Our brain is capable to process images 60,000 times faster as compare to text, that’s why we can say images are the best source to grab someones attention and getting your message across. But where can we find these images free of cost for our commercial sites, Well, you can get it for free from any of the free websites I have mentioned below.
1) Unsplash
2) Burst
3) Stocksnap
4) Pixabay
5) Pexels
Few Paid stock
photos
There are two paid sites i.e Shutterstock.com and iStockphoto.com where you can find stock
photos for your use. You can find as many pictures but you have to pay for
them. But most of the people are looking to find free resources, Luckily we have
many free sites available nowadays.
I have compiled a list of 5 best free image sites where you can find any type of images without copy right issues.
1. Unsplash
Burst offers
a great collection of free stock images for your websites and blogs. According
to them “Burst is a free stock photo platform that is powered by Shopify. Our
image library includes thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images that were
shot by our global community of photographers”. There are categories like animals,
arts , business, fashion , love , season, technology, people, travel , work and
many more in there collection.
3. Stocksnap
This
site is something different. It offers to join Shuterstock and download 10 free
images which is a good option for the users. Stocksnap has hundreds of new
images updated on weekly basis free of cost, so this might be a good option to
find stock photos as well. Most of the kewwords searches on this site are
Popular Photo Searches
4. Pixabay
Pixabay having a large database of high resolution images is more
oriented towards business and commercial as compare to Unsplash which is more
oriented towards bloggers and marketers. But there is an advantage of Pixabay that is offers free vectors and illustrations too. Don’t
forget to check this site.
5. Pexels
Well, how can we end our
post without mentioning the Pexels when we talk about free image sites. Pexels
collection is vast and well organized that everyone can find images related to
his work easily. And one more thing, yes Pexels also offers free stock videos. So,
it should be the wright choice for bloggers and video content creators.
How to use free stock photos?
All the images available
on these 5 sites have a Creative Commons Zero (CCO) license which means you can
copy or download images and use it for any purpose without giving credit to the
author, but in case you give credit to the author it will be nice thing.
Also read about Creative Commons website.
If you still have trouble to find perfect free images
for your sites and blogs let me know in comments I will help you anytime!
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