If you are frequently sharing images online it’s essential to have a virtual rolodex of go-to websites where you can quickly and effectively find free images. It’s also important that you have websites in which the legal restrictions are clear and concise. Below you will find a list of the best sources for finding free photos for sharing online.
A project of Viktor Hanacek, designer, who understands the importance of high quality images in a designer’s life. New photos are uploaded daily. Fantastic work, and completely free. There is also a paid membership if you want even more from Viktor.
A collection of images that are personally uploaded by contributors under Creative Commons Public Domain. The site functions beautifully and has great navigation, sorting, and searching functions.
This is a database of completely free images that you can use however you want. A very large selection that’s rather simple to search, but can be time-consuming due to lack of sorting features.
Compfight allows you to search through Flickr’s Creative Commons listed photos. It’s pretty simple to use and will automatically generate the html code to insert photo credit. It can be a bit buggy sometimes though, so you may be better off going straight to Flickr.com and doing an advance search for Creative Commons photos.
Similar to Freeimages, this is a big searchable database of free images. It also has some great filtering options to really find the photos you’re looking for.
Built on tumblr, a minimal one-column site that releases ten new high-resolution images every ten days. You can subscribe via email and the images will be delivered to your inbox, or you can just visit the site every ten days to see what’s new. They’re always amazing photos and definitely worth bookmarking and subscribing to.
Very minimal, single column site with beautiful free imagery just like Unsplash. It also features an email subscription which will deliver seven new images (as opposed to Unsplash’s ten) every seven days. So essentially they’re doing the same exact thing as Unsplash, just more frequently.
Another tumblr powered site, New Old Stock features “vintage photos from public archives”. A great place to find authentically vintage looking imagery.
