Sources of Free Online Images and Photos
67Examples of Free Images
In the digital age it's so easy to find a quick photo through a Google search. It's just as easy to break copyright laws by using those images-whether it's for a website, a Word document or a hub.
However, before a Google searcher right-clicks the mouse and saves an image to their computer, thinking it is the only way to get a photo without pulling out a credit card, they should check out these several sources of high quality free images.
FreeFoto.com
This collection of photos is made up of 118,957 images. The photos are broken down into 154 sections and 3,314 categories for organization.
Their photos are available for online usage, but are also available for print usage for a fee. However, when the photos are being used online FreeFoto.com requires that you give attribution and provide a link back to their site. Not too hard considering they're saving bloggers, hubbers and lots of others a chunk of money.
With FreeFoto.com no account is required to download a photo, but the user must supply an email address. They do have some stipulations when it comes to commercial versus non-commercial use, so be sure to check out the terms of agreement page.
FreeImages.co.uk
This gallery is comprised of 2,500 images. It is a good bit smaller than some galleries and the quality isn't always as high, but it is worth taking a look at. You never know when they may have the perfect just-the-picture-I-was-looking-for shot.
FreeImages also requires that you give attribution for the picture you use, but again, that's not too difficult. To download images the user must sign up to be on their mailing list. Upon confirmation of email address, FreeImages will send a password to use for login.
Fotolia.com
This company is primarily stock photography (for sale). With 3,801,370 photos they run a big business. However, some images submitted to them by photographers don't quite make the cut and they are sometimes put into the "free" section. If you see something you like in that section, download it quickly because it may not be there tomorrow. The dozen or so photos posted there are rotated daily.
With a free, simple account anyone is eligible to purchase stock photos or browse and download from the free section. No attribution is required for the photos used.
To find similar websites do a Google search for "free photos."
Links to Free Photos
- Free Images - Free Stock Photos
FREE digital photographic images for web, dtp, and design. Royalty and cost free stock photos. Free stock photographic library. - Fotolia
Free Stock Photos - FreeFoto.com - Free Pictures - FreeFoto.Com
FreeFoto.com is the largest collections of free photographs for non-commercial use on the Internet.
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Comments
Thanks for sharing your links for free photos, saralise. The free images that you posted are a good example of quality as well.
Your fan.
Mon.
Thanks for commenting, Monitor. I was happy to find these resources and share them with everyone.
Thanks for commenting, Monitor. I was happy to find these resources and share them with everyone.
Great resources for HubPages, thanks.
This is great and I have bookmarked it for future perusal. Thanks bunches for sharing!
tx for doing all the graft and sharing with us poor buggers. much appr.
Thanks for the tip.. I was taking my photos myself (a bit of a photographer) to avoid copyright.















secondsamuel says:
18 months ago
Thanks for this valuble information.......I'm always looking for pics and thank you for becoming a fan and it is true .............it's always good to find Christians on the Hubs....................secsam