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34 Free Stock Photo Websites To Bookmark for Your Book Cover & Your Personal Website

34 Free Stock Photo Websites To Bookmark for Your Book Cover & Your Personal Website

As the Internet grows, the users and content grow with it, bringing us unlimited free content with extremely generous usage options. Nowadays, it’s not only easy to find images to fill up your website or your blog, for printing purposes, social media, emails and any other medium – sites which host these free images are mushrooming at a very interesting rate. The amount of images on just a single site which are being contributed by various photographers are just phenomenal. These sites present the images in various popular categories which are frequently updated and the most interesting part of all is the license. A big majority of them carry a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes. Some of them even allow users to forgo attribution as long as the license is being honored. Nonetheless attribution is always encouraged but not compulsory.

To us here at GetFreeEbooks, we usually just stick to 1 or 2 of these sites as they’re more than enough, but sometimes enough is never enough, hence a list of 34 sites have been compiled for your browsing pleasure. Better too much than too little yes? Regardless, different sites do carry different licenses, so please do browse through them if you’re not sure on the general terms of use.

To all the writers out there who are searching for an image as a base for your ebook covers, I hope the list below gives you an ample resource of find that perfect one. Use the images for your blog posts, website’s header or anything that you wish as you see fit. Happy browsing!

34 Free Stock Photo Websites To Bookmark for Your Book Cover & Your Personal Website

  1. StockSnap.io – StockSnap adds hundreds of images on a daily basis and all photos are released under creative commons public domain – no attribution required.
  2. Pexels – completely free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.
  3. Unsplash – All photos are released for free under the Unsplash license.
  4. Burst (by Shopify) – Some photos are licensed under Creative Commons CC0 while others fall under Shopify’s own photo license.
  5. Reshot – Free to use commercially and editorially–no attribution required.
  6. Pixabay – All photos are released under Creative Commons CC0.
  7. FoodiesFeed – All photos published on Foodiesfeed are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CCO)
  8. Gratisography – You can use on your personal and commercial projects, free of copyright restrictions.
  9. Freestocks – a wide range of high quality photos all released under Creative Commons CC0.
  10. Picography – All photos are released under Creative Commons CC0.
  11. MMT STock – All photos are released under Creative Commons CC0.
  12. Picjumbo – A collection of totally free photos for your commercial & personal works.
  13. Kaboom Pics – Photos can be used for commercial purposes but cannot be sold or redistributed.
  14. SkitterPhoto – Free stock photos under Creative Commons CC0.
  1. Life of Pix – A resource created by the LEEROY creative agency offering free high-resolution photos with no copyright restrictions.
  2. New Old Stock – Vintage photos from the public archives free of known copyright restrictions.
  3. Jay Mantri – 7 new photos released every Thursday under the Creative Commons CC0 license.
  4. Epicantus – All photos are released under creative commons CC0.
  5. ShotStash – New images every day under a free for commercial and personal use license.
  6. StyledStock – The collection is totally free for your commercial & personal works.
  7. Morguefile – Photos can be used for commercial purposes but cannot be sold or redistributed.
  8. Pixabay – All content on Pixabay can be used for free for commercial and noncommercial use across print and digital, except in the cases mentioned in “What is not allowed”. Attribution is not required.
  9. Stockvault – All photos are released under Creative Commons CC0.
  10. Pikwizard – Royalty free and safe for commercial use, with no attribution required.
  11. Rawpixel – Creative Commons CC0 with various limitations – https://www.rawpixel.com/services/image-licenses
  12. Negative Space – All of its photos are shared without copyright restrictions, meaning you’re free to use them however you please.
  13. Death to Stock – Use the photos how you please, but don’t redistribute them.
  14. Stokpic – Creative Commons CC0 and Stokpic license – https://stokpic.com/license/
  15. Startup Stock Photos – All photos are released under Creative Commons CC0.
  16. Freerange – Creative Commons CC0 and Equalicense – https://freerangestock.com/licensing.php
  17. LibreShot – Free images even for commercial use. No watermark. No attribution.
  18. Fancy Crave – Can be used for free for commercial and noncommercial use. Attribution is not required.
  19. SplitShire – Free Stock Photos for commercial use.
  20. ISO Republic – All photos are released under Creative Commons CC0.
  21. PIK Wizard – All photos are released under Creative Commons CC0.

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