Free Photos Bank has a nice collection of free photos available for download without login. They’re extensively categorized with a few different ways to search, too.
6.) ImageFree
ImageFree‘s registered users can download both free and paid images to use in corporate and personal projects. The free selection seems fairly limited, though—my “coffee” search didn’t turn up a free photo I could use.
7.) IM Free
IM Free offers a curated collection of free resources, all for commercial use. Search for a keyword or browse through the stylishly crafted categories.
8.) Morguefile
Morguefile contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site. A short registration is required, and morguefile asks that users credit the photographer when possible.
9.) Pixabay
Pixabay offers copyright-free, cost-free images published under Creative Commons. You can copy, modify, distribute and use the images, even for commercial purposes. No registration is required.
10.) Public Domain Pictures
Public Domain Pictures is a repository for a wide variety of free public domainimages uploaded by amateur photographers. A brief signup is required. (Premium download is an option if you need larger images.)
11.) Stockvault
Stockvault is a stock photo sharing website where photographers, designers and students can share their photographs, graphics and image files with each other for free and use them for personal and non-commercial design work. No registration is required.
12.) Rgbstock
Rgbstock is a free stock image site created by photographers and graphic artists. Registration (required) is one-click and the pool of photos is pretty deep.
Free-form photo collections
“Bloggers often look for specificity with the images they use on posts when they could see similar results from simply choosing high-quality photos,” says David Sherry of Death to The Stock Photo.
His service and others in this category offer a more freewheeling approach to images—no searching but lots of discovery.
Since there’s no search in this category, I’ve picked a representative image for each service.
13.) Ancestry Images
Ancestry Images offers a free image archive of historical prints, maps and artifact photos, like this print of a New Zealand Maori Warrior from 1817.
14.) BigFoto
BigFoto is a royalty-free photo gallery in which most of the photos have been contributed by amateur photographers. No login is required. It’s organized mainly by geographic area—for example, this photo is from the “Copenhagen” collection.
15.) Gratisography
Gratisography is a collection of free high-resolution images for personal or commercial use. New photos are added weekly; simply click to download.
16.) Death to The Stock Photo
Death to The Stock Photo offers free high-res lifestyle photography sent to you monthly.
17.) FreeMediaGoo
FreeMediaGoo offers royalty-free, cost-free media that can be used in print, film, TV, Internet or any other type of media both for commercial and personal use. There’s no login required but the inventory is slightly more limited, organized into unique categories like “beach backgrounds” and “concrete textures.”
18.) Hubspot
It’s not a photo source per se, but marketing platform Hubspot often offerspackages of free photos in exchange for your email address.
