10 of the Best Free Image Banks

A list of the best free image banks for your web project or social networks. Choose the one that best suits your style.

Where to find photos on the internet

It’s no secret that a good image is vital to capture attention and convey your message.

And the fact is that our brains respond so quickly to images (photos and videos) compared to other types of information (text, audio, etc.), that it is easy to understand why a simple meme can be irresistible and capture 10 times more attention than the same text without an image.

So what can you do if you don’t have enough visual material to capture the attention of your client, user or reader… or the money to pay for it?

Well, get it for free! and in the right way.

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Best free image banks – 2022 list.

Fortunately, there are already hundreds of image banks created to benefit both owners of creative projects and photographers looking to showcase their talent. Best of all, in many of them the photos are free!

Today, thanks to these free image banks, there are thousands of original photos with stunning quality in the public domain.

In this post, I have selected a list of my favorite free image banks, so you can take advantage of them too.

Note: The vast majority of the photos in the free image banks I recommend are free to use without attribution (no copyright) for personal, editorial or commercial purposes.

UNSPLASH

My main source of free photos and my favorite image bank.

If you have a web project and or have heard of Unsplash, you don’t know what you’re missing. This is just one of hundreds of free image banks for your website or blog that you will find on the internet.

What’s more, if you Google “free photos” or “free image banks” it’s likely to be one of the first options you’ll see, as they have over 400,000 high-resolution images, donated by over 65,000 talented and generous photographers.

All of their photos, as well as those from most of the best image banks, are
best image banks, are free and available for download and use even commercially.
download and use even commercially.

So you know, do what you want with their collection of over 400,000 free, high-resolution images from over 65,000 contributors.

Note: Unsplash may not offer the wide variety of options that some premium image banks like Shuterstock have, but its photos are of extremely high quality and it offers one of the best curated selections of free photos in the world, so it’s very likely to become your favorite too.

PEXELS

We could not make this list of image banks without mentioning pexels.com.

Undoubtedly, one of the most preferred free and high quality photo sites
by bloggers.

It has a large collection of beautiful, well organized and excellent quality photos. In addition, they have free and royalty-free videos!

PIXABAY

Pixabay.com is one of the largest free image banks out there.

This site has a huge database of free, high quality images, so large that it sometimes becomes unwieldy.
quality free images, so large that sometimes it becomes unwieldy.

To give you an idea of the style of photographs you will find, we can
say that it is a bit more oriented to traditional businesses and that Unsplash is more for creatives
caters more to creatives, advertisers and bloggers.

A big advantage of Pixabay is that it also offers a good selection of free vectors and illustrations, making it also one of the most popular image banks worldwide.

FREEOGRAPHY

Peculiar, irreverent and creative.

Gratisography can’t compare to any of the previous image bank options we’ve featured. They pride themselves on being the world’s most quirky collection of high-resolution freeware images.

Here you will find a style of quality photographs that you probably won’t see in other image banks.