Where to Find Free Stock Photos Online: 29 Sites to Check Out. Need images for your company website or blog--but can't afford (or don't want to afford) to pay for them?
Chelsea Blacker, head of Client Delivery at digital marketing agency BlueGlass UK, put together the following list of websites that provide free images for commercial business use, which means an image is available through a Creative Commons (CC) license or is royalty-free. (For more on what those terms mean and to learn about restrictions on commercial use, check out the bottom of this post.) Some sites supply only Creative Commons or royalty-free images, while other sites offer a mix of images, some free for commercial use, some not. Always make sure you understand the restrictions on a particular image before you use it.
Here's Chelsea's list: General Free Image Websites Wikimedia.org. Flickr: With a wealth of images and a simple advanced search for CC images, Flickr is a go-to for tapping into millions of images. FreeDigitalPhotos.net: Only the small sizes of images are free. How to Setup Your Wordpress Blog and Write Your First Post in Less Than 5 Minutes. Do you have a message that you want to spread to the world?
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