Stock photography sites have always been the first priority of Blog publishers, Copybloggers and Content writers to deserve images and use on their post content so that it can't be harmed with any copyrighted issue by search engines. Stock photography sites have numerous authors (Graphic designers) who create and design attractive photographs and submit to the site he/she was hired by or worked as amateur. Every stock photography site use license to release images, normally for stock photos they use Creative commons public license so that images that are downloaded can be used on the web, presentation or any commercial, non-commercial purpose without any copyright issue.
All the famous stock photography sites use different plans and pricing to get accessed and download images unlimited free but the pricing for every month or year is too high to reach for normal level bloggers like me. So here is an awesome chance to get royalty free stock photos from free stock photography sites who provide quality stock photos and amazingly free of cost.
Here is 12 list of stock photography sites to download images for free and use anywhere you wish without crediting to authors even site. Before moving to the list let's see what license these sites provide for images they offer.
License and Terms of Use of All the Images.
Above all the images we're about to mention here by this article are licensed under Creative commons public license some offers standard license, also commons and site owned license. All these mean that you can use materials from their is site without any permission and not necessarily attributing to original authors even the website as well. When you download a photo from their site you're agreed with their license and terms of use also you have to use images where they do permit.
Unethical and illegal use of their material is seriously abandoned and forbidden by site authority. I have tried my best to depict you the license different stock photography sites use and how you can also use their resources without getting banned or issued to copyrights.
FreeDigitalPhotos.net — Standard License
When it comes to free stock photos my first choice is FreeDigitalPhotos.net which is a powerhouse of stock photos and royalty free images. When you download a free image or purchase image from FreeDigitalPhotos.net you automatically receive their Standard License which allows you to use the image as an illustration for almost any business, personal, educational or charitable purpose.
The image is yours to use anywhere in
the world as many times as you need and for as long as you want. You can learn more from their terms and conditions page
Flickr — Creative Commons
The biggest image hosting, sharing and downloading site ever you need to use that is Flickr (powered by Yahoo). Flickr images come directly from graphic designers and licensed under Creative Commons. You can explore their directories of over billions of images and download at different sizes you want. You can use their stock photos in any purposes like to adore web content, publishing blogs, presentation on slideshare or anywhere you wish.
Fotolia.com
Looks like fotolia is the brilliant and most popular stock photography site on internet who have billions of stock images, amazingly designed by graphic designers of their own authors. Fotolia delivers millions of images to internet big brands websites, blogs, journals, news sites, and portals by means of subscription rate. Users can purchase any image by subscribing their different plans and pricing.
It's really impossible to get a free photo from fotolia but still the company can provide you free images on week basis. They publish some images for every week to download free and without having to subscribe their plans. Check out their this week's free photos or you can download any of their comp images for free but these images will include their watermark logo at center of each image.
StockVault.net
StockVault.net provides royalty free images from store of 49K total images and have over 74K registered accounts (members) currently. The images provided by Stock Vault is original and from their own authors. You can use any materials from their site regarding their Terms of Use but you must have to use the images for legal purpose. All images are proudly copyrighted to StockVault.net website and materials shall remain the exclusive property right and control of and under Stockvault.net. You can use their photos on permitted websites they notify and can't use on non-permitted websites. Check their Terms of Use
FreeRange Stock
Freerange Stock was formed with the goal to provide quality stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use. It's an advertising revenue supported photographic community − photographers get paid when users click on the ads that appear next to their submissions.
Images provided directly (in-house) by Freerange Stock originate one of two ways. They are either digitally photographed on Canon DSLR cameras or they are a high resolution (4000 dpi) Nikon scan of an original 35mm slide.
Images are almost free licensed to their website and you can use images anywhere you want those are solely yours.
The Open Photo Project
The project is created by michael jastremski in 1998 and is targeted towards artists, developers, students, and teachers.They have royalty free images and stock photos you can use form their repository. Images are uploaded from their authors and copyrighted to the site owner.
Morgue File
Morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photos and reference images for either corporate or public use. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference materials for illustrators, comic book artist, designers, teachers and all creative pursuits. Images from morgue file can be used both commercial and non-commercial purposes. You can use photos on your site, blogs without attributing to original author. Check their License and Terms
Wikimedia — Commons
Wikimedia Commons has a missive data base of over 15 millions of freely usable media files, materials involving images, videos, and sounds. You can search by numerous criteria including topic, location, sources and types. You can Copy, use and modify these files as yo wish just need to follow their terms of use and license.
StockFreeImages
StockFreeImages is a free stock photography site of over 1,086,328 Photos, 38,681 Photographers and 728,182 Registered users(current statistics). All images and media files provided by StockFreeImages.com are copyrighted to the site and original authors.
This site contains both Images that gig a visible watermark(Watermarked Images) and Images that do not contain a visible watermark(Non-Watermarked Images). StockFreeImages allows you to search for, view, and use Watermarked Images only as permitted.
FreeImages.com
FreeImages provides you an agreement to download images for any purpose but under their restricted rules and licensing. The materials you use from their site is original and fully copyrighted to their site and authors. Their images are totally free of cost you browse thousands of free images which require you only to register their site and start exploring images you want.
FreeStockPhotos.biz
FreeStockPhotos is the resources of royalty free images of 14,974 photos of the best sources for free stock photos and clip art. All images on this site are completely free to download and use. No payment or registration is required, although you must abide by the Image License and Usage Terms listed on the photo download page.
FreeImages.co.uk
An UK based image resource site which has a collection of stock images of over 13,500 and 85 total image categories(all provide exclusive images). If you become their facebook fan you will have 1000+ bonus images. All images restricted and copyrighted to FreeImages.co.uk and you can use their stock photos without attributing to original author.
How About This Depict?
As Google seriously marks each content materials whether copyrighted issue or not and for images they almost try to find out original sources by spreading out different signals and for each found copyright image they take spam actions. Now it's too much hard to publish always original photos with blog content for bloggers like me and others if we don't have our own graphic designers to create images.
So millions of thanks to these free stock photography sites who can provide us free stock photos and give license for free to use. You don't need to attribute to original authors even to the source site but using the images on permitted resources will by handled by your own risk.
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