Images for your Blog Posts – 11 Amazing Free Stock Photo Sites

I have mentioned it atleast a hundred times on this blog that adding images to your blog just add life to your blog. Alot of people really loved my recent posts because I was adding some really good images. So I was getting alot of questions, Balkhis where are you getting all these images from?

Well I finally decided to answer that question. The sources for the images I use in my blog posts are Stock Photo Sites. Considering, I write posts daily, and if I were to buy images from istockphoto – I wouldn’t be getting a whole lot of profit from this site. Obviously I am using free stock photo sites.

Advantage of using these sites

1. You get Free Quality Photos
2. No Link Back required on most (Make sure you read individual image terms)
3. Your posts have life and for free
4. Did I mention free? What are you waiting for, start using them.

Even though they are not very hard to find. Simply google free stock photos, but I thought I should put down the list that I use often.

11 Amazing Free Stock Photo Sites

The list is in order from what I use the most to what I use the least.

1. SXC.hu – over 350,000 quality stock photos by more than 30,000 photographers.
2. Every Stock Photo – 4,331,819 free photos.
3. Stock Vault – 10820 Stock Photos.
4. Image Base – Don’t know the number, but they have some decent ones.
5. Open Photo – Don’t know the number but I check it just incase.
6. Morgue file – Decent collection here as well.
7. Free Range – Tons of cool Images.
8. Photo Rack – 27,881 Files in 149 Categories
9. Free Pixels – 3,297 Images in 37 Categories.
10. Free Foto – 121,099 images with 155 sections organized into 3,351 categories.
11. Woophy – 10820 Stock Photos.

Tips on how to use these images

• Always read the guidelines whether the author requires link back or not. (Most don’t but some do).
• Absolutely don’t redistribute these images or sell these images. Most let you use them on personal / commercial projects.
• Never use the image hosted on their server.
• Download the image, and customize it to fit your needs. Always save original and then modify the copy of original. (I have 3 (250GB) External HardDrives filled). How do you think that happened?
• Always use the right padding for your images.
• If author requires credit, then link back to them.
• Don’t overload your posts with images, use them moderately and just have fun.

Well I don’t think there is a whole lot to say there. Now you all know how I was getting alot of images for my posts. You can also get these images from these sites, and I am sure with relevant images, your posts will look a whole lot better. Enjoy and have fun.