Browse sites that offer high-quality, free-to-use images for your personal projects — like your blog or website — or commercial work.
WordPress.com also offers support for embedding Getty Images, which means you can access and share photos from Getty’s extensive library for non-commercial use.
For many of you, images are an integral part of your site. But sometimes, you may not have the right photograph to use for a post or page. You can use the Creative Commons to search for images you need across the web, from Flickr to Wikimedia Commons, and source and attribute images that you find. There are also excellent online resources that compile high-resolution images that are free to use on your site. Let’s take a peek.
Unsplash
Unsplash has gorgeous high-resolution photos, many of which work well for full-width featured images, custom headers, and custom backgrounds. While crediting the photographer is not required, Unsplash provides the HTML code for an image credit line, which you can easily copy and paste into a caption on your site.
Pexels
Pexels pulls the best stock photos, all licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, in one place. Images are tagged, searchable, and can be downloaded quickly in different sizes (as well as a custom size, too).
Death to the Stock Photo
A lot of stock photos out there are uninspiring, and this site wants to change that. A project by Allison Lehman and David Sherry, Death to the Stock Photo offers free monthly photos for your creative needs, personal or commercial. The pair shoots fresh, modern images, and then sends each new collection to their subscribers.
The Pattern Library
The Pattern Library offers vibrant patterns for download. Just scroll down the page to see each pattern “slide” over the last one — it’s a fun way to browse patterns. Many of the selections are colorful and bold, while there are more subtle options, which work well for those seeking custom backgrounds.
Gratisography
Created by artist Ryan McGuire, this online project offers free, high-resolution images for personal and commercial use. New photographs are added weekly and are free of copyright restrictions.
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Very helpful–thank you!
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Thanks so much for sharing resources! They do come in handy!
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Very helpful, thanks!
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Extremely resourceful – will be referring to often for future blog posts!
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Thank you so much for posting this great list. I’ve pinned it for future reference too! Huge thanks!
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Great post ! As a new blogger I’m unsure about what photos I can use and even more apprehensive about using them, so this is just what I needed !
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This article is awesome, almost like a prayer answered. It is so hard finding the perfect image that conveys and strengthens the message of your post. Thank you so much. 🙂
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You’re welcome.
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Cheers :))
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Thanks for this very useful info 😃
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This is wonderful. Will be bookmarking some of these.
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Very interesting post. I enjoyed reading it. I am looking forward to trying some of this. Thank you for sharing.
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thankyou so much, this helped a lot
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This is good news. Thanks heaps.
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This is fantastic!
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Thanks Daily Post! for the handy pointers
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Helpful info! Thanks.
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Thanks for this useful info, exactly what i needed.
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Thanks, this will really come in handy when I don’t have my own pics to cover my subject matter.
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thanks–so many pay-for pics come up in a normal Google-Image search these days
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Definitely very helpful. Thank you!
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Thanks for the great work, Cheri! Wish I had had this list YEARS ago! Hope you don’t mind if I pass it along to teachers who use edtech?
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Feel free to share this with anyone who might find it useful!
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Awesome. Thanks a lot!
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Great post! I have been seraching for some good websites like these, thank you 🙂
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Thanks for this list. Can’t wait to explore
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Very helpful post! Thank you very much!
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I always try to use my own visual but I must say that I write faster than I take photos. So this post is awesome because you give us in one place all the possibilities that are available. Bookmarked. Thank you.
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do we need to give details of real owner of image?
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Great resources – thank you!
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