Free image pack from shutterstock

Following on from the collection of free stock photos at depositphotos I mentioned recently here's news that shutterstock are also now offering a free download of a zip file pack of images. This a diverse collection of useful stock photos that they're making available for free to help support businesses large and small during these difficult times. There is even an editor tool and some social media templates available to use too. It's certainly worth heading over there to see if any of the free images look useful for you now or in the future potentially.

Here's a few sample images from this free stock images for business pack.

Dog sleeping free stock photo

Barista free stock photo

Beautiful woman exercising indoors

Great collection of free healthcare and lifestyle stock photos

Hi Guys

I hope you are all managing to keep safe and well during these scary, strange and unusual times. I'm guessing many of you will be hiding away at home trying to help slow the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus and possibly with a fair bit of time on your hands!

Well depositphotos should probably be on your go to list at the moment as they currently have an excellent collection of high quality stock photos available to download and use for free in high resolutions. The collection is primarily healthcare and coronavirus focused but there are also quite a few more general lifestyle images in there too. I'd say the quality of these images is also a cut above what can often be found when you need stock images for free, so thanks depositphotos!

Here's a few pics available from the collection;

I'd definitely suggest you check out the full collection for topical coronavirus images and also more general healthcare and lifestyle stock photos, here's the link;

Big collection of free health and lifestyle images

Stay safe!

free sexy blonde woman photo

Dreamstime come up trumps again with their excellent collection of free to use images. This beautiful shot of a sexy sensual blonde woman looking at the camera is definitely a cut above the average standard it is usually easy to find for free. The photographer also has several more images of the same model from the same shoot that could be useful and are available cheaply.

This shot is available here at a full resolution size of 1833x2750 pixels (5 MP). Click here to visit Dreamstime's free photos section.

Crestock are great site to keep at the forefront of your mind when you want a regular supply of free stock photos. Every day they make new image available for free download; so it's worth visiting regularly! Click here for the daily free image. If that wasn't enough (it is pretty good isn't it?!) they also run a weekly fun contest offering the opportunity to win 50 Crestock credits to download just the images you need for free. The contest is good fun too; you have to choose an image from their collection to illustrate a stimulus they've provided. Currently they've a Holloween inspired quote

When witches go riding, and black cats are seen the moon laughs and whispers. 'tis near Halloween.

Why not head over and see if you can pick the winning image? There could be 50 free Crestock Credits in it! Win 50 Crestock Credits.

Search for free RF images

Search Free stock images on Dreamstime:

Free spa stock photo

Positive aspirational lifestyle images are always useful and spa photos are a good example. Here's a great shot of a beautiful young woman relaxing in a spa; pampering indulgence!

The photo is currently available for free form istockphoto. Remember istock don't keep their freebies available as free downloads forever so if you'd like this shot for your library go grab it now!

Free business chart success stock photo

Another useful staple stock photo is the business objects depicting success and progress and charts are often the most effective prop for these. Here's a nice candid snap shot looking image of a business person's desk with papaperwork and drained cup of coffee. A view many a desk worker will find familiar and for that reason a simple but effective photo.

The full resolution image (2010x3036 pixels) is available as a free download from Dreamstime.

Free photo of water drops on leaves

Another useful classic of stock photography is the water drops on nice green leaves. It perfectly illustrates concepts of nature, health, cleanliness and green environmental issues.

This is available as free download from Dreamstime.

Click here to browse more free stock photos at Dreamstime.

free gambling playing cards photo

Need to illustrate any concepts like chance, luck, risk or gambling?

This free photo could well do the job for you!

Free rust background texture photo

Here's a useful rusty metal background photo that could also work well as a texture overlay.

Grab the full size image (2900x2175 pixels 6.3 MP) for free from Dreamstime.

paperwork stress free stock photo

This image of an office worker drowning in paperwork and waving a flag asking for help has a multitude of possible uses to illustrate work stress, work life balance and overworked themes etc. It is currently available for free from istockphoto.

Free photo of woman using laptop isolated on white

A healthy natural looking attractive young woman using a laptop computer. It's a shot that always seems to be useful and is worth having several versions on file ready for when you need to create a design illustrating any sort of online activity. This one is isolated on white so easy to drop into designs and/or work around. Better still it is available for free from Dreamstime!

Grab the full size file (3788x2500 pixels 9.5 MP) here.

More free photos from Fotolia on Facebook.

Most of the microstock sites offer free images in addition to their low price photos. The way each site approaches having a free offering does vary quite a bit from the minimal but high quality offerig from istock to the excellent resource of Dreamstime's free collection.

Fotolia maintain a small but regularly updated collection on thier site. However they now also have a facebook page which if you do the facebook thing is worth checking out to access a larger number of free stock photos from Fotolia.

Free stock photo subscription offer

If you haven't previously checked out DepositPhotos now is a good time to visit! They are a relatively new site with fresh content and some nice inovative ideas like sms licenses and short term subscriptions. The later can be really handy when you do sometimes need more images than usual for a short period and it makes sense to sign up with a stock library to cover a busy period.

At the moment DepositPhotos are offering 7 day subscriptions for free with an allowance of 5 image downloads a day. So you can get 35 images totally free! That could well be all you need for your next project and certainly sounds like an offer too good to refuse!

Free image of young woman outdoors

Here's a nice shot of an attractive young woman looking at the camera while relaxing outdoors in a natural setting. The full resolution file is 4368x2912 pixels.

Click here to download the full resolution file from Dreamstime.

Free series of lifestyle stock photos

Positive lifestyle images are always in demand and it is often useful to have a series of photos featuring the same subject. These aren't so easy to find however so I'm particularly pleased to showcase this great series featuring a young woman enjoying a beautiful sunny day in a field of yellow flowers. All the images are available for free as high resolution 10mp RF stock photos from Dreamstime. Click the individual images to go to the download pages.

Beautiful landscape free stock photo

This would make a great desktop background or background for a design needing associations with nature, summer and the outdoors. The full resolution file is 3264x2448 pixels. Download it here.

Photo of Spring flower blooming

After a long harsh winter the joys of Spring are certainly very welcome in the Northern hemisphere! It is a wonderful season when the sun finally brings some warmth, the light is brighter and the blooming Spring flowers are symolic of everyone's lifting spirits!

This Royalty Free image is available for free use. Download the high resolution 10mp file from Dreamstime.

High quality fresh images for your blog

Having premium images in your blog posts can really help your blogging by improving the quality of your content and bringing seo benefits.

It hasen't always been easy to find great images and stay within the law though! Fortunately there is now no need to resort to grabbing photos via google images with little regard to copyright; millions of fresh high quality images are now freely available to bloggers via PicApp.

Photos from top sources like Corbis and Getty Images are constantly being added covering all current affairs and events from the world's top press and stock photographers. It is easy to find photos and grab a slice of code to embed into your blog post; all the pics in this post come from PicApp. The deal is that sponsored ads will display over the images when they are moused over; a pretty reasonable price to pay for the use of images you'd otherwise have to steal or pay a high price for.

Both creative and editorial images are available but this is probably most useful for anyone running a current affairs, news or celebrity / gossip type blog where the availabilty of up to date high quality images will be extremely useful. PicApp supports most of the popular blogging platforms and has a plugin for wordpress users with others on the way. So if you need a shot of Paris Hilton's latest shopping trip look no further!

Mother and daughter outside free stock photo

This nice natural portrait of a young Mum and her daughter enjoying time together in a park is available as a free download from Dreamstime.

Click here for the full resolution (2000x3008 pixels (6 MP)) original file.