The Ultimate List Of 42 Sites With Royalty Free Images

If you were looking for websites that offer royalty-free images that you can use for your commercial purposes you have come to the right place. Congratulations!

In this article, I have made a list of 42 websites that offers exactly that.

Before I start, I would like to explain to you meaning of the term “royalty free".

Royalty-free, or RF, refers to the right to use copyright material or intellectual property without the need to pay royalties or license fees for each use or per volume sold, or some time period of use or sales. (source: Wikipedia)

Okay, now when we have explained the meaning of “royalty free", we can start with our list. I represent you a curated list of 42 websites that offer royalty free images that every entrepreneur, graphic designer, small business owner, or anyone else can use.

Visual Hunt

High-quality free photos in one place. They hunt for best free images from many online sources and pull them all together in one spot. Most of our photos are the CCO license (do whatever you want). Additionally, they offer all Creative Commons and Public Domain photos from sources like Flickr and make it possible to embed them directly from their website.

Unsplash

All photos published on Unsplash are licensed under Creative Commons Zero, which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the photographer or Unsplash.

Pexels

Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through their discover pages.

Pixabay

All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.

Free Images

Free Images was launched in February 2001 as an alternative for expensive stock photography. The idea was to create a site where creative people could exchange their photos for inspiration or work. The site has evolved into the massive community you see today — there are over 2,500,000 registered users and around 400,000 photos online. You will have to sign up for a free account on Free Images to be able to download their photos.

Super Famous

The Superfamous Images are available under the conditions of a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. This means that you can use the work for your own purposes as long as credit is provided.

Pic Jumbo

Pic Jumbo has started on November 03. 2013. and so far they have more than 4.208.386 downloads from their website. You can find various collections of pictures from different categories (business, animals, fashion, people, technology, etc.).

IM Free

On this website, you can find high-quality resources for website building & other design projects. You can also find free images, free icons, and free templates. Attribution to the author is required.

Gratisography

This website offers free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects.

Morguefile

This website offers free images for creatives, by creatives. It’s a post-production file, over 350,000 free stock photos for commercial use.

Little Visuals

Little Visuals actually adds the images as a zip archive attachment to the email itself. You will have to sign up to get 7 high-resolution images zipped up in your inbox and use them any way you want.

New Old Stock

New Old Stock offers vintage photos from public archives. All images are free of known copyright restriction.

Get Refe

They provide high-quality imagery of people interacting with technology for your projects.

Jay Mantri

This website offers images that are free to use for anything you want, including magic.

Public Domain Archive

This website offers new 100% free stock photos on every week. Everything you need for your creative projects, all public domain images.

Magdeleine

This website offers free high-quality stock photos that you can use for your inspiration.

Libre Shot

LibreShot.com (former freepix.eu) is a project that contains free stock photos for private and commercial use. All photos and the whole website are made by Martin Vorel.

Kaboom Pics

Great place to get breathtaking free pictures for business or personal projects.

Bucket Listly

This website offers a free creative common collection of over 4000+ travel photos anyone can use.

Travel Coffee Book

This website offers beautiful travel moments pictures. All photos are listed under CCO.

Foodies Feed

FoodiesFeed is a resource of free realistic food images in high resolution and free digital goods related to food. These all are fully available to download for your blog posts, articles, websites, templates, mobile apps, backgrounds or just any kind of design.

Cupcake

All photos here are licensed under the Creative Commons license CCO, which means that you are free to use the images without any costs. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking for permission.

Moveast

This website is actually a journey of a Portuguese guy moving that decided that every photo should be used for free. You can use them wherever you want.

Stokpic

This website belongs to the photographer Ed Gregory. Just over a year ago he decided to give his photos away for free.

Split Shire

This website offers free stock photos & images for personal & commercial use. What would you do if you had amazing copyright free real photos? Now you have them! Free high-quality photos with no copyright restrictions and real look.

Snapwire Snaps

This website offers license and commission photos from 200,000 of the world’s most talented photographers.

Stock Snap

This website offers hundreds of high-resolution images added weekly. Free from copyright restrictions.

MMT Stock

This website offers free photos for commercial use under the CCO license. Photos are taken by photographer Jeffrey Betts.

Fancy Crave

On this website, you can find various of photos from different categories, such as nature, people, food, architecture and more.

Street Will

This website offers free vintage photos to use any way you want.

Free JPG

On this website, you can find various of free photos that you can use for any purposes. You can find a lot of free photos from different categories, such as music, food, business, animals, science, sports, and much more.

Realistic Shots

All photos published on Realistic Shots are licensed under Creative Commons Zero which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos, even for commercial purposes. Attribution is not required but appreciated.

Epicva

All photos on Epicva are their property, but anyone can download them and use them for both personal and commercial projects. No attribution needed but much appreciated.

Shutteroo

On this website, you are free to use images for both personal and commercial purposes, but you must not resell or redistribute them. You will have to enter your e-mail address first to be able to access images from this website.

Creative Vix

This website is a combination of web design, it support and free stock images.

Boss Fight

This website offers free high-resolution photos on a daily base.

Minimography

All photos made available on Minimography have been released under the Creative Commons Zero license. In short, you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

Skuawk

You can copy, modify, distribute the photos from this website, or use the photos even for commercial purposes. All without asking permission. No attribution required.

Free Pixels

On this website, you can find free high-resolution photos that can be used for any of your personal or commercial projects.

Negative Space

All the photos and raw files on this website are distributed under the CCO creative commons license. That means that you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission or give attribution.

Life Of Pix

This website is offering free high-resolution photos with no copyright restrictions.Every week they add new images for download.

Free Stocks

This is another website that offers free photos for both personal and commercial use. No attribution is required.

I hope you will find this list useful for your personal and commercial projects.

Are there any websites that you use for downloading royalty free photos that are not on this list? If so, please feel free to add it in a comment. Thank you

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