All websites in this collection search photo sites and communities that offer free imagery. These come from many sources and are license-specific. Also check out the 10 best free stock photo websites for direct acces to the free photo resources. enjoy! Everystockphoto.com Everystockphoto.com is a license-specific photo search engine. They index and search millions of freely licensed photos, from various free photo websites, and present them in an integrated search. Everystockphoto.com Compfight.com This site is [...]

The following article is an attempt to create the ultimate collection of free and creative commons based stock photo websites with the best places to search for Hi Res Photos and get nice quality images.
All Websites in this collection contain free digital stock photographs. For some you have to be registered to access and download high resolution imagery others have instant download options. I hope this will help you find open-source and creative commons images and photography to help you create stunning designs without spending as much as a dollar.

A marketplace for royalty-free stock video, sound effects, music, after effects, photos and illustrations. Pond5.com

Free stock photographic library. FREE digital photographic images for web, dtp, and design. Royalty and cost free stock photos. You can download all these images, photos, icons, buttons, backgrounds for free! allfreeimages.net We got lots of images, photos, icons, buttons, backgrounds for you!! Allfreeimages.net

This is a place for high quality stock photos and desktop wallpapers. Large collection of High Resolution photos and wallpapers, Thousands of high quality pictures, easy to search, High quality stock photos files are provided to you at the most affordable prices. Photos8.com

FreeJpg – Free photos Freejpg.com.ar

Commercial photography and high-speed digital movie studio. Specializing in water splash and liquid. Rights Managed/Free Stock images and footage. Biwastudio.com/#archive/free/

The FEMA Photo Library is an online gallery of photos compiled by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of the United States, containing more than 20,000 disaster related photographs taken since 1980. Fema.gov/photolibrary

small pro stockhoto website with approxamitely 50k hires images available for download. MediaFocus has been a provider of high quality royalty-free stock photos to the graphic design, web design, marketing, and advertising industry since 1996. Providing excellent quality and outstanding service along with great pricing is the main objective of Mediafocus stock photography service. Mediafocus.com

Food stockphotos! Buy an image directly from this web site by browsing the library of high quality stock food photography. Have your image custom shot in our fully digital custom-built food photography studio. Use our in-house professional food stylists to prepare your recipe or dish to the very highest standards. Fabfoodpix.com

Amazingtextures.com have hundreds of free textures to download, high-resolution textures, images, backgrounds, wallpapers and texture maps. Check out the collection of Tiled Textures or see the users Top Textures. amazingtextures.com/textures/

ClipDealer is an open marketplace for royalty-free media.On ClipDealer you will find a selection of stock video footage, photos, vector graphics, sounds and music in various resolutions respectively qualities. ClipDealer offer an easy and attractive fixed-price system, depending on the resolution, but regardless of what they are used for. There are currently 850,000 media on ClipDealer. Clipdealer.com

Their service provides you with high-quality FREE pictures hosted by Acobox to paste into your web blog page. A simple Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v: will do the trick. Images sizes variesfrom 100px to 500px. Acobox.com

All photos on 1photos.com are free for corporate and personal use. Every image is free! 1photos.com features exclusive images found nowhere else on the web with new pictures being added every week. Without even registering, you can browse archive and download all the images you need. Photos are not offered in various hires sizes, but the standard resolution is generally high resulting in large pictures. 1photos.com

Free photos available in these categories: Abstract | Architecture | Business | Food | Industrial | Interiors | Nature | Science | Sports | Transportation | Travel | Textures Alegriphotos.com

We provide free stock photos with high resolution for both personal and commercial projects – compatibe with all types of hosting plans from cheap dedicated hosting to reseller hosting. You can use our free photos in websites, video, TV production, forum, blogs, school projects and print medias including newspapers, magazine, books, CD covers. OK, let’s say, you can download, edit and use all photos anywhere and anyhow you like except for abuse. Photovaco.com

The freeimagescollection is intended as a collection of Santhosh Kumar best work in photography. All the images found on this website are High Quality, Copyright Free, Royalty Free, High Resolution Stock Images. All these images have been photographed exclusively by Santhosh Kumar. You can use images as wallpapers or in any of your personal or commercial works. Freeimagescollection.com

4Freephotos is run by a group of photographers who enjoy taking pictures and decided to share them with the public to use them for free in their private or commercial projects. 4freephotos.com

Registered users can download and use Photogen stock photos FREE, both for commercial and personal projects. The Photogen FREE stock photo gallery is regularly updated with new quality, high-resolution free photos and images. To download you’ll need to sign up first, and once you’ve signed up you can also download multiple images in a ZIP file by using our handy lightbox function. Photogen.com

Celebrity pictures and photos from the world’s first and only micro stock celebrity photo agency. Imagecollect.com captures all of the major events including awards shows, movie and TV premieres, concerts, festivals, social events, red carpets, and more. Currently holding over 1.5 million celebrity pictures. With real time uploads from the latest events and photos available on demand through a simple, general use license. Imagecollect.com

At free-photo-frames.com you can download free high quality wooden, silver, graphical and more various styles photo frames. Free-photo-frames.com

Warmpicture is a collective of independent stock photographers producing premium quality royalty free images.  Warmpicture was founded in 2011 to combat rapidly rising stock image prices at leading agencies. Warmpicture.com

Imageselect is a company which, for the last 10 years, has focused entirely on stock photography. Their primary aim is to offer the widest variety of images from the widest assortment of suppliers. They have highly professional material as well as the more conventional shots. Imageselect.eu

Multimedia-Stock is a perfect place for people who want to introduce themselves and their creative work to the world and for those who just want to enjoy in viewing or using that work for some purpose. Multimedia-stock.com

F1online is a German based Stockphoto agency offering a comprehensive set of online and offline image related services. Choose from over 3 Mio. royalty free and rights managed stock photos (or from over 8.000 royalty free CDs) of all relevant international brands. F1online.pro/en

Gabriela Herman is a fine art, portrait and lifestyle photographer who is recognized for her intimate approach and ease with her subjects. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and been featured extensively online. She was born in Newton, MA and settled in Brooklyn, NY after enriching her photographic palette through her many experiences living abroad. She learned to eat crepes in the cafes of France, get lost in the zocalos of Mexico, and dance samba [...]

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The repository is created and maintained not by paid archivists, but by volunteers. The scope of Commons is set out on [...]

Ewastock.com is the online collection of Elizabeth Whiting & Associates, the UK’s leading home-interest stock image library. Established in 1970, the library has developed into an unrivaled collection of interiors, home-interest, architectural, craft and garden photography, contributed by over 50 internationally recognized photographers. Ewastock.co.uk

Photos offered at Free-Photos.Biz come from Wikimedia Commons and from other sources. The photos are published under free licenses and can be used by you free of charge for commercial and non-commercial purposes. Free-photos.biz

Paul Nicklen was born in Saskatchewan Province but grew up in an Inuit community on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. He studied species such as lynx, grizzly bears, bison, caribou and polar bears as a biologist before becoming a wildlife and nature photojournalist in 1995. Paul Nicklen’s goal is to bridge the gap between scientific research and the public by producing stories for magazines such as National Geographic. Paulnicklen.com

Ny-pictures.com is a free service of Ontology2 © copyright 2009. Images on this site are licensed under various Creative Commons licenses; Image descriptions and metadata are CC-BY-SA. This site contains information from Freebase, Dbpedia and other sources. Ny-pictures.com/nyc/photo/

Urban Dirty is a regularly updated online photo library featuring 800 gritty, grimy and sometimes slimy images for use in design and artwork creation. The photos are free to download for both commercial and non-commercial use. All photos are released under a Creative Commons Licence. Urbandirty.com

Spffy.com brings together stock photos, illustrations, footage and video available for licensing from a sellection of stock sites. You can search multiple stockwebsites at once by selectRoyalty Free, Rights Managed and News/Archival images Spffy.com

At FreeDigitalPhotos.net you can download free small size (400 x 260 pixels) to HiRes 10 dollar priced images for use in corporate and personal projects. To use the free Images you must acknowledge the Image creator and FreeDigitalPhotos.net Check the terms of use for more information on acceptable use of FreeDigitalPhotos images. Freedigitalphotos.net

Aarinfreephoto offers free images for personal and commercial use.  You may download and use their images on your web site, print ads, brochures or any end products. To maintain your right to use these images, you will need to display the copyright information “© AarinFreePhoto.com” Aarinfreephoto.com

BurningWell is a repository for public domain (free for any use) images. Most common used photo subjects used are: Activities, Animals & Bugs, Cityscapes, Landscapes, Objects, People, Plants, Textures. You are free to download, copy and use the photos you find at Burningwell for any purpose. The images were donated by photographers from around the world. Burningwell.org

picNiche is an easy to use keyword search tool for assessing the supply and demand of online stock photography images from microstock sites. You search for a keyword phrase such as ‘business man’ or ‘orange socks’ and the search system assesses the sales statistics (demand) for images found relating to that search, along with the competition (supply) for that phrase, and returns a rating indicating the likelihood of making a sale as a result of [...]

UK based Photographic artist Gordon Mcbryde offers a range of creative services. From professional retouching to the creation of bespoke photography and post-processing tutorials. His portfolio excels in excellent composition, captured light, colours and subject. Great images! Gmcbryde.com

Bookmark the pictures you like around the web. VisualizeUs is a social bookmarking website for visual contents — VisualizeUs (read visualize us) allows you to remember your favorite images from all over the web, and share them with everyone. Vi.sualize.us

StockFood is the food specialist among image agencies. Founded by Pete A. Eising in Munich in 1979, StockFood has specialized in the area of food from the very beginning. StockFood offers creative professionals a large collection of Rights-managed and Royalty-free images and clips of food, drink and lifestyle. Stockfood.com

Cydral is a text, similar and reverse image search service. 
The pictures are reduced and may be protected. You must obtain the appropriate permissions to use this material from the owners. 
Images submitted to Cydral for searching are not added to the Cydral index. Cydral.com

High resolution macro images of well, everything really. Surface textures, plants, metal, wood, and many other types of macro images are all available here. All of the macro photography on the site is completely free for your own personal or commercial use. Microshots.org

The Frans Lanting Stock collection is designed to make it easy to search thousands of images of nature, wildlife, people, places, science, and conservation. We serve the needs of professional art buyers who want to license images for commercial, editorial, or institutional use. Anyone interested in ordering fine prints can also use the collection. Franslanting.com/stock

Guide to finding stock images, showcasing the best stock photography on the net. As well as commercial stock photo libraries we also review the best in free images, PD and Creative Commons archives. Budgetstockphoto.com

Photopy is a search engine for free photos. Photos with licenses such as “public domain”, creative commons or other free licenses. A new search engine for freely licensed photos. Photopy.com

Grungetextures provides quality background textures that can be used free of charge for digital artwork, 3D rendering, web design and print projects. They are specialized in weathered and worn surfaces. The texture gallery currently contains over 1500 high resolution images in 20+ categories. Grungetextures.com

Depositphotos is a source for premium royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vector art. If you are a designer, advertiser, photo editor, content manager or blogger, they have millions of high-quality photographs and vector images available at affordable prices to fill your image needs. Depositphotos.com

Cr103 is a 2500 files, 6GB big library of free abstract backgrounds, textures and design ideas you can cut and paste them into your own work or use just for inspiration. The downloads are designed to be used directly in your designs, as layer textures or as inspiration and ideas for further development. Graphics for Design use, DTP, DTV, Multimedia and art / montage applications. Creativity103.com

Veezzle is a free stock photo search engine, we are indexing free photos from big communities such as SXC, RGBStock, StockVault … This way, you can quickly and easily find high quality free stock photos from other websites. Veezzle.com

Find top notch, authentic looking, and free images. Cutcaster is a royalty free photography and vector marketplace that connects image buyers with image sellers. Pay once, download the picture or illustrations, and use it forever even if you use it in other projects. This is Cutcasters Free images section. Cutcaster.com/browse/freeImages/