If you need to use photographs for your public project—such as a website, a presentation, or a video—you undoubtedly have to be very careful about the image's copyright. That's why at Neoteo we thought of you and we've gathered eight web platforms where you can download free and royalty-free photographs.
Our search will focus on pages that only offer free, high-quality photos, and we'll rule out commercial environments.
1. Pexels
At Pexels, all photographs are free to use and completely free, and you can download them in different sizes. The image licenses are CC0 (you don't need to cite credit).
Undoubtedly, Pexels is one of the best options on this list and it has a large database of photographs.
2. Unsplash
We continue with Unsplash, a page that selects each image it uploads to its website. The site's policy is to upload only 10 photos each week, but they are true works of art and are presented in HD format.
If you look for quality in images, but not quantity, Unsplash is one of the best options on the market.
3. All the free stock
All the free stock is a website that compiles the best free images you can find on the Internet. In our searches we've noticed that its database is not that extensive.
All the free stock not only offers photographs; it also has a bank of videos, icons, and audio, all with CC0 license.
4. Splashbase
If you're a stock fanatic and you've realized that finding good free photos in its database has become an impossible mission, we present Splashbase, a platform that searches for free-use stock photos (CC0).
You'll also find a large number of videos with Creative Commons license.
5. Gratisography
Gratisography is a site that carefully selects its images; on the platform you won't find a huge number of photographs, but you will find great quality in them.
The photos are free to use for any type of activity; we recommend you take a look.
6. SplitShire
SplitShire is a platform with a very careful design that has a library of high-quality, completely free images. The photographs in its database are truly beautiful, and one of its creators is a renowned photographer and designer; hence the care in design and the beauty of the images that make up its database.
7. New Old Stock
New Old Stock is a truly phenomenal photographic archive page, because in its database you'll find old photographs that have already passed into the public domain over time.
For this reason, the platform is not only a great library of beautiful photographs, but also a historical archive where you can find snapshots of the history of our world.
8. Death to the stock photo
We'll finish with Death to the stock photo, a page with an unconventional policy, because its functioning is not to search and download from its library, but to request an image style via email and regularly receive photographs according to your request. Its license allows you to use the images, but not to distribute them or manipulate the credits.
Surely this list will help you find free-use photographs for your next project. If you know of a platform and you think it's unfair that it was left out of the list, you can contribute by mentioning it in this article.
