This blog post shares 15 free image websites that’ll help you use appropriate images in your e-learning courses, at low costs.
Are you looking for first-rate, attention-grabbing images for your online training modules?
For an instructional designer, getting the right images is a daunting task. It is often hard to find images suitable for a e-module. It is hard to find images relevant to the content in our internal libraries. Purchasing new images seems a good option, but we need to think of the project budget. So what can be done?
Here, I would like to share a comprehensive list of websites where instructional designers can find relevant images for their courses. These websites go a long way in making the lives of instructional designers easy and help them produce better online modules, faster.
- Pixabay: You can find over 360,000 free, high-quality images, vector graphics, and art illustrations, which can be used without attribution, in your digital and printed works, including commercial applications.
- Graphicstock: You can download unlimited stock images and use them in all types of projects.
- FreeDigitalPhotos.net: You can download free and premium stock photos and illustrations. The website’s most popular categories are pictures of people and business pictures.
- FreeImages.uk: This website is a source of high-quality, digital stock images which can be used by all. Here, you can find more than 13,700 free stock photos. All images in their collection are free and can be used in online and printed materials.
- FreeFoto.com: This website consists of 132549 images, organized into 183 sections.
- FreePixels: Here, you can find over 5,951 free, high-resolution stock photos, classified into 40 categories.
- 4FreePhotos: This is an online community where a group of photographers who enjoy taking pictures share them with the public. You can use these free pictures in your private and commercial projects. They hope you will find their collection of free images useful.
- FreePhotosBank: You can download an unlimited number of free, high-resolution stock images from this website and use them.
- Image*After: This website is a large, online, free photo collection. You can download and use images in personal or commercial works.
- Imagebase: This website has a collection of photos, mostly by David Niblack. They can be used, for personal or, commercial uses, free of cost.
- Public-Domain-Photos.com: Here, you can find 5,000 free photos and 8,000 cliparts for personal and commercial use.
- Morguefile: This website is an archive of free stock photos, and you can find high-resolution stock photos for your needs.
- Stockvault: Here you can find 54k free, high-resolution stock images.
- StockFreeImages: Here you can find 6,961 free images for “learning”.
- Unsplash.com: You can find hundreds of free stock images with a Creative Commons Zero license, which means you can copy, modify, distribute, and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or attributing to the photographer or website.
Add this collection to your bookmarks and you will have a time-saver whenever you need images for your projects. If you know of other free image sites not included in the above list, we would really appreciate if you leave a comment with a link!
