Hi I’m Laura and I am the creator and host of MissionalWomen.com. My husband and I have been missionaries to college students for about 12 years and after many years of not being able to have kids we now have 4 (two through adoption) and #5 on the way (pray for us?). I just love how the Lord is using social media and blogging to make His name famous. What an incredible time we live in!!
Well, I love taking pictures but with four little ones around the house and another on the way I just can’t seem to find the time to take quality pictures and get them off my camera onto the computer. The pictures I do take are mostly of my kids or random things I see, not super applicable for using as a meme for a blog post. I also am a big fan of getting the most done in the shortest amount of time. That’s why I am so grateful for sites that allow you to use their photos, especially ones that let you use them for free.
There are ton of sites that allow you to use their photos as long as you credit the photographer (which is a great thing to do if you’re not short on time) and a ton more that will let you use their photos for a fee. So to help you sort through all the sites, here are 7 sites which allow you to use their photos for free without attribution.
7 Free Photo Sources
1. Free Images
Free Images is a large gallery of more than 350,000 stock photos, searchable and categorized. There is a longer-than-most signup process in order to download a photo but there is a large selection to choose from.
With a free registration, Free Range Stock offers access to free high-quality, high-resolution photos.
3. Pixabay
Pixabay, perhaps my most often go-to, offers copyright-free, cost-free images published under Creative Commons. You can copy, modify, distribute and use the images, even for commercial purposes and there’s no registration required.
4. Stockvault
Stockvault is a stock photo sharing website where photographers, designers and students share their photographs and graphics for free and use them for personal and non-commercial purposes. There is no registration is required.
5. Rgbstock
Rgbstock is a free stock image site created by photographers and graphic artists. Registration is required with only one-click and has a lot of images to choose from.
Gratisography is a collection of free high-resolution images for personal or commercial use. New photos are added weeklys and all you have to do is click to download.
7. Unsplash
Unsplash gives 10 free high-resolution photos every 10 days.
Once you find the image you’re looking for you can then go to Picmonkey.com (which recently added an update that automatically pulls in your own fonts, how cool is that!) or Canva.com and add the text of your blog post title and your domain name.
Wa-la you’ve created a beautiful eye-catching meme which will make your post more sharable on sites like facebook, twiiter and especially pinterest.
What other free photo sites do you use?
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