One of the essential parts when creating a design will be the background image or inserted images. At Edit.org, we show you the best websites to find royalty-free photos so you can create professional and quality results.
Discover the best sites with free stock photos
If you are not going to use your images in a design, you will probably spend hours searching the Internet until you find one that suits your needs and is also copyright-free. If you didn't know, online photos are often subject to copyright, so you could get into trouble if you use one without the owner's permission.
At Edit.org, we have prepared a selection of the best photo banks where you can find everything from photographs to copyright-free drawings and illustrations to make your company's designs. Searching directly on these pages will help you save time.
In addition, the editor itself has an integrated search engine to incorporate these free public domain images, along with various elements and icons, directly into your designs. We tell you how to do it!
Customize a design with public domain images at Edit.org
- Click on any image of this article to enter to the free editor
- Select the design you want to edit for your company or project
- On the sidebar, click on Photos and look for an image you want to insert
- Once on the canvas, customize it as you wish: resize it, add effects, crop it, etc.
- Save the composition on the user profile if you want to make copies or modify the images later
Websites to find free copyright free images to download
- Unsplash. It has more than 300,000 freely licensed images with the Creative Commons Zero (A0) license that allows you to use them for any purpose, even commercial. It is essential to note that the quality and resolution of this page are some of the best, especially the landscapes. It also enables subscribing and receiving a selection of 10 new images every 10 days. You can also share your photos so that other users can use them.
- Pixabay. It is perhaps the best well-known webpage of this kind with more than 420.000 royalty-free images. It has a wide range of photos, vectors, illustrations, and photographs distributed among different categories. The photos are published under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain license, so they can be used for public and private purposes without needing permission or attribution. However, the chosen image may be protected by trademark, publicity, or privacy rights. You should make sure in each case before using it, although it won't take more than a minute.
- Pexels. Also subject to the Creative Commons Zero (A0) license, you can find more than 3,000 new images for personal and commercial purposes without having to attribute copyrights to anyone. The page only asks not to use those in which people are perfectly identified for purposes that may be offensive to the individuals who appear in them after modifying the initial photo.
- Freepik. It contains vectors, photographs, icons, and illustrations fully editable if you have a vector graphics editing program such as Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape. It also allows the use and modification of these illustrations in personal and commercial projects, web pages, etc., as long as the author is mentioned.
- Flickr. On this platform, you will have to filter yourself by the type of license that the photos you are looking for have and if they are suitable for commercial use or modifications, adapting to the different sorts of user needs.
- Stocksnap. On this website, you can find royalty-free images under the Creative Commons CC0 license. Therefore, use the photographs for private and commercial uses without the author's permission.
- Gratisography. Outstanding for their excellent aesthetics and quality, the photographs have been uploaded under the Creative Commons Zero license that allows free use without the need to attribute to the author, even though the page encourages you to do so.
- Freeimages. Finally, on this webpage, you can find both free images without copyright and PRO images. The first ones can be used for personal or commercial use without attributing authorship. However, if you need to use them with editorial purposes, you must mention the author. There are also restrictions when using content as part of a brand.
Specifically, On the Edit.org search engine, you can find millions of royalty-free images from various sites such as Unsplash or Pixabay, so you don't have to worry about the authorship of the photos you insert in your designs.
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