List of 15 Best Websites to Find Royalty Free Images

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In this article, I will share some awesome websites which you can use to find royalty free images. Nowadays, bloggers and webmasters use images not only to fill the space between text paragraphs, but images have become important for user engagement as well. Also, the images in web content and web design are crucial for SEO, visual appeal and data presentation at times.

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Best Websites to Find Royalty Free Images

If you are new to the world of blogging and web designing you might be wondering: How the professional bloggers and web designers find those awesome images for their graphics, blogs and websites? Do they click all those awesome photos by themselves?

The simple answer is NO. Of course, they don’t.

In fact, most of the professional bloggers and webmasters use royalty free stock images. Which are available on the web for free and can be used without any copyright issues. You can use the following websites to find royalty free images for your website or blog.

Let’s find out Some Royalty Free Images!

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  1. Unsplash

Unsplash is the source of high-resolution photos. The quality of their photos is exceptionally great. They have categorised their photos under different collections. All the images are licenced used Creative Commons Zero (CC0) and are absolutely free. You can use their images the way you want. You do not need to sign-up to download images. Also, you need not give attribution for image usage. Even you can submit your photos to Unsplash collection. Of course, they have guidelines and a process to submit photos.

  1. Pixabay

On Pixabay you can find free stock images for your blog and website. All the images are royalty free. You are free to use images the way you like. Their collection includes Photos, Vector graphics, Illustrations and Videos. There is no need of website registration/sign-up to download images and no attribution required to use their images. Yes, their images are licenced under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).

  1. Pexels

Pexels is the collection of free stock images. They source photos from their community of photographer and from other sources on the web, which offer royalty free images. Their images are well categorised and tagged, hence the images are easily searchable. You can download images without any sign-up. Also, you need no attribution for using their images. Their images are licenced under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).

  1. Canva

Canva.com is a free online graphic design tool. They offer variety of pre-created backgrounds, icons and other graphic tools for different graphic requirements. You can create awesome images, designs using their free tools. They don’t put any watermark or their logo on the images. Also, there is no attribution is required for their graphics. You need to sign-up on the website to use free tools.

  1. Life of Pix

Life of Pix is an awesome source of high resolution photos. You can visit their website to find some good royalty free images. They categorised photos in different galleries, you can browse through galleries to find a correct photo for your need.  All of their photos come with no copyrights restrictions and are licenced under CC0. You need not sign-up or register to download photos. You do not to give attribution for using their images.

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  1. Jaymantri

JayMantri.Com is another good source of free stock images. All the image on the website are licenced under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) and can be used for any purpose as images are royalty free. You can download images without any sign-up or website registration. There is no need for any attribution for using their images.

  1. Public Domain Archive

Public Domain Archive is another good website for free stock images. Their images are licenced under Creative Commons Zero and can be used for any purpose. Also, you need not give any attribution link for using their images. They also offer the premium membership for the variety of outstanding photos.

  1. Little Visuals

LittleVisuals is another source of free stock images. You can use their images without any restriction. You neither need to sign-up to download images nor need to give attribution for image usage.  Their images are licenced under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).

  1. Gratisography

Gratisography offers free stock images. Ryan Mcguire owns and manages the website. Though his images are free but he insists not to use images for pornographic, criminal, and defamatory purpose. Read Gratisography terms before you use his images. You need not to sign-up to download images. Also, you are free to use images without giving any attribution.

  1. Jeshoots

JeShoots offers free stock images and PSD mock-ups for personal and commercial use. You can download images without any sign-up. Also, you can use images without giving any attribution.

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  1. Picjumbo

Picjumbo is another website which offers free photos. You can choose among their category list of images to find the correct one for you. Their images are free from copyright restrictions. You neither need to sign-up to download images nor give attribution to use their images.

  1. Foter

Foter also offers free stock images. But the usages of their images required attribution. That means you have to add attribution link wherever you are using their image. You can download images without any Sign-up.

  1. Kaboompics

Kaboompics is another website which offers free stock images. Though you can download images without any sign-up but you have to give attribution for using their images.

  1. Morguefile

Morguefile is also another free stock images repository. The quality of all the images is not comparable to above-mentioned websites. So, if you picking an image from Morguefile, make sure that the image fits your requirements. You can download images without any sign-up. Also, they don’t want attribution for their images.

  1. Gettyimages

Gettyimages is one of the most popular websites for Royalty Free Images. It offers high-quality images under various categories. They also offer a premium category for individuals and enterprises. You can also explore video and audio clips on the website. They also offer region/country specific websites for different geographies.

I hope you will find these websites useful to get Royalty Free Images for your website. Which other websites or resources do you use for royalty free images, share via comment section below. If the website you suggested is really awesome, we will incorporate that one in the above list. Enjoy free stock images.

Cheers!

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5 thoughts on “List of 15 Best Websites to Find Royalty Free Images”

  1. Avatar of Luca

    Hi!
    Great list!
    it’s a good resource for bloggers, webmasters and website owners.
    Luca

    Reply
    • Hey Luca,
      Awesome! I will look into it. May be, I can enlist this one during next update of this post.
      Thanks for stopping by.

      Reply
  2. Avatar of Kathrin

    Thanks for listing all the good sites at one place.
    I’m gonna use this list for free stock images download for my projects.

    Reply
    • Hey Kathrin,
      Glad that i could help.
      Thanks for dropping by.

      Reply
  3. Avatar of Antony

    Hi,
    Just want to say that your article is amazing.
    Now I can say that I have got a treasure of FREE images for my projects.

    Reply

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