Stock photos are an essential part of web and graphic design. There are tons of stock photos agencies that offer high quality photos, however, the price is not always affordable especially when working on a tight budget or sometimes with no budget at all. The solution in this case is finding free stock photos something that isn’t always easy, in order to make this process easier
So here is a list with sites that offer free stock photos.
- Stock Exchange (highly recommended)
- Morguefile (highly recommended)
- Image After
- Free Photos Bank
- OpenPhoto
- BigFoto
- USDA
- NASA
- NOAA
- NPS
- Earth from Space
- FWS1
- FWS2
- Picture Station
- Geek Philosopher
- Free Images
- Pixel Perfect Digital
- FreeFoto
- Image Base
- Cepolina
- Amazing Textures
- Texture Warehouse
- PDPhoto
- Image Blowout
- Piotrpix
- Mandragora
- Fotogenica
- Mayang
- Free Photo Station
- Cromavista
- Afflict
- Creativity 103
- The Photo Repository
- Aarin Free Photo
- Stockvault
- Designpacks
- Unprofound
- Four Bees
- Insect Images
- Free media Goo
- Burning Well
- A digital Dreamer
- Freestockphotos.com
- Freewebpics
- Lightmatter
- Majestic Imagery
- Triparalbum
- Demny Onink
- Twice Pix
- AboutPixel
- Woophy
- Pixelquelle
- Litetek
- PIX
- tOfz
- Fontplay
- Orangetrash
- ArtFavor
- ImageTemple
- LogoDesignweb
- Fotodatebank
- Bajstock
- Pixelbag
- NWYH Stock Images
- PhotoCase
- NPS Digital Image Index
- Gimp-Savy
- DeviantArt
- DigitalPictureForum
- Yotophoto Free photos search engine
There are many others too, but this list should be enough to tide you over.





























July 21st, 2009 at 11:10 am
If you dont mind, please add digitalpictureforum.com to that list. Its a forum dedicated to digital cameras and taking pictures. Its also a good place to request stock images.
July 23rd, 2009 at 8:23 am
Thanks I have added it.