visitor stats

30+ Websites for Stock Photos and Royalty Free Images

Image plays important role anywhere; in articles it help encourage readership; on websites it make readers focus on where we want them to. However, getting the right images isn’t easy sometimes. Here’s 20+ websites that provides stock photo and royalty free images, not all are free but definitely worth a visit. Full list after jump.

30+ Websites for Stock Photos and Royalty Free Images

Animation Factory

Big Foto

BidStockPhoto

Button Land

Corbis

DreamsTime

FreeBg.Info

Free Foto

FreeImages

FreeRange

FreeStockPhotos

FreeDigitalPhotos

Image After

iStockPhoto

Jupiter Images

Matton Images

Mooch Travel Photography

MorgueFile

NationsIllustrated

OpenPhoto

PhotoCase

PhotoGen

Photolia

PhotoSpin

PictureQuest

ShutterStock

SierraStock

StockVault

Stock.xchng

Wallpaperstock

YoyoPhoto

Pic App

Posted by hongkiat in Web 2.0, at 06.27.07

Tags: ,

Related Contents

Sponsors

Comments

  1. Virgil

    June 28th, 2007 at 4:29 am

    Wallpaperstock is NOT a royalty free image site. It is a wallpaper site, I see a lot of the images on their site are lifted from webshots or deviantart.

    Read their lame excuse for a copyright notice at the bottom of their webpage:

    “If the copyright of any wallpaper or stock photo belongs to you, contact us and we’ll remove it!”

    It seems the owners of this website do not even know the difference between a stock image or wallpaper image or that they even care about copyright protection, since so much of the stuff on the site is lifted from other places.

    I admit I use their images for wallpaper but the fact is their site has a lot of images on it that were put their illegally….in other words without the permission of the copyright owner.

    comment

  2. Zaizen

    June 28th, 2007 at 4:33 pm

    I voted for bigstock and istockphoto..always got my image projects there!

    Hongkiat..thanks to put unknown photo site..will be look at it..

    comment

  3. iCalvyn

    June 28th, 2007 at 6:08 pm

    Nice collection, some of the collection really give me some refrence on photograpgy…

    comment

  4. flisterz

    June 28th, 2007 at 8:31 pm

    how about Gettyimages.com ?
    very nice and easy interface. I use it a lot. hehe :D

    comment

  5. Cool free stuff for your blog — Shankar Ganesh | Tech Blog

    June 30th, 2007 at 11:01 pm

    [...] Quite a lot of resources are available online for free stock images but it takes time to find some good ones. For some of them, you will have to pay. But there are tons of royalty free images too which are pretty neat and come to good use. Daniel has a good write up on 3 image resources that you can use on your blog and Hongkiat has listed 30+ resources for stock photos. [...]

    comment

  6. bismut

    July 3rd, 2007 at 10:07 am

    Thanks for sharing those site. Now I have some more website to check .

    comment

  7. BoltClock

    August 8th, 2007 at 11:15 pm

    I don’t rely on stock photography, though if I have to design a template for a company or just someone else I might consider this a really helpful resource. Thanks!

    comment

  8. badabish

    August 9th, 2007 at 8:07 pm

    we are new on the block, but thought you might want to take a look. http://www.moodboard.com for microstock and royalty free images. You can also set yourself up as an e-tailer,get code, then start earning commission…whilst giving a discount to those who buy images using your code.

    comment

  9. Spud Oregon

    August 10th, 2007 at 11:42 pm

    Nice list here. My favorite one is iStockPhoto.com.

    I wish I knew of a credit-based clipart site. Subscriptions are too expensive.

    comment

  10. Use Photos In Your Blog Posts

    September 29th, 2007 at 2:37 am

    [...] 30+ websites for stock photos and royalty free images [...]

    comment

  11. Royalty Free Images for your website - SOCOM Sales

    October 8th, 2007 at 6:49 am

    [...] 30+ websites for stock photos and royalty free images [...]

    comment

  12. The Homeschool Blog Awards » Better Blogging: Using Photos and Graphics

    February 16th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    [...] Lorelle on WordPress) 10 Awesome Places to Get Free Images for Your Blog (from Business Blogwire) 30+ Websites for Stock Photos and Royalty Free Images (from HONGKIAT.com - Note: not all image sites listed are free) Free Stock Photos (from the [...]

    comment

  13. Paul

    March 2nd, 2008 at 9:04 pm

    Great collection .. i think you could add new free photos website:
    http://www.freepictureclick.com
    All photos and pictures are completely free.

    comment

  14. 100 Sites With Free Stock Images

    March 13th, 2008 at 5:39 pm

    [...] the problem of finding the right image for the right article. I’ve previously mentioned 30+ stock photos and royalty free images websites. If you think that’s not enough, or would like to have more choices for image resources, try [...]

    comment

  15. Miss Mary

    March 25th, 2008 at 9:54 pm

    Stumbled upon this while searching for photo stock images. I have some free images in my clip-art shop at http://shop.missmary.com/ and hope to offer more soon. Not sure if anyone here would find them useful, but I’ll be adding more freebies soon (just upgraded my server…yipee!).

    comment


Leave a reply