5 new sites to find royalty-free photos

Last updated on February 17, 2025

How to Find a Photo or Image to Illustrate an Article in a School Newspaper or Blog when you do not have a dedicated budget to buy them and while respecting copyright? In the end, it is not that complicated. Many services and search engines have appeared in recent times that allow you to find ideal illustrations for your publications.

I was presenting here some time ago. 5 useful resources to find royalty-free images. To be completed withebook to download dedicated to royalty-free resources for your educational needs.

Here are five more.

Veezle

Veezle is a search engine that offers an imposing photo section. From your initial query, Veezle will scan the image databases of Flickr, Freebase, Wikimedia and OpenClipArt. The results are presented in the form of galleries.
Link: Veezle

Pixabay

The quality of the images offered by its royalty-free photo search engines sometimes leaves something to be desired. PIxabay has chosen to retain only high-quality images in its database. Pixabay offers fewer images than the others, but they are all of impeccable quality. Just over 500,000 images are available here. All Pixabay images and videos are royalty-free and published under the Creative Commons CC0 license. You can download, edit, distribute and use them for free.  Pixabay also offers videos.
Link: Pixabay

LibreStock

LibreStock also limits its offer to high quality photos. In the absence of quantity, you have the graphic quality of an archive of tens of thousands of freely usable images. LibreStock works like a meta search engine. From your initial query, LibreStock will query 40 specialised image search engines for you. Convenient to save a little time in your iconographic searches.
Link: LibreStock

National Gallery of Art

Place for painting and masterpieces at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The NGA offers you many high-definition images of the treasures of painting that are among its collections. Each of them is offered in different sizes and resolutions. In the same kind I advise you Pictures of Art I was talking about a few weeks ago here, which lists the masterpieces of French museums.
Link: National Gallery of Art

Life Photo Archive

A little gem to finish with the photographic archives of the famous magazine LIFE. A huge collection of historical images belonging to the prestigious LIFE magazine, most of which have never been published.  Mostly in black and white, they are an invaluable graphic resource for learning about our recent history. LIFE's images cover a wide period from 1800 to the 1970s. The collection is hosted by Google and the images are freely usable for personal and non-commercial projects. The search is done by date, by theme or by keyword.
Link: Life Photo Archive