17 Amazing Free Websites to Download Copyright Free Stock Images

Images are vital if you want to write an attractive and engaging blog post. 

But it’s not easy to find out the best and copyright free images to use on your blog.

Today, I’m going to show you 17 amazing free websites to download copyright free stock images for your blog.

These websites are free to use, full of high resolution and copyright free images. You can use any images from these websites, and the free version of Canva to design almost anything! You can design high quality Pinterest graphics to drive massive traffic from Pinterest to your blog.

Images from these websites are free from copyright restrictions and licensed under the ‘Creative Commons Public Domain‘ dedication.

So, you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission and without giving attribution.

Let’s take a look at the list!

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1. Unsplash

Unsplash provides over 1,000,000 high resolution photos for free and the number is growing rapidly.

The website is easy to navigate, all photos are nicely tagged, searchable and extremely gorgeous.

Unsplash is my favorite stock image downloading site. It’s full of awesome, free to use (even for commercial purposes) and high resolution images.

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2. Pexels

Pexels provides high-quality stock photos and videos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, which means you can use these images for commercial purposes too.

All photos are nicely tagged, searchable, and also easy to discover through their Discover pages.

Pexels has thousands of free stock photos and every day they add new high-resolution photos, which you can use for free.

3. Pixabay

Pixabay provides 1 million+ high quality free to use stock images, illustrations, vector graphics, and videos.

All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without giving attribution – even for commercial purposes.

The website is easy to navigate and it’s extremely easy to find out the proper images for your blog post in less time.

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4. Canva

Canva is my favorite design tool that I use to design graphics for my blog posts and social media accounts.

Canva provides millions of high quality free stock photos, which you can use to design graphics on Canva. Also, you’re allowed to download those images to use them on other projects too.

Free images on Canva comes from Pixabay and Pexels. So, it’s obvious that these images are licensed under the Creative Commons Public Domain license.

5. Snappa

Snappa is a Canva alike graphic design tool that I occasionally use to design logos, blog post images, social media graphics, etc.

The best part is,

Snappa provides 1,000,000+ royalty free stock images, which you can use to design graphics on Snappa.

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6. Burst (by Shopify)

Burst is a free resource powered by Shopify that provides royalty free stock images for entrepreneurs.

You can use images from the Burst photo library for any projects, websites or blogs.

Their photo library is growing fast  because they are constantly adding new photos to their library.

Burst lets you  edit, crop or otherwise modify these images without giving attribution. They’re free for commercial purposes too.

7. Reshot

Reshot offers beautiful, high quality stock images, that you can copy, edit, modify, distribute and use any photos on your websites or your creative projects without giving attribution.

All photos from Reshot are free to use, both for commercial and non-commercial purposes.

8. StockSnap.io

StockSnap has a large number of beautiful free stock photos and high definition images, which you can use on your blog, business website, magazine or some other creative projects without giving attribution.

They add hundreds of copyright free images on a weekly basis and all photos are licensed under the Creative Commons Public Domain license.

9. Gratisography

Founded by Ryan McGuire, Gratisography has the world’s quirkiest collection of high resolution free to use stock images.

You may use Gratisography pictures to do almost anything you can think of. You can edit and modify these images to use on your blog, website or other commercial and non-commercial projects.

10. FoodiesFeed

Are you a food blogger looking for some high quality and free to use photos to use on your food blog?

FoodiesFeed provides high quality food images to pair with your food blog posts.

All photos published on Foodiesfeed are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CCO) license. Which means you can use the photos as if you took them yourself.

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11. Picography

Picography provides gorgeous, high resolution stock images licensed under the CC0 license, this means that you can use the images from Picography to do almost anything without giving attribution.

12. MMT 

MMT provides free CC0 photos, videos for personal and commercial use on blogs, websites, apps, and such other projects.

They also offer free templates compatible with adobe illustrator to create graphics for social media posts, stories, etc.

13. Picjumbo

Picjumbo is a free stock photo site founded by Victor Hanacek.

It has a free version and a premium version. But the free version is enough for bloggers and small business owners.

Picjumbo provides 2941+ high quality free stock photos that you can use for personal and commercial purposes. You can use them on your blog or website, attribution isn’t required.

After Unsplash and Pexels, Picjumbo is my third favorite royalty free photo downloading site.

14. Foter

Foter uses the Flickr API and searches Creative Commons photos and displays those copyright free stock photos on their site.

It takes time to find out the best and copyright free images on Flickr.

So, instead of searching on Flickr you can use Foter to get the right image for your next blog post or your creative project.

15. Life of Pix

Life of Pix is a stock photo downloading site created by LEEROY Creative Agency that offers high resolution images with no copyright restrictions.

They add new photos on a weekly basis and all photos are licensed under the Creative Commons Public Domain license, which lets you do anything with all their photos.

Also, check out their sister site, Life of Vids. It’s a free video clip downloading site created by LEEROY Creative Agency.

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16. Freestock

Freestock is a free image downloading site that offers you royalty free stock photos for your blogs and websites.

They also offer royalty free vectors, icons, and videos for free of charge.

All images on Freestock are licensed under Public Domain, so they are free to use for any purpose.

17. ISO Republic

ISO Republic offers free to use HD images for blogs and websites.

All photos and videos on ISORepublic are free for both personal and commercial use and licensed under a CC0 license.

18. Pikwizard

Pikwizard holds a stunning library of over 1 million stock images and videos. What makes Pikwizard stand out is you can take each image and edit it on graphic design software, Design Wizard!

The images of people are also great! There’s no attribution required, meaning you can use each image and video as you please.

19. Desygner

Desygner, an online design tool, has many features that can be used to create posters, cards, and other print or web assets. You can find templates, royalty-free images, and vectors as well as fonts and illustrations.
Desynger uses a lot of images from Shutterstock. Shutterstock is an image service that you must pay for. It’s a win/win situation. You can pay Desygner to get Shutterstock images.

Now It’s Your Turn.

Hey, I really hope you enjoyed this list of free stock image downloading websites.

Now I’d like to hear from you:

Which ‘stock image downloading website’ do you prefer to download images for free?

Let me know in the comment section below right now.

Also, share this post with your friends and bloggers who are looking for some image downloading sites to download free images for their blogs or other creative projects.

If you have any questions feel free to contact me. I’m always available to help young hustlers like you.

Keep hustling!