I’ve decided to put together a list of websites with free royalty-free images for commercial use. Simply, because I often get questions along the lines of, “where is the best place to get free images for websites?”.
Let’s face it, the easiest way to get hold of images is just to do an image search in Google. Free images, highly relevant, quick and easy, no problem… …right?
No!
You aren’t allowed to use images from other websites without permission from the owner. And if you do it anyway, you risk all kinds of legal issues down the road (Google have faced several lawsuits just for displaying thumbnails in their search results).
The way to go instead is to use royalty-free photos for commercial use. And if you don’t mind spending about a dollar per image, iStock Photo is a great place to get them.
But if you need a lot of images (for a blog for instance) and don’t want to spend a small fortune on them. Then just use one of the sites below.
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