Here are the best and most helpful sites where you can find free high resolution pictures and videos that are all FREE FOR PERSONAL and COMMERCIAL USE. The following sites are personal favorites because they all provide a quality and smooth user experience. No membership required, no misleading clickbait, no pop-up ads.

Most of them are free for commercial use but please double-check the licensing for each site.

1. Unsplash

2. Stocksnap.io

Huge selection of free stock photos and high resolution images. Use the search tool to find the most popular, beautiful high quality photos.

3. Pixabay

4. Pexels

5. Burst.shopify

6. Life of Pix

7. Splitshire

8. Jaymantri

Very high quality photos of mostly nature, landscapes taken by professional photographer Jay Mantri.

9. Reshot

10. Foodiesfeed

In case you’re in need of some high resolution food photos, this site is the place to go!

11. Gratisography

All pictures were photographed by this awesome photographer Ryan McGuire and free of copyright restrictions. They are more stylish than most other free photo sites because they were taken by a photographer. Most of them are remixed and edited.

12. Magdeleine.co

Not as many photos, however decent quality and all are very stylish.

13. New Old Stock

This site doesn’t have as many photos as the previous posts. Their photos are mostly black and white and have a vintage feel to them.

14. Graphic Burger

Extremely helpful and resourceful site, a very wide range of collection of many design resources including high quality photos. Just type in the search bar “photo” to filter out the options.

Want to use the your stock photos in practical ways? Go to our Overview of Visual Design with Adobe Creative Cloud workshop to see what you can do with your photos in different applications!

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