Thanks man,

    A few mit/cc by licensed vector graphics/icon sites you might find useful as well

    Free vectors, photos and PSD Downloads | Freepik

    XOO.me a free open source design directory, photoshop, vectors, icons, logos, ui elements and websites - Free downloads

    ?????ICON(PNG/ICO/ICNS)?????? | EASYICON.NET
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    • sorry the last one is japanese so its inserted some odd characters into my post.
    • Material stolen from various sources. Do NOT use.

      There's hundreds of such websites that provide stolen illustrations and photos from various sources
      and illegitimate creative commons licenses to attract traffic. They make money using AdSense ads
      and affiliate programs to legitimate stock photo websites.




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  • What do you guys think of freeimages.com?
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  • Always need free sources for photos, thank you for the great post!
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  • Thanks for the share. These sites can be really useful in creating banner ads or posting ads in facebook groups.
  • Massively appreciated! I was looking for Christmas images to use & thought I would do a WF search & Bingo!
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  • Thankyou! I spent hours looking for stockphotos yesterday and kept getting directed to membership sites. Now I finally found what I'm looking for .
  • nice resources! thanks a lot for sharing, some of these I didn't know about. Especially love the vintage photos. Thanks again for sharing!
  • Great post! I used to only use freeimages.com and Google image search to find images to use commercially.
  • After hearing about horror stories with some of these sites, I only go with credible sites for free images. Heck, I am buying images more often just so I never have to worry about the copyright hammer coming down on me.
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  • Awesome post I be checking them out.. Love free images
  • I would rather stay on the safe side and use a reputable stock photo site. I use Dollar Photo Club where you get hi-res images for just $1 each. Your monthly club fees are $10, but you can buy as many images as you want for $1 each.
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  • Great photos. I will use them. Thanks for that.
  • Here's another site that reference images free for commercial use:

    The Only Guide to Image Sources You'll Ever Need (Part I) - SiteProNews
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  • really helpful links....all are awesome
  • Just to add a great source that I find useful - the dollar photo club is an amazing resource for stock photos. You unfortunately do have to pay for the photo, BUT all their photos are a dollar. Hence the name of the website! Google them and check it out. If you can spare a few dollars to graphically enhance your marketing I'd say the Dollar Photo Club is worth a look. Hope this helps!
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    • May I say thanks to you all for your input seen in this thread.

      I will definitely use your great picture resources
  • Great post! bookmarked
    I'll try these sites
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  • I know couple of these sites, but it's good to know more. Thanks for sharing the useful resource
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  • Death To Stock Photos is my fav
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    • LOL, I just added that to my list today! It is indeed a great one. Photopin is also quite good.
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    The Best Stock Images - Free for Commercial Use

    As a designer and developer I build a lot of templates, so I need access high-quality images I can use free of charge on my commercial projects. A lot of these websites have a wide seleection of images, so some of them may not be suitable for Internet Marketing products, but you can find a lot of diamonds in the rough - especially if are building various niches products or have a knack to create juicy copyedit with unique images.