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Do you need free website images? Where to find free images to complement your website and blog, an important article, essay or news report is already a challenge for many people. Imagine when the goal is not only to find good images, but also some images that you can openly and freely use without needing to pay royalties or one-time publishing rights. Luckily there are many online directories of royalty-free images that come to rescue.
Photo credit: Darren Hester
Nonetheless finding free website images and free blog images may seem, at first, a tough task to carry out, there are quite a number of online resources available today.
These resources offer a great assortment of quality images and are establishing as a valuable alternative to traditional stock image libraries.
You can find everything from quality photos, vector images or cliparts to textures and line drawings.
By taking advantage of this extensive list of free images you can stop relying on Google to find the images you need and you also respect author's copyright by downloading only legal and free blog images that you can re-use at your own leisure.
As long as your customers or you do not require photos of art masterpieces, you might find interesting visual alternatives by exploring the world of free and grassroots image clearinghouses.
But before leaving you to the extensive list of royalty-free images, I would like to share with you two important recommendations, both for online publishers and photographers:
Online publishers: No matter which sources you use, I recommend always crediting and where possible, informing the authors that their work has been used and published somewhere. To someone who has been so generous to offer her creative work for your own use, it is not much to offer full credit, acknowledgment, a link back and information about where the image is used. Doing this way, you also allow photographers to show potential customers how their work is used.
Photographers: The ageless issue of "How do I get work as a photographer if everyone wants me to have some experience and credential first?" is finally solved. Expose some of your good photographic work for others to use and leverage the good exposure, visibility and credentials generated by this to build your reputation and price when bidding for work.
Do you know other resources to find website images and free blog images? If so, please let me know in the comment section.
107) FreeJPG
http://www.freejpg.com.ar/
FreeJPG is a large stock photo directory to download royalty-free stock images. You can use all images on the site for both personal and commercial design projects. No registration is required to download the images.
All images are in high-resolution, but only in one size. Using category listings and the internal search engine you can easily find the images you are looking for. When you open any of the photos, FreeJPG also recommends you other similar images that might interest you.
106) Free Images
http://www.pachd.com/
Free Images is an online resource where you can browse and download free stock photos and images. You can use all images on the site for both personal and commercial projects but you need to give credit and link back to the site.
Alternatively, you can download the image and avoid linking back to the site by paying a $1.99$ fee per image. You are in no occasion allowed to re-sell, sub-license or post the images in another online collection.
105) Photos8
http://www.photos8.com/
Photos8 is a large resource where you can browse and download free stock photos. You can use all images on the site for both personal and commercial projects according to the author's license.
All pictures are in high-resolution, but they are offered only in one size. You can search for the pictures you need using the categories on the left menu or the internal search engine.
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