Looking for Free Stock Photos? Try Veezzle

If you’re looking for free stock imagery (perhaps to use in a blog post or in some marketing material), you might like to check out Veezzle. It’s a free search engine that trawls through the myriad free microstock sites looking for images.

Simply head over to the Veezzle site and enter your search term into the box; Veezzle will return a page of thumbnails of images related to that term. Here’s the results for a search for “carrot,” for example:

Click on a thumbnail to get a more detailed view, and see any comments:

If you click on the “download” link, you’ll be taken to the site the image was originally taken from, which should include licensing and attribution details.

Veezzle returns better results with more generic search terms — as your seraches get more specific you’ll be less likely to return results that match your term, and for many search terms you’ll get no results at all. However, it does provide a very easy way to trawl through the many free stock libraries, and while it’s perhaps not as powerful as Everystockphoto (it has no lightbox feature for building up collections of suitable images, for example), it is very fast. It’s also completely free — it doesn’t even carry any advertising.

Where do you go for free stock photos?

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