The best websites to download professional stock graphics.
Of course, there are so many websites that offer a seemingly endless amount of downloadable stock graphics and often completely free of charge. But to be honest, most of these graphics look poorly designed, are barely editable or only come with a personal license, which means, you are not allowed to use them for commercial projects. On the other hand, you can create something unique on your own or hire a professional graphic designer but both options can be extremely time consuming and expensive. Our frequent readers may know, we often present you a handpicked selection of best stock graphics in our Templates category. To make it much easier for you to find the perfect design resources for your next project, here comes an overview of highly recommended websites that offer professional stock graphics for download.
1. Adobe Stock
For professional graphic designers using Adobe’s Creative Cloud, Adobe Stock might be the perfect solution. The platform integrates with all Creative Cloud apps such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. It gives you the opportunity to preview a stock graphic before acquiring the license. Adobe Stock offers high-quality photography and vector graphics. In addition, it enables you to sell your own artworks. If you want to give it a shot, Adobe offers a free 30-day trial.
2. iStock
iStock by Getty Images is another big platform offering millions of premium images, illustrations, vectors, videos, and audio tracks. Just like Getty Images itself, it has nice options such as filtering content by colors, categories, etc. You can also install iStock’s official app for iOS and Android to download the latest stock graphics wherever you are.
3. Shutterstock
On Shutterstock, you can browse through more than 300 million royalty-free stock footage including a vast amount of images, vector graphics, illustrations, videos, and even music titles. The platform is pretty much known especially for the wide range of stock images. Using the well-organized categories or search filters, you will easily find what you’re looking for.
4. Creative Market
During the past years, Creative Market became extremely popular among graphic designers from around the globe. They offer a wide range of templates, fonts, graphics, web themes, mock-ups, presentations, stock photos, and add-ons that have been created by almost 30k designers and studios. Most of the items are available for a very low budget. In addition, the platform offers a weekly changing collection of free products.
5. Envato Elements
Envato Elements works quite different compared to the websites before. After purchasing a monthly or yearly subscription, you get access to a huge amount of stock graphics. This way, you can download as many products as you want. This solution is definitely something for the power users, which have a high demand for graphics, presentations, stock photos, design assets, fonts, videos, ebooks, website themes, and plugins.
6. YouWorkForThem
Compared to the competitors mentioned before, YouWorkForThem is rather small but in my opinion, they offer the most selective range of professional graphics including fonts and a nice variety of stock art. So if you rather want to download your graphics from a smaller, independent platform, YouWorkForThem is definitely the right choice for you.
7. MightyDeals
As the name suggests, MightyDeals is something for the bargain hunters among you. They offer time-limited deals in the form of bundles that can be downloaded for very little money. I cannot recommend all of these bundles but sometimes you can find a few gems. Hence, it pays off to look at the platform from time to time.
8. Pixelo
Basically the same idea as MightyDeals, Pixelo is another website specializing in heavily discounted bundles of graphics, fonts, icons, logos, and other graphic stock items. The deals are limited in time and the price ist often reduced up to 90% – 95%. Just like what I wrote about the offers from MightyDeals, I cannot recommend all of these bundles but from time to time they collaborate with skilled designers to offer deals that truly stand out.
That’s it! What do you think about this selection? Feel free to tell us where do you download stock graphics or are there designers among you that are already licensing their creative work through one of these platforms? If you still think it’s quite difficult to find what you are looking for within this sheer endless amount of stock graphics, feel free to check out our Templates and Fonts categories to see a handpicked selection of professional design resources. In addition, we frequently publish reviews of recommended literature for graphic designers and the creative industry in our Books category.
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