by Melissa Stewart
Where can you find free, good quality images that are cleared to use for your blog posts or social media content? I find myself asking this question a lot! Finding good looking and relevant photos for the posts on She Owns It can be exhausting!
So, what do you do if you want to keep it legal but don’t have an iStock budget?
Below we’ve compiled a list of sites that will help you make your blog or social media feed look great, at absolutely no cost!
- CreatHER Stock
- Death to the Stock Photo
- Foodiesfeed
- Freerange
- Good Free Photos
- Gratisography
- ISO Republic
- Jay Mantri
- Life of Pix
- Little Visuals
- Lock and Stock Photos
- Magdeleine
- New Old Stock
- Pickup Image
- Picjumbo
- Picography
- Pixabay
- Public Domain Archive
- Raumrot
- Snapwire
- Splitshire
- Startup Stock Photos
- Stokpic
- The Pattern Library
- Unsplash
So what resources are you using for stock photography? We’d love to know your favorite or sites we missed. Let us know in the comments!
Melissa Stewart is the founder of SheOwnsIt.com. She is a Purveyor of Possibility, Entrepreneur Advocate and Coffee Addict. She believes that behind every successful woman is her story. What’s your story?
10 Replies to “25 Places to Find Free (and Legal) Photos for Your Blog and Social Media”
Stuart Miles
Should you be looking for thousands of graphic images then http://www.blogpiks.com/ would be a smart choice. I present high quality stock images for free.
Danielle Nocon
Hi Melissa – Thank you for sharing this list. Of these, I like using Life of Pix and Unsplash. But you have many here that I was not aware of. The Vintage Images on the Public Domain Archive are fascinating. One that is not on your list that I like using is Public Domain Pictures (http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/). And of course Canva has all kinds of free images – including icons and illustrations as well as photos – right in their platform.
Emma O
Few of my favorites are alisted above and also here are few more from my bookmarks.
http://www.skitterphoto.com
http://www.kaboompics.com
http://www.uhdwallpapers.org
http://www.streetwill.co
https://stock.tookapic.com/?list=all&filter=free
Melissa Stewart[ Post Author ]
Thanks Emma! I’ll check these out and keep them in mind for our next list.
Image Finder
Hi Melissa,
Great list! have you tried our site http://imagefinder.co? We list tons of free stock images from various sources.
diabonso
I’m always looking for places to get free, legal photos. I use Pixabay and Dreamstime for images but I will definitely check out the sites you mentioned here. Where did you get this information?
harsha
Thanks Melissa you have given more options for bloggers, will use it in my future articles and posts 🙂
Melissa Stewart[ Post Author ]
That’s just what I love to hear! Hope you find some great images for your blog. Let me know if you find any sites I missed!
Corina Ramos
Hi Melissa,
Thanks so much for putting this list together. I’m always looking for places to get free, legal photos. I use Pixabay and Dreamstime for images but I will definitely check out the sites you mentioned here.
Thanks for sharing. Passing this along to my fellow bloggers. Posts like this is a gold mine :).
Happy Tuesday!
Cori
Melissa Stewart[ Post Author ]
Yay! So glad you found the post helpful Corina. I love Pixabay, it’s one of my favorites. I’ve had a few more sites shared with me via Twitter since I published. I’ll have to do a follow up post soon!