Flickr

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Flickr is an American image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and has been popular with hosting high resolution photos by amateur and professional photographers. It has changed ownership several times and has been owned by SmugMug since April 20, 2018.As of March 20, 2013, Flickr had a total of 87 million registered members and more than 3.5 million new images uploaded daily, as reported by The Verge. On August 5, 2011, the site reported that it was hosting more than 6 billion images. Photos and videos can be accessed from Flickr without the need to register an account, but an account must be made to upload content to the site. Registering an account also allows users to create a profile page containing photos and videos that the user has uploaded and also grants the ability to add another Flickr user as a contact. For mobile users, Flickr has official mobile apps for iOS, Android, and an optimized mobile site.

Unsplash

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Unsplash is a website dedicated to sharing stock photography under the Unsplash license. The website claims over 207,000 contributing photographers and generates more than 17 billion photo impressions per month on their growing library of over 2 million photos. Unsplash has been cited as one of the world's leading photography websites by Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, CNET, Medium and The Next Web.Unsplash allows photographers to upload photos to its website, which are then curated by a team of photo editors. The permissive copyright terms on its photos have led to Unsplash becoming one of the largest photography suppliers on the internet, with its members’ photos frequently appearing on articles. Nevertheless, their decision to stop using a creative commons "zero" licence in 2017 attracted criticism, as it took around 200,000 images out of the commons. The Unsplash licence is incompatible with creative commons licences, preventing use on sites like Wikipedia. In February 2018, Unsplash changed their license terms to restrict the sale of photos without first updating, modifying, or otherwise incorporating new creative elements into the photos, prohibiting selling unaltered copies, including selling the photos as prints or printed on physical goods.In December 2019, Unsplash for Brands was launched, where advertisers can share branded images on Unsplash.

Adobe Stock

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Search Adobe Stock for millions of royalty-free stock images, photos, graphics, vectors, video footage, illustrations, templates, 3d assets, editorial assets and high-quality premium content. Adobe Stock is designed to enhance creativity and streamline the content creation process, Adobe Stock provides high-quality assets that cater to various projects, from marketing campaigns to personal projects.

Pixabay

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Pixabay.com is a website for sharing digital photography, illustrations, vector graphics, film footage and music under the Pixybay license. As of November 2017, Pixabay offers over 1,188,454 free photos, illustrations, and vectors and videos. On 9 January 2019, Pixabay changed its old sitewide license for all uploads from Creative Commons CC0 to the Pixabay license which does not meet the free content licensing requirements for Wikimedia Commons and similar platforms. In November 2018, Canva acquired Pixabay along with Pexels.

Flaticon

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Download Free Vector Icons and Stickers for your projects. Resources made by and for designers. PNG, SVG, EPS, PSD and CSS formats. Streamline your projects with editable creative icons. Flaticon is a leading platform that offers an extensive collection of vector icons and stickers, designed to enhance graphic design projects, websites, applications, and presentations. With millions of icons available in various styles, Flaticon provides designers, developers, and content creators with the tools they need to bring their visual ideas to life.

Freepik

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Freepik - Create great design faster and express the power of your ideas! As a leading global tech company, our community is growing every day and our goal is to help anyone create great designs faster by producing and distributing high-quality graphic and audiovisual resources. We are more than +550 employees and work with more than 800 freelance designers collaborators and more than 52,000 registered contributors. Freepik is the parent company of 6 digital design projects that help everyone to bring creativity in their daily life: * Freepik: The world's largest platform of high quality graphic resources for every creative idea * Flaticon: The world’s largest database of customizable icons and stickers * Iconfinder: Millions of icons, illustrations, 3D and stickers for creative professionals worldwide * Slidesgo: Customizables Google Slides and PowerPoint templates to boost presentations * Wepik: Free online editor to create easily designs for your business * Videvo: Videos, audio clips and motion graphics assets for every type of project

Shutterstock

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Shutterstock is an American provider of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools; it is headquartered in New York. Founded in 2003 by programmer and photographer Jon Oringer, Shutterstock maintains a library of around 200 million royalty-free stock photos, vector graphics, and illustrations, with around 10 million video clips and music tracks available for licensing. Originally a subscription site only, Shutterstock expanded beyond subscriptions into a la carte pricing in 2008. It has been publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange since 2012.

VistaCreate

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VistaCreate is a graphic design platform where everyone can create designs that look like they took hours, in minutes. VistaCreate is a member of Vista family of products. Together, VistaCreate, 99Designs by Vista, and VistaPrint represent a full-service design, digital, and print partnership, elevating small businesses’ presence in physical and digital spaces and empowering them to achieve success. VistaCreate helps small businesses easily craft professional and unique social and digital content. 99Designs by Vista allows business owners to partner with professional designers to craft the perfect logo, website, packaging, or branded assets. VistaPrint enables small businesses to print everything they need from brochures and stickers to packaging and signage.

Depositphotos

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Search, preview, and buy royalty-free stock photos, vectors, illustrations, and HD videos. Explore a library of 234+ million files right on your smartphone. Depositphotos is one of the world’s leading content marketplaces with a library of 234+ million files. Since 2009, it has been helping people realize all kinds of projects by making creative content accessible for everyone. Depositphotos allows individuals to buy and sell high-quality stock photos, vectors, illustrations, music, and videos.

Storyblocks

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Get Unlimited All Access. Unlock access to our library of over a million royalty-free footage, template, music, and photo assets as well as an easy-to-use video editor and unlimited downloads. Storyblocks is a rapid video creation platform that allows individuals and businesses to create better videos, fast enough to meet strategic objectives. Storyblocks exists so you don’t have to choose between creativity, output, and meeting your business goals. Storyblocks is the complete content solution for creators and businesses alike, providing an unlimited library of high-quality royalty-free video, audio, and images through cost-effective subscription plans. With unlimited downloads and worry-free licensing, you can build and iterate endlessly with full confidence. Maker is its easy video editor that directly connects with the Storyblocks library, templates, animations, and effects to simplify and streamline the video creation process, saving you valuable time. Its new plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro allows video producers to create within their native editing tools faster than ever. Storyblocks subscribers are able to download an unlimited number of clips from a vast and growing library of stock video, production music, motion backgrounds, sound effects, and special effects, and they have access to its easy-to-use video editor, Maker.

Vecteezy

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Explore royalty-free vectors, clipart graphics, icons, stock photos, stock videos, backgrounds, patterns, banners, and designs from artists around the world! Vecteezy is an online marketplace where users can license stock photos, vector graphics, and stock footage directly from artists. Basic features are free but include ads and limitations. Pro subscribers get advanced licensing and a wider selection of content. The company was founded in May 2007 and is owned and operated by its parent company Eezy.com based out of Bowling Green, KY. The Founder & CEO of Eezy is Shawn Rubel who currently oversees the company's vision, mission, and direction. Vecteezy has a growing community of over 30k contributors that includes artists such as photographers, graphic designers, and videographers. These contributors license their work on the platform, which helps them gain exposure and earn money doing what they love. The primary users of Vecteezy's platform are graphic designers, videographers, digital marketing and publishing professionals. The main goal of Vecteezy is to make the creative process easier and more inspiring for everyone, regardless of where they are in their creative journey. To achieve this, Vecteezy provides the necessary resources that people need to create their best work.

Dreamstime

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Dreamstime is a distinguished leader in stock photography and a major supplier of high quality digital images at unbelievable prices. All stock images available are provided by Dreamstime community's photographers, shot on film or digital and approved by our editors. Structured on categories and subcategories, the database is renewed with thousands of fresh images and titles on a daily basis. Dreamstime provides imagery to an infinite gamut of clients in the creative market from independent customers in the private sector to Fortune 500 companies (including the world's largest advertising agencies, national and international magazines, film and television production companies).

Burst

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

123RF

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Collaborative platform that helps businesses manage content licensing and streamline project workflow. 123RF, a branch of Inmagine Group, is a stock photos provider founded in 2005 which sells royalty-free images and stock photography. The company also has an expansive collection of vector graphics, icons, fonts, videos, and audio files.