Stock images can be expensive. And sometimes even If you want to pay for good quality images it’s often hard to find what you are looking at. I am web developer and web designer by profession and I do need some quality images now and then when I am blogging. I was also looking at some quality stock to use on my web design projects too.
I started doing some research on web lately and give it a shot to find some good imagery. I was looking for some high end images to use on technology and web related blog articles.
To my surprise I was able to find fair few website that provided good quality images with very flexible license. I am hereby compiling some website that I found quiet good. Please do keep in mind I was looking at the images related to technical and web related niche.
Picjumbo
Picjumbo was really something I was looking at. Apart from having good quality images with high resolution, the website was quiet easy to traverse. All the images were categorised and navigation images around categories was easy. One of the standout feature of the website test drive image feature which preview how the images can be used in various designs and layout.
Picjumbo does provide some premium features such as membership where you pay 6 dollars per month or by all images in a pack.
Unsplash
Another awesome website with great collections of pictures. All the images are added on unsplash do whatever you want license.
The collection of the images were highly professional and well selected. Website have easy to search by keyword or filter by subject options.
If you are into beautiful landscape, this website is highly recommended. For me I was able to find some good quality images I was looking too. Highly Recommended.
Conclusion
This was quiet a good research for me. I must say I haven’t been up to date. I was surprised and at the same time very happy to find out there were so many options available for getting high quality stock images.
I did found out that there were fair few good websites that provided free imagery with very generous licensing.
When using images for any professional project its best advised to read the license.