Where To Find The Best Free Stock Photos And Graphics

These are the sites graphics professionals (& amateurs alike) visit to get free graphics for their personal and commercial projects:

Stock Photos
Stock Videos
Icons
Vectors & Illustrations
Textures & Patterns
Color Palettes
Color Pickers

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Free Stock Photos

Example of a free stock photo.

Looking for some free-to-use images for your blog, your business’s marketing campaign, your travel blog thumbnail, or background of your quote-post on Instagram? These sites are for you:

Website	Registration Required?	Attribution Required?
Pexels	No	No
Pixabay	No	No
Burst by Shopify	No	No
Unsplash	No	No
Life of Pix	No	No
Foodiesfeed	No	No
Kaboompics	No	No
Gratisography	No	No
Stocksnap	No	No
LittleVisuals	No	No
JayMantri	No	No
ISORepublic	No	No
PhotoStockEditor	No	No
Splitshire	No	No
Free Images	No	Yes, for editorial purposes
Negative Space	No	No

The abovementioned sites are some of the best ones to find free images. However, you’ll need to search through all the sites to find the best possible picture for the task ⁠— which is time-consuming.

Fortunately, we have photo search engines. These sites take input from you and accumulate & show images from many sites such as the ones I mentioned (E.g., We index 31 different free stock photo websites):

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Free Stock Videos

Example of a free stock video.

Want a visually appealing website background video, a cool b-roll for your YouTube video, or just segue footage for the brand videos? These are the sites to get it for free:

Website	Registration Required?	Attribution Required?
Pixabay	No	No
Pexels	No	No
Videvo	No	Yes
Splitshire	No	No
Life of Vids	No	No
Mixkit	No	No
Coverr	No	No
Dareful	No	Yes

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Free Icons

'Search' icons from Iconmonstr.

From displaying controls on your web app to showing attractive social sharing buttons on your articles, icons play a crucial role.

These are the sites where you can get beautiful yet free icons:

Website	Registration Required?	Attribution Required?
Flaticon	Yes	Yes
Icons8	Yes	No
Icon Monstr	No	No
Iconfinder	No	No
Iconscout	Yes	No
The Noun Project	Yes	No
Material Icons	No	No
Streamline Icons (Free Trial)	Yes	No
Graphic Burger	No	No
Good Stuff No Nonsense	No	No
Dribbble	No	No
DryIcons	No	Yes

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Free Vector Graphics and Illustrations

Free vector graphic from Freepik.

From t-shirt designs to massive posters and web pages to social media posts, the use-cases of vector graphics are many.

No matter the use case, you’ll find a fitting vector graphic for free on one of these sites:

Website	Registration Required?	Attribution required?
Freepik	No	Yes
Pixabay	No	No
VectorStock	No	Yes
Vecteezy	No	Yes
unDraw	No	No
Drawkit	No	No
Freevector	No	Yes
All-free-download	No	Yes

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Free Textures & Patterns

Free pattern from Pattern8.

Textures & Patterns are integral to design. They add depth to your design, help separate elements in the overall design, create visual intrigue, and do much more.

You can find free patterns and textures on these sites:

Website	Registration Required?	Attribution Required?
Pattern8	No	No
Subtle Patterns	No	No
Pattern Library	No	No
Pixel Buddha	No	No
Free Stock Textures	No	No
Texture Palace	No	Yes
Freepik	No	Yes

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Free Color Palettes

Example color palette from COLOURLovers.

Find awesome color palettes and color schemes for your design & branding work ⁠— here:

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Free Color Pickers

Color picker tools reveal HEX or RGB color codes.

If you love the colors your competitors or other inspiring photos/websites use, you need a color picker. It grabs colors from the site/graphics and shows you the HEX code, which you can later use in your work.

These are the best free color pickers:

Instant Eyedropper

Iconico’s Color Picker

Eye Dropper (Chrome plugin)

Rainbow (Firefox Plugin)

Image Color Picker

iDropper (for iOS)

Pixolor (for Android)