General
- All-free-download.com: free images, fonts, graphics, and more available for instant download
- Pixabay: free photos, graphics, illustrations, and videos
- Preparing Images for the Web: Comprehensive overview of Adobe Photoshop
- Purpose and Guidelines for Effective Use of Web Graphics: Set of guidelines and information for the most effective way to use and access web graphics
Audio & Music
- Free Music Archive: high quality, legal audio downloads
- Internet Archive: images, audio, video, and more
- Sound Bible: sound effects
- Youtube Audio Library: Free music and sound effects that can be used in videos
Creative Commons/Public Domain
- CreativeCommons: multimedia available for use in your projects
- Flickr Commons: public photo archives from participating institutions around the globe (LoC, NYPL, Smithsonian, NASA, etc.)
- Getty Search Gateway: browse the Getty Museum’s complete collection of high-res images, which can be used for commercial and non-commercial purposes with attribution.
- Google Images: find out how to use Google’s Advanced Image Search for images with various kinds of licenses, including Creative Commons.
- Library of Congress: browse and download archival images from the LOC’s Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
- New York Public Library Public Domain Collection: download high-res images from the NYPL’s digital collection.
- Wikimedia Commons: database of free multimedia files available for download
Stock Photos & Illustrations
- Black Illustrations: free and premium illustrations featuring African Americans and people of color
- Burst: free high-res stock photos
- Canva: free stock photos made available by the team behind Canva
- Cupcake: free high-res stock photos by photographer Jonas Nilsson Lee
- Death to the Stock Photo: free pack of stock photos that are sent to your inbox every month
- Disabled and Here: free and inclusive stock photos of disabled BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color)
- EveryStockPhoto.com: free high-res stock photos
- Flickr Creative Commons: Photos that are available under the Creative Commons License available for use with proper credit given
- FoodiesFeed: free high-res, food-related stock photos
- Gender Spectrum Collection: Vice’s free stock photos with trans and non-binary models
- ISO Republic: free high-res stock photos
- KaboomPics: free high-res stock photos
- Life of Pix: free high-res stock photos
- Negative Space: free high-res stock photos
- PEXELS: free high-res stock photos
- PicJumbo: free high-res stock photos
- ShutterStock.com: premium high-res stock photos
- StockSnap.io: free high-res stock photos
- Unsplash: free high-res stock photos
Icons
- Black Illustrations: icon pack featuring African Americans and people of color
- FlatIcon.com: database of free icons
- IconFinder.com: database of free icons
- TheNounProject: database of icons available for free (CC) or purchase. Download in png or svg, or drag and drop into your workspace. Apps available for download.
Video
- Internet Archive (images, audio, video, and more):
- Vimeo Stock: handpicked, royalty-free stock footage (available for purchase only)
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