30+ Websites for Stock Photos and Royalty Free Images

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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

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Posted by hongkiat in Web 2.0 , at 06.27.07

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Comments

  1. Virgil June 28th, 2007

    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.

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  2. Zaizen June 28th, 2007

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

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

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  3. iCalvyn June 28th, 2007

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

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  4. flisterz June 28th, 2007

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

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  5. bismut July 3rd, 2007

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

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  6. BoltClock August 8th, 2007

    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!

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  7. badabish August 9th, 2007

    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.

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  8. Spud Oregon August 10th, 2007

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

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

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  9. Paul March 2nd, 2008

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

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  10. Miss Mary March 25th, 2008

    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!).

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  11. Productiontrax June 19th, 2008

    The productiontrax.com Royalty-Free music library has been in business since 2004, and has been a rapidly growing resource for master-quality music, sound effects and stock footage. If you get a chance, stop by our website at http://productiontrax.com

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  12. stockphoto March 5th, 2009

    Good article. I’ve wrote an article about dutch stockphoto websites here:

    Stockphoto websites

    Regards,
    Mark

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  13. anarm March 31st, 2009

    I met this blog entry when was looking picture for my design. thanks because shared this nice thing. keep it up

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  14. John April 16th, 2009

    You may also find good quality images at http://www.sunipix.com

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  15. Cool Designer April 26th, 2009

    Awesome collection :)
    I wanna share also those free stock images resources with all http://dezign-mag.com/?p=239

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  16. FreeStockImages April 26th, 2009

    I would like to add FreeStockImages.org

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  17. Pavel April 26th, 2009

    I may add co-photo.com as a few free collections and

    another list at designbeginshere.com

    For the list above it would be great if it could be separated into free/pay ones.. apart this, i like sxc the most =)

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  18. Ash Menon June 23rd, 2009

    Has anyone seen BrightQube? I have a feeling it’s still slightly new, but I took a spin around the site, and putting aside the rather flash-heavy interface, it’s an awesome all-in-1 search engine for stock photos. :)

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  19. Saw Htoo August 25th, 2009

    Great list

    Check out this one too

    http://www.photovaco.com

    All photos are high resolution and absolutely free to use for both personal and commercial projects.

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  20. Free javascript Hosting September 5th, 2009

    Just found another cool free images search. http://www.imagesbox.com

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  21. БaйaчaБeбe October 18th, 2009

    Народ в таких вот случаях говорит – Ах, ах, а пособить нечем. :)

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  22. Cheap Stock Photo Website October 30th, 2009

    Great collection , add my site http://www.designstockz.com also.
    thanks in advance

    Reply

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