We all seek originality in our work and the same for using stock photos on any creative project – problem is that the stock photos can seem limited, soulless, acted out with big white teeth and perfectly staged environments!
Luckily, there has been a steady increase in the number of Free Stock Photo websites appearing – people are getting bored and looking for something different. Well here are 7 different websites with repos for Free!* – so you get some cool and some different images for your design project without the subscriptions.
Even some images on free stock photos can feel “samey” and you will notice a lot of crossover – hey they are free! and it’s all about creativity and working a stock photo into something instead of the stock photo doing the work.
Here are 8 of the best that we consider for free quality stock photos.
PIKWIZARD
100,000 completely free images on the site, over 20,000 of those are exclusive. PIKWIZARD are also adding new images to their library daily and our ultimate goal is to get to more than 1 million images.
Shopify Burst
Negative Space
Death to the Stock Photo
Pexels
StockSnap.io
PicJumbo
Life of Pix
They have a companion website Life of Vids, photos can be very abstract and take some time to trawl through.
*Disclaimer – we don’t have any allegiance, affiliation or association with any of the websites featured and they are simply recommendations. Please check the individual websites’ terms of use, copyright and licensing for use in commercial environments, especially if you are thinking of printing thousands of mousemats or mugs for your clients!
I need more options dude..
Ok If you don’t want to sign up to any of the premium subscription based stock photo websites – but want a premium photo, you can purchase one off photos from PhotoDune.net or check any of these other free stock websites:
If you know of ay other free stock photography websites, let us know in the comments!
Tags: Design, free stuff, graphics, stock photos, Web Design
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