60 Free High Quality Stock Photography Sites

Posted on 04. May, 2010 by Jovana Sumar in Freebies, Graphics 8

Pictures are worth a thousand words. However, for good quality, engaging photographs, they normally come at a very expensive price. While stock sites are making photography more affordable, they are occasionally more expensive for regular use.

So the mission: to find sixty, high quality stock photography sites that provide free, easy-to-get photographs that will help you enhance your designs, web pages or blog.

Copyright Issues

Each site should be carefully be examined before using any of the images. Depending on the type of site, attribution might be necessary when using an image from their site. There are currently many different type of usages of the pictures.

Occasionally, most of the sites allow personal and commercial use of the images as a whole. Some photos depend on the photographer that has donated the picture.

If you are using these photographs or images for commercial use, it is important to verify that the actual photo is allowed for commercial use.

Abundance

There is a definite abundance of sites that can be used for free, high quality stock photography. The internet has become a wealth of information and people are freely giving away their work to better the lives of others.

As a designers and creative minds, you need to acknowledge the significance of all of these sites and the people behind them, that are striving to make photography so accessible to the world.

1. Flikr

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: In the millions
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

2. Stock Vault

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: 18000+
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

3. Dreamstime

Do you need to register in order to download photo: Yes
Number of free photos: 10000 +
Quality of Photographs: Extremely High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

4. Stock Xchng

Do you need to register in order to download photo: Yes
Number of free photos: 391665 +
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

5. Freebie Images

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No, it is a wordpress plugin that is automatically put into your wordpress blog.
Number of free photos: 10000+
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

6. Photogen

Do you need to register in order to download photo: Yes
Number of free photos: 1000+
Quality of Photographs: High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

7. Free Range Stock

Do you need to register in order to download photo: Yes
Number of free photos: Undisclosed amount but in the thousands
Quality of Photographs: High Quality to Extremely High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

8. Nations Illustrated

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 7306
Quality of Photographs: High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

9. Image After

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: Undisclosed but in the thousands range
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

10. Photl

Do you need to register in order to download photo: Yes
Number of free photos: 343 163
Quality of Photographs: Extremely High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

11. Unprofound

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 1000+
Quality of Photographs: High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

12. Photo Xpress

Do you need to register in order to download photo: Yes
Number of free photos: 664,627
Quality of Photographs: High Quality to Extremely High Quality
User Friendly: No

13. Free Photo Bank

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 5172
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

14. Image Abstraction

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 371
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

15. Pixel Perfect Digital

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 7,686
Quality of Photographs: High Quality to Extremely High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

16. Grunge Textures

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 1453
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

17. Free Webpage Headers

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 1,095
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

18. Free Image Files

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 1129
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

19. Free Media Goo

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 200-500
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

20. Design Packs

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 100-200
Quality of Photographs: High to Extremely High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

21. Image Base

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 500-1000
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

22. Free Web Photo

Do you need to register in order to download photo: Yes
Number of free photos: 952
Quality of Photographs: Low quality (very small sizes)
User Friendly: No

23. Free Photos Bank

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: Undisclosed but in thousands
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

24. Free Photos Bank

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: Undisclosed but in thousands
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

25. I love Stock

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 735
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

25. Picspack

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 4820
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: No, you need to use Google translate to fully understand what is happening in the site, as they do not have an English Version

26. Free Stock Photography

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 300-400
Quality of Photographs: High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

27. Diwiesign

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 633
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

28. FreePixels

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 3000+
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

29. KaveWall

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 1700
Quality of Photographs: Low to Medium Quality
User Friendly: Yes

30. Free Large Photo

Do you need to register in order to download photo: No
Number of free photos: 3210
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality (with requests for higher quality if wanted)
User Friendly: Yes

31. CompFight

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No, CompFight is an aggregator of free photographs that can be searched by various degrees of creative commons.
Number of free photos: 1000′s +
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

32. Aarin Free Photography

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: 950
Quality of Photographs: Low to Medium Quality
User Friendly: No

33. Stick Stock

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: 1,027
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

34. Free Foto

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No, you just give your email address.
Number of free photos: 130570
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

35. Open Photo

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: Undisclosed, but in the thousands
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

36. Art Favor

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: Undisclosed, but in the thousands
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

37. Burning Well

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: Undisclosed, but in the thousands
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

38. From Old Books

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: 2600
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

39. Cepolina

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: 16000
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

40. USDA

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: 2000
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: No

41. AMG Media

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: Undisclosed
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

42. Free-Stock Photos

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: Undisclosed
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: No

43. Geek Philosopher

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: Undisclosed
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

44. Free Images

Do you need to register in order to download photos: Yes, you need to register before you can even view photos.
Number of free photos: Undisclosed, but in the thousands.
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: No

45. Free Stock Photos

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: Undisclosed, but in the thousands.
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality (each image is branded at the lower right hand side)
User Friendly: No

46. Free Photographs

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: Undisclosed, but in the thousands.
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality (each image is branded at the lower right hand side)
User Friendly: No

47. DHD Multimedia Gallery

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: 26102
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: No

48. Gimp Savvy

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: 2700
Quality of Photographs: Low to High Quality
User Friendly: No

49. Free Digital Photos

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: 2700
Quality of Photographs: Low to High Quality
User Friendly: No

50. Free Photos

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: 5087
Quality of Photographs: Low to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

51. Sunipix

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: 10000
Quality of Photographs: Low to Medium Quality
User Friendly: Yes

52. Get Free Image

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: Undisclosed, but in the thousands
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

53. Photo Rogue

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: Undisclosed
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

54. All Free Images

Do you need to register in order to download photos: Yes
Number of free photos: 804
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

55. Turbo Photo

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: 200
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

56. Micro Shots

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: 1109
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

57. TOFZ

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos: 11321
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High Quality
User Friendly: Yes

58. The Creative Element

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos:
Quality of Photographs: Medium to High
User Friendly: Yes

59. PD Photo

Do you need to register in order to download photos: No
Number of free photos:
Quality of Photographs: High
User Friendly: Yes

60. Pixmac

Do you need to register in order to download photos: Yes
Number of free photos: 400-500
Quality of Photographs: Extremely High
User Friendly: Yes

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