Officially recommended by Shopify! Top 10 Independent Station Photo Material Websites!
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When an independent website is established or a new product is put on the shelves, it is often difficult to find in the major search engines because there is no suitable picture material.
But the results are often unsatisfactory. The pictures are either too small, low resolution, or of poor quality to be usable, or because the pictures are watermarked and expensive. It seems that simply looking for pictures often requires us to invest a lot of time and energy, and the final result is not necessarily satisfactory to us.
Sometimes, on an independent website, an excellent, high-quality picture can give customers a good impression, retain customers, see more products, and even complete conversions.
After learning about the needs of merchants for high-quality images, Shopify officially sorted out ten useful free or easy-to-use image material websites.
1.Burst
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Burst is a free image website officially provided by Shopify. The website image library contains thousands of high-resolution images taken by photographers around the world, updated weekly with high-definition photos. These public domain photos are free for commercial or personal use, whether you are a designer, blogger, or entrepreneur who needs beautiful stock photography.
The site has a search function where you can search for keywords or find the images you want by popular categories. Another handy feature of Burst is its "Business Ideas" section, where you'll find photos sorted by market business categories, such as photos of women's fashion, art supplies, socks, and more.
2.Pixabay
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Pixabay is a free gallery site with over 2.2 million images, videos, and audio available for free download. Pixabay provides royalty-free photos from contributors that can be modified and used by anyone without any conditions.
Images on Pixabay contain tons of themes. All photos are released under a Pixabay license, which is similar to the Creative Commons CCO, but with stricter moderation.
3.Unsplash
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Unsplash has over 2.5 million beautiful photos taken by photographers around the world. All images are free for any use you wish, and Unsplash updates images daily for download. As long as you sign up for a free new account on Unsplash, you can use the photos above and support iPhone, iPad or computer access.
4.Pexels
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On the Pexels website, pictures and videos licensed by Pexels can be downloaded for free, similar to the CCO certificate. You may download, copy, forward and modify photos licensed by Pexels. The Pexels website has hundreds of thousands of licensed images, handpicked from photos uploaded by the Pexels community. All photos are tagged, searchable, and easily found on the site's discovery page.
5.Shutterstock
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Shutterstock is a leading provider of licensed images, vector graphics, illustrations and audio for businesses and consumers around the world. Shutterstock has a community of over a million creators and tens of thousands of innovative creations are added every day.
To date, customers have downloaded over 1 billion images, videos and music on Shutterstock. It has more than 300 million free images and customers in more than 150 countries.
6.Getty Images
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Getty Images hosts 200 million images, editorial photography, videos and music on its servers. Getty Images is more for companies and creative professionals in advertising and media.
Most images are not free - you have to pay a license fee to use them. However, you can use some images for free through Getty's embed feature, which is for non-commercial use only. Free images have a Getty Images watermark at the bottom.
7.Canva
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The acclaimed graphic design tool Canva also offers free images on its website. The Canva website offers millions of paid and free photos to download or use in the Canva platform's design editor. Instead of navigating through searches, you can find the images you want based on photos and colors.
8.iStock
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iStock, owned by Getty Images, is another leading photography site. It offers millions of popular photos, illustrations, clip art, video and audio. It is known to provide certain benefits to creators. While you'll have to pay licensing fees for most assets, iStock does offer some free photos each week for customers to download.
9.Freepik
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Freepik is a great free stock photo site for creators looking for professional Photoshop templates and stunning images. The site has more than 4 million titles available for download, from vectors to illustrations. Commercial or personal use of Freepik images requires attribution.
10.Picjumbo
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Picjumbo is a free stock photo website created in 2013 by designer and photographer Viktor Hanacek. He created this site after all other photo sites rejected his work for "lack of quality".
Today, picjumbo offers thousands of high-resolution images, as well as social media elements and other free designs. Images are easily found in different collections, so you can view the same images from different collections and find the best free images for your projects.