Free Image Download Sites

It is common to download images produced by others from free image download sites to add some variety to your own images on your site.  Many photographers seeing this need have come together, formed teams and created websites where images are periodically posted for free use by the public.  Pictures that are relevant make posts, whether on a blog or social media visually appealing; hence generating shares, discussions, downloads and traffic.  Images convey meaning to a person just by looking at it and aids in remembering a topic.  Images can also be us to clarify data.  

It is now much easier to find completely free images for download, both professional and stock images to use for any purpose, because of the availability of hundreds of free image sites.  Such sites are also very helpful as one may not have images for all categories needed for a project.

• Requirements to find on such image download sites include whether
  
  • images are free to use without permission, credit or attribution, or
  • to use with attribution and link back to image site
  • whether there is paid or pro options
  • giving of email before free download
  
  These are fairly general and reasonable requirements considering the quality of images and ease with which to get them to use for projects.  A few of the sites have been listed below
  
  
• Wikipedia Creative Commons images
• Gratisography
  Pixabay
  Unsplash
  Pexels
• Hubspot
  Death to stock
  Free range
  New old stock
  Picjumbo
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  Free Image Design Sites

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    After selecting a picture from one or more of the above sites the next thing is to edit it by adding some text, resize, enhance, make a collage etc and that’s where the use of free image design making tools come in.  With such tools you can upload a picture you’ve already saved to your p.c from one of the above sites or use some of the already provided templates on these sites to design your pic.  After this the image can be shared to social media or sent by email and additionally saved to your pc right from the design site.   Templates for various uses like social media page or feed cover, banners, e-book cover, presentation is provide.  Images can be saved in jpeg, png, vector and gif forms.

   

  Who can use such tools?

  Non designers and professionals alike.   It is easy to learn to use these tools from tutorials provided  or You Tube  tutorials, of which there are several videos for all the tools.

   

  More features provided on image design tools are: 

  •    Free on site images 
  •    different fonts and/or you can upload your own fonts.
  •    Pre-made template
  •    friendly interface
  •    drag and drop features and several design resources for image saturation and brightness 
  •    document format for ebooks.
  •    unlimited storage for  images.
  •    Crop, flip, rotate and resize features.
  •    Some have limited upload for the free option
  •    free download of image on completion.  
  •    Provision for setting image dimensions
  •    Also vectors, shapes and frames can be added

  Listed below are some of the image design tools; 

  • Befuncky
  • Stencil
  • Designbold
  • Designer
  • Fotor
  • Canva
  • picmonkey
  • Fotojet
  • Piktochart – specifically for infographics
  • Snappa
  • Pablo – features for scheduling for future posting
  • Skitch [A feature of Evernote used for screencapture and annotation]
  • GIMP
  • Pixlr
  • Adobe Photoshop

  Benefit of using such tools

  Fast, saves time and;

  Its mostly free to use

  Which devices allow the use of such design tools

  •    Android, windows and mac.
  •    Firefox and chrome browser extensions of some tools is also available

   

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Go ahead an use some of these image download or design tools and share this post if you enjoyed it.