Free Stock Resources

Below are some of our favorite sites for free stock images to use in your school projects. Some of the best sites even allow free use of their images for commercial work- which makes them safe for use in competitive projects as well!

  • Pixabay.com – Currently our favorite resource by far! Great images, all CCO!
  • Pexels.com – another amazing site with all resources CCO.
  • StockSnap.io – Free images with a good search, all free and CCO!
  • NegativeSpace.com – Love this site. Beautiful pics, high quality, and all CCO! Really great for backgrounds.
  • Morguefile.com – Good selection, and all are free to use for non-commercial purposes.
  • KaboomPics – Awesome set of quality images free for personal or commercial use!
  • Pikwizard – “Free stock photos for all your creative needs.”
  • Gratisography – Free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects.
  • unprofound.com – A very cool resource- the images are sorted by color!!
  • Unsplash – This one commonly integrates as a third-party plugin in other design programs. Great quality and CCO!
  • Freepik.com – This site is really great for free images and vector files. Really great resource for designers!
  • Flaticon.com – Free and premium icons. I used this site a ton when designing websites and infographics.