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This can be tricky, especially for small businesses or bloggers who don't always have the time and budget to produce quality visual content themselves.
Fortunately, there are now hundreds of websites offering royalty-free images. To save you the research, we have picked our favourites for you.
Below you will find a list of the best free image banks .
Stock Snapis another site offering beautiful photos that don't look too “stock”. The site is easy to use and you can filter searches by date, most viewed, most downloaded or most popular photos.
Pexels is a classic: a comprehensive selection, intuitive categories and enough photos to meet the needs of any project. Pexels also offers a very good selection of videos, which is not necessarily the case for every resource listed here.
Pexels lets you download images in different resolutions, which is especially handy if you need smaller images optimised for the web.
iStock
iStock is clearly one of our favourites! As well as offering a wide variety of very high-quality photos, this royalty-free image bank also lets you download beautiful videos and infographics suited to every need.
iStock is a particularly useful resource for marketers, as the many formats available can illustrate a wide range of projects.
New Old Stock Photosoffers old public-domain photos, often stunning. They are perfect for giving your projects a vintage or traditional feel.
The only drawback of this royalty-free photo bank is navigation, since the photos are not categorised. Even so, it remains one of our favourite sites for finding unique, excellent-quality images.
Gratisography
Gratisographyoffers a mix of whimsical photos ranging from funny to dark. Ideal for illustrating slightly crazy projects or giving your communication strategy a quirky edge.
DesignerPics
DesignerPicsoffers a selection of very beautiful photos that can be used in many contexts.
The images often show objects and rarely people, so they don't impose an overly specific message. They are therefore particularly well suited to projects whose content can seem hard to illustrate (for example a blog post on marketing best practices).
Unsplashis an image bank offering stunning photos that would sometimes not look out of place in a museum.
Unsplash photos don't look “stock” at all. On the contrary, this site specialises in original, authentic images. They are perfect for Instagram or an intimate blog.
Startup Stock Photos
Startup Stock Photosmay be the best source of “business” photos. Perfect for illustrating the world of business and start-ups, the photos are simple but powerful.
The only downside: there is no search function, so browsing is a bit tedious.
Foodiesfeed, as the name suggests, specialises in food photos. It is therefore the ideal resource for food bloggers or cooking websites.
Styled Stock specialises in images of “feminine” products. Here you will find everything you need if you sell beauty products, give health tips or run alifestyle.
Styled Stock also lets you filter images by colour, so you can easily find photos that match your visual identity.
The only weak point? The number of photos, which is relatively small compared with the other free image banks listed here.
