June 2019

The 5 Best Free Stock Photo Sites On The Web

Want to create designs that balance professionalism and creativity? Beautiful stock photography delivers outstanding results through amazing imagery. Having a large library of professional stock photos also enables you to create unique design variations and test different visual elements to see what works for your audience.

To help you start building amazing designs, we’ve shared a compilation of our favorite sites that aggregate free stock images to use.

Here’s our list:

1. Unsplash.com: Unsplash’s collections are great for locating similarly themed images. Collections are also a fantastic tool to draw inspiration from for your own designs.
2. Pixabay.com: Pixabay’s enormous library is all published under Pixabay’s license. Photos are safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist – even for commercial purposes.
3. Pexels.com: Pexels has a wide range of amazing stock images available for free without attribution. Their chrome extension is also a nice little touch that delivers a tiny bit of inspiration every time you open a new tab in Google Chrome.
4. Visualhunt.com: Looking to keep colors consistent within your design? With Visualhunt, you can sort images by color through the top toolbar. Very neat.
5. Picjumbo.com: With a focus on quality, Picjumbo doesn’t have as large a library as other sites. Site owner, Viktor, however, has a stern focus on quality and beauty in his (predominantly) free image library.

Looking for some stock photo, design inspiration? Look no further. Check out a design showcasing different content sizes utilizing the same, beautiful stock image in unique ways with different focus points. Click here to see the design.

Want to revolutionize your design workflow, build amazing designs, and be more productive than ever with stock images? Flexitive allows you to build multiple designs efficiently with external assets created outside of the application, including stock photos, to build amazing designs. Start building professional and engaging designs (with your new stock photos) by clicking here.

Adding Custom Sizes

You can add any custom size that you require to your Flexitive account. When you add a custom size, it’s added to every design in your account, so they’ll always be available to all users within your account.

By default, you’ll have access to a wide variety of responsive, fixed and social sizes to build your designs with. See a full list of all the default sizes available in Flexitive.

Filtering & Adding Custom Sizes:

Filter Sizes:
You can search for your required size by entering the width and height in the filter option in the Sizes Panel.

2. Add a Custom Size:
If a size you searched for is not available, you can add the size by selecting the button ‘+Add Size for all users).

Flexitive is a Google Certified External Vendor

You can export your HTML5 Flexitive designs for over 40+ different ad servers.

As Flexitive is a Google Certified External Vendor, so you can also serve your Flexitive designs on the Google suite of products that support 3rd party tags, such as Google Ad Manager (DFP) and DoubleClick Campaign Manager (DCM). Designs served as tags can be updated in real-time directly from Flexitive, giving you more control over your live campaigns.

Being a Google Certified External Vendor means Flexitive meets Google’s requirements for third-party ad serving with regards to user privacy, the accuracy of measurement, latency, and compliance with Google’s creative policies.

Check out our article Exporting for Ad Servers for more information.