Favorite 10 Free Stock Photo Download Sites
Need a free stock photo? Free … meaning you don’t have to pay anyone cold, hard cash for its use? Look no further. I’ve compiled my top 10 list of favorite stock photo sites that don’t cost you anything. Make sure you read any terms of usage, however, as you may need to attribute its source via a link or mention.
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EveryStockPhoto - Thanks to Bob Nolin for pointing out that Yotophoto is no longer in service, but EveryStockPhoto is an excellent replacement for searching multiple sites for just the right pic. It also includes some nice social aspects allowing everyone to rate and tag photos. I’ll be using this one a lot from now on.
Yotophoto - This is the first place I usually turn to because Yotophoto is the ultimate search engine for finding free use photos across the entire web. It searches some sites that I don’t include in this list, simply because you’ll find them via Yotophoto. (Yotophoto appears to be no longer in service).
UPDATE: Everyone thought I was crazy for not including Stock Xchng and Morgue Files because I find them via Yotophoto, but who am I to question the masses, so those are now linked here as well.
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Image*After - Has a nice collection of photos and textures, with good search functionality.
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Photogen - Nice collection of good quality photos.
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Free Digital Photos - Good quality photos for free, although their best quality pics come with a charge.
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NOAA Photo Library - This is just one example of the many photos you can use for free from the US Government sites. You’ll find more listed at the directory at the bottom of this list. This batch contains some amazing oceanic and atmospheric photos.
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BurningWell - Not the prettiest site in the bunch, but so what? It’s got what you need - free use photos.
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Backgrounds Archive - Pretty photos. Big photos. Pretty and big photos. What more can I say? 
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PD Photo - Lots of travel and country-specific photos, along with some more general categories too.
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Public Domain Photos - Claims to be the largest collection of public domain photos. It also has clip art.
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WP Clipart - Speaking of clip art this site has lots of clip art to choose from, with some photos as well.
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Uncle Sam’s Photos - As promised up above, this is a nice directory listing more of the U.S. Government’s repositories of free to use photos.
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If you can’t find the image you need from one of the above places, it just might not exist! Good luck, and happy photo hunting!
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