There are many important elements that determine the quality of the magazine’s design, one of the most important is the quality of images. A good selection of high-quality images can highlight the design and make the articles more attractive. Today, more than ever, a large number of high-quality photos are available on many websites that specialize in the sale of photos or videos. To make it easier for you to decide which site to use, here are some recommendations.

1. Getty Images

Getty Images, Inc. is a supplier of stock images, editorial photography, video and music for business and consumers with an archive of over 200 million assets. It has a really large offer, but it is also one of the most expensive sites on this list.

 

2. iStock (by Getty Images)

iStock is one of the best stock photography websites, owned by Getty Images, Inc. The firm offers millions of photos, illustrations, clip art, videos and audio tracks. You can buy credits for individual images ($8.67-$11/credit), or buy a subscription ($70/month - $333/mont). Price depending on volume purchased and subscription plan.

 

3. Shutterstock

Shutterstock is a beast resource of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools provider. Shutterstock maintains a library of around 230 million royalty-free stock photos, vector graphics, and illustrations, with around 10 million video clips and music tracks. The price range for subscription is $29/month (10 images/month) - $199/month (750 images/month).

 

4. Bigstock

Bigstock is an online photography website that sells images via a credit-based system. They sell Daily Image Subscriptions (5 Images/Day - 50 Images/Day), Monthly Image Subscriptions (25 Images/Month - 200 Images/Month) and Video Plans (5 Videos/Day - 50 Videos/Month). They offer over 76 million royalty-free photographs and illustrations.

 

5. Adobe Stock

Adobe Stock is a service that has more than 50 million royalty-free photos, videos, templates, 3D content, illustrations, and vector graphics. Users can purchase images directly in Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and Illustrator. Note - Since Adobe subscription is not available in many countries, Adobe stock is also not available in some countries.

 

6. Depositphotos

Depositphotos is a royalty-free photography agency founded in November 2009. Depositphotos offers over 75 million royalty-free photographs, vector images, stock footage and editorial files. They have one of the best price/quality ratio. Their Flexible Plan offers download of 10 hi-res photos & vectors every month for $9.99. Additional images are just $1 each.

 

7. Dreamstime

Dreamstime is one of the world leaders in stock photography and a reliable supplier of high quality digital images at affordable prices. They offer over 95 million photos, illustrations, cliparts and vectors. The price of their subscription is $25/month for 5 images - $219/month for 750 images. Dreamstime also offer a large collection of free photos.

 

8. Alamy

Alamy  is a privately owned stock photography agency launched in 1999. Alamy has more then 155 million images, illustrations and hundreds of thousands of videos contributed by agencies and independent photographers or collected from news archives, museums and national collections. Image prices go from 9.99€/image for prsonal use, up to 179.99€/ image for Marketing package: Large business.

 

9. Stocksy

Stocksy is a Victoria, British Columbia based platform cooperative that accepts and provides Royalty-free stock photography and stock video. Stocksy uses a curated editing approach to select useful and authentic photos. The price range depends on the size (resolution) of the photo, small photo is $15, medium $30, large $75 and x-large $125.

 

10. https://www.123rf.com/

123rf is a stock content agency which sells royalty-free images. In addition to over 90 million images in its library, the company also has a large collection of vector graphics, icons, fonts, video and audio files. The subscription plan goes from $29 (10 images/month) up to $199 (750 images/month).

 

11. Crestock

Crestock is a stock photo agency that offers royalty free stock photography and images. They offer high quality stock photos and images for competitive prices.  Crestock offers three buying options - Pay & Go ($1 for XSmall image - $25 XXXLarge image), Subscription ($199 1 month - $1799 12 months) and Credits ($10/10 credits - $750/1000 credits).

 

12. Photofolio

Photofolio is a unique online stock photography portfolio allowing photographers to share & sell Stock Photos directly to publishers and marketing specialists.

 

13. Purestock

Purestock provides 3 million carefully edited professional royalty free images, vector graphics and stock videos. They are more focused on a good selection of quality photos than on a quantity.

 

14. PixaBay

Pixabay.com is an international website for sharing photos, illustrations, vector graphics, and film footage. Pixabay offers over 1.5 million free photos, illustrations and videos. According to the website’s FAQ page: “You can copy, modify, distribute, and use the images, even for commercial purposes, all without asking for permission or giving credits to the artist.”

 

15. NegativeSpace

Goal of NegativeSpace is to give photographers a platform whereby they can share their photography with the world. NegativeSpace is a community of photographers who want to share their work. NegativeSpace digital library of images contains high-resolution stock photos that can be used without restrictions.

 

16. Picjumbo

Picjumbo is free stock photo site created in 2013 by designer & photographer Viktor Hanacek. They are adding new photos daily, you can sign up with your email to receive free stock photos.

 

17. Burst (by Shopify)

Burst is a free stock photo platform that is powered by Shopify. Image library includes thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images that were shot by Burst global community of photographers. All photos are free for commercial use with no attribution required.

 

18. Unsplash

Unsplash is digital library of high-res photos with more than 550,000 images that are free for personal and commercial use. Images are brought by the world’s community of photographers.

 

19. Flickr

Flickr is an image and video hosting service, has a millions registered members and more than 3.5 million new images uploaded daily. Site hosting more than 6 billion images. Photos and videos can be accessed from Flickr without the need to register an account.

 

20. Freerange Stock

Freerange Stock was formed with the goal to provide quality stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use for free. These images can be used without attribution for commercial or non-commercial purposes.

 

21. StockSnap

StockSnap offer high quality stock photos for any use - including commercial usage - for free.

 

22. Morguefile

MorgueFile is a website database for free high resolution digital stock photography. The name comes from the term “morgue file”, which refers to post-production materials for use of reference, an inactive job file. The term is popular in the newspaper business to describe the file that holds past issues flats.

 

23. Picography

Picography is one of the top sources for high-resolution, free photos. You can use any of our free stock photos however and wherever you like, with no attribution required.

 

24. Pexels

Pexels provides hundreds of thousands free, high quality stock photos. Photos are selected from photos uploaded by pexels users or sourced from free image websites.

 

 

25. https://freestocks.org/

Freestocks.org images are a source of fresh, up-to-date and versatile in style photos. They offer royalty-free stock images for both, commercial and personal use.