With the increase in visuals, only to mention a few like Instagram and Snapchat madness or thousands of Infographics, I don’t think it’s necessary to tell you about the importance of imagery for promoting your brand.
But getting beautiful images isn’t always easy. Most people aren’t photographers and even if they have that eye, it can be very time consuming to style and take photos for your website. This is where professionally styled stock photos come in play.
So I really hope that this post will guide you to pick the right photo that will help in telling your story and if you have more suggestion I will gladly look into them!
1. Gratisography
Free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects.
Click on an image to download the high-resolution version. New awesome pictures added weekly!
I really like the site, it has superb photos and what is very important at least for me is that has a search option and also category menu which makes a lot easier and saves me a great amount of time when I look for something specific.
2. Freestocks.org
Freestock offers a wide range of high-quality photos all released under Creative Commons CC0.
Interesting urban shots, rural scenes, small pets, food, and textured shots are included. I don’t think that you will be disappointed by using this site and I already saw a couple of photos that I’ll use for sure in my future posts.
3. Life of Pix
Life of Pix is a resource created by the LEEROY creative agency offering free high-resolution photos with no copyright restrictions. New pictures are added weekly.
It has some great features like creating your own portfolio, personalize your photos, follow your favorite photographers and also has a cool collection of also free videos.
4. Epicantus
Epicantus contains free original photography by Daria. You can use these hi-res photos for your landing pages, blog posts & designs. All photos are released under creative commons CC0.
5. GoodFreePhotos
A large Public Domain photo repository with high-resolution free photos and vectors. All copyright free photos and royalty free photos. 16750 free and public domain photos, images, clipart, pics and vectors, and counting. To view/download a photo in high resolution, click on the image.
Wow, thanks for recommendations! I was using other sites, but there are not many pictures to choose from, so I’ll definitely check those!:) Thanks
What a list of fantastic resources. I’m booking marking!
Tammy
http://www.simplypreparing.com
These are great! I have been looking for great stock photos!
Nice! I’m always for the lookout for free stock image websites!
Found a few news ones in your list 🙂
Tatjana xx
http://www.fashionartista.com
Wow..this is so useful I definitely need to bookmark this. Priceless..thank you so much for sharing this.
Just what I had been looking for. It is so hard to find the right pictures at times. Definitely going to give these sites a try!
Thank you for the recommendations! All of these sites are amazing.
Thanks for sharing. Bookmarking these for later!
Thank you for this these sites look so.amazing and a lot better then the ones I use
The sample pictures in this post look amazing, there is definitelly something to choose from.
Why I don´t buy glossies and how I interned in fashion magazine link.
I try to take all my own photos but sometimes find I just don’t have what I need. This could be very helpful. Awesome
Wow! This post is super helpful! I have been trying to locate website with free stock photos for a while now. I am going to look at these websites. Thank you for sharing!!!
Love these suggestions, thank you SO much, I’ve been needing to read something like this!
Thank you so much for the tips! It can be difficult to find great stock photos to go along with our copy! xo, Lindsay | Paris, Meet Boston | http://www.parismeetboston.com
These are great. i thought I had them all and you had three I had never seen. Awesome! Checking out your Part one for sure.
Great recommendations I never know where to go for stock photos !
Sophie x
http://www.sophobsessed.com
Nice list 🙂 Try also http://monisphoto.com/ amazing free photos available for personal or commercial use.