“A picture paints a thousand words.” It’s an old saying but it is as relevant today as it was the day it was coined. Images can make or break your website; the trouble is finding good quality images that don’t break the bank.

While we always recommend our customers use a professional photographer to capture the best images possible for your business / product (we’ll even recommend one at the end of this article), not everyone can afford this option. If you have a good camera, you could take your own photos, but again that might not be as straight forward as you’d like. You might just say “That’s ok, I’ll just go to Google and grab what I need from there”. Bad idea. Copyright laws do exist and you can get fined thousands of dollars per image for using other people’s images without permission.

Your other option is stock photography. What is it? Stock photography is a huge collection of images which are licensed to be used freely by anyone. These sites are a great resource where you can find both free images and ones that you can download at a cost – there are latterly millions of these images available. Here is a list of some sites that we use:

Free Stock Image Websites

These sites all contain images that can be used for personal or business use free of charge.

Paid Stock Image Websites

Below are sites which have images available for purchase. The costs are fairly low, and once you purchase the image you can use it for whatever you need.

*If you decide to utilise any of the websites above, please make sure that you follow all of the licence requirements as stated in their terms and conditions.
Also make sure that the free stock images can be used free of charge for commercial use, note just for personal use.