Having source material for blog images – such as featured images on blog posts and Pinterest images – is a must. Make use of free to use images while your blog is new and growing to keep your costs down. Purchase images as your blog can afford to later on, to help differentiate you from the rest of the pack.

There are updates and more tools pages yet to come – so stay tuned! If there are blog image sources not listed here that you think should be included, please feel free to contact me via social media or this website’s contact form and let me know what you think is missing.

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Free To Use Images

These are the best places to find free images online. My personal favorites are Pixabay and the Noun Project – in part because they offer something more than photos. Details on sites can be found below.

• Foodiesfeed

  License: Creative Commons Zero (CCO) / Public Domain

  If you couldn’t guess from the name, this site is all about free food photography.

• Kaboompics

  License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use

• Noun Project

  License: Creative Commons (CCBY) Attribution 3.0

  The Noun Project is different from every other site listed here in that it doesn’t offer photos at all. Instead, you’ll find here a collection of thousands of icons available for free with attribution or without attribution if you’re willing to pay.

• Pexels

  License: Creative Commons Zero (CCO) / Public Domain

• Pixabay

  License: Creative Commons Zero (CCO) / Public Domain

  I love Pixabay because in addition to photos, it also offers vector graphics and illustrations – often in SVG vector format.

• Skitterphoto

  License: Creative Commons Zero (CCO) / Public Domain

• Stocksnap

  License: Creative Commons Zero (CCO) / Public Domain

• Unsplash

  License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use

Pay To Use Images

If you’re willing to pay for images to help differentiate your content from everyone else, here’s some of the best places online to buy them.

• Adobe Stock

  Adboe offers photos, videos, templates, and 3D assets for sale.

• Bigstock

  In addition to photos, Bigstock also offers video that you can buy and use.

• iStock

  iStock offers both photos and vector images for sale.

• Shutterstock

  As with iStock above, Shutterstock offers both photos and vector images for sale.