If you are like most bloggers, you have a hard time finding royalty free commercial or private use photos to add to your posts. You can spend a considerable amount of time digging through Google’s image search, pay a monthly fee for access to one of the photo sites, pay for each photo you use, or you can get the photos you need for free. But, you say, if they are free they must be either boring or terrible. That is where you are wrong. Here are some photo sites that offer free photos on a variety of topics that are neither boring nor terrible.
Morgue File
This is a site destined for amateur photographers. Photo buffs of all kinds can post pictures here that anyone can use. You can find all sorts of interesting photos on this site. Close-ups and distance shots – landscapes and people, animals and technology. Whatever photo you need to accent your blog post, you should be able to find it here. Check out the home page for the featured photo of the day. I am always impressed by what photos are promoted there. The quality of the photos is usually pretty good, although there are a few that are fuzzy or out of focus. You can use your own judgment there, but, hey, it is free after all!
Free Digital Photos
This is a more professional site, filled with stock photos of all kinds. The only stipulation to use their free photos is that you properly attribute the photo. They make that very easy to do because they include the proper attribution in the download agreement. All you have to do is check the box and enter the code and voila, you have a high quality stock photo for free. You can search their site in a variety of ways, and the photos are always of the highest quality.
Woophy
While this photo site has a very odd name, it is for a good reason. Woophy stands for World of Photography, and it lives up to its name. The home page is a world map, populated by small bricks showing the concentration of photos taken in that area. If you want photos of a particular location, then look no further. They have everything from architecture to landscapes to people. Great for culture buffs and those who want to get deeper in an area then just the famous sights, Woompy is an interesting and eclectic free photo destination.
Stock.xchng
Another great photo site for stock and other free photos, this site offers information for photography buffs such as exposure times and type of camera used to take the photo. It is very interesting, but some of the photos have different regulations then others. Make sure you read the directions before using the photos.
Stock Vault
Are you looking for really high quality or extra-large pictures? Well, look no further. StockVault is the place to find very high quality free photos by professionals. They do not even make you sign in or put in a password. Just find a photo you like and click download. Please make sure you properly attribute the photo, and you can even donate support to photos that prove particularly useful to you.
No matter what type of blog you have, you will always want to spice it up with photos. Readers are very visual and photos help to grab and keep their attention. Why not take a look at some of these sites? You may find that these free photos are just what you were looking for!
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These are good websites to get some good quality images where we can use on our blogs. Thanks for the sharing, Christine.
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I use Woophy for the most of my posts. It is a really great site for photos. Also Free Digital Photo seems to be a very good site.
Thanks for sharing this list Christine. I’ve been looking for some royalty photos that I can use in my other site. This one seems be very helpful.
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Hi Christine Kane, thanks for the post. As a newbie blogger it is one of my problem. At least I know now where to find images that can be use in my blogs. As much as possible, I don’t wanna use copyrighted images. I am so thankful that I have come across with your blog!
In order to obtain standard images these websites help a lot. But best way is that we make images of our own choice with the help of photoshop. It’s very enjoyable to work in photoshop.
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The best list ever, I was looking for something like this. I am bookmarking this page as I can’t remember all of them from top of my head. By the way funny name “morgue file”. Thanks for this list.
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Thank you so much for this list !! It is so difficult to find royalty free images on the web..!! And a lot of people think that you can use GG image…
And now, I have some work to do, thank you !
that is so true, photo really helps in catching attention to visitors. Even i when checking on blogs likes to see photos on the posts.
thanks for sharing these links, these will come in handy on days i dont have a pic to add to my blogs.
great article.
Thank you for this site! I am actually looking out for Funny Photos. Thank you!
Hey, I’ve found SXE to be a great place to get stock photos. You can get decent ones with a free account, and even better ones if you pay. For professional photographers like me, submitting photos to these kinds of places is a great way to earn a little on the side.
Photo for Blog always help to drive people on your blog & photo gives value while if you have add alt image tag on your photo of blog ! To find out photo for blog on many ways is very but right use always helps for blog
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The sites are the gifts for the blogger but what is guarantee that your pictures will not be used by other bloggers.
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These are the best sites from where you can get free photos.well i have take pictures for my work from these websites.Woophy is a very good site for free pictures
It will help Thanks for the list of websites for Free Photos… I like Free Photos rather paying monthly for Private photos. Thanks for Sharing.
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Hi Christine – a good list of free photo sources – one I see you don’t have on your list is microsoft. If you search in Google for the phrase microsoft free photos you should see it as the top entry.
Not only does it have a range of good high resolution images available for free use, there are some clipart images and animated gif images (although it must be said they are a little dated).
Hope this helps!
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