Stock Shop: Inspiration and Motivation for Your Next Creation
A collection of resources to elevate your creative projects. From vectors and clipart to stock photos and videos, this list offers a variety of tools and services to find the perfect visuals. Whether you're designing graphics, developing games, or seeking high-quality imagery for marketing, you’ll discover options ranging from free and open-source to premium and proprietary. Stay inspired and bring your visions to life with the right resources tailored for every creative need.

Allegro 4 and Allegro 5 are cross-platform, libraries mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. They handle common, low-level tasks such as creating windows, accepting user input, loading data, drawing images, playing sounds, etc.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- iPhone
265 million stock images, vectors, videos and 360-degree panoramic images. Greater choice from Alamy, the world’s most diverse stock photo collection.
Going beyond "run and gun corridors," "monster-closet AIs" and static worlds, BioShock creates a living, unique and unpredictable FPS experience. After your plane crashes into icy uncharted waters, you discover a rusted bathysphere and descend into Rapture, a...
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Windows
- Linux
- Wine
- Steam
- Playstation
- Xbox
+4Minus lets you upload and share photos, videos and files easily. You can access and download your existing files from your Minus account and publish to your Minus profile and more. Supports HTTPS.
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- Free • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
+6An online design tool with 150,000+ templates and rich features like animation, video editing, and free assets for creating graphics, social media content, and more.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Online
- Android
- iPhone
+1123RF is a resource for high-resolution stock images, vectors, videos, and music. It offers an AI Image Generator to convert text into visuals and has a collection of over 100 million free trial images.
The Vecteezy Editor is a free SVG editor designed to allow anyone to quickly and easily create beautiful graphics directly in the browser. This tool is built into the largest database of free vector graphics on the internet.
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- Free • Proprietary
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- Online
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Chromium
+6Deviant Art dies not address or market themselves as a Stock Photo company. Nonetheless there is no denial in the talent and beautiful Images you can find. The site is inspirational.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Android Tablet
+2We aim to unify creators via a free exchange of the world’s best visual content. We are creatives. We know that being a creative professional is more than just a 9 to 5 grind. It’s a lifestyle. It’s a passion. It’s making something from nothing.
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- Free • Proprietary
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- Online
Gratisography - Free, use as you please, high-resolution stock photos for personal and commercial projects. Click on an image to download the high-resolution version. New awesome pictures added weekly! This project was created by Ryan McGuire.
These all are fully available to download for your blog posts, articles, websites, templates, mobile apps, backgrounds or just any kind of design.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Online
Two years ago I created SplitShire with the simple aim of giving life to photographs that would have gone into oblivion without any utility. In the course of almost ten years of photography I have accumulated many files, thousands, who were in the hard disk gathering dust.
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- Free Personal • Proprietary
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- Online
Over 350,000 high quality, high resolution photos. Free for commercial use. No attribution required.
Picjumbo is free stock photo site created in 2013 by designer & photographer Viktor Hanacek. It all started when all of the regular stock photo sites rejected his photos for "lack of quality".
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- Free • Proprietary
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- Online
Explore history with a hint of cool. Vintage photos from the public archive via Flickr Commons
Snappa is a SaaS that enables digital marketers to create highly engaging images in minutes. It's the perfect graphic design tool for blog posts, social media, and ad campaigns.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Online
Offers over 50 million stock photos and vectors for as low as $1 each. No download limits, expiration date, or licensing hassle, ideal for all projects.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Online
- Android
- iPhone
+1Burst has thousands of hi-res photos that are free to use. Our stunning stock photography is free for personal & commercial use. Non-copyrighted pictures added weekly!.
+1Stock.XCHNG is now FreeImages
The largest free stock photo site on the web - download stock photos or share your own work.
stock.xchng is an open community for stock image sharing. Many free photos, with the option of selling photos as well.
Free stock photos in high resolution with their RAW files. All photos are released under CC0, no copyright restrictions.
A top marketplace for vector-only images, offering over 3 million royalty-free logos. It features in-house designers for customizing vector designs.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Online
+2Envato Elements provides designers and developers access to unlimited stock videos, royalty-free music, photos, graphics, graphic templates & more.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
The largest online community of professional stock photographers offering millions of high-quality photos, illustrations, videos, and audio clips.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Motosha - Free Stock Photos is a Place for blogger, webmasters and designers to get free high quality photos.
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- Free • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Windows Mobile
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- iPad
+4Download from the largest database of free icons, with options like motion graphics, interface and animated icons in various formats such as PNG and SVG.
+1Freepik offers users, high quality graphic designs: exclusive illustrations and graphic resources carefully selected by our design team in order to provide our users with great content that can be used in both personal and commercial projects.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Online
Dribbble is the go-to resource for discovering and connecting with designers and creative talent around the globe.
Explore curated projects and connect with a global creative community, showcasing your portfolios, hiring freelancers, and sharing your work.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Apple TV
+5Discover a vast library of royalty-free assets ideal for creative endeavors, integrated seamlessly with Adobe suites. Access over 375 million resources including 4K videos.
+1Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Online
- Android
- F-Droid
- MediaWiki
Need stock photos that you can alter however you need? LibreStock searches various photo sites for images that are released under the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Meaning you can use the photo any way you like so long as you abide by the few, very liberal rules of...
Free high-resolution photos for any use. Access millions of curated images without a subscription or licensing restrictions. Explore and contribute.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Online
- iPhone
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- Mac
- Apple TV
SmugMug is a subscription service for image sharing, hosting, and video uploading. It also provides a marketplace for photographers to sell digital and print media. The platform offers a suite of tools for protecting, sharing, storing, and selling photos.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Apple TV
- Mac
- Adobe Lightroom
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic
- Windows
+6Online social photo and short video sharing community. Flickr helps you organize that huge mass of photos you have and offers a way for you, your friends and family to tell stories about them.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Google Chrome
+5Offers diverse stock photos, editorial images, and footage for creative professionals, with both subscription and pay-per-image pricing options.
MixKit provides a massive collection of free video footage for commercial or non-commercial use. The growing library is easy to navigate through clearly organized categories.
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- Free • Proprietary
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- Online
Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Online
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- Free • Proprietary
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- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
500px lets you create stunning professional photo portfolios, find friends, express yourself and connect with likeminded people.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
+1Provides a vast collection of royalty-free images, stock photos, vectors, and videos for creatives and professionals, with subscription or purchase options.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Online
Images, clip art, vectors and gif's, Oh My! Pretty up your project with professional photography to call your own.