Great sources of free images for your website

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

High quality images add visual appeal to every Web site project. The web offers billions of photos that are in the public domain, or licensed under a Creative Commons License and can be used without any copyright issues. The key to finding the perfect image for your website project is often knowing where to look.

Start your search with the NetObjects image library. These images are the intellectual property of NetObjects Inc. and are available to all NetObjects Fusion licensees for use in their website projects with very few restrictions. NetObjects images are available for download in the Online View as well as in our Google+ or Flickr photo galleries.

Before you begin your search, you should familiarize yourself with the various Creative Commons License types and their terms of use. Creative Commons licenses allow copyright holders to choose from a range of permissions while retaining their copyright. You can never go wrong using images marked as CC0 or images in the Public Domain.

The CC0 or “No Rights Reserved” designation enables artists, photographers and other owners of copyright protected content to place them in the public domain so others may adapt or reuse the work for any purpose without any restriction under copyright law.

Images tagged with the Public Domain Mark or “No Known Copyright” are no longer restricted by copyright.

 

morguefile.com Morgue File
The morguefile contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site.

magdeleine.co Magdeline
Hand picked free photos for your inspiration by Magdeleine.

freeimages.com freeimages
A huge gallery containing over 350.000 quality stock photos by more than 30.000 photographers.

publicdomainreview.org The Public Domain Review
 The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to promoting and celebrating the public domain in all its richness and variety.

commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Commons
A database of 23,457,168 freely usable media files.

pixabay.com pixabay
Pixabay - a repository for stunning public domain pictures.

unsplash.com Unsplash
Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution stock photos.

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

everystockphoto.com everystockphoto
A search engine for free photos. The images come from many sources and are license-specific.

imagebase.net imagebase
Imagebase.net is a collection of photos, mostly taken by David Niblack, that can be freely used for personal, commercial, non-profit, artistic, or creative purposes.

imageafter.com IMAGE*AFTER
Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from the site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.

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