Are you tired of e-hunting free stock photos for your blog/websites or your creative creations?
Digital images! As a solopreneur, blogger or a creative creator, we do feel the need of proper graphics to use in our businesses and social media spaces.
Don't we find ourselves struggling to match the deep impression of profound thoughts with equally profound images to wow its visual and content effect? To do this with total ease instead, wouldn't it be great to have a big stock of high-resolution photos at your disposal all the time?
What to keep in mind when looking for images
IMAGE COPYRIGHT
When the need arises for an image, the first thing we automatically do is google it. Yes, we do find thousands of pictures on there, but not all of them are free, non-copyrighted or match to your brand. Many new internet users make this innocent mistake of taking photographs off the internet to use.
It is essential to understand that copyright law covers everything on the internet so you shouldn't use something without proper permission/license from the original creator.
WHERE TO FIND FREE DIGITAL IMAGES
The good news is that Free/cheap and high-resolution images are readily available on the internet. Looking for them through a basic google search is not easy. Here is a list of websites with a treasure of amazing images. These are royalty-free CC images.
Now, are you wondering what CC is?
"A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. A CC license is when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that he/she has created." - source: Wikipedia.
Here is the list of the websites -
- Pixabay
- Unsplash
- Death to the stock photo
- pic jumbo
- iso republic
- good free photos
- raw pixel
- free Quration
- free images
- life of pix
Have fun exploring the images!
Please be sure to double-check the licensing on these websites yourself as the terms may change.