The Internet is full of all kinds of photos and images . Almost anything we imagine will already be on the Internet. However, being able to find something on the net does not give us the right to be able to use it freely. What’s more, there are resources, such as professional photos , that we must pay to download, or some that have been shared and, although it is free, it is not allowed to use it anywhere else. Luckily, just as there are platforms, such as Adobe Stock , and websites to find all kinds of paid photos, there are also other websites that allow us to find free photos, and without copyright, to use them freely as we want.
The following web pages will allow us to freely download and use all the photographs and images, or most of them, that we find in them. Of course, we must always check the license before “seizing” it, since sometimes, although the resource is free, the author has it registered with a Creative Commons license, and asks for a “mention” in exchange for being able to use it. Therefore, we must always check this, and be grateful does not cost anything.
Google Images with a free photos filter
Google Images is the largest photo search engine that we can find. Any content that is published on the network will appear in this search engine. However, most of the photos will be protected by copyright, or will have watermarks.
However, this search engine has an option, which we can activate, to find only images that we can download and use for free, without restrictions. This option is activated from the browser itself, marking the type of license as ” Labeled for reuse with modifications “.
Thus, all that will appear to us will be photos that, in addition to having been shared, have been marked to be freely reused for whatever we want. We can even modify them without problem.
Rawpixel, free images, PSD and vectors
This website is a huge bank of images and resources free of copyright and copyright from which we will be able to search and download all kinds of content. In addition to photos, both real and artistic, we will also be able to download from Rawpixel already created PSD files, sketches of all kinds of objects and images created with vectors. In addition to free photos, and of public domain, we can also use its extensive library of “Premium” photos, although to download them we will have to subscribe to the platform.
Unsplash, precious images and photos at our fingertips
Unsplash is one of the largest platforms where you can find all kinds of resources. This website defines itself as the largest source of images that we can download and use freely, without any requirement or restriction. On its servers it stores more than a million photos of all kinds, which we can download in high definition for free. All the resources found on this website can be used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes, and the author is not obliged to give attribution.
Gratisography, Ryan McGuire’s photos out of copyright
If you are looking for the most original photos and images, Gratisography is for you. In it we will find all kinds of free resources, both for personal and commercial use, in high definition so that we can use them for whatever we want. Photos were taken by photographer Ryan McGuire, and are copyright free.
morgueFile, free and original photos
Many users confuse morgueFile with Imgur. This website allows anyone to upload images to share them on the Internet, but those responsible insist that the photos must be their own and original, not a photo of a photo, or nonsensical things like screenshots. Although it is difficult to control, more or less it is complying. On this website we can find almost half a million high resolution images, totally royalty-free, that we can use in any project, both personal and commercial.
Pixabay, complete website to download photos without copyright
Pixabay is another of the most complete original resource websites that we can find. In his library we can find, in addition to original photos, vector files and edited images. Thanks to this, on this platform we can find photos and resources that, normally, are impossible to photograph. It has a powerful search engine that will allow us to find both the most original real photos and the most abstract compositions.
Wikimedia Commons, all kinds of free images at a click
Just as all the content that we can see in Wikipedia is free, the resources that we can find in Wikimedia Commons are also free. Here we will be able to find more than 15 million resources of all kinds, both images and audios and other multimedia content. We can search by type of content, by category and even use its own search engine. The images that we will find here will have one or more Creative Commons licenses, so, although they are free, before using them we will have to check if, for example, the author wants a mention.
Stockvault, photo collection of all themes
Stockvault is a platform used by all kinds of photographers and artists within which they share all kinds of professional, high-quality images and photos. We can find photos of any theme, from nature and animals to buildings and objects. The photos are free, we can download them for free and use them for whatever we want.
Pexels, real photos royalty free
If what we are looking for are real photos, no artistic or modified images, then one of the websites we can turn to is Pexels . On this website we are going to find things that can be really photographed. For example, if we do a search for “Saturday”, we will see few results, since a Saturday is not something that can be photographed. Or if we look for a planet like “Mercury”, since it is not something that anyone, with a camera, can take a picture. However, searching for “car” or “family” will bring up hundreds, or thousands, of results. All of them made as is, without retouching.
Its search engine also allows us to search for photos based on a color. For example, if we enter the hexadecimal code of a color in the search box, the search engine will show us all the photos that have that dominant color.
Picjumbo, photo collection by Viktor Hanacek
This platform was one of the first to allow searching and downloading all kinds of photos for free from the Internet. Picjumbo was created by photographer Viktor Hanacek, and most of the photos we can find are taken by himself, so we will not encounter any surprises of possible hidden copyright. Everything we find on this website is completely free and can be used both personally and professionally.
Pikwizard, a million images and videos within reach
Pikwizard is another platform where we will be able to find more than a million royalty-free images and videos. These photos and videos are of all kinds, and are organized into different categories. Everything we download from this website can be used for personal or commercial purposes completely free of charge. Furthermore, it is not necessary to give attribution to the authors.
Reshot, the most free website to download photos without rights
Another website where we will be able to find all kinds of free images to use as we want. All the photographs and images that we can find in Reshot are totally free. By downloading them we are acquiring a license that allows us to copy, modify, distribute, improve and even use them wherever we want. All this without having to pay anything or give attribution to the photographer or this website. The only restriction that Reshot imposes is not to download all the photos to set up a website that competes with it. Everything else is allowed.
Burst, free photos for business use
Burst is a search engine for free images focused above all on business and the corporate world. The website itself encourages users to download photos, in the highest quality, and use them for any type of business project or in advertisements and campaigns. All photos are totally free and have a Creative Commons Zero license, so we can do whatever we want with them without even giving credit to the photographer or the web.
Flickr, collection of photos with and without rights
This website is also one of the largest sources where you can find all kinds of images and resources. However, we must be careful when using it, since not all the photos that we will find on Flickr are free, but some may have a license. Before downloading and using a resource on this website, we must check the license and copyright of each image very well to avoid having problems later due to improper use.
CC Search, a search engine to find only free photos
CC Search brings us a search engine, similar to that of Google Images, but from which we will find only free images from the beginning. It has a database of more than 500 million resources, spread throughout the web, and we can access them in seconds simply by typing what we want to search for. This page will show us the results related to what we have searched for and, if we accept the license terms of each photo, we can go to the website where it is hosted to download it. We must remember that there are several types of CC license, so even if the photo is free, we may not be able to use it for commercial purposes, or we may have to mention the author.
New Old Stock, old photos without copyright
Looking for old photos? Then you’ve reached New Old Stock . Within this website we will find all kinds of vintage photos, in black and white, totally royalty-free. It is a bit complicated to use, since it does not have a search engine, and the photos are hosted on other websites, so we depend on them to download them. But it is the fastest and easiest way to find this type of free photos to use in any project.
Clker, Bitmaps and Royalty-Free Vector Images
This website does not focus on photography as such. Clker will allow us to find all kinds of resources, such as bitmaps and vector images, that we can use in all kinds of projects. Very useful to find, above all, icons, logos and symbols. In addition to being able to download any of its resources, this website allows us to edit any SVG image that is uploaded to its platform directly from the browser, so it is very simple and fast to adapt each image to our needs without having to use other programs in it. PC.
DeviantArt, the artists’ website
If we are artists we are sure we know DeviantArt . This website is not focused on photos, but rather on drawings and artistic creations that other users share freely on the platform. In it we will be able to find an infinity of resources, from hand-drawn to the most professional editions. We will find backgrounds, icons, abstract images and much more here.
Beware of DeviantArt. Although the resources that we can find on this website are free, not all of them are free. There are many that are protected by copyright, and others that have restrictive Creative Commons licenses. Therefore, before downloading any resource from this page, we must check the license very well to avoid problems.