During the designing of any project, designer needs a library or collection to lessen the time span. The collection helps you to avail idea and you can implement it after intense modification. Obtaining media including photos of places and abstract photo can cost you very high sometimes to cover your need. But sometimes with the help of free photo stocks search engines and sites you can get your need totally free.

There are thousands of sites online offering low to high quality pictures but few of them really doing their job well by providing photo stocks free of cost as well. However its really harsh to get your hands on high quality pictures free of cost but by paying little fee to these sites you can access ultimate resource of pictures, after all these sites were made to earn some money as well not only to serve visitors with free stuff.

Here is short list of some sites which I found interesting and would like to share with you people. Do share your site on favorite links in discussion

i) EveryStockPhoto

Everystockphoto.com is a license-specific photo search engine. Currently they index and search millions of freely licensed photos, from many sources, and present them in an integrated search. Everystockphoto.com was launched in April 2006, and is owned and operated by Vibrant Software, located in Vancouver, Canada. Membership is free and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos. (source: site/about page)

http://www.everystockphoto.com

ii) MorgueFile

The morguefile contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site.

http://www.morguefile.com

iii) StockVault.net

Stockvault.net is a stock photo sharing website where photographers, designers and students can share their photographs and images with each other. Stockvault’s sole purpose is to collect and archive medium and high resolution photographs that designers and students can share and use for personal and non-commercial designs. (source: site/about page)

http://www.stockvault.net

iv) Dreamstime

v) Freedigitalphotos

• no registration required
• corporate use is OK
• instant download
• option to purchase super high resolution files for use in print or graphic design
• optional member registration gives access to lightboxes and email-to-a-friend features

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net

vi) ShutterStock

You can choose a 25-A-Day Subscription for the greatest savings (get 25 downloads every day — that’s 750 each month) or select an On Demand Subscription for the greatest flexibility (use downloads whenever you need them for up to a year)

http://www.shutterstock.com/

vii) RGBStock

RGBStock.com claims to be free and totally independent stock photo site. Registration might be required

http://www.rgbstock.com/

viii) PhotoXpress

ix) Studio7Design

Free stock nature photography

http://www.studio7designs.com/stock-photography/

x) FreeRange

Freerange Stock provides quality stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use, for free. Freerange is an advertising revenue supported photographic community – photographers get paid when users click on the ads that appear next to their submissions.

http://freerangestock.com

do share your favorite sites as well in comments to continue the discussion.