: Where can I get images for commercial use? I am running a web site design service for local small business owner. I want avoid legal issues on the images I use. Usually, the images found

@Yeniel278

Pixabay.com offers over 1,000.000 photos, cliparts, vector graphics, and even video footage - all of which published under Creative Commons CC0 as public domain. So the pictures may be used worldwide without giving credits and without asking for permission for any purpose and without limitation.

According to Pixabay's terms, it's the uploaders responsibility to make sure contributed images are legal. Additionally, the images are checked manually upon upload. You can also use "Google Search by Image" to check the origin of possibly illegal images on your own. All in all it's very safe, but if course, it's not 100%. I'm one of the founders of Pixabay, by the way.

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@Correia448

Here is one more site: freestockphotosgallery.godotmedia.com/ .

About validation of legal risk, the sites say state usage criteria while you go to the download page. You need to follow the criteria, like attribution to ensure that you don't fall into legal issues. Hope that helps.

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@Eichhorn212

www.freeimages.com (formerly sxc.hu) is very good source with royalty free photos


Always ask permission from the photographer if you want to use the Image
In website templates that You intend to sell or distribute.
For creating printed reproductions that You intend to sell.
On "print on demand" items such as t-shirts, postcards, mouse pads, mugs (e.g. on sites like Cafepress), or on any similar mass produced item that would contain the Image in a dominant way.

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@Gail6891361

I did not see dreamstime.com listed above... So here it is!

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@Deb5748823

If you don't mind giving a credit to the picture author, you can search flickr images that use Creative Commons license, and use pictures that do not restrict commercial use.

search.creativecommons.org lets you search photos with Creative Commons license across a few different services. At the moment: Wikimedia Commons, Flickr, Pixabay, Google Images & more.

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@Jessie844

Most of the time images with proper documentation can avoid legal issues there are so many sites having such images, they will provide you the whole uses document on request :


Corbis Images
Istock Photos
Shutter stock
Big stock photos
getty Images





Find free stock Images
16 websites with Free Stock Images for commercial use




Hope this will help.

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@Turnbaugh909

A Google search for "stock photos" will turn up dozens of sites you can purchase images from.

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