Free Stock Photo Sites for E-Learning

Looking for some fresh images to use in your e-learning projects but short on budget dollars? You’d be surprised at how many stock photo sites offer free images you can use in personal and/or commercial projects.

The following sites were shared by community members in this thread. We’ve added a few new ones to the list, but we’re always looking for your feedback and recommendations.

Updated: 12-09-2013

Post written by David Anderson

24 Comments

Yasha Afshar

over 10 years ago08/17/13 at 1:35 am (UTC)

Thanks. It's great.

Nancy Connell

over 10 years ago08/17/13 at 9:06 am (UTC)

Thank you! We can use certainly use some of these sites. It would be helpful to have these categorized by personal and commercial use. I would also appreciate hearing which sites are most popular and usable. Great resource!

Kai ...

over 10 years ago08/19/13 at 2:27 pm (UTC)

Awesome, thanks! This adds to my collection.

David Anderson
Author

over 10 years ago08/20/13 at 11:03 am (UTC)

@Nancy - I received a few more comments around breaking the images sites into categories. I'll do that this week. Note: Some users have DM'd me their favorite free stock image sites. I'll update the post this week to include those new site. If you have a site you like, please DM me or add to the comments and I'll make sure to update the list.

Sandra Lawrence

over 10 years ago08/21/13 at 6:43 pm (UTC)

Thanks - what a great list you have provided!

suraj kumar

over 10 years ago08/22/13 at 8:52 am (UTC)

Thanks for sharing. Thats what i needed..

Kay T.

over 10 years ago09/03/13 at 1:11 pm (UTC)

This is wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing!

Carrie Eaton

over 10 years ago09/13/13 at 5:55 pm (UTC)

I'm looking specifically for pictures of medical types...nurses and docs. Any of you have any ideas/recommendations?

over 8 years ago09/29/15 at 5:22 pm (UTC)

Looking for the same types of Pictures...medical, hospital based, nurses, doctors, patient care...

Ejuana Mitchell

over 10 years ago09/20/13 at 7:12 am (UTC)

Thank you - this is great! I was looking at them and found that this site - http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/ - can optionally send you an email with the attribution you need to use with the photos - useful!

Carrie Eaton

over 10 years ago09/20/13 at 9:05 am (UTC)

Thanks so much! I'm assuming I can find the necessary attribution when I get ready to use the pictures. Appreciate your help!

Ashley Warren

over 10 years ago10/04/13 at 6:42 am (UTC)

good list

Ian Cockram

over 10 years ago10/08/13 at 9:39 am (UTC)

Great list! Far better to use some of these great quality photos & images compared to the expensive istockphoto.com that I have used in the past.

John Lee

over 10 years ago10/16/13 at 9:58 am (UTC)

Thanks for the list. Here is another great free stock photos site with Pinterest-like layout http://stockphotos.io

David Anderson
Author

over 10 years ago10/20/13 at 7:18 am (UTC)

@John - Thanks for the resource! Just added to the list.

vicky lee

over 10 years ago10/20/13 at 8:05 am (UTC)

WOW! I just sign up what a great start off. Free images, I am loving this place already. I will be adding this list list to my resource page. Thanks for putting this list together.

Rebekah Massmann

9 years ago04/09/15 at 6:14 pm (UTC)

I just found this site, and it's awesome! They send a free pack every week when you subscribe, and they are really nice and free for commercial use! http://deathtothestockphoto.com/

Linda Vincent-Smith

almost 9 years ago06/30/15 at 9:59 pm (UTC)

Some of these sites are no longer functional and one triggered our corporate malicious site wall. Someone might want to verify these.

Marie-Pierre Dionne

over 8 years ago11/18/15 at 1:15 pm (UTC)

I also had virus warning message. My IS department called me right after. They said it was a very dangerous virus. Maybe you should take down or re-assess this page! These sites do not seem to work: Piccapp FreePixels Stock.xchng StockPhotos But thank you for compiling this list, greatly appreciated.

Tobi Fivon

over 8 years ago11/20/15 at 1:21 pm (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your source list. One more great site for images is http://free-stock.photo

Yinan Chen

8 years ago01/28/16 at 4:57 am (UTC)

Hi, Nice Article Please also check out http://www.goodfreephotos.com for thousands of free hi-resolution public domain photos, appreciate it if you could add it to your site. I always mention resource lists in my blog that include my site. Thanks.

John Mathew

almost 8 years ago06/04/16 at 11:49 am (UTC)

Truly, Creating own graphical images are quite difficult nowadays. But We always need FREE stock images. In this situation, I always use Flickr to get high quality stock images for my blog article like http://www.loudestdeals.com/siteground-coupon-discount/ But after reading this article, now I have more options than before. Thanks for sharing it with us.

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