Sometimes finding the right images to use on your website can be as difficult as writing the content itself. Not only do the images for your website to be the right orientation – portrait/vertical or landscape/horizontal – but they also need to be high quality and large enough so that they won’t appear fuzzy when used on your site.
Because we understand the struggle, we’ve decided to share some of our favorite websites for finding high resolution stock photos to help ease the process.
Free Stock Image Sites:
- https://unsplash.com/
- https://pixabay.com/
- https://www.pexels.com/
- https://www.videezy.com/
- https://stocksnap.io/
- https://negativespace.co/
All of these listed above are free image sites, meaning you do not have to pay to use the images they host or provide the proper attribution when you use them on your website.
Paid Stock Image Sites
There are also some wonderful paid stock image website like:
Again, these sites do not allow free downloads of their images like the sites in the first list. However, they do provide a much larger photo bank to choose from which can make it much easier to find that “perfect photo.”