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Striking, high-resolution images will capture a user’s attention. Whether you are developing a website, creating a brochure, producing a digital ad, illustrating a blog article, or have any other inspiring creative project, you have to use royalty-free images.
Why is it important to use “royalty-free” images? These copyrights protect their owner against any misuse and ensure that only that person has the right to benefit from them. The violation of these copyrights is therefore completely illegal.
In this article, the experts at our web agency My Little Big Web present you with the 10 best free stock photo sites.
Burst
Burst, powered by Shopify, is in our opinion one of the best free stock photo sites.
The platform gives you access to thousands of high-resolution and above all, royalty-free images.
We like Burst so much because of its user-friendly design. You can filter your searches based on the collections you are interested in: animals, travel, food, etc.
And that’s not all! You can also find your images in more than 20 business themes: cosmetics, children’s clothing sales, jewelry sales, etc.
Unsplash
Unsplash is very similar to the previous stock photo site and also offers thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free photos.
Unsplash offers you stock photos with themes in nature, fashion, architecture, and many more. As you can see, you can easily find what you are looking for on this platform.
Narrow your search among the different themes offered or let yourself be tempted by the stunning photos you will find directly on the home page.
Stocksnap
In the same style, we present you the free StockSnap.io stock photo site.
Here you can find a large number of high quality royalty-free photos. You can use the tag-based category system to filter your search and sort your results by relevance.
ISO Republic
The ISO Republic platform is an independent website that provides free high-resolution photos and videos.
ISO Republic works with creative and experienced photographers and videographers to offer you “trendy” visuals.
You can explore the visuals by browsing the different themes or using the site’s search engine.
A quick note: ISO Republic offers paid visuals among the search results, so be careful if you only want to download free visuals.
Gratisography
The free stock photo site Gratisopraphy offers you very eccentric and creative high-quality visuals.
Stand out from the competition with sophisticated images that reflect your brand image!
Here again, you can find your perfect images by filtering your searches using the different theme sub-menus.
New Old Stock
New Old Stock stands out from other free stock photo sites by offering historical images.
The majority of images are in black and white, but some are also available in color. This image bank is perfect if you want a vintage brand image!
Skuawk
Skuawk is a free stock photo site that prioritizes quality over quantity. This platform offers you less images than large stock photo sites such as Unsplash but offers you a good selection of professional images in high resolution.
You can browse the site using the different categories. This platform is particularly renowned for its exceptional landscape images!
Foodiesfeed
Do you own a food blog or company? The free stock photo site Foodiesfeed is perfect for your brand image!
Foodiesfeed is the best resource for food photos, whether cooked or not. With these attractive and high-resolution images, you will increase your chances of capturing your audience’s attention!
Startupstockphotos
Startup Stock Photos is a free stock photo site for the business world and is ideal for the digital sphere.
This platform highlights the authentic and organic side of business environments, with photos representing the moments of a typical employee’s work day. In addition, the photos are not heavily edited.
The only disadvantage of Startup Stock Photos is its usability. The site’s navigation isn’t really optimized for users, who have to browse through the images one by one to find the one they like.
Lost and taken
The free Lost and Taken stock photo site provides you with a variety of texture images to enhance your website or blog.
You can access different themes such as paper, paint, wood, and many more.
Conclusion
As you can no doubt see, if you want to use images that don’t belong to you, they must be royalty-free.
In this article, our experts have presented their top 10 best free stock photo sites. However, there are a large number of paid stock photo sites that offer a wider choice of higher quality images.
If you need help choosing the images for your advertising campaigns or creating your website, you are more than welcome to contact us!
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