When you use bad design, somewhere in the world one good designer cries and clients quietly run away... Everyone knows that design plays an important role in the image of a company or product. And if they don’t know, then they guess that the crooked design for the premium segment will not work. For high-quality design, not only technical specifications and skills are needed, but also high-quality sources, because only a very stubborn and expensive designer can make candy out of candy. Not everyone can afford to take and organize a photo shoot in a day. It happens that you need it right now, in a couple of hours. For such cases, photo stocks were invented. 🔥 Free photo stocks are a place of great competition, because. they are most often used and it takes a lot of time to find interesting options. But they sometimes help out even when you cannot find a suitable option on paid ones.
1. Pixabay - My first and favorite photostock. The site's collection contains not only photographs, but also vector images, as well as videos. Over 2.1 million files that you can modify and use for commercial purposes for free. They say that if you write queries in English, the result will be more interesting.
2. Unsplash - A chic English-language site without Cyrillic support. More than 2 million works of various photographers are collected here. Images are available for download in 4K resolution.
3. Pexels Another site which has not only images, but also videos. All files can be downloaded without registration and used for commercial purposes.
4. Free Images -About 26 popular categories are hidden in the collection of this photo stock, and this is more than 380K free photos. However, to use some images, you will need to take permission from the author (you will learn about this at the time of uploading the image)
5. Foodies Feed - Photostock for gourmets and food niches. It's best not to go there hungry. Photos collected from the best food photographers around the world. Search in English.
Paid + Free
1. Freepik - A site that many will love for the good quality of free resources (images, vectors, psd sources), as well as one of the cheapest paid photo stocks. In order to use files free, you need to attach a special link that appears before downloading the file. There is also a limit for free download - 10 resources per day. And if you want to use more interesting materials, then the subscription price will cost about 54 EUR / year for using 100 resources per day.
2. Adobe Stock - My favorite for finding unusual images and when there is simply no strength to look for something good. It also has free photos, but more often they go there for paid resources, and they are great there. Such happiness will cost from S$ 39 (10 standard assets a month) / per month (S$ 65 77 /mo 25 standard assets or 3 HD videos a month)
3. Istock - Long-lived photostock. It stores both video materials and vector and raster graphics. The minimum subscription starts at $29/month for 10 files.
4. Depositphotos - The photo stock contains about 187 million different files (images, music, videos, vector illustrations). The minimum subscription will cost you $9.99 / month for 10 images. Of the pluses - the balances from the previous month can be transferred to the current one + additional images can be purchased for $ 1.
5. Shutterstock - One of the largest paid photo stocks, which stores more than 350 million files (images, music, video, vector graphics). Files can be searched in multiple languages. And also download images with a watermark to try to place it on the layout. After all, a subscription to 10 resources per month will cost $29 / month.