Let’s face it, stock images used to be dreadful. The same, cheesy images of people pointing in boardrooms, or gazing lovingly at each other on a beach. UGH. It’s no wonder so many people started to “borrow” images they found on Google…and then got hit with nasty old copyright fines. Ooopsie. You may think your website will never get caught out, or the original image owner won’t mind. But unfortunately, that’s often not the case.
SO. What can you do, to get images that look great, don’t cost anything, and won’t get you fined?
Easy. Take a look at these amazing sites, where you can grab yourselves some incredible images, royalty free, that you can use to your hearts content.
- Unsplash
- StockSnap.io
- Burst
- SplitShire
- Negative Space
- Stokpic
- Kaboompics
- Freerange
- Fancy Crave
- Life of Pix
- Pexels
- Gratisography
- Pixabay
- Reshot
Check them out, and let us know what you think (and if you find them useful). I’d also love to hear about any others you find along the way – comment below and keep in touch!