Gone are the days when using stock images for your website was only for people and businesses that had deep wallets.
These days thanks to so many copyright free stock image websites you are able to get yourself plenty of high quality copyright free images.
In this article, I’m going to go through the top websites that can provide you with images that are not only free but allow also allow you to modify those images to your own liking.
What does copyright free images mean
By having copyright free images entitles you to use the images however way you want to use them. Be it in advertising on blogs or even modifying them to your needs.
Simply put the images are shared with everyone to do anything that they desire to do with them.
Which is excellent news for people starting blogs and websites with small budgets.
Because you can find millions of incredibly high quality images to make your website stand out to your visitors.
Now, something to take into consideration when downloading pictures is checking out the licencing on the images.
There are different types of licences but the one you should be looking out for is the CC0 licence
If the image falls under the CC0 licence than like mentioned before the picture is **free for personal and commercial use**.
All without asking for permission or setting a link to the source.
The websites I will be providing below all fall under that CC0 Licence which saves you plenty of time trying to figure out what you can and can’t do with the images.
List of Copyright Free Image Sites
Over the years I have been searching for many copyright free image websites and every year more and more popped up online.
This is really fantastic because I ended up getting all the images I ever needed for all the websites that are created.
But out of all those websites that I have used there are a few that stand out more than others and I continually go back to them.
The thing is though if you are searching for a very specific type of image you might as well open up all the pages and search this chances are you’ll find something that is perfect for your needs on one of these websites.
The websites provided are in no particular order and in all honesty, you can use each and every single one of them to find incredible content.
Copyright Free Images In Google
If you use Google quite often and are in search of copyright free images than it is actually quite easy to get some high-quality pictures that have been marked for reuse.
Only thing to take into consideration is that sometimes Google can be wrong so I advise that you should check the licencing on each individual image that you plan on using for your blog.
This will simply save you any hassle in the long run.
Finding Copyright Free Images in Google
- Open up Google Image search and search for images you are interested in using
- Click on tools under the search bar which opens up a set of options
- Click on the usage rights drop-down menu
- Click on Labelled for reuse
Each one of these websites is filled with hundreds of thousands of copyright free images. Some even contain high-quality 4k and HD video which you can use for your own personal videos.
But my personal favourites when it comes to images are Pexels and Pixabay.
These two websites have been around for a while and have amassed a huge amount of pictures that of extremely high quality.
Once you download them the pictures are going to be quite enormous in size and you wouldn’t want to place it onto the website as they are.
This is because they will use up too much bandwidth and significantly reduce the speed of your website.
That is why you should really consider optimizing your images to improve your website’s performance.
If you have a WordPress website there are plenty of plug-ins that you can use as well to compress your images and help them load faster.
But in the end, you do end up with incredible images that will seriously help out not only with your search engine optimisation but also with user experience.
After all image with plenty of quality pictures is very visually pleasing, especially when the images are very high quality.
Conclusion
I truly believe that these days to build and visually pleasing website with plenty of incredible content doesn’t have to be at all expensive.
After all, most likely the biggest cost you are going to have to undertake is your hosting which you can buy out for multiple years and save big time.
Everything else is either free or cost very little and with the increase of copyright-free images and videos you no longer have an excuse to why your websites aren’t visually pleasing.
I hope this article was helpful to you and if it was I would love it if you shared it with others who also would find it helpful.
Additionally, if you found it helpful or have something to suggest please leave a comment below as I would love to hear from you and if you have any questions I’ll also answer them.
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