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.

Everystockphoto.com aims to become a leading portal for the stock photography community, and will be adding features, and increasing our index over time. You can keep up-to-date with their progress in their blog. You can learn more about the photos they index, and the licenses they are covered under, in their help section.

Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.

Briefly…

Attribution means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit.

Noncommercial means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it - but for noncommercial purposes only.

No Derivative Works means:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

Share Alike means:
You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

SXC was launched in February 2001, as an alternative for expensive stock photography. The idea was to create a site where creative people could exchange their photos for inspiration or work. In about two years the site evolved into this massive community you see now - there are over 1.500.000 registered users and more than 350.000 photos online!

Whether you just want to browse a huge image gallery or want to share your personal photos with others, this is the site for you! Browse through the categories of SXC’s huge gallery containing over 350.000 quality stock photos by more than 30.000 photographers! Need a wallpaper for your desktop or illustration for your blog? Need a pic for your commercial website design? Looking for inspiration? Have a look around.

Share your photos with fellow designers! SXC is a friendly community of photography addicts who generously offer their works to the public free of charge. If you have some nice photos that you’d like to share with others, join them! Not only it feels great to share, but you will also get a huge exposure for your work!

Chat with other members in SXC’s forum! Looking for something? Need an opinion? Have a question? Post a topic, and someone will definitely help you out.

Freerange Stock was formed with the goal to provide quality stock photos for free. They feel that free stock photos can be good photos. Freerange is an advertising revenue supported photographic community - photographers get paid when users click on the ads that appear next to their submissions. Images on the site are either shot by Freerange Stock, drawn from Freerange archives, or contributed by a talented community of photographers.

Just sign up for a free membership, log in, and download high-quality, high- resolution free stock photos and free textures.

One of of the most popular free stock photos site - Morgue File. The idea to build the web’s morguefile was conceived by Michael Connors as a college student in 1996. The term “morgue file” is popular in the newspaper business to describe the file that holds past issues flats. Although the term has been used by illustrators, comic book artist, designers and teachers as well. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.