5 Great sources for Free to use Pictures

A list of 5 places where you can get Pictures really for free.

Finding and using free images for commercial projects can be sometimes tricky and if not used correctly (for example grabbing Pictures from Google search) can get you in a real problem. Here is a list of 5 places where you can get Pictures really for free.

There are several sources of genuinely free to use images available to personal use and commercial projects.

1. Wikimedia Commons

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

It has more than 4.5 million images on all subjects. Images are available in high resolutions, god enough for commercial printing.

License types vary from image to image but any restriction are clearly displayed alongside the image. All images on Wikipedia use the creative commons license.

2. Morgue File

http://www.morguefile.com/

For a large Collection of images of just about everything. It has a very well design search Engine. Many of the photographs are licensed for non-commercial use only and you have to contact the photographer to request permission.

3. Stock Exchange

http://www.sxc.hu/

Like the one before is to a great Collection, in some cases it also asks for permission of the photographer.

4. Mayang Free Texture

http://www.mayang.com/textures

For an enormous amount of good quality textures of any kind: clouds, Rocks, wall, plants and even cars.

5. Nasa

http://nix.nasa.gov/

For shots of rockets, planets and space scene in general there is no better place than Nasa.

Do you know another free resource?

Please share it with us.

 

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2. 

   “Do you know another free resource?”

   yes, for free stock photos you might also want to look at:

   http://stockvault.net
   http://www.freeimages.co.uk
   http://creativity103.com
   http://stockarch.com
Budgetstockphoto on July 27th, 2010
3. 

   Hi Javier, I’m impressed with this list! I came here thinking I would see some of the same old tired resources that I already know but I see three here that are new to me. I visit the Nasa site all the time and I found a few goodies over at Stock Exchange. I’ll be sure to look into the others asap.

   I have a question about Stock Exchange, is there a way to search by keyword and get free images only in the search results? I haven’t figured out how to do that yet.

   Thanks for the resources!
Ileane @ Basic Blog Tips on July 27th, 2010
4. 

   Ileane, thanks for your comment, glad you find this new resources.

   About your question in Stock Exchange even in the advance mode, the search results always show in the first row iStockphoto images. I guess is the only downside. : )
Javier Cantero on July 27th, 2010
5. 

   What a great resource!
pharmacy tech on July 29th, 2010
6. 

   Thanks for the information. Now I can explore other place for pictures.
Aidan on August 18th, 2010
7. 

   A few months back I did a post for finding premium and free images on the web and I hadn’t heard wikicommons or morgue file.

   I mostly use stock exchange, but I get tired of the limited images there. So now I can try out these other sites for more images when needed. Thanks for sharing this list.
element321 on August 20th, 2010