Top 5 Stock Photo Sites

There are 7 free high-quality stock image resources

To find a high value stock photo for free used to be a big task - there were very few available choices, and the available stock was low at best. Now there are so many free stock image sites that it can be overpowering to some extent. There are seven of my favourite sites for free, high resolution stockpics.

Pixabay is currently the first website I go to when I need a free stock photo. Offering more than 420,000 pictures to choose from, there is a good chance these items will meet your needs. You don't have bewildering picture licences to be worried about. Any Pixabay picture can be used in either print or online format without prior crediting - for both private and business use.

The Unsplash is a great resource for very artistic pictures that you can use for your blog and your online work. Browse the stock on the website and sign up for 10 new pictures every 10 trading day that will be shipped directly to your mailbox. Pictures posted and released on Unsplash are covered by the terms of the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licence, which means that you can use the picture for any purpose, whether private or not.

They have the right to change, copy and redistribute the pictures without giving Unsplash or the artist a loan - although it is always a good idea to give a loan where the loan is due. StockSnap is not responsible for any contents linked or referred to from his pages - unless he has full knowledge of illegal contents and would be able to prevent the visitors of his site fromviewing those pages. Each week we add several hundred new pictures and you can see them according to the date and number of viewings you upload.

There' also a flow of trend pictures that gives you immediate acces to the most beloved pictures on the site. Like Unsplash above, StockSnap pictures are covered by the licensed version of the CC0, so you can use them as you wish. StockSnap's long-term objective, according to the website, is to build a fellowship of artists who want to communicate their work to the rest of the planet.

The Flickr has always been a trusted resource for free pictures, and it still is today. It is important that you know which Adobe Flickr product licence is appended to the picture you are using - there are eight different licence types and not all pictures on Flickr can be used in the same way.

Pictures in the Free Use Pictures section are accessible to everyone, and you do not have to acknowledge the author. The Flickr user who publishes pictures in this group allows their use. Every single day, 10 new, high-quality pictures are added to Pexels' free stock photo library, currently over 2,700.

The Pexels libary should grow by about 3,600 pictures per year with at least 70 new pictures per year. Pexels selects all pictures from other free picture resources, as well as the aforementioned Unsplash. Each photo is of high qualitiy and comes under the terms of the creative commons zero licence, which allows unlimited use.

Featuring a memorable name, this is one of the most beloved free photo sources. There are two options: a free subscription that provides you with a free parcel of pictures in your mailbox every month, plus a subscription that gives you full subscription to your stock picture collection for $15 per months, in additional to a pure subscription of pictures every months.

Knapwire is another free image delivery to your mailbox that expands your offer with seven new offers every seven business days. Every week, your mailbox will receive a new one. As a Tumblr member, you can track your own photos and not miss a new photo. A little over a year of pictures makes this not the biggest free stock picture library available on-line, but it's definitely one that' definitely worth bookmarking.

Here are some of the more creatively designed pictures you'll find for free that are appended to a Zero Commons licence. How do you get your free stock pictures?