When it comes to textures an patterns in Web design, background images are probably the most common used. Every material and surface has its own visual texture, materials such as canvas and watercolour paper are considerably rougher than, for example, photo-quality computer paper and may not be best suited to creating a flat, smooth texture. Photography, drawings and paintings use visual texture both to portray their subject matter realistically and with interpretation. Texture in these [...]
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.
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
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
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
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 [...]
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
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
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
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/
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
Vintage Pixels is a large database of historical, high quality, free-for-use images which allows people to share their archived photos. You can download images for print, or use in graphic design, as well upload images to add to the ever growing album of vintage images. The best part – it’s all free! Vintagepixels.com
All Our Stock is a completely free stock website. All of the content is available to you 100% free, for both commercial and personal usage. What makes allourstock different is that their licensing has no restrictions for your creations. No worries whether it’s royalty-free or not, or whether you need to attribute the creator. So long as you don’t redistribute the original file. Allourstock.com
Free stock photos, easy to download, easy to browse. Use them for commercial or personal design projects of any kind! Some are even public domain, so you can use those for whatever you want. Whether you’re looking for free stock designs for your project, free stock photography for your next big design or something in-between. Freestockfor.us
Free royalty free stock photography collection of over 1000 images and growing! You’ll find stock photos covering a range of categories such as textures, animals, technology, water, fire, jobs and careers, buildings and more. These stock photos are 100% free and are also royalty free. Adigitaldreamer.com just asks that you don’t redistribute them, or use them with anything that could be viewed as offensive (hate / pornography) ;) Adigitaldreamer.com/gallery
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
The free section at Dreamstime is pretty big! All free stock images available are provided by Dreamstime community’s photographers and artists. Structured in the following categories: Abstract, Animals, Arts/architecture, Business, Editorial, Illustrations, Industries, IT&C, Nature, Objects, People, Technology, Travel. Registration is required! Dreamstime.com/free-photos