If you're just a casual hobby blogger or something, and money's not involved, you're usually okay featuring just about any image you find online.
But that's not true for business websites, monetized blogs, and other applications where a profit is involved.
Most images aren't in the public domain. They belong to someone — an artist, a photographer, or in some cases, a stock photo company that buys the images from the people who originally created them.
To use most images, you have to buy them. And this can get shockingly expensive.
Many pictures from Getty Images can cost as much as $500 a pop!
Not good if you're on a budget.
Even standard subscriptions to most stock photo sites can be out of reach for beginning entrepreneurs who don't have a whole lot of money to spend before they start driving revenue.
Fortunately, there are resources out there for photos and images on a budget.
In a recent post, BlogTyrant offers over 100 great sites for free and low-cost stock photos and artwork.
Websites with Photos and Images
When you run a blog or website one of the most difficult issues can be finding consistently beautiful photos and images to use in articles, eBooks and other forms of content.
Everyone is a bit bored of corporate stock photos and wants something a bit more interesting, but sometimes it can be hard to find nice stuff that you’re actually allowed to use without that same photo also being on every other blog.
What follows is a huge list of websites that publish photos under Royalty Free, Creative Commons, and/or Public Domain licenses that have millions of photos and images that you can use on your blog. Again, make sure you read through all the terms and conditions before throwing an image up on your site to make sure you understand how it should be correctly used.
Pexels // Old Book Illustrations // Gratisography // Wikimedia Commons // Unsplash // LibreShot // Dreamstime // NASA // Morguefile // Freerange // Flickr Commons // FreeStocks.org // Public Domain Pictures // Pixabay // Magdeleine // ISO Republic // Public Domain Vectors // FancyCrave // 1 Million Free Pictures // Camarama // CreativeCommons.Photos // Crow the Stone // Epicantus // FindA.Photo // Free Stock Photos // Jay Mantri // Realistic Shots // Reusable Art // Skitterphoto // Medical Heritage Library // Europeana Collection // Free Media Goo // Free Nature Stock // Free Stock Image Point // FreeImages.Pictures // FreePhotosBank // StockSnap.io // Startup Stock Photos // The British Library // The Public Domain Review // Viintage // Public Domain Archive // Pic4Learning // Photogen // ABS Free Pic // Image*After // Publicdomainfiles // ShotStash // JESHOOTS // DesignerPics.com // Everystockphoto.com // Negative Space // Death to the Stock Photo // SpaceX // Stockvault // Foodies Feed // FreeImages // Fancy Crave // FreeImages.red // From Old Books // FreePhotos.se // Pic Pac // PDPics // Picdrome // Burst // UPICM // Yale University Art Gallery // Unrestricted Stock // The U.S Department of State // Trunklog.com // BARA Art // U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library // The Defense Visual Information Center // DrStockPhoto // Makerbook // Fotoscopy // FreeUse.io // Skuawk // FreeQration // US Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library // NOAA Photo Library // A Digital Dreamer // Abstract Influence // USDA Agricultural Research Service // PolarFox // Photo Rack // stokpic // Focus Fitness // Large Photos // Iwaria // Oliur Rahman // Stocka // Shutteroo // Creative Vix // Barn Images // Snapwire Snaps // Snappy Goat// Little Visuals // Visual Hunt // Phototeria // Public C Photo // Photos-public-domain // 4 Free Photos // Clker.com // Image After // Stock.XCHNG// Yeah! Stock Photos // The Stocks // Freetems // Google LIFE // MMT // Raumrot // re:splashed // RGBStock // Paul Jarvis // Stock Up // Stockpic // Smithsonian // StockSnap.io // NOBL Web // Snapographic // TurboPhoto// PicJumbo // Pickup Image // Cupcake // Bossfight // Freely Photos // New Old Stock // SplitShire // Picography // Travel Coffee Book // Tookapic// Moveeast // Moni’s Photo // Splashbase // PicMelon // PLiXS // Glyphs.co// My Stock Photos // Slon // nappy // Soul Photos // Nomad Pictures // StyledStock // Lensicle // PixZoyd // Avopix //OneLeft Media // Duion // Topers Photos // MarblePics // DavAlign // The Famous Artists // Totally Free Images // Free Vintage Illustrations // My Public Domain Pictures // National Archives // Images in the Public Domain // Online Archive of California // Realgraphy // FreeImages.red // Pickle Jar // Street Will // Life of Pix
For more great sites with other free design elements, like backgrounds and logos, check out the full post from Blog Tyrant.
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