Best Stock Photo Sites List

Stock images sites are a great resource to get high-quality HD photos and image which you can use in your designs for various purposes. These images are an ideal source for marketing, advertising, personal or commercial use. It also used for creative projects, publishing websites and blogs, etc.

Paid

Stock photography sites offer great resources for designers to use for creative or commercial purpose. They offer a platform where you can source for images at a cheaper rate than having to hire a photographer and the expenses that come with it.

1.	Shutterstock www.shutterstock.com boasts one of the largest collections of high-quality stock photos and vectors in the world.	Visit
2.	Depositphotos www.depositphotos.com	Visit
3.	Adobe Stock boasts a very large image library and provides a lot of good reasons to entice buyers. Their pricing is very competitive for starters. www.stock.adobe.com	Visit
4.	Dreamstime www.dreamstime.com	Visit
5.	GettyImages www.gettyimages.com	Visit
6.	123RF www.123rf.com	Visit
7.	Stocksy www.stocksy.com	Visit
8.	Crestock www.crestock.com	Visit
9.	Alamy www.alamy.com	Visit
10.	StockPhotoSecrets www.shop.stockphotosecrets.com	Visit

Free

Many of photographs from this sites are free from copyright restrictions or licensed under creative commons public domain dedication. This means you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. However, some photos may require attribution.

1.	Pixabay www.pixabay.com is a website for sharing photos, illustrations, vector graphics, film footage and music, exclusively under the custom Pixabay license.	Visit
2.	Pexels www.pexels.com	Visit
3.	Unsplash www.unsplash.com	Visit
4.	Gratisography www.gratisography.com	Visit
5.	Stockvault www.stockvault.net	Visit

 

What is Stock Site?
Stock Site a commercial platform that brings authors of high-quality licensed stock photos, graphics, vectors and videos together with appreciative buyers.

What is Stock Photography?
Stock Photography are images that are sold with the help of photo stock websites by professional photographers that sell their work on a royalty-free basis. These photos can have wide usage rights or be used for editorial purposes only.

What is Vector Graphics?
Vector graphics is art created with the help of computer software. The elements are made up of shapes and lines based on a mathematical formula. What makes this type of graphic unique is that it can be scaled to any size without quality loss.

What is Raster (or bitmap) graphics?
Raster (or bitmap) graphics are made up of tiny squares called pixels. Once a raster graphic is created at a certain size (i.e. a fixed number of pixels), it can’t be scaled up without losing image quality. The larger the amount of pixels in an image, the larger the file size – they are positively correlated since the computer needs to store information on every single pixel.

What Is Stock Video?
Stock Videos are videos that are about 60 sec made for commercial purposes. These videos are sold on image stock websites for commercial purposes. Usually they are used on TV, Internet advertising, or for interface design.