There is always a need for good quality images for your website design. Here is our list of free and paid image sources that you could use on your website.

Generic Photos

1. Free Images – Just as the name implies, Free Images is a source of stock photos that are free to use for whatever project you have. They have a collection of mostly generic images that are separated by many categories and can be scanned through their search function. You will have to give credit to the author if it is for editorial or audio/visual purposes.
2. Pixabay – Stunning free images & royalty free stock. Over 2.6 million+ high quality stock images, videos and music shared by our talented community.
3. Pexels – The best free stock photos, royalty free images & videos shared by creators.
4. Unsplash – The internet’s source of freely-usable images. Powered by creators everywhere.
5. thecentrecc0 – under the creative common zero license (cc0), you can use our photos for free.
6. Yay Images – 13.5 Million Royalty-Free Stock Photos and Vectors. Sourced directly from 18,000 photographers from over 145+ countries.

E-commerce

1. Pexels – The best free stock photos, royalty free images & videos shared by creators.
2. Burst – has a selection of free images that will be perfect for your Shopify store. They have images that can accommodate several different industries. You have the rights to copy and modify these images for your online store.
3. Superfamous Images – provides free stock images that are OK to use for your online store. They have a lot of nature and abstract images that are taken in high-definition.
4. Stock up – an extremely simple royalty-free image finder that has many objects suitable for an e-commerce store.

Blogs

• Magdeleine – only has curated high-definition photos that you may use on your blog or website. Most of the photographs on the website are submitted by the community and only the best are chosen to be displayed in the gallery.

1. 123RF – 123RF offers the best quality, royalty free stock images, photos, vectors, illustrations, footage, video, and music for nearly any application.
2. Deposit Photos – royalty-free images, videos, vectors, illustrations, and music. Discover our large thematic collection of stock photography, and explore our stock video and music library to find exactly what you need for your projects. We’re trusted by leading international companies that turn to our library for visual and audio content.
3. FancyCrave – Save time and money by downloading photos from our curated collections. Perfect for web design, background/desktop images, articles, cover images, posters, advertising, tourism etc. Over 2,500 photos begging to be yours!
4. Foca Stock – Free photos, videos, and templates for commercial use. Use them in your website, themes, templates, projects, print materials, social posts, and more.
5. Gratisography – Royalty Free HD Stock Photos and Images Truly unique. Usually whimsy ;) Always free.
6. iStock – This is a premium paid image repo. Download 10 free images now.
7. Little Visuals – Free, high resolution images. Use them anyway you want – free for commercial use.
8. Picograph – High-Resolution, Royalty-Free, Stock Images. That you can use however you like with our free license.
9. SplitShire – Beautiful & exclusive free stock photos. Instant download private collection of free stock photos, free stock videos & high resolution images for personal and commercial use.
10. Startup Stock Photos – Startup Stock Photos are free startup, office, and tech stock pictures ready for your next project. Used by millions. Make something awesome.
11. Stock Snap – Beautiful Free Stock Photos. New CC0 images added daily, free from copyright restrictions.
12. Stock Vault – Free stock image. New photos, textures and illustrations added every day.

Image Editing

Once you have your images you will want to edit it. Hereto we will provide a list of tools to get the job done.

• Photopea – Free online editor supporting PSD, XCF, Sketch, XD and CDR formats. (Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Sketch App, Adobe XD, CorelDRAW).
• Inkscape – Whether you are an illustrator, designer, web designer or just someone who needs to create some vector imagery, Inkscape is for you!
• Gimp – GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.

3D Imaging

1. Spline – A place to design and collaborate in 3D.
2. Vectary – Bringing unlimited creativity to 3D design. No downloads, no coding – all in the browser.
3. Blender – an open source desktop app.

Image Compression

When you all done finding the perfect image, make sure you optimise it to the correct dimensions and size for best page load performance.

1. Squoosh – A tool create and maintained by Google to convert your image formats and compress it.
2. Smartpixel – Rated one of the best image compression and optimisation tools.