free stock photos
Reader Interactions
How to Get Totally Free Stock Photos
If you are running a small online business, or if you want to start an online business, one question will definitely come across your mind many times:
"How to get totally free stock photos?"
Stock photos are essential for any website. You always need them in order to illustrate your pages so that they look more attractive and alluring. Also, pages with beautiful images increase the overall visibility of the page. Using images without permission or infringing on the copyright of images is just like stealing someone’s work and it can get you in legal trouble. Most people wouldn’t agree with this argument, but still this is true that one can sue you if you’re using their images without a copyright license. But the question is, once again, how do you get stock photos?
Francis: My Virtual Assistant illustrates my web pages for me, doing the research and optimizing the pictures. Here he shares his secrets of how he finds the needed free images.Use CreativeCommons Images
The first and most simple answer is to use CreativeCommons images. Creative Commons have a royalty-free license, which allows you to share and distribute your work with others.
Under this license, you can use an image on your website, but it’s not true for all online images. It’s only applicable to those images which are shared under a CreativeCommons License.
Also, mostly CreativeCommons license demands that you also credit their work by posting a link back to the image. In other means, you cannot use someone’s work without a link back to where the actual image is placed.
Buy Stock Photo Images
Another straight forward method is to buy stock photos. But as I mentioned earlier, if you are a small entrepreneur, it would be hard to buy lots of images when you have just started your business.
The prices of these stock photos usually start from $2 an image and usually you will need to add at least 2-3 images on each page of your website. This money can add up fast!
So How Can I Get Totally Free Stock Photos?
Well, I have a proven method with which you can download and use stock photos totally for free. And the best part is that you can use them legally.
Here I will let you know how I do it, step by step, to get free stock photos.
- A lot of stock photo agencies offer free sign up promotions, vouchers and coupon codes that allow you to download a set of particular images for free.
- You can search Google for these promotion/coupon codes
- Here are some terms that I have used in order to get some helpful results:
a) Free stock photo coupon codes
b) Free stock photo credits
c) Stock photo coupons 2014
d) Totally Free stock photos
- You will find a lot of free stock photo promotions. Obviously, some of them work, some don’t. Sometimes, I find offers that allow me to download 5 images per day up to 7 days (35 images in total)
- So, I go ahead and click on that link to check if this is the real deal. Spoiler alert: It is 🙂
- This specific example is offering two different promotion codes. One is offering 3 free credits whereas the other offers 5 free credits.
- I am feeling a little optimistic today, so I will go ahead and click to 5 credits offer.
- They ask me to sign up for the service in order to get free credits. And that is what I am going to do.
- Well, where do I find my promotional code that they are asking for…? Let’s go back to the page where I have found the offer… May be I’ll get it from there.
- Here it is, I found it. Will it work…? Finger’s crossed. So, I will go ahead and fill out the form to sign up.
- Hurray, It worked well for me. I found 3 free credits. I was looking for 5 credits, but still 3 are also good.
Getting Free Stock Photos Works With Promotions – How to Get More
Now that you know how you can get totally free stock photos, there are a lot more search results that also offer free photos/credits.
Just check out more websites and get as many free credits as you can!
Websites Where You can Get Multiple Stock Photo Promotions
Apart from the method mentioned above, there are also some great websites that offers free multiple stock photo offers.
I have bookmarked some of them and look into them whenever I need free stock photos.
Research done for you
Here are some of these websites: Go ahead and get yourself some high quality images for your online use! If you appreciate my assistant's research, feel free to drop a comment for him below!GET 100+ STOCK IMAGES ABSOLUTELY FREE
My Virtual Assistant has researched 6 more of the best free stock photo sites with step-wise instructions and promo-codes ready for you!
6 Best Free Stock Photo Sites That Give You Free Stock Images
In another post, I have shown you how you can get a lot of free stock images, here I will discuss some of the best free stock photo sites. These sites offer free promotions and credits and you can download dozens of stock images free of cost.
1. IngImage – 7 Days Free Trial
Ingimage is one of the best free stock photo sites offering a 7 day free trial promotion for all subscribers who signs up to their website using a promotional link.
With their 7-days free trial, you can download 5 images daily up to 7 consecutive days, which means that you can download total 35 free stock photos.
Click Here to Sign Up and Get a 7-days Free Trial
2. BigStock – 35 Royalty-Free Images
Bigstock is also offering a free 7-day trial for signing up to their website using a special promotion link. By signing up to this trial offer, you can download upto 35 free images, 5 images per day for 7 consecutive days.
Click Here to Sign up and Get 35 Free Stock Photos
3. Deposit Photos – 5 Free Credits
Deposit Photos is one of the leading and best free stock photo sites. They have placed more than 26,000,000 images on their website and currently offering a promotion that gets you 5 free credits. 1 download usually costs 1 credit, so you can download up to 5 images with these 5 free credits.
Click Here to Get 5 Free Depositphoto Credits
4. StockFresh Promo Code – 5 Free Credits
StockFresh is another best free stock photo site that offers a promotion of 5 free credits if you sign up to their website and use the promo code: microstockshop.
Click Here to Sign Up and Get 5 Free Credits
5. Dreams Time – 3 Free Credits
DreamsTime is another stock photo agency that gives you 3 free credits when you sign up to their service.
Be sure to use the promotion code rtw123 when you sign up to the website.
Click Here to Sign Up and Get 3 Free Credits
6. Real Stock – 20 Free Credits
Realstock is at the moment new in the top free stock photo site’s list, but they are also offering 20 free credits when you sign up to their website using a special promotion link.
Please follow these steps in order to get free credits:
- Sign up and register to Real Stock Photos
- Click on buy credits and add 20 credits to cart
|
3. |
Go to the cart, use spsdiscount discount code, click apply and then checkout. | |
|
4. |
Agree to the “Purchase agreement” and check out. |
Leave a Reply