As a photomanipulator, I know how frustrating it can get when we have an idea in mind, but once we try to make it come true we cannot seem to find the right resources for it.
We can even take our own photos, however sometimes it's a matter of angle, detail, or we simply do not have what we want near us.

So I decided to make a small list of some royalty free websites. This way you will be able to look up and find what you need more easily. The most important part is that the are free! In some of them signing up is requested but this wouldn't take more than a few minutes.

Also I'd like to give a special thanks to $fangedfem who helped with this research. At first I thought about making a small description of each website, but then I realized maybe it's not necessary because these are all high quality stock services.


Personal Favorites & Some of the most Popular

• Stock Xchange [ has a profesional paid option at Stock Xpert ]

• Morgue File

• Image After

• Dreams Time



Other High Quality stock Photos

• Free Pixels

• Stock Vault [ includes design templates and .PSD files ]

• Free Range Stock

• Big Photo [ great textures!]

• Font Play [ search by theme and resolution ]

• Free Photos Web

• Free Photo Bank

• Image Base

• Free Photos Bank

• Burning Well

• Stock Cache

• Unprofound

• Free Foto

• Stick stock [ Free Vector downloads as well ]

• Open Photo

• Majestic Imagery

• Vintage Pixels [ vintage high quality stock photos ]

• Image blowout

• Pix

• Creativity 103

• Image Temple



Specialized in Textures

Personal Favorites

• Grunge Textures

• Urban Dirty

• Bashcorpo


Other Great Textures Websites

• Texture Warehouse

• CG Textures

• M Textur

• Amazing Textures

• vyonyx

• Texturez

• Satisfaction Box

As you might understand I did not personally try downlaoding from ALL these, so if you find any that isn't actually free, or some other situation, please let us know.