Where to Find Free Stock Photos

• Are you looking for a royalty-free stock photo?
• Do you need an image to throw into a presentation, post, or page?
• Are you ready to finally have an easy starting point, for your next search for a “perfect image”?

Where Can I Find A Free Stock Photo?

Thanks to paid advertising and misleading copyediting on web sites that sell photos, search engines do a lousy job identifying web sites that offer CC0 and free stock photos.

Here are more than 2 dozen free stock photo sites I’ve found in my research (plus some bonuses).

I’ve sorted in roughly the order I’ve found the most value. Sites I use the most are at the top; sites I use less often are toward the bottom. Because each has somewhat different themes and contributors, you may find you have different preferences.

Let me know your thoughts and suggestions in the comments below!

Thanks to everyone who’s shared these with me over the years (see credits at the bottom)!

Free Stock Photos

1. Pikwizard.com
2. pxfuel
3. unsplash.com
4. pexels.com
5. pixabay.com
6. Google Images (filtering with Tools > License > Labeled for reuse).
7. pxhere.com
8. Megan Stewart’s resource list
9. ThemeIsle.com
10. rawpixel.com
11. StockSnap
12. Take your own
13. KaboomPics
14. Libreshot
15. Negative Space
16. Life of Pix
17. ISO Republic
18. Picjumbo
19. JESHOOTS.com
20. https://www.matteoduo.com/free-photo-websites-commercial-use/
21. www.nappy.co ‘Beautiful, high-res photos of black and brown people.’
22. FancyCrave
23. DeathtoStock has a really funky “free email pack per month” with their newsletter
24. Freedigitalphotos.net
25. AvoPix
26. Freerange

Free Banner Images

1. https://www.backgroundimagepro.com/
2. http://www.linkedinbackground.com/
3. http://freelinkedinbackgrounds.com/
4. http://stocksnap.io/ Free 2000 x 1200 photos

Bonus 1: Free stock videos

https://pexels.com/videos

Bonus 2: Free icons

Flaticon

Paid

Fact is, sometimes I can’t find quite the right photo.

Since amazing marketing requires projecting the aspirational future of my prospect, sometimes I need to find just the right photos of the right people in the right situations having the right experiences. Here are the sites I’ve used so far, when all else fails:

• istockphoto.com
• This page lists several more.

Give Credit Where Credit Is Due:

Offer proper attribution for the source of the photo.

Share your sources of free and CC0 images and photos in comments below.

Many thanks to the following for your contributions to the above:

• Members of Ray Edwards Copywriting Academy
• Members of Sam Ovens Consulting Accelerator
• Right Management
• YourOnlineGenius
• Many others

Photo credit: Pixabay/RobinHiggins