We use graphics on almost everything we do nowadays, both online and offline publications. This simply means that we are always in need of graphics to use for different projects and we don’t always have access to these graphics or the ones we’d have access to are not suitable for the said projects.
In this post, I will point you to 5 online portals that you can download graphics for free and use them on your projects.
Five places to download free photos for your online and offline publication materials
1. PixaBay
All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.
Pixabay has perhaps the largest collect of free stock photos. I have used this website in different projects and so far, I haven’t had any issues or limitations on how much free photos to download.
Do I need to create an account to download?
A simple answer is no. But you should know that as non logged-in user you’ll have to enter a captcha text every time you want to download. This can be very annoying. But the captcha is not shown to logged in or registered users.
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2. Unsplash
All photos published on Unsplash are licensed under Creative Commons Zero which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the photographer or Unsplash.
Unsplash is another great place to download high resolution photos for free. Although I haven’t used this service that much (compared to pixabay), I really admire their collection and the simplicity in the download process.
How to download
Hover your cursor over the image you want to download or click the image you want to download. On the top right corner of the image, click “Download”. A larger version of the image will open on a new tab on your browser, right click the image, then click “SAVE AS”.
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3. StockSnap
All photos on StockSnap fall under the Creative Commons CC0 license. That means you can copy, modify, distribute any photo on the site, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission!
Visit StockSnap
4. PicJumbo
You can get lots of free stock photos from PicJumbo. You can use their photos for both commercial and non-commercial use. They do however have some rules that can be seen at the on the photo download page. It goes like this:
Note: Be respectful to registered trademarks. Let’s say if there is an Apple product, you should write “Apple, the Apple logo and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.” The same with other brands, you’re responsible for how you use the photos.
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5. Life of Pics
Here’s another great place to get free photos for both commercial and non commercial usage. There’s no copyright restrictions.
Visit Life of Pics