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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 [...]

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

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

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

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

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

Photoeverywhere offers more than 3000 travel related images ready for instant, free download. All images have been made available free of charge under a creative commons license – see each image page on photoeverywhere for more details. Photoeverywhere.co.uk

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

Freepik´s aim is to gather all free, high quality graphics on the Internet and make accessing them quick and easy so you don´t have to waste your time searching manually through hundreds of websites. Freepik.com

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

Compfight is a search engine for exploring images from the ever expanding Flickr photography community. Find photos by Any license Creative commons or Commercially. Please respect all licenses! Compfight.com

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

Everystockphoto.com is a search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific. For each photo you can view the license. Membership is free and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos. Everystockphoto.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 [...]