10 Websites For Free Stock Photos
You have a new website, but you want to get some great looking banners or images create for your store. You might be comfortable adding some text to an image, but you need some great images you can use for your site. Many of you might use the image search function in your favorite search engine…while this is certainly an easy approach, you likely will not have the rights to easily use those images for your store.
The easiest way to search images that you can use royal free, is to search the stock image websites. They will let you know if there is any licensing charge, but they often provide the ability to search “royalty free” or “free license” image collections, which means you can use them on your website without issue. If you are on a stock image website, just review their details for when and how you can use their images on your site, and you should not have any issues.
I have included 10 easy to use stock photo websites below to help you get started with your high resolution image hunt for your website or blog:
1) Superfamous
- Free stock images to download
- Interesting collections, including abstract stock photographs
2) Life of Pix
- Extremely high resolution photography
- New photography added weekly
3) Startup Stock
- Perfect for a tech related website
- Focuses on “startup photography”
4) Pexels
- Huge collection of artistic stock images
- Nature, abstract and technology related photography
5) Magdeleine
- Ability to sort photography based on colors, categories
- Easy to navigate system
6) Stock Snap
- Powerful search engine for finding stock images
- Extremely user friendly interface
7) Unsplash
- High resolution stock photography
- 10 new photos every 10 days
8) Gratisography
- Free images for commercial use
- Humor, and high contrast photography
9) ISO Republic
- Large community of photographers contributing
- Easily sortable based on stock image category
10) Raumrot
- Sets available depending on what category you’re looking for
- Colorful and high contrast photographs available
+Bonus) Good Free Photos
- Sort images by country
- Landscape and geography photographs available
Conclusion
This quick list of 10 stock photo websites, should be an easy way for you to get started with some great image options for your website or banners. They can easily be added to your main home page or even your policy pages to improve the look of your store.
If all of these seems like a bit much at first, don’t forget, you still have another great resource for website images, and that is the images for your products. You can easily use product images in banners for your website or as category images for your store. Also, you might find that your supplier provides additional marketing images and other materials that you can use to promote your dropship products and brands.