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 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!

Bigstock coupon code offer

There's been big changes at Bigstock recently and if you haven't tried them for a while now could be a good time check out what they offer with an expanded collection of over 6.4 million images and licenses from as low as $1.

BigStock coupon code offer;

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Free photos and vectors from shutterstock

Another great source of high quality images is Shutterstock who are one of the main microstock agencies specialising in supplying low budget stock photos,vectors and video footage.

To help promote the site and individual contributors portfolios each week one photo and one vector image are available to download for free. The images will have gone through the usual contributors submission process so are all of a high standard. All you have to do to get these great free images is sign up for a free account at Shutterstock and then check back each week to see what is being offered!

Best microstock sites for free photos

Many of the microstock stock photography sites have some photos that are available for free. The sites offer these images as incentives to attract visitors but there is no requirement to do anything more than sometimes register on the site in order to download free images. The advantage the microstock sites offer over many regular free photo sites is the availability of higher resolution images and a generally higher quality of photos.

Sites that have a searchable collection of free images
These sites maintain seperate collections of photos and illustrations that can be searched and/or browsed. They therefore offer a very useful resource in your hunt for a free image when you're after something specific.

Dreamstime - Dreamstime have a very user friendly searchable free section that offers high resolution downloads.
123rf - 123 Currently offering over 25,000 free images! Images stay in the free collection for 30 days so the content is constantly being refreshed.
FeaturePics - Themed collections of free photos created by FP contributors.

Bigstockphoto don't actually promote any free images on their site but they do make them available to site developers. Scroll down to the bottom of any page on this blog and you'll find links to search and browse the free photos you can get from Bigstockphoto.

Sites that offer regular free images
These sites only have from one to a small selection of images available for free at any given time. They aren't, therefore, great for finding a free photo for a particular use when you need it. Visiting these sites regularly though will enable you to build up your own collection of free photos for potential future uses.

iStockphoto - iStock have a free image of the week and these are archived so at any time there are several available for download. Arguably some of the highest quality free images available.
Shutterstock - Offer a free photo and free vector each week.
Crestock -A fresh free photo is served up every day, and there is an RSS feed if you'd like to subscribe.
Fotolia - Have a large database of free images from which a different selection are available each day. Update; Fotolia now encourage you to connect with them on their facebook page to access their free images.

So there is a wealth of good quality imagery available for free from the microstocks, and if you can't find quite what you need their prices for regular images are of course micro cheap!