Always a challenge to find decent imagery at prices clients are willing to pay. Here’s a list of free or low cost royalty-free photo sources.
- 123rf Inexpensive pay-as-you-go or monthly subscription. Over 30 million stock photos, vectors, videos and music.
- CanStockPhoto Inexpensive pay-as-you-go or monthly subscription. Professional stock photography and clipart at prices you can afford.
- Death to the Stock Photo Subscribe to receive free high resolution monthly images by email
- Dollar Photo Photos for $1
- Free Range Free stock photos
- Gratisography Free high resolution images approved for commercial use
- Little Visuals Subscribe to receive 7 free high resolution images every 7 days
- New Old Stock Vintage photos from the public archives free of known copyright restrictions
- Pikwizard Over 100,000 free images and videos. Ultimate goal is to get to more than 1 million images and videos.
- stocksy Royalty-free stock photography
- Pattern Library Free background patterns. At first, fun to scroll through, but can be time-consuming if you don’t find something quickly.
- Fotosearch Royalty-free stock photography from $3
- Offset Royalty-free stock photography from
- Photodune Royalty-free stock photography from $3
- Shutterstock Inexpensive pay-as-you-go or monthly subscription. Over 40 million stock photos, vectors, videos and music.
- Thinkstock Photos Inexpensive pay-as-you-go or monthly subscription. Millions of premium royalty-free images from Getty Images and iStock.
- Unsplash 10 free high resolution photos every 10 days
- Wiki Media Commons Collection of free media files.
- Browse Molly Ahearn’s stock imagery for sale at Alamy!
- The Noun Project has a great collection of inexpensive icons.
- Select digital works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection are available for use free of charge through Creative Commons.