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 [...]
Creative Commons
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.
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
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
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 [...]
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
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
BeholdTM is a search engine for high-quality Flickr images. It aims to answer your queries based on what is inside the images — at the pixel level. It offers a completely new way to search for images, using techniques of computer vision. With behold you can filter your search for pictures that are free to use and modify commercially. Behold.cc
DeviantART is a platform that allows emerging and established artists to exhibit, promote, and share their works within a peer community dedicated to the arts. The site’s vibrant social network environment receives over 100,000 daily uploads of original art works ranging from traditional media, to digital art, pixel art, films and anime. Deviantart.com
The Freestockphotos.biz collection contains almost 14000 free images available in a variety of commercial and editorial licenses, including public domain, creative commons, and custom agreements. All images are completely free to download and use. Check the Image License and Usage Terms for more details. Freestockphotos.biz
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community created by Ludicorp and later acquired by Yahoo!. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. It currently hosts more than 5 billion images. Flickr.com
Browse by Colour labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr Search 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr by Color labs.ideeinc.com/multicolour Search 3 million Alamy Stock Photos images.google.com Search Google images by color (green). Browse by your uploaded image labs.ideeinc.com/upload Browse by color/texture/similar images tiltomo.com tineye.com Upload an image and Tineye will find all lookalikes similar-images.googlelabs.com Find an image by keyword and than you can view the images that look the same. made possible by Google Labs [...]
