Using stock photography is imperative in this digital day and age. If you are not already aware, you will very soon learn that readers respond to visual stimuli much more easily than they do text.
Thanks so much for joining me at Blog Life University! I hope that after our session, you won't be afraid to use stock photos for your blog. There are a lot of great resources available where you can get great photos. Some of the stock photography is free and some stock photos are from paid sites, for as cheap as $1 a photo.
90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual, and visuals are processed 60,000X faster in the brain than text.
Paid Stock Photography Sites (a few are affiliate links)
Many of these sites offer a membership, but most will allow you to buy the picture or purchase a few credits to use over time so you won't break the bank.
- 123rf
- Canva – Free Photos or Photos for $1.00
- Deposit Photos
- Dreamstime
- Adobe Stock – Limited time offer: Get 10 free Adobe Stock images.
- Graphic Stock
Free Stock Photography Sites
These sites are either Creative Commons Zero or require attribution be sure to check before using them.
- Pickwizard – MY NEW FAVORITE!!!
- Pexels
- Free Images
- Stocksnap
- Picjumbo
- Pixabay
- Unsplash
- Wikimedia
- Flickr
- Kaboompics
- Google Images – when searching put in domain free content images when you search. Just be sure to click through to the site it's hosted on to verify it is free to use.
If you would like to review my powerpoint presentation, here it is in PDF Form – Stock Photo Class Presentation.
