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8 useful websites for finding free images

Historical selection of banks and search engines where you can find free pictures and images for digital projects.

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Article originally published by Sitelicon on February 20, 2012.

In brief

Key ideas

  • The images used on a web, a banner or an article must always respect their rights and conditions of use.
  • On the Internet you can find millions of images but, watch out for the rights of use!
  • We can't always take any photo of Google or social media freely.
  • If you are looking for something very specific, the ideal is to use a pay image bank, where you can find very wide and attractive catalogues.

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Where do I get the images? You often need an attractive photo to accompany our blog posts, to run a banner, to update the home of our website or to illustrate the new information we have hung up, but where to look for that image?

On the Internet you can find millions of images but, watch out for the rights of use! We can’t always take any photo of Google or social media.

If you are looking for something very specific the ideal is to use a pay image bank, where you can find very wide and attractive catalogues. But there are also many catalogues where you can find free and free images that you can use, usually with the condition of mentioning its author. We recommend some:

[Dreamstime] (https: / / www.dreamstime.com /) It is one of the largest free or low-cost photo communities in the world. It has been operating since 2000. It has been gathering images, illustrations and vector images. At the time of publication it had more than 176 million images and almost 40 million users, of which 800,000 were photographers.

[pikwizard.com] (https: / / pikwizard.com /) Pikwizard is a free quality video and image bank. What makes it different from other image banks is that, in Pikwizard, we can find a lot of photos of people. They have a bank of over 100,000 images and videos, of which 20,000 are unique to the platform, a great database to feed on!

[search.creativecommons.org] (http: / / search.creativecommons.org /)

He is the official search engine for Creative Commons to search for rights-free images in Google’s databases Images, Flickr, Pixabay, Fotopedia.

[es.photl.com] (http: / / es.photl.com /)

Image bank that allows you to download your images for free, unless you need them in high resolution. You need to register.

[freeimages.com] (http: / / www.freeimages.com /)

It contains non-professional photos but of good quality in general. It is necessary to register but the catalogue is very wide.

[unsplash.com] (https: / / unsplash.com /)

It is a collection of free, very aesthetic photographs in high resolution. It is not necessary to be registered to download them and usually add 10 new photographs every 10 days. You can subscribe to your newsletter and receive all updates in your email.

[gratisography.com] (http: / / gratisography.com /)

This is the catalog of photographer Ryan McGuire, which allows us to use your images for free on personal or commercial projects on your blog, website, etc. Every week it updates new photographs and no registration is necessary for your download.

[pexels.com] (http: / / www.pexels.com /)

Here you will find a high quality image collection for personal or commercial use, completely free. In addition, it does not require registration to download them.

getrefe.tumblr.com

It offers a collection of attractive and free images, most of which are of nature or urban landscape.

[magdeleine.co] (http: / / magdeleine.co /)

High quality free photo bank. It has filtering options to facilitate the search.

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