Are you looking for free stock photos? Need wallpaper for your desktop or illustration for your blog? Want to spice up your commercial website design project? Looking for inspiration? Fortunately, there are plenty of websites with free stock photos that won’t require you to pay a dime. Here you’ll find the best websites where you can get high quality stock photos for free. Some of the sites included in the list offer free stock photos only for personal use. Be sure to check stock photography site licensing policy before using photos. If you’ve got a favorite and it’s not here, add it in the comments.

Stock.Xchng
Stock.XCHNG is one of the leading free stock photo sites on the Internet featuring over 400,000 quality photos as provided by the site’s more than 2,500,000 users. Photos are available in five different sizes for print or web. Visitors can see the popularity of an image by viewing how many times the photo has been downloaded. In order to upload and download photos, as well as participate in the forum, a registration is required.

PhotoXpress
PhotoXpress is one of the largest free premier-quality stock photos banks featuring more than 350,000 photos in 22 categories with up to 1,000 new images being added every day. It provides a vast and legal image library for both personal and professional use – including Web site design, brochure illustrations, advertisements and editorial illustrations. After registration you can download up to 10 images a day.

Freerange
All stock photos at Freerange are at least 2400 x 1600 pixels in resolution and can be used for personal and commercial use. If you need a larger version of the photo you can ask Freerange administration and there’s a chance they can help you. Registration is required to download high-quality, high-resolution free stock photos and textures. Photographers contributing to Freerange get paid when users click on the ads that appear next to their submissions.

Photl
Photl has large collection of exclusive free stock photos of high resolution for commercial purposes with up to 15,000 new photos monthly. After a registration you will be able to download 35Mb of stock images per day. Most photos are available in 4 different sizes from small (1024×1280) up to very large (5616×3744). Photl search based on color can be very useful to find right stock photos.

Dreamstime free stock photos
Free section of premium stock photography provider contains more than 20,000 high quality and high resolution photos. Registration is required to download images. Since this collection consists of photos donated by professional photographers selling their photos on Dreamstime, you can find really fantastic free stock photos on this resource.

Stockvault
Stockvault provides more than 13,000 free copyright free photos from over 3,600 photographers for personal or non-commercial use. Registration is not required to download free stock photos at Stockvault. Besides photos Stockvault has collection of free website, logo templates and clipart. Site also has helpful Photoshop and CSS tutorials, videos and articles.

morgueFile
morgueFile offers a large collection of more than 200,000 free stock photos which can be used in commercial or personal projects without permission or credit from the photographer. You can search photos on the site by keywords, categories, rating, color, geotag. Site also provides free online photography courses and sponsor a scavenger hunt and photo competition.

FreeDigitalPhotos
FreeDigitalPhotos uses freemium business model. That means that small photo size (640 x 417) is available for free download without registration but for larger image size you have to pay (5$ for medium and 10$ for large). Site organizes its thousands of photos into easy-to-find categories and sub-categories. You’re free to use photos in corporate and personal projects.

Public Domain photos
Public Domain photos provide more than 5000 Free Stock Photos an 8,000 vector cliparts. All photos on this web site are public domain. You may use these images for any purpose, including commercial. But if some photo contains logos and products you need to be careful. Using someone else’s trademark commercially can get you sued.

Image After
All stock photos from imageafter.com can be freely downloaded and used in you commercial or personal works. The size of the stock photos is in range from 1600×1200 up to 2560×1920. Although some images are fit for wallpaper on your desktop, most images are raw unprocessed.