3| Top 12 best websites for copyright-free and royalty-free high resolution images

A good story or article cannot lack of relevant, original and high resolution images. Right images will not only illustrate the content of the writing more perfectly but it is also easier to get good impressions from readers. However, not all available resources will allow you to get free images with high quality.

Therefore, I would love to share top 12 best websites below for writers to get copyright-free and royalty-free high resolution images. Following that, you are allowed to modify, edit and use the images for personal or commercial purposes without copyright restrictions or licensed under creative commons public domain dedication. Like writers, photographers need respecting, I truly suggest you publicize efforts of all photographers for their works.

Below are top 12 greatest websites for copyright-free and royalty-free high quality images with the link to the web pages.

1. Unsplash

Being used popularly on New York Times, Time Magazine, Unsplash brings a world of extremely impressive images. Moreover, with a huge number of images, about 650 million high quality images on Unsplash, you have a great deal of image choices for your writings or other personal uses.

Unsplash is known as a great community with the collections of the most generous photographers. This place provides free original images with high quality and you do not need to worry about copyrights or licenses.

You can also subscribe to get stunning images to your registered email everyday and it is so fantastic that Vocal allows us to get images directly from Unsplash without opening it in a new tab.

2. Pexels

Pexels provides hundred thousands of high resolutions images and they update everyday. Images on this website will have to go through a filter of Pexels based on strict quality standards. Pexels are considered as one of the best platform providing copyright-free and royalty-free images for all users. However, you could send a tip through Paypal to support and encourage photographers.

Optimizing search function of this website also helps you find nice images quickly and efficiently.

Although Pexels also has paid package but their free resource is huge and amazing enough.

3. Pixabay

With more than 400,000 available images, vetors and art illustration, Pixabay allows you to find high resolution images for both personal and commercial purposes. Unlike Unsplash, if you want to download photos from this website, you will need to sign in, although the process is very simple.

However, not all images on Pixapay are free, some images need to be paid before taking it.

4. New Old Stock

Exactly as its name, New Old Stock is a world of Vintage images - images from previous centuries. This platform provides a good number of original and strange-looking images in back and white. If you like Vintage style or are looking for old pictures without copyright limitations, you must take a look at this website.

However, some images are not free, you could see detail information below each photo.

5. Canva

Canva has a collection of more than 60,000 free templates designed by professional designers for you to choose. All you need to do is to choose a suitable template, add or modify elements or text, upload your own photos to edit and design your own style with user-friendly interface and functions. Therefore, you do not need to be an expert or professional in photography or photoshop, you still can have original and interesting pictures here.

Although many beautiful templates or images on Canva need to be paid to download , they do give 30 day free trial when you sign up, which is really a great opportunity for users to have full experience of paid version before making decision for further use of Canva. I must say, this platform is truly worth learning more about. I use Canva to choose templates and images for most of my writing, especially sharing meaningful quotes which Canva give tons of amazing template.

6. Venngage

Similar to Canva, Venngage is also a free graphic design tool but concentrates more on infographics. This tool will help you to make your content become more impressive. You may choose different templates, topics, categories and elements from Venngage to make your own work with your own style.

7. Pikwizard

Pikwizard allows you get access to their stunning library of over 1 million stock images and videos with loyalty free and safe for commercial use, and no attribution required. You can also take photos and edit on their graphic design tool.

You could find and download free appropriate images without registering or signing in, which is extremely awesome. Although they do provide premium images which require you pay to download, their free collection is huge and amazing for you to take a look. This is worth bookmarking this website to bring you more ideas in choosing images for your various purposes.

8. Cupcake

Unlike its name, Cupcake is a heaven of impressive images about nature and landscape. If you are interested images in these field, this place is for you. All the photos here are taken by Jonas Wimmerström who allow you to use his work freely for your own purposes. You can be very easy to download his high resolution images without signing in.

However, this website do not have a "search" button or function for users to search their key words or a particular kind of an images, which is inconvenient and time-consuming to find a suitable image for your purpose among thousands of images.

9. ISO Republic

Despite known as a quite new platform, ISO Republic might bring you a great deal of splendid images for your writing or blog. You can freely and easily use high quality images in various categories for both personal and commercial use without signing in.

10. Reshot

All of the copyright-free images on Reshot are chosen manually for different purposes of use. Those images are available in different styles and categories, which ensure to bring you new ideas illustrating your writing.

With their searching functions and easy download, this website is also a good choice for you to add to your nice and free image resources collection

11. Kaboopics

Kamboopics is an extremely fine and original collection from Karolina Grabowska. According to the public information on this website, up to 2021 the site has got more than 6 million impressions and more than 21 million downloads.

Photos from Kaboompics appear on many popular sites like BBC, CNN, Forbes, Cosmopolitan, iSpot, BuzzFeed, Hubspot, The Huffington Post, Lifehacker...

Known as one of the most popular source of free images for lifestyle, interior design and specialized bloggers in World, Kamboopics is a great choice you should not miss to get copyright-free and royalty-free special images.

12. Splitshire

Splitshire is a great free image collection designed by Daniel Nanescu with the simple aim of giving life to photographs that would have gone into oblivion without any utility. This site can support everyone with different uses, from designers, bloggers to website creators, social marketing gurus, or even companies.

Till now, this site get more than 2 million downloads for their amazing photos which are copyright-free and cost-free. Therefore, there is no reason why we miss this fantastic site.

Hope the above list is useful for you and bring you more ideas to choose great images for your various purposes.

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