Finding banks of free high-resolution images can be a really difficult task. The use of free images is an issue that acquires great relevance today, especially if you have a blog, website or social media profiles. Using high-quality photos is essential to give it a personal touch and take a quality leap in your generation of content.
Therefore, respecting copyright must be essential. To save you time and effort I have compiled some free and copyright-free image banks for personal and commercial use.
1. Pixabay
Pixabay is an excellent website where you can find more than 630,000 free images, vectors, and high-quality illustrations. Therefore, it is not necessary to attribute an authorship and you can modify it to your liking.
2. Freejpg
Freejpg is one of the best banks of free high resolution images for commercial and editorial use. It contains more than 10,000 free photographs of categories as varied as animals, art, technology or food, among others.
3. Death to the stock photo
Free website aiming to be just like coffee for modern creativity. After registering with your email account, high-quality photos will be sent to your inbox on a monthly basis. Of course all these images are free to satisfy your creative needs for commercial use, blog, social networks or mockups.
4. IM Free
IM Free is a bank of free templates, icons and images within the IM Creator website. In it you will find collections of photographs on topics as diverse as people, business or technology.
5. Photo Everywhere
Photo Everywhere is an English website with more than 3,600 high resolution royalty free travel photos. It contains a section with a geographical map where you can more quickly access the photos of the country that interest you.
6. Flickr Creative Commons
This fantastic image bank contains more than 2,000,000 photos of any category without copyright. This is due to the expiration of the copyright protection term, because the necessary procedure was not done at the time or because the minimum requirements were not met.
7. Freepik
In addition to vectors, icons or PSD files, Freepik offers us more than 175,667 high-quality photographs totally free with a Creative Commons license.
8. Stockvault
Although Stockvault is a repository of varied resources such as Photoshop and Dreamweaver tutorials, its true strength is the extensive bank of images divided into 11 categories for direct download.
9. 500px
500px is a well-known photographic community that contains its section of images with a Creative Commons license, becoming an option to consider when generating content on your blog, website or social networks.
10. SplitShire
High-quality, royalty-free photo download repository for commercial use. With daily updates and more than 20 categories, they also offer the possibility to download a package with 538 photos directly in a .zip file for $ 9.60 to save you time.
11. Gratisography
Impressive project by photographer Ryan McGuire in which he offers you weekly updates with new free high-resolution images for personal and commercial use, totally free of copyright restrictions.
12. Picography
Of only about 135 photos, but in Picography you can find amazing images with a great quality totally free of rights.
13. Unsplash
Unsplash is a minimalist repository with free images licensed under Unsplash or Creative Commons license for commercial purposes without asking for permission or giving credit to the photographer or to Unsplash himself. It contains varied collections to help you decide which photos you are looking for. Plus, they upload 10 images every 10 days, so you’re always up to date.
14. Magdeleine
Interesting community created by the Italian Elena Fenizia. It contains an extensive bank of free images divided into categories such as nature, architecture or animals.
15. All the Free Stock
All the Free Stock is a highly recommended option, since it collects a large number of pages with images with a Creative Commons license and unifies them in one place. All in order to satisfy your needs more quickly.
16. Life of Pix
Life of Pix is a repository created by the Canadian agency Leroy focused predominantly on photographs and videos of animals, landscapes, food, objects, people and textures. Contains photos in high resolution, without copyright for your use and enjoyment and updated weekly.
17. Stock Snap
An elegant bet in the sector of free high-resolution image banks that are totally free and royalty-free for your website or blog. It contains a very complete search engine in which you can filter by date, trends, views or downloads on the most varied topics.
18. Picjumbo
Picjumbo is a project by the Czech photographer Viktor Hanacek and widely used worldwide by bloggers, designers and commercials. Since all the images that appear on the website have a Creative Commons license, it is a highly recommended option to aesthetically help your post or your website.
19. Pexels
Pexels is one of the best options you can find as a repository for other free websites. With more than 10,000 royalty-free photos and an update of 1,500 new photos per month you can find practically any type of subject for personal use or commercial purposes.
20. Getrefe
Getrefe is one of the most minimalist free image banks offering a wide variety of high-quality, natural-looking images. Divided into 12 categories, you also have the option to buy photo packs according to your needs for $10.
21. Little Visuals
Small website with 91 free royalty-free high-fidelity landscape images. Unfortunately, the creator of the initiative died at the end of 2013 and his family has only taken care of the maintenance of the website.
22. New Old Stock
Entering the New Old Stock page is taking a journey through history. With a marked vintage aesthetic, these images were free of restrictions for public use and commercial purposes.
23. FoodiesFeed
FoodiesFeed is a free image bank that will make your mouth water. Specializing in food photography, it has more than 900 images fully available for download that will delight the most gluttonous bloggers.
24. Free Media Goo
Interesting website in which there are no subscriptions, commissions or commercial purposes. All photos, textures and backgrounds are free and royalty free. You just have to select the image you like and start downloading it.
25. Morguefile
Morguefile is an image bank made by a wide range of creatives from all over the world, whether they are amateurs or professionals. In it, all images are free to download and reuse, for personal or commercial purposes.
I will keep updating this post adding new free image banks periodically. I hope you find it useful! Do you recommend any other free high-resolution image bank?