Free resources, Free stock photos and video

Unsplash

A large library of high-resolution photos that are free to use commercially, with no attribution required.

Category
Free stock photos and video
Cost
Free, no account needed to download
Website
unsplash.com

What Unsplash is

Unsplash grew out of photographers publishing their work under a permissive licence, and it is now the first place most people look for a hero image. The photos lean editorial and atmospheric rather than corporate: real rooms, real light, few staged handshakes.

You can download without an account, and the licence lets you use a photo commercially and modify it without crediting the photographer. Crediting is still the decent thing to do, and the download dialog makes it one click.

Good for

  • A hero image for a landing page or an article header
  • Backgrounds and textures where mood matters more than a specific object
  • Social posts and presentations that need to look considered

Worth knowing

  • You may not sell the photo as it is or build a competing stock service from the library.
  • The most popular images are genuinely everywhere — search for the specific object and scroll past the first screen.

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