Free Images & Textures
Do check out Indezine Photos - although it is not a free site, you can find some samples.
Reviewed: Geetesh Bajaj
Date Created: March
11th 2008
Last Updated: February 23rd 2009
Introduction
Free Images
Photo Communities & Resources
Free Textures
Image Searches
Introduction
Several websites allow one to download free images for non-commercial usage, although many even allow unrestricted commercial usage as long as any content is not redistributed or resold.
Whatever be the case, make sure you read every disclaimer or agreement on a site before you download from to make sure that no copyrights are being infringed. If any copyright info is not clear or obvious, you can always email a contact address to find out more.
Most of the content is only 72 dpi - also almost all free content is the work of amateur photographers using digital cameras.
On this page, you'll find links to various sites that allow download of free images and textures.
Free Images
morgueFile is a public image reference archive that allows both private and commercial usage of images.
Yotophoto indexes several "copyleft" sites and provides a unified search interface.
stock.xchng contains thousands of free photos that you can use for both personal and commercial purposes.
Microsoft's Clipart and Media page has an extensive selection of free images to download for users of Microsoft Office applications.
FreeFoto.com is among the largest collections of photographs for private non-commercial use.
At Backgrounds Archive, you can download free tileable and desktop backgrounds and wallpapers in both widescreen and regular resolutions.
Free Images is a resource of photographic images for free use on websites and printed materials.
Imageafter is a free images and textures database for both personal and commercial usage.
Gimp-Savvy has more than 15,000 free photos and images consisting of over 1Gb of data.
Bigfoto provides royalty-free images for non-commercial use.
The NSSDC Photo Gallery has space related images including photographs of planets, astronomical objects and space missions.
Images of the World has an extensive selection of low-res travel photographs.
Free Stock Photos contains photographs from a variety of sources - the images are royalty free for personal and non-profit use.
Intuitivmedia is no longer free, but they do have a low priced subscription model.
Photo Communities & Resources
Webshots Community has photographs submitted by members from all over the world.
Flickr is an online photo community owned by Yahoo!
Photo-Guide has links to several image repsitories including both commercial and non-commercial sites.
Free Textures
You'll find over 800 tiled textures at the Ppted background archive (not free).
In Texture provides royalty free textures for private and commercial use
The Forrest.cz texture library has excellent collection of textures available.
Mega-Tex Studios has downloadable textures for 3d builders and skinners in various categories.
The Texturator site has tiled realistic textures.
Image Searches
Ditto provides a visual search facility of the web.
Google Image Search is among the most comprehensive visual searches available online.
The Internet Image Search Engine looks through 6 image search engines.
