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Free Photos for Commercial Use

17 October 2016
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Free Photos for Commercial Use

As you might have seen photos shown in the live Joomla 3 templates preview are for demonstration purposes only and are not included in the download QuickStart packages. Due to license QuickStart package contains mostly only image placeholders with grey background blocks with JoomShaper logo inside.  Unfortunately, we cannot include in Quickstart packages all photos from the original template Demo. But we all know that the first online impression is the most important, so you should always use high quality and 100% legal photos. But from where you can take those HQ photos, without the watermark of course, hmm? Don't worry, we will show you.

Good advice, always double-check image license before you will use found the photo for personal or commercial projects. We suggest using images licensed with a creative commons attribution license CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) and CC-BY-2.0 (Attribution to the creator, free for commercial use). You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking for permission.

Remember if you use copyright licensed photo (even only one) you may pay a big fine for that, after short trail. If you are in doubt you should contact the copyright holder directly, or try to contact the site where you found the content. So it's better to be always sure of your image resource and license.

Unsplash

Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.

Pexels

Pexels provides over 15 000 high quality and completely free stock photos. And every month at least 100 new high-resolution photos are added.

Pixabay

Big collection, over 770 000 free stock photos, vectors, art illustrations, and videos.

Photos.icons8

Beautiful library of royalty-free images and stock photos for personal and commercial use. Download the most consistent set of photography and backgrounds.

Rawpixel

Inspiration images. Free design resources: photos, vectors, psd mockups. Sign up now to access your free images.

Burst by Shopify

Browse thousands of beautiful copyright-free images. All our pictures are free to download for personal and commercial use, no attribution required.

StockSnap

The #1 source for beautiful free photos. High quality and high-resolution stock images free from all copyright restrictions (CC0) - no attribution required.

Foodiesfeed

Resource of free realistic food images in high resolution and free digital goods related to food. Some images in that collection are premium only.

Pngtree

Pngtree provides free download of png, png images, backgrounds and vector. Millions of high quality free png images, PSD, AI and EPS Files are available.

Gratisography

The world's quirkiest collection of free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. All completely free of copyright restrictions.

SplitShire

What would you do if you had amazing royalty free photos? Download free stock photos with no copyright restrictions and real look.

We compiled this resource of different sites so you can get free stock images that fall under the Creative Commons Zero license or similar; We hope it will be a great choice for any Print designer, Webdesigner, Graphic designer, Source-Coder, Template producer, Desktop-Publisher, Creatives, Editor, Journalist, Newspaper and Magazine Publisher. Yes, you can post/use those photos on social media on your private profile, use it as your new header image or even use it for a post on your commercial Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn page.

Chris Hall
Chris Hall
7 years ago
Great list of valuable resources, thanks!
Toufiq
Toufiq
7 years ago
Hi, You are most welcome & Thanks :)
Roger Wymann
Roger Wymann
7 years ago
Awesome list. Many thanks for sharing
Toufiq
Toufiq
7 years ago
Hi, You are most welcome & Thanks
Cristian Iordache
Cristian Iordache
7 years ago
Sometime the images from an website "makes" the website ... so, this is great stuff ... Awesome ...
bigfrontdoor
bigfrontdoor
7 years ago
Thanks for sharing. Since Adobe swallowed up Dollar Photo Club we have been looking for stock sources that were more competitive.

I'd add https://unsplash.com/ to the list, some great stuff on there too!
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onlinelig
7 years ago
Very informative and useful thank you!
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cautama.md
7 years ago
:o thx
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Jonas
6 years ago
thats's a great list. illustration-based designs are getting more popular, so great to see free illustrations resource,
pepperstreet
pepperstreet
4 years ago
[b]Attention![/b] I can't stress it enough: Check out the image/photo license again and again. [u]Do not blindly rely on the provided license infos on those websites![/u] Always try to reach the author and copyright holder. Try to find out the real creator of the material. All those platforms are not responsible for any mistakes, or wrong infos. If you get in trouble, because of a "black sheep", you have to prove you are not to blame. Usually nobody will help you. Nonetheless, always try to get heard by the platform and its support. Maybe you are a lucky guy.
Paul Frankowski
Paul Frankowski
4 years ago
That's why the only trusted method = use your own photos
BOFHJunior
BOFHJunior
9 months ago
thx, great list.

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