Free High Quality Stock Image Sources: Looking for an image for a website, newsletter, or new product? Here are 6 websites that offer high quality free images. Finding free images on the Internet can be time consuming. Digital Camera Tracker has gathered 6 sources of free images that are available for commercial use.
1. Microsoft Free Images and Clip Art – 50,000 images, clip art and media files.
According to Microsoft, “You may copy and modify the Media Elements, and license, display and distribute them, along with your modifications as part of your products and services, including your web sites. You may not sell the images as You may not sell, license or distribute copies of the Media Elements by themselves or as part of any collection, product or service if the primary value of the product or service is in the Media Elements.
2. Stock.XCHNG – More than 100,000 quality stock photos.
You do have to register (free) to view and download photos. According to Stock.XCHGG ‘SXC is a friendly community of photography addicts who generously offer their works to the public free of charge.”
3. MorgueFile – Over 5,000 high quality images covering a wide variety of subjects.
According to MorgueFile, “all images are really free and they can be used in your commercial projects without permission or credit from the photogrpaher. Although selling prints, selling the images directly or claiming the photo is yours is prohibited”.
4. Pixel Perfect Digital – an image archive offering more than 3,000 images free for commercial and non-commercial use.
Its license states: “You are permitted to use our products to design as many projects as necessary, including those you are creating for your clients. However, beyond this use, you may not resell or redistribute our products in any other way, modified, unmodified, standalone or combined with another product without prior written (email) consent from us.”
5. ImageAfter – an online library of free photographic images that cover lots of categories and present a good image quality.
All images are free for re-use in personal and commercial works.
6. Free Photos Bank – All photographic images downloaded from this website may be used for personal or commercial purposes. Any magazine, newspaper or other publication, product, design element or promotional material they appear in may be sold or distributed in an unlimited number without any implications.
You may not distribute, re-sell or post on a server for use by others the photographic images downloaded from this website.”
