Must have service for every blogger and business owner
Photos are important visualizations that you add to your content. They help you in getting your work come alive. Let’s face it; if you run a business, you need to take it seriously. If you run a blog business, you need to treat it like a business in order to generate great income each month.
One of the basic tools you need to have in order to make sure your blog business grows and makes money is a professional image archive.
When you have to maintain your online presence, it is important to use custom photos, however, it is not always possible to use custom images. This is where stock images come in handy.
If you struggle to find the best online stock images, these top 5 stock image sites can be helpful for you, which I personally use myself.
Depositphotos
Depositphotos has more than 15,084,652 royalty-free images. Royalty-free images don’t mean that you these images are free to use. But it means that you can use these images without any copyright issue.
Depositphotos is easy to use. On the left side of the website, there are listed lots of categories – from abstract designs to people. You can browse through these categories to find the best image according to your requirements.
On the home page of the website, you will find images that are the latest uploads, best-selling, lightboxes, and tag cloud.
You can find photos, videos, and vector images on this easy-to-use site.
Like many other sites, smaller images are cheaper at Depositphotos, while larger photos are expensive.
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iStock
This website of stock photos is one of the oldest stock photos websites on the internet. iStock was previously known as iStock photos. It is one of the most used stock photos websites, selling a huge number of images on daily basis.
The user-interface of this website is easy, and you can find a good relevant image to your content – print or online – easily with a little search.
If you are a photographer, selling your photos on iStock is a good idea as your photos get a good exposure.
On iStock, you can find stock photos, footage, vector illustrations, and audio & sound effects.
Most of the sales to iStock come from its partner programs. It means that most sales iStock gets is through its sister site; Thinkstock.
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Shutterstock
Shutterstock is one of the famous sites for royalty-free images – for both people who want to download and photographers.
You will find different media categories on the website including infographics, nature, outdoors, finance, abstract etc.
Shutterstock is one of the best places to find photographs, music, vectors, videos, and illustrations for small businesses and marketing agencies.
Shutterstock offers single-user and multiple-user accounts. In the first type of account, only a single person can log— into the account and use media. Whereas, with the multiple-user account, anyone forms your team can access the account.
There are 4 basic pricing packages on the website: 5 images for $49, 25 images for $229, 350 images for $169/month, and 750 images for $199/month.
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Adobe Stock
Adobe Stock is a platform offered by Adobe, which is completely integrated with the Creative Cloud platform.
It is one of the most favorite stock image sites for designers, as they can test and edit stock photos directly on their favorite photo-editing app.
On Adobe Stock, a huge database of high-quality professional stock photos is on your fingertips.
On Adobe Stock, you can enjoy high-quality photos at a reasonable price. The website offers different subscription plans from monthly to annual subscriptions. Here you get high-quality images from $0.26 to $9.99 each. This is certainly a big offer for designers, especially, who prefer to use Adobe Creative Cloud. These designers can access the database of Adobe Stock without even leaving the software.
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Photocase
Photocase is a German-based stock photo agency which specializes in artistic, unconventional, and authentic photos. `
The website is serving people for more than a decade with their highly curated photo library for their users. The beautiful images you can find on this site are not available anywhere else.
Their image library is relatively small, but it is on a purpose. They are known to maintain their highly curated photo library with artistic and unique stock photos. You can use these images as they are or after editing.
The unique, high-quality stock images on this site are available in different sizes. The price range of these images is from $10 to $20 per image depending on its size.
You can get these images at a cheaper price while using credit packs for bulk purchases.
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These are the top 5 stock photo sites. You can find almost all types of images on these websites. Photos and other media found on these websites can be used freely by paying them for a price.
