Added Value
Web Services

The following sites offer photos and/or illustrations -

updated 4/9/2021

• Wunderstock - Wunderstock is both a free photo library and a photo search tool. Use it to quickly find inspiring free visuals for a variety of uses. You can even edit images before downloading. Most photos are available under a public domain (CC0) license. You can use these images free of charge any way you would like, even commercially. No attribution is required.
• Pic Jumbo - Beautiful FREE stock photos. Download free stock photos, backgrounds, and images in high‑resolution for personal and commercial use. Search by category, tag, or keyword.
• Unsplash - Beautiful, free photos. Gifted by the world’s most generous community of photographers.
• Morguefile - Free images for creatives, by creatives. A postproduction file, over 350,000 free stock photos for commercial use.
• Pixabay - Stunning free images & royalty free stock. Over 1 million+ high quality stock images and videos shared by our talented community.
• Pikwizard - Stunning library of over 1 million stock images and videos. Royalty free and safe for commercial use, with no attribution required
• StockSnap.io - Beautiful free stock photos. Hundreds of high- resolution images added weekly. Free from copyright restrictions.
• SnapWire Snaps - 7 more free beautiful photos every 7 days. License and commission photos from 200,000 of the world's most talented photographers
• Public Domain Pictures - "A repository for free public domain pictures. Free royal stock photos. All pictures are public domain. Free for commercial and personal use. "
• Dreamstime Free Images  - Download high resolution Royalty-Free and public domain (CC0) images for free. Note that the bulk of Dreamstime photos are NOT free. Be sure to choose the "Free Images" tab in the top menu.
• Free Digital Photos - Search for free AND premium stock photos and illustrations. Many ways to filter your search. Royalty Free photos for business and personal use. Our free photos and illustrations are ideal for business, personal and educational use. Every image is free, with an option to buy larger images at reasonable prices.
• Free Images - Find and download free stock photos - all free for personal and commercial use
• Wikipedia Commons - a collection of 54,204,819 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute. NOTE: "Freely usable" does not always mean public domain. Check license notes for each image.
• Free Range Stock - Photos and illustrations licensed for commercial use. No attribution required! Contributors welcome!
• Free Photo Bank -FreePhotoBank is a free stock photo site. Feel free to download pictures (up to 2048 pixels, Creative Commons licence) but you must link back to FreePhotoBank !
• ImageFree - Must register (free) and log in. - "Get access to the best collection of member generated royalty-free images, at the world's best prices."
• IM Creator/Free -A curated collection of free web design resources, all for commercial use.
• Stockvault
• RGB Stock -
• Ancestry Images   - Free image archive of historical prints - ...provided as a free image resource for historians, genealogists, and anyone undertaking family history, ancestry or local history research. The costs of running this free resource are mostly met by the small commission from Google adverts, please support my sponsors!
• Big Foto - You can use these images in your work without worrying that you are infringing copyright. You do not even have to register.
• Gratisography - Quirky, Creative, Always Free Photos. The world's quirkiest collection of free high-resolution pictures, comprised of the world's best, most creative images - photos you just won't find anywhere else. All completely free of copyright restrictions. Browse our photo categories or search for something specific below.
• Death to the Stock Photo - free authentic non-stock photos to make your projects look as good as they should. Every month 20 new photos delivered in your inbox. like clockwork. Creative block is on our hit list. We aim to keep things fresh for you every month without fail.
• Free Media Goo  - ​Free Media Goo  - ​Unique royalty-​free stock photos, backgrounds, high-quality illustrations, textures, and more. All free for both unlimited commercial and private use. Royalty-free photography that can be used in print, film, TV, Internet or any other type of media both for commercial and personal use. The content is obligation free – no concern about trademarks or copyright issues either. No need for links and no limits to the number of free photos you can use.
• Hubspot
• Little Visuals - Great photos but no new images since 2013 due to the death of the site creator.
• New Old Stock - Vintage photos from the public archives. Free of known copyright restrictions.
• Pickup Image - Free high resolution pictures - quality premium free stock images, public domain photos. Copy, modify, distribute, and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
• Super Famous - The Superfamous Images are available under the conditions of a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. This means that you can use the work for your own purposes if credit is provided.
• Free MediaGoo - royalty-free photos, textures, backgrounds
• Picography - Gorgeous, High-Resolution, Free Photos - That you can use however you like with our free license.
• Getrefe - check license terms first for allowable usage
• Jay Mantri - "free pics. do anything (cc0). make magic."
• Life of Pix - Free high-resolution photos, no copyrights restrictions for personal and commercial use. New photographies added weekly! All images are donated to the public domain. Warning: no mass distribution allowed.