Artvee
In the last few years, several major museums and libraries have instituted an open access policy by designating most or all of the public domain art in their collections with a creative commons license making them available for use for any purpose with no restrictions attached. Artvee sorts through and aggregates the best of these images in one location to make them easy to discover and download.
Blend
Blend Images is the world’s leading multicultural commercial stock agency. Founded by a consortium of the most successful commercial photographers and managed by key industry veterans, Blend Images has established itself as the premiere destination for ethnically diverse stock imagery.
Colorcinch
Colorcinch lets you experience the power of AI-based photo effects and editing tools. It’s an all-in-one cretave platform that comes with an intuitive interface. It has an incredible collection of hand-picked vectors, masks, overlays, and stock photos. With Colorcinch, you can turn any photo into personalized artwork.
Design Cap
DesignCap is an online graphic design tool to speed up your creative process to make striking graphic designs for your business, event, social media, and more.
DesignEvo
DesignEvo is a free online logo maker with 10,000+ templates that anyone can use to make a fancy and unique logo in minutes.
FlexClip
FlexClip is an online video editor that enables anyone to create and edit videos for small businesses, social media, family and any other purpose.
Flickr Creative Commons
Many users on Flickr (the image and video hosting site) have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.
FreeImages
Freeimages was launched as an alternative for expensive stock photography. The idea was to create a site where creative people could exchange their photos for inspiration or work.
FreePhotos
FreePhotos is a free resource where you can find creative commons photos for your website or print projects. It aggregates photos from a few stock photo providers and gathers images in one place for search, preview, and download.
Gratisography
Free high-resolution pictures you can use in your personal and commercial projects.
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iStock
iStock by Getty Images is one of the world’s leading stock content marketplaces, offering millions of hand-picked premium images at low prices.
Jopwell
Jopwell is a POC recruiting website and has recently updated their free stock photo repository with an intern edition.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Images of artworks in The Met’s collection that the Museum believes to be in the public domain, or those to which the Museum waives any copyright it might have, for any purpose, including commercial and noncommercial use, free of charge and without requiring permission from the Museum. To identify these images, look for the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) icon directly below the image.
Motionbox
Motionbox is an online video editing tool that exists to help creators and teams make better videos, faster. With Motionbox it’s now easier than ever to simply upload a GIF and resize it to any aspect ratio/size you would like. This is perfect if you want to use some of the premade assets in Story Creator. It saves time by having high-quality content available at all times.
Negative Space
Free, high-resolution photos with no restrictions. Photos can be used for personal or commercial projects–all of the images are CC0 licensed and completely free to use.
Old Book Illustrations
Just what it sounds like–illustrations from old books.
Pexels
Pexels provides high quality free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable, and easy to discover.
Pikwizard
Free images library that can be used for commercial and noncommercial purposes. A pretty decent blog as well.
Pixabay
Download royalty free stock photos and videos and share your own pictures as public domain with people all over the world. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.
RecordCast
RecordCast is an all-in-one online screen recorder and video editor for you to capture anything worth sharing on your screen.
Shutterstock
Shutterstock, a global technology company, has created the largest marketplace for creative professionals to license content (including images, videos and music) as well as innovative tools that power the creative process.
The Stocks
In a single interface, The Stocks, brings together a number of sites and services offering collections of photos, colors, icons, videos, mockups, and fonts. The interface allows you to use each site within the framework.
Unsplash
Collections of free high-resolution photos free to use under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, which means you do not need to give attribution.
500px Creative Commons
500px is a premium marketplace for photography licensing. All of 500px’s inspiring and evocative photography is directly sourced from the world-class 500px community. Separate section of the site provides images licensed with Creative Commons.
VEED.io
VEED is an easy-to-use online video editor. It has tools that are intuitive and make video editing tasks simple. You can cut, crop, rotate, add music, text, even generate subtitles automatically.
The days of downloading clunky video software are over. VEED brings you one-click editing online. It’s used by thousands of content creators – marketers, teachers, creatives – with a focus on producing material that engages and grows audiences. They are adding new features all the time, and have great customer service (with a Live Chat) if you ever need help.
WOCinTech
This is a Facebook page dedicated to providing stock photos of people of color. Photos are licensed as Creative Commons – Attribution, which means you can use the images for any purpose, but you need to attribute the creator.
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