Photos on a website, article help to explain a point in a better way. You can use a picture for your blog post featured image, within the article content, social media, etc. However, finding licensed free images can be much of a hassle. Most of the pictures which are available for free are either with under par resolution, blurry, or embarked under a watermark. But, thanks to the following online places where you can get licensed free images to put on your website.
Pixabay
All the pictures on Pixabay are uploaded by Creative Commons, an American Non-Profit organization led by Ryan Merkley. It has a million royalty-free photos extensively available for commercial use. Pixabay is one of my favorites, and you can get almost all type of images, including:
AnimalsPeopleFoodPlacesTechnologyEducationBusinessComputerHealth
At pixabay, you will find not just photos but videos, vector graphics & illustrations. And if you are a developer, you will love Pixabay API.
Unsplash
Do whatever you want to do Unsplash high-resolution photos in FREE. Lately, Unsplash launched an API, so if you have an idea of making an app, poster, etc.10, give a try. If you subscribe to their mailing list, you would be able to receive ten photos every ten days overseen by various photographers. Of Course, it has a traditional search bar where you can find images to suit your preference.
DeviantArt
Deviant Art has over 3 million users and is a community-based service. You can view their images for free as long as you give them the due credits. It mainly focuses on content related to animes.
Flickr
Flickr is stuffed with over 13 billion photos. After you sign up, you get immersive access to its wealth. It provides 1000 GB of photo storage to its users. You can also edit your photos before saving. The automatic backup facility ensures that none of the photos are lost. But there is one catch; not all the photos are licensed free. So you got to apply the filter as follows.
Gratisography
Grastisography offers High-quality images with no restrictions whatsoever. All the pictures are clicked by Ryan McGuire.
Getty Images
Getty Images are free for non-commercial websites or blogs but with some restrictions. You can’t download and upload on your site; instead, you can embed the images. Getty Images are known for quality, and you can get the photos from almost all the categories.
Realistic Shots
Realistic shots, licensed by Creative Commons Zero, is another photo-sharing service. They added seven new photos every week.
Life of Pix
Life of pix is sorted in chronological categories in a gallery. You can also choose photos sorted according to photographers.
Free Nature Stock
Exclusively dedicated to Nature, Free Nature Stock is created by Adrian Pelletier. It is updated daily.
Magdeleine
Filtering pics based on the dominant color helps Magdeleine to stand out among the rest.
StockSnap
StockSnap, made by Snappa, is a great storehouse of high-resolution stock photos with over 100 categories. All the photos are released under Creative Commons – CC0, which means attribution is not mandatory.
Kaboompics
Along with a modest search engine, Kaboompics provides us with a color palette along with the hex codes which we can use.
Travel Coffee Book
Running a travel blog or website? Travel Coffee Book will amaze you with the various place’s images.
ISO Republic
ISO Republic, founded by Tom Eversley, a designer and a photographer, provides several high definition images for creative personal and commercial projects.
MMT
Moment (MMT), founded by Jeffrey Betts, contains images angling mainly towards nature, cities, and infrastructure.
Pexels
Pexels has a commendable directory of stock pictures and is adding almost 3000 photos monthly to its enriched already existing content.
PicJumbo
PicJumbo, owned by Viktor Hanacek, is a well organized free stock images provider website. It contains some pretty eye-pleasing food shots.
Burst By Shopify
Burst is a subsidiary of Shopify, created by keeping entrepreneurs in mind. All the images are licensed under Creative Commons Zero.
Skitter Photo
Skitter Photo covers a variety of genres, and all the pictures are created by the owners.
iwaria
Targeting Africa? You will love iwaria. A dedicated free African photo portal for your website/ Once you get your photo, don’t forget to compress to reduce the overall size of the fast loading web page. I hope this piece of write-up will help you to add royalty-free images to your blog and website.
