LibGuides: Find & Use Images-Student Guide: Free Images Online

More Free Image Sites

Visual Hunt
Provides photos are licensed as CC0 (do whatever you want), Creative Commons and in the Public Domain.
Pixabay
Searchable free photo collection similar to Shutterstock; some images are lower quality.
IM Free
IM Free is searchable, and also has collections to sort through if you scroll down on the home page. While modern and high quality, they have a limited amount of images. Attribution is required for images pulled from this site.
Gratisography
Bizarre and beautiful free photos, no attribution required.
Unsplash
This site sends you 10 free high res photos every 10 days if you register. You can also browse (but not search) their gallery. Mostly landscape type photos.
morgueFile
Nice collection of free photos that cover a large range of topics. The site is not searchable.
PicJumbo
Searchable (there is a hidden search box in the right panel) site of free images.
Blue Vertigo
Links to other sites that offer free assets from images to fonts and vector art.
Stocksnap.io
These images are dedicated to the public domain.

Flickr

Flickr hosts amateur and institutional photography, much of it freely available to use.

Flickr Commons allows you to search for images with no copyright restrictions.
Flickr also allows for searching through images with a creative commons license. After running a search, use the limiter in the top left hand side of the screen to choose an appropriate license.

Source: Fairfield Library [fairfieldlib]. (2010, Dec 21). How do I use Flickr? [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3qcbq_5guc. CC BY.

Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons is a site that hosts images, audio, video and other files.

While Wikimedia is indexed by Google Image Search, it is faster to search this source. To find images that can be lawfully used, click on the media file to take you to the information for that file (see example below). This will list information supplied by the uploaded including copyright status and license conditions.

Source: Wikicommons screen shot.

Google Advanced Image Search

Google's Advanced Image Search allows you to filter images by license.

Source: Fairfield Library [fairfieldlib]. (2010, Dec 21). How do I use Google Images? [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqneOiy9GPc. CC BY.