Best Sites For Finding Royalty Free Stock Photos

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Royalty Free Stock Photos and images are one of the most important and valuable resource for a webmaster. “Free” in this context means “free of royalties (paying each time you use an image)”. It does not mean the image is free to use without purchasing a license or that the image is in the public domain.

In simpler terms, you have to buy these stock images and then you can use it multiple times (with some number limits). There is no time limit on when the buyer can use an image or no one can have exclusive rights of a Royalty-free image (the photographer can sell the image as many times as he or she wants).

With many big companies in stock photography business we have picked up the best out of 100′s around the web. We will keep this list updating as the time progress and the industry changes.

If you have any website you want here to be added please drop in the link and few words about that site. We will add it for sure.  Here are the best sites for royalty free stock photos and images.

Flickr

Flickr Creative Commons - many of their users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license

Flickr certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Its a Yahoo product and its the best service you will get for sharing photos. The Creative Common Attribution License is very clear and you have many options to choose from. With 50+ team members Flickr is the most popular website on internet in terms of photo search.

Dreamstime

Collection over 8,691,513 images | 2,378,797 users | 92,965 photographers

You can find a large variety of Royalty-Free stock images. There terms and conditions are very easy to understand, so that you can ensure good quality images with no other worries about licensing.

Stock.XCHNG

the leading free stock photo site!

Stock.XCHNG is under new management! Getty Images has acquired or own the world’s best free stock site. SXC has a long history and a great community.

iStockphoto

Its member-generated image and design community

iStockphotos has royalty-free stock photography, vector illustrations, stock video footage, audio tracks and Flash® files, which makes them a great option if you are a webmaster. The cost of all starts pretty low as $1 for photos. You can choose different image sizes according to your needs.

Fotolia

Fotolia is a microstock photography agency that is based in New York

Fotolia is a worldwide social marketplace for royalty free stock images, allowing individuals and professionals to legally buy and share stock images and illustrations. Fotolia offers the largest image bank of free and affordable royalty free photos and illustrations perfect for any medium, web or print. Photographers and designers constantly update Fotolia with thousands of new photos and illustrations each day, while photographers and designers receive commission from each photo sold and revenue from advertising on the free section.

Gettyimages

Getty Images, Inc. is a stock photo agency, based in Seattle, Washington, USA

Some of our most popular stock photography collections are trend-researched, art-directed and shot by professional photographers, all in-house.

Freedigitalphotos

Every image is free, with an option to buy high resolution versions for use in print or graphic design.

Royalty free photos and illustrations for websites, newspapers, magazines, video and TV productions, iPhone applications, PowerPoint presentations, forums, blogs and school work.

Freefoto

FreeFoto.com is made up of 130606 images with 175 sections organized into 3582 categories

Its the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet (link back and attribution required). If you want it for off-line use then its not commercial you can download the web size images for free.

Photos

leading site for professionally shot royalty-free photos, available by subscription

Professionally shot royalty-free photos, available by subscription. For one low price, you can download just the kind of stock images you need. Photos.com is a division of Getty Images.

Jupiterimages

comprehensive photo library covering royalty-free images and stock illustration

Fresh creative solutions, from top collections like Digital Vision, Photodisc and Stockbyte. 10% off until 30 June 2010. To claim your 10% discount, just enter promo code 6PNPC46N when you make your order.

Photocase

stock photography marketplace, the home for creative stock photos.

Stock photography marketplace, the home for creative stock photos. Buying photos or selling photos, Photocase is the right place. Photocase is a strictly curated stock photography platform focusing on modern, creative photography.

Freeimages

More than 5000 original stock photos all for free

Resource of digital stock photographic images for use by all. All images in our collection are free to use on websites and printed materials. But you must give the link back and credit for the photo as per there terms.

User Submissions

Rgbstock by Dave

RGBStock.com has a wide range of high quality stock photos

Morguefile

Stockvault

That’s it I hope you must have liked my selection of these royalty free stock image websites. If you use any other website which should be in this list, please don’t hesitate in commenting and we will add the site for you.