“A picture is worth a thousand words”.

Web designers know this best. Images are essential elements for any web design style you’re using and for any themes you are crafting. Beside typography, web navigation and many other elements, using images in making any store layout adds depth to your store, helps you convey your message effectively and creates a connection with the store’s visitors.

The only challenge is, there are tons of free stock images as well as premium stocks images that sometimes make it time-consuming to pick out your target images. So, hop into this A to Z collection that you’ll return to every day to choose your stock images. They’re not only great resources for finding images for your design project but also a great source of inspiration.

Unsplash

Unsplash is a platform powered by an amazing community that has gifted hundreds of thousands of their own photos to fuel creativity around the world. So sign up for free, or don’t. Either way, you’ve got access to over a million photos under the Unsplash license—which makes them free to do-whatever-you-want with. Over 2 million free high-resolution images brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers.

Picjumbo 

Viktor Hanacek is 26-year-old photographer, online entrepreneur and designer living in the Czech Republic. In 2013 he has created this stock photo site called picjumbo with free pictures that are today used by millions of bloggers, designers and marketers all around the world

Shopify Burst

Burst is a free stock photo platform that is powered by Shopify. The image library includes thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images that were shot by Shopify global community of photographers. Shopify built Burst to provide designers, developers, bloggers and entrepreneurs with access to beautiful free stock photography. You can use our pictures for just about anything — your website, blog or online store, school projects, Instagram ads, facebook posts, desktop backgrounds, client work and more. All our photos are free for commercial use with no attribution required.

Pixabay

Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images, videos and music. All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist - even for commercial purposes.

Foter

Foter is one of the largest and most valuable sources of information and inspiration for people designing their interiors. Foter has been established in 2006 as a source of high quality free photos and inspiration for journalists and graphic designers. Thousands of website owners and creators have used our website to search for desired photos with ease in a database of 335 million free images.

Stocksnap

Stocksnap offer beautiful, high quality stock photos for just about any use you can think of - including commercial usage - for free. No tricks, no gimmicks, no fine print; just dazzling images for your creative projects.

Enjoy and move forward with your project!

Make sure you’ve bookmarked all the stock photo sites listed above and have fun using them. And don’t be stingy share your favorite stock image sites with your designer fellows (tada, we have social share icons on your screen’s left-hand side).