A curated list of awesome stock photography, video and illustration websites.
I try my best to maintain this repository and keep it up-to-date but if you spot a broken link or a resource which isn't listed, please, feel to make a pull request.
- Photography
- Illustration
- Videos
- Patterns
- Fonts
- Font Icons
- Colors
- Aggregated Content
- Paid Resources
- How to Contribute
- How to Share
All the resources below have specifically specified that their content is CC0-licensed.
- Barn Images
- Boss Fight! - 10–20 new images added daily.
- CC0 Photo
- Creative Vix
- Crow the Stone
- Cupcake
- Fancy Crave - Two new images added every day.
- Free Nature Stock
- Epicantus - Hi-resolution photos added every week.
- FindA.Photo - search through thousands of CC0 photos by keyword and color
- Furious Camera
- Gratisography
- Jay Mantri
- Jé Shoots
- Life of Pix
- Little Visuals
- Magdeleine
- MMT - New photos by Jeffrey Betts added every week.
- Moveast - This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving.
- Negative Space - Stock photos added every week.
- Pixabay - Stock photos, illustrations, vectors and videos.
- Pexels
- Photo Collections
- Photo Crops - Five high resolution photos added every week, sometimes more.
- Realistic Shots - 7 new photos added every week.
- Skitter Photo
- Snapwire Snaps - Commissioned photos from 170,000 of the world's most talented photographers.
- Stock Image Point
- Stocksnap - Hundreds of high resolution images added weekly
- Stokpic
- Travel Coffee Book - Travel photography.
- The Pic Pac - New pacs on Monday, free pics Tuesday - Sunday.
- Unsplash
These following photography resources are those who have declared their own usage and restriction terms. These can be found by clicking the (license) link next to the resource.
- Bara Art - (License).
- Death to the Stock Photo - (License).
- Designer Pics - (License).
- Foodies Feed - Food based images. (License).
- Good Stock Photos - (License).
- ISO Republic - (License).
- Kaboom Pics - (License).
- Pic Jumbo - (License).
- Picography - (License).
- Shutteroo - (License).
- Split Shire - (License).
- Startup Stock Photos - Startup based photography. (License).
- Tookapic - Free listing from Tookapic. (License).
A collection of links to public domain photography resources.
- Flickr Commons - Flickr's catalogue of the worlds public photo archives.
- New Old Stock - Vintage photos from the public archive. of known copyright restrictions.
- Public Domain Archive - New stock photos every single week.
- SpaceX Photos - Promotional SpaceX stock photography.
The photographs on the following resources require Attribution unless otherwise stated on the website itself. These use a mixture of license, all of which have been linked to next to them.
- IM Creator - Some (CC0-licensed) photos. Also includes Website templates and icons.
- Raumrot - (CC-BY 2.0) licensed.
- Superfamous - (CC BY 3.0) licensed.
- Women of Color in Tech - (CC Attribution 2.0) Licensed picture from Women of Color in Tech.
These resources haven't specified any formal terms of use or licenses.
- Freejpg - Free image bank for commercial and editorial use.
- Nobl Web - do as you please, high-resolution photos and textures.
- Peekspace - Curated free-to-use space photography.
- Re:splashed
- Refe Real Life Photos
- Trunklog - A collection of photos from photographer Magnus Jälthammar.
A collection of illustration resources which contain a mixture of historical archive, contemporary and public domain assets.
- British Library Illustration Archive - The British Library’s collections on Flickr Commons offer access to millions of public domain images.
- Old Book Illustrations - A massive collection of illustrations from old books.
A selection of websites offering high quality video stock.
A mixture of CSS and image based pattern resources.
- CSS3 Patterns Gallery - CSS3 based repeatable patterns.
- Subtle Patterns - Image based background textures and patterns.
- The Pattern Library - A collection of bold, bright and funky repeatable patterns.
- UI Gradients - Nice, subtle linear gradients to use in your designs.
A mixture of free and open source font resources.
- Font Fabric - Font Fabric's free fonts.
- Font Squirrel - Handpicked fonts free for commercial use.
- Google Fonts - Interactive directory of free hosted application programming interfaces for web fonts.
- The League of Movable Type - Open-source type foundry.
A collection for font icon resources which can be used in your interface and website designs.
A selection of websites offering color schemes.
- Color Hunt - A place to discover, create, and share color palettes.
- Colour Lovers - A creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns.
- Flat UI Color Picker - A copy and paste resource for colors commonly found in 'flat' designs.
- Flat UI Colors - Flat color picker which gives you the perfect colors for flat designs.
A liberal mixture of content aggregated from other free resources and made available at one central point.
- All The Free Stock - One stop resource for free stock images, videos, sounds and more.
- Libre Stock - Search engine for stock photo websites.
And last, but not least, a selection of the best paid stock resources.
- Adobe Stock - Photos, Illustrations, Vectors.
- Fotolia - Photos, Illustrations, Vectors, Videos.
- Shutterstock - Photos, Vectors, Editorial, Footages, Music.
- Stocksy - "Cliché-free" Photos
Please read CONTRIBUTING.
To the extent possible under law, Tony Phipps has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.