Whether it is for your personal website or just a new portrait that you’d like to hang somewhere in your room, stock photos are essential for your design needs. With copyright issues becoming a pain, you will need to consider using a royalty-free image for the project you’re working on, partly for the budget and partly to keep your work free from infringement.

The biggest problem with this solution is that it’s not always easy to find a good quality stock photo that fits your needs.

To help you with this, here we’ve compiled a list of 30 websites for stock photos and royalty free images that would probably have something perfect for whatever project you are working on. Some sites let you download any of the photos for free, others require that you attribute the site or credit the owner of the photographs.