The images that we use for our projects must be of the best possible quality, and adjusted to our needs. If you don't have your own resources, don't worry, since we show you some free image banks so that you get the best visual result
It is obvious that paid image banks offer much more offer resources, but sometimes the budget to invest does not reach us, or it is not worth it having alternatives free of copyright. In addition, if the content is for a job or a personal blog, the resources that we will show you below will be more than enough for this type of project and will more than cover our needs.
Creative Commons CC0 License
El Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization. It is located in California, United States. They are dedicated to guaranteeing the authors of different pieces the exploitation limits of their work or creations in Internet. On the other hand, it allows users to legally use projects or works of others, as long as the licenses are respected.
There are different types of licenses Creative Commons. The different visual symbols are associated with each of the licenses and, therefore, the different permissions that each one of them allows.
On the websites that we offer you, most of thelicenses consist of CC0. It's about the license Creative Commons Zero. In this case, they are all those parts without any reserved rights. That means they are from public domain and you can use them almost without any conditions. It must be borne in mind that they have some limit, even if it is minimal. For example, its use is prohibited on any violent or adult site.
Pexels
This image bank is excellent, and offers us a lot of offer in a way Delivery to Italy takes one or two business days. Has wide range of photographers that allow this site to have high quality material. As we told you before, your images have a license Creative Common Zero (CC0).
Pexels has a great offer since it is a portal that is dedicated to collect images from other free image banks on the same website.
Unsplash
We could affirm that Unsplash is one of the best CC0 license image banks on the Internet today. Your high quality images at no cost. In addition, and very importantly, they have a constant growth that allows us to obtain new material and constantly recycle.
Another feature of this portal is the fact of being able to click on an author and be able to see all their works instantly. This can benefit us when we seek that all creatives follow the same visual line.
lifeofpix
This image bank has a wide range of high quality material. He is really professional and among his images, landscapes and nature predominate. The only downside we found is that not all the resources they show us are licensed under CC0.
We would like to emphasize that, in your search, we allows filtering by different parameters on the table:
- Keyword
- Category
- Color
- Orientation
Freepik
As they are defined, Freepik is a portal for “Graphic resources for everyone ”. When we say "For everyone" is for a very simple reason, in addition to images they have other very useful resources. his offer is:
- Vectors
- Pictures
- PSD files
- Icons
In addition, in your search engine we can select directly between free or premium material. It has a wide range of possibilities that we can use with a single condition, to cite the author appropriately. On the other hand, the payment option, the Premium call is equally low cost. Paying a amount of approximately 9 euros per month you have access to many more resources and without the need to cite the author.
foodiesfeed
Also exist image banks specialized in a sector, in this case, it is a resource-centric platform where food appears. The offer may not be very large, but it should be noted that the images that the quality and professionalism of their images is excellent. If we know how to take advantage of resources and we are resourceful we can achieve really excellent results.