A selection of useful drains for designers

A selection of useful drains for designers

Adobe Stock

Adobe Stock has over 60 million high-resolution images integrated into Creative Cloud, all in HD quality and ready for legal use under license. Photostock also has premium collections with high-end images, as well as specialized collections of other types of media: videos, templates, 3D models, etc.

Cost: Three types of subscriptions are available from $29.99 to $199.99 per month.

Freepik

A good photo bank with high quality photos. The collection also includes icons, vector images, and PSD images. Lots of categories and easy search by filters. Only on this site have I seen a filter that searches for photos with and without people.

Upload limits (three photos per day without registration and 10 after registration on the site). Also, when using you need to provide a link to the source.

Cost: materials are available for free and by subscription.

Creative Market

Creative Market is a huge library with more than 4 million materials developed by professional designers: fonts graphics, templates, illustrations, and a huge photo catalog with millions of unique photos. On Creative Market, you can purchase digital design products to use for both your personal and commercial projects. The photos cover a variety of topics and are suitable for content creators, brands, marketers, designers, and entrepreneurs.

Cost: Photos can be purchased separately starting at $5 per photo. Or save 20% on any asset in the marketplace with membership plans starting at $9.95 per month.

Burst by Shopify

A free photo archive of photos created for online stores and entrepreneurs. Here you will find a lot of images, related to business and e-commerce.

New Old Stock

Photostock with a collection of archived photos and posters that you can use on your website. Unfortunately, there are no categories here, but there is a keyword search.

Reshot

Sometimes a website may require not only copyright-free photos but also illustrations. For example, for the design of for a 404 page. You also often need icons for buttons. For these cases, Reshot is a free bank of SVG icons and vector images.

Cost: 40,000+ icons and 1,500+ illustrations in the public domain.

ls.graphics

Immerse yourself in our collection of breathtaking illustrations, including detailed vector artwork and stunning 3D graphics. Each piece is exquisitely crafted to showcase exceptional quality, perfect for adding a distinctive style to both personal and commercial endeavors.

Cost: there are free resources and paid resources with a subscription of $10 per month.

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