Get free photos and free illustrations for your development projects

You are a developer with great ideas that you know how to turn into a reality, but you lack design skills.

A good illustration or a representative image can illustrate the entire purpose of the product or service without a lengthy description no one wants to read.

Thank god, things have changed in the last decade or two. You don’t need to study design; you don’t need to hire a designer. You can find great FREE illustrations and photos on the internet.

Here is a list of my resources: free photos and free illustrations. The first few will be my favorite ones. I listed the following without any order.

Free Photos

My favorite sites for free photos:

• Unsplash.com: beautiful, free images and photos for any project or blog post. Pictures made by pro and semi-pro photographers

• Pixabay.com: over 1.8 million free high-quality images and videos oriented towards business and marketing

• Pexels.com: photos arranged by theme from all around the world

Other good resources for free photos and images:

• Adobe stock free: free photos, vectors, and videos
• Gratisography: high-resolution free stock images. New photos are added weekly.
• Morguefile: photos of random people and everyday objects
• Stockvault: daily new free photos, textures, and illustrations
• Pikwizard: 1 million high-quality images and videos. You can make basic edits like adding text overlays before downloading the photo.
• Rawpixel: a diverse collection of photos
• PicJumbo: a free stock photo community with a big selection of beautiful free photos
• ReShot: emerging photographers share their stunning photos
• Shopify Burst: free high-resolution photos for websites and commercial use
• FreeImages: over 300000 free stock photos
• Canva free images: Canva is my favorite design tool. They have a stock of free photos you can use for your projects
• StockSnap: large selection of photos with hundreds of new images daily
• FoodiesFeed: free food pictures in high resolution
• KaboomPics: high-quality free stock photos of abstract, city/architecture, fashion, food, landscapes, and more
• Life of Pix: free high-resolution photos, the photograph of the week competition
• SkitterPhoto: authentic photos created by Skitterphoto’s owners
• New Old Stock: vintage photos from the public archives
• FreeStocks: a wide range of high-quality photo
• Styled Stock: free feminine stock photography for every woman entrepreneur
• Generated Photos: photos of people generated by AI
• Science Image: free images for science: technology, animals, astronomy,…
• IAN Image library: free images for science including ecosystems, processes, viruses,…
• Picography: free stock photos
• Picspree: royalty-free images, stock photos, illustrations, and vectors
• ISO Republic: free high-resolution photos and videos
• The Jopwell Collection: several albums with hundreds of images featuring people in the Jopwell diversified community
• LittleVisuals: photos by Nic Jackson
• Realistic Shots: Free high-resolution photos
• Depositphotos: new free images, vectors, editorial content, and footages every week
• Find A Photo: over 1 million high-quality stock photos across multiple free and paid stock photo sites
• Negative Space: Free high-resolution photos
• Piqsels: free photos
• Wunder Stock: a free photo library that provides access to tens of thousands of high-quality public domain photos plus extended results for 10+ million Creative Commons images on Flickr
• PxHere: Free of copyrights under CC0
• Nappy: high-res photos of black and brown people
• Domain Public Pictures: all types of free images
• Saxifraga: free nature images
• ZoomStock: free stock photos

Image source: Adobe Stock

Free Illustrations

My favorite sites for free illustrations:

• DrawKit: beautiful, free illustrations. Weekly updates and customizing options. More than 50 free illustrations in two separate style

• unDraw: open-source illustrations for any idea you can imagine and create by Katerina Limpitsouni

• Humaaans: customizable illustrations of people

Other good resources for free illustrations:

• IconScout: search 2 millions illustrations from 900+ contributors. Handpicked unique illustration packs.
• FreeIlustrations: free illustrations background images for your awesome landing pages
• ManyPixels: Each week, discover royalty-free illustrations to power up your projects
• Blush Design: create and customize stunning illustrations with collections made by artists across the globe
• Absurd Design: absurd illustrations that make sense if you are looking for something different
• FreePik: free illustrations
• Openpeeps: a hand-drawn illustration library. The library works like building blocks made of vector arms, legs, and emotions. You can mix these elements to create different Peeps.
• Artify: an easy to use web-based design editor packed with a huge library of design assets
• Delesign: royalty-free design illustrations
• Illustrations: open-source illustrations kit of 100 awesome illustrations
• Vecteezy: free vector art
• BlackIllustrations: illustrations of black people for your next digital project
• GetIllustration: massive illustration packs. Stories that make your designs stand out
• Lukaszadam: free Illustrations
• Ouch Icons8: Ouch helps creators who don’t draw overcome the lack of quality graphics. free vector illustrations
• Outlane: free illustrations hand-crafted by Outlane
• BulbMan: free illustrations
• Charco Illustrations: A set of 16 handcrafted illustrations for your web & app projects. This set includes categories like 404 error, no internet connection, no service, fatal error, page not found, something went wrong, under construction, and many more.
• Isometric: free isometric illustrations for designers,
  startups and companies
• Paaatterns: a free collection of beautiful patterns for all vector formats
• Error404: free illustrations for pages
• IsoFlat: isometric and flat graphic resources
• Sketchvalley: hand-drawn free vector illustration resources for your project
• Scale by Flexiple: new high-quality, open-source illustration each day
• Old Book Illustrations: a massive collection of illustrations from old books
• Storytale: free illustrations
• IsometricLove: cute isometric objects for your design
• Flaticon: 3,664,500 vector icons
• ui8: free illustration/icon and character set
• OpendDoodles: a free set of sketchy illustrations

Let me know if you have a better resource I’ve not found yet.

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