How To Create A Photoshop Image

5 Great Sources of Stock Images

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Nowadays finding high-quality stock photos for personal or commercial use is very simple. You just need to search the photo using a few descriptive words and let Google do the rest of the work. To some degree, finding the right photo can be very tiresome and when you finally find it you realize it is copyright reserved. Stock photo websites are here to narrow down your searching. Out of the many sources of stock images available online, we have done the digging to come up with these five free sources and why they make this cut.

1. Pixabay

Pixabay has a vast collection of over one million photos of different varieties and acts as a source of great high-quality photos to many other websites. It has a clean, attractive and intuitive interface with the main search bar to help filter out the images, illustrations and vectors down to factors such as color, media type, minimum dimensions and orientation.

Pixabay happens to be the 'first-stop website' to visit since all the stock photos are free and can be used in any way you like without attribution.As the saying goes, if you don't find it at Pixabay, it probably doesn't exist.

2. Pexels

Are you looking for quality photos for your business or project? You need to check out Pexels.

Pexels does the "dirty and tiresome" work of hand-picking only quality photos from other stock photo sources, therefore, ensuring you get nothing but the best. Licensed under Creative Commons Zero, you can use these photos without any permissions or restrictions.

Photographers in this site are ranked, therefore making it easier for you to follow that one photographer if you have fallen in love with his/her photos. Moreover, with the addition of at least 10 photos daily in its gallery, it's hard to miss that photo you are looking for.

3. Unsplash

The uniqueness of photos from Unsplash is something to fall in love with.

Firstly, Unsplash provides a very user-friendly interface, with a search bar and categories well labeled at the top. The over 200,000 free and quality photos are filtered out down to unique wallpaper, texture, current events, fashion and animals among many other categories. The user has the freedom to distribute, modify or even copy all photos in the site thanks to its licensing under Creative Commons Zero.

Subscribers are rewarded with 10 quality photos in 10 days which are sent directly into their inbox, how about that?

4. NegativeSpace

NegativeSpace offers you over a thousand high-resolution photos which include abstract, nature, landscape and black and white pictures. You can easily filter out these photos through the copy space position and color categories.With its collection growing weekly, you are sure to get the best and latest technology, nature and architecture photos.

Licensed under Creative Common Zero (CC0), you can use the nature, people, objects, business, landscape photos however you want - commercially or for personal use.

5. Gratisography

If you are just chilling on your couch and need something creative to do or brighten your day, you should visit Gratisography. It's a collection of high-resolution quirky and creative photos from the whimsical, creative visual artist Ryan McGuire.

The 'pussy-in-boots' creativity in these photos will give you the urge to share them with your friends and even make memes out of them. Worry not, these photos are completely free and with no restrictions to using them thanks to licensing under CC0.With the different categories in this site, you may stumble upon many great photos that will help you complete a project.