In the multimedia age we live in, videos and photos have come to play an important role in communicating ideas and opinions, even becoming able to influence others to the point that it was difficult to imagine. To understand this, it is enough to point out that social media posts with images can generate 650% higher engagement than text-only posts.
In the business world, images can be the secret to attracting the attention of potential customers in a short period, but if you run a small business, hiring a photographer will be daunting, so I found websites that provide you with what you want, whether for free or for a fee.
Today we show you some of the most famous of these sites:
1- Unsplash
Unsplash provides more than 850,000 high-resolution images for free, and the site has become one of the most popular sites in this field. The site has a license that permits users to use all images published on it free of charge, for commercial and non-commercial purposes, without attributing them to it.
The advantage of this site is that it provides “collections” of images that are sorted, with the help of site users, by topic or category, making it easy for you to find the images you are looking for in the shortest possible time.
2- Pexels
Launched in 2014, Pexels provides high-resolution images for free. It aims to help empower content creators with the beautiful images they need to create amazing products, designs, stories, and websites. Pexels has a license that allows users to use the images on the site free of charge, both for commercial and non-commercial use. You can also edit and publish photos without attributing them to the site.
The site also features images from other similar sites, such as Pixabay and Gratisography.
3- Reshot
Reshot boasts “unique free photos” and “tons of carefully selected images.” Indeed, all images published on Reshot are free to use for commercial and non-commercial purposes.
Reshot
4- Nappy
Like previous sites, Nappy provides a large number of images, but it specializes in focusing on images of black and brown people, and it categorizes images by categories, such as movement, food, people, objects, and work. All images on the Site are CCO license, i.e. you can download them for free, edit, use, and distribute them without any restrictions.
5- Burst
Burst, operated by the e-commerce platform Shopify, provides free images and is also downloadable, usable, editable, and distributed without any restrictions. Similar to Unsplash, the site categorizes images into groups, but you can’t create the groups yourself.
Want to add text, edges, etc. to images?
Let’s say you found the image you’re looking for but need to make some adjustments to it, the following two services are dedicated to that:
6- Canva
Canva is easy to use for photo editing, allowing you to use images to create presentations, social media images, invitations, lists, and more. What is also distinctive is that the site provides you with the most suitable sizes for social networking sites, and it also provides you with free images similar to the aforementioned sites.
7- Pablo
Pablo is part of the online publishing platform Buffer, a simple online photo editing tool. Through Pablo, you can access the Unsplash photo library directly. The site allows you to add filters to photos, with the ability to change colors and add text.
