The best high quality, non-cheesy, free stock image sites to use in your online course, presentations, social media and more. All images fall under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, aka all photos are free for your personal and commercial needs.

1. The 13 ULTIMATE
Free Stock Photo Sites
(All free for commercial use)
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3. Have you ever experienced the HUGE
pain of finding GREAT stock images

4. Most searches for free stock photo resources
are filled with low quality, cheesy options

5. Most searches for free stock photo resources
are filled with low quality, cheesy options
Wait!
Is that Dave
Franco?!

6. Great presentations and online
courses demand images that are
1. non-cheesy
2. high-resolution
3. public domain (that
means they’re free for
commercial use)

7. Great presentations and online
courses demand images that are
1. non-cheesy
2. high-resolution
3. public domain (that
means they’re free for
commercial use) social media
mobile apps
templates
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an online course
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8. I’ve put together a list of the best stock photo
websites whose images can be used completely
for free
websites
presentations
online courses
social medianewsletters
mobile apps
templates

9. I’ve used some of the websites on the list for years.
Others are newer finds from these trusted resources:
Buffer blog
nu School
Bootstrap Bay

10. My list only contains websites that
fall under the Creative Commons Zero
license (CC0)

11. My list only contains websites that
fall under the Creative Commons Zero
license (CC0)
AKA the images are free to use
for your commercial and personal needs!

12. Ok, now the good stuff.
The 13 best free stock photo resources

13. Unsplash
My go-to. Curated by Crew.
10 images in your inbox every 10 days
unsplash.com

14. Gratisography
All photos by Ryan Mcguire.
New photos added weekly
gratisography.com

15. Death to the
Stock Photo
Photographers Allie
Lehman and David Sherry
send you a downloadable
image pack every month
deathtothestockphoto.com

16. Negative Space
London based photographer Luis adds
20 new photos every Monday. Can’t
find the exact image you were looking
for? Tweet and you may receive
negativespace.co

17. picjumbo
Since Viktor Hanacek started picjumbo
in Nov. 2013, his photos have been
downloaded over 1.5M times
picjumbo.com

18. Insta Stock
All images taken on an iPhone
6 by Dylan Simel. It’s a smaller
collection, but he uploads a
new photo daily
instastock.co

19. SplitShire
Italian photographer
& designer Daniel
Nanescu’s stock site is
“Made with love
in Italy”
splitshire.com

20. Life of Pix
Leeroy, an advertising agency in Montréal, built this
stock site with their own images and through their
network of photographers. They add new photos weekly
lifeofpix.com

21. Startup Stock Photos
Produced by social media marketing agency Sculpt and
photographer Eric Bailey, the site focuses on the image needs of
startup companies: technology, office shots, coffee shops, etc.
startupstockphotos.com

22. HubSpot Stock
HubSpot decided it was time again to help its readers
stress less over creative license agreements and
copyright laws. HubSpot hired a photographer to build
their own stock photo arsenal to give away for free!
No fees. No attribution required
blog.hubspot.com/marketing/75-free-stock-photos-im-ht

23. Now, for three stock repository sites…

24. The Stocks
An aggregated tumblr site that
pulls free images from 14
different websites, like some of
the ones I listed above
thestocks.im

25. Pexels
A stock photo aggregator
that pulls its images from
Unsplash, Gratisography,
Little Visuals and other CC0
sites. About 10 new free
photos are added daily
pexels.com

26. Stock SnapA CC0 photo repository that collects stock images from around the world and through daily submissions
by photographers. A cool Stock Snap feature is that you can search by trending and most viewed images
stocksnap.io

27. Let’s go further,
here’s a bonus just for you!

28. Let’s go further,
here’s a bonus just for you!
Two free CC0 sites for icons & one site to create your own images

29. Endless IconsThis vector icon
website was
created as a side
project by
designer and
developer Min
Kim, who is in
the process of
building his own
stock image site
endlessicons.com

30. iconmonstr
A vector icon gallery made in
Germany by Alexander
Kahlkopf. You can download
various PNG and SVG sizes
iconmonstr.com

31. Canva
On Canva you can
design your own images
for social media,
presentations, posters,
and photo collages
canva.com

32. But if you really do want to
pay for your photos…
Here’s a quick list of some not-so-free stock image sites

33. Getty gettyimages.com
Corbis corbisimages.com
ShutterStock shutterstock.com
Thinkstock thinkstockphotos.com
iStock istockphoto.com

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