It is indisputable that content marketing is an especially powerful tool to draw attention to our brand or our service. However, several studies show that visitors to a site are only focused on 30% of the content. For this reason, including images can be essential to make it more attractive and maintain its interest.
For example, studies on tracking the eye movement of visitors to a site show that the zigzagging of images with tables or other visual elements is crucial to absorb more content from a page. We find the problem when we want to include free images on our sites. If we do not want to spend a part of our budget in obtaining quality graphic material, the most common resource is free image banks.
Creative Commons Search
In Creative Commons Search you will find the option to find images to use for commercial purposes or free images that you can adapt or modify. It is a site with a very simple navigation that does not require registration or login and that allows the search for images (in different formats), videos or audio files.
Unspalsh
Unsplash is one of the most extensive and complete image banks. With a simple and intuitive navigation and that does not require any registration, this site will provide you with thousands of images to give value to your content.
You can use their images for any purpose and it does not require attribution, although it is always welcome.
Pixabay
One of the largest image banks with more than 2.1 million free images available. In Pixabay we will find photographs, vectors and videos without the need for registration and optional attribution.
Burst
Burst contains a catalog of high quality images that we can edit, crop and manipulate according to our needs. For this, the same site provides us with a link to free resources with this intention.
It is an image bank that does not require registration, simple and intuitive, and does not require attribution.
Flickr
Although it is not necessary to create a free account on Flickr, registration is necessary to enjoy the advanced features of the site that allow us to edit and save images.
It is not necessary to declare the attribution of the images but the FAQs section tells us to use the address of the image link as a matter of courtesy.
Freepick
Freepick is one of the most complete image banks for its varied offer: stock photos, vectors, PSD and icons. We can select the free or Premium version. and it incorporates a practical filter that allows us to choose the presence of people, the dominant color in the image, and its orientation.
Pikwizard
Pickwizard is one of the most complete and useful free image banks. It has more than 1 million free images, includes videos, a practical selection of categories to facilitate the search and DesignWizard, a practical tool to modify the images from the same place. All this without the need for attribution.
Stockvault
Stockvault is another interesting bank with thousands of free images distributed perfectly in its category system. It does not require registration and its only handicap is that the images can only be downloaded in JPG format, although it makes up for it with a wide collection of free textures.
Getty Images
Getty Images offers us the possibility to choose free or paid images, as well as to use your site with or without registration. As for the images themselves, we find a wide variety of options available thanks to their filters: newer or older, date range, image orientation, resolution, style and many other filters.
Free Images
Free Images is a simple and easy-to-use image bank with practical image categorization. Although it does not require registration, it does request attribution of use of its images.
Reshot
Reshot is a site specialized in photography. Therefore it is ideal if you are looking for images with these quality but not very effective if you are looking for illustrations. Center for the presentation of the work of many photographers, its catalog is not very extensive and is quite limited in the subjects, although the quality of the images makes up for it.
Freerange Stock
More oriented towards photography, Freerange Stock is an image bank in which we can also find illustrations without any need for attribution. Although free images can be deployed for commercial and non-commercial use, the site license includes an important provision. The profits generated by the products should not be mainly due to the image derived from the site.
