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Where to Find Free Pictures for Your PowerPoint Presentations (10 Great Stock Image Sites)

Find Free High-Resolution Images for Your PowerPoint Decks

by Avantix Learning Team | Updated September 27, 2023

Applies to: Microsoft ® Word ® 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 and 365 (Windows)

You can find beautiful free pictures that you can use in your PowerPoint presentations online. There are plenty of great stock photo sites that offer high-quality images at no charge. Images can make a big difference for audience engagement and can help your presentations look more professional. You can search for images on these sites by keyword and download images at different resolutions. Most of them allow personal and commercial use of images based on their license terms.

If you're a PowerPoint 365 user, you also have access to Microsoft's free stock image library .

Some stock photo sites have free images and may also offer paid images on a premium plan. For free images, there is an element of risk in terms of copyright (as many users upload images). However, the following sites have better policing, known copyright owners, review processes or business backgrounds so they have a higher trust ranking. Be sure to check the site's license terms when you're using images.

Here's our list of the best sources for free pictures to use in your PowerPoint presentations (links below):

• Life of Pix
• Morgue File
• StockSnap.io

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The following are our picks of the top 10 websites (in no particular order) where you can find high-quality, free stock pictures for your presentations.

1. Unsplash

Unsplash was started  by Crew, an online platform connecting freelance creatives with customers, that turned viral. It was started as a give-back project. Their images have a modern and artsy style and are high quality. Unsplash started as a Tumblr blog offering leftover professional shots for free. It has grown into a stand-alone website offering more than half a million royalty-free stock photos from contributing photographers.

Photo by Mo on Unsplash

License Details: Unsplash uses their own custom license, enabling free use in commercial projects with no attribution required (just like a Creative Commons Zero) but forbidding image compiling. Unsplash has recently added a premium paid version (Unsplash+) for some images.

2. PIKWIZARD

PIKWIZARD is a professional stock photo site with over a million free high-quality images in multiple popular categories. It's owned by Wavebreak Media, a stock video and photography production company led by Irish videographer and entrepreneur Sean Prior. The images come from various contributors, most of whom are known stock media producers. PikWizard also offers great image editing with a DesignWizard tool where you can add text to images.

Photo by PIKWIZARD

License Details: PIKWIZARD has their own custom license allowing free use in commercial projects, with a sensitive use clause. They don't allow resale or use in products for resale (t-shirts, posters, etc.), but those are the only copyright restrictions.

3. Life of Pix

Life of Pix  is owned by Canadian digital marketing agency LEEROY and provides hundreds of thousands of artistic and high quality photos. All files have been submitted by photographers and are free to download and use.

Photo by Cyril Mouty on Life of Pix

License Details: Life of Pix images are Public Domain so they are not subject to copyright. This allows free usage for commercial purposes, no attribution required, but the site does not allow mass distribution

Public Domain licenses should be safer for commercial use since there's no copyright attached to the images. However, this only works if the contributor who donated them is the original copyright owner and all other required rights (such as model releases) are cleared. Since Life of Pix is owned by a reputable company, it is capable of providing trust in its free images.

BURST was launched in 2017 by Shopify and offers free stock images intended for e-shops and commercial use in general (although you can use the images for social media, blog posts and presentations). The site has a large library with thousands of high-resolution images with a current style covering popular commercial categories. Burst images are sourced from hired photographers and user submissions and all images are free to use.

Photo by BURST

License Details: BURST has two licenses: Creative Commons Zero (CC0) which is free usage for commercial purposes and a custom license which is almost identical to CC0 but which allows using photos in products for resale and has a sensitive use clause. Besides a no compiling term, there are no other copyright restrictions.

Pexels is a free stock photo site offering hundreds of thousands of royalty-free stock images in high resolution submitted by artists or added from other free photo sites. It was created by German twin brothers Bruno and Ingo Joseph. The images are beautiful and modern and all images are free to download and use. Pexels accepts user submissions but also aggregate images from multiple other sites which increases the risk of potential copyright or right of privacy infringements.

Photo by  Marta Dzedyshko on Pexels

License Details: Pexels photos are licensed under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) so are free for commercial purposes, no attribution required.

6. Rawpixel

Rawpixel was founded by Robert Churchill and has thousands of trendy, authentic and high-quality images submitted by qualified contributors. It offers free and premium pictures and you need to be sure you search for the free images. Users are limited to 100 free downloads per user per month.

Photo by Rawpixel

License Details: Rawpixel uses a custom license with free usage for commercial purposes. There is a sensitive use clause and no resale is permitted.

7. Morgue File

Morgue File has over 400,000 free images. Most images are free for commercial use but check each image for any license restrictions. You will need to set up an account to download images for free.

Photo by Gary3141 at Morgue File.

License Details: Morgue File contains thousands of images that are free for commercial use but check each image's license for restrictions.

Pixabay is a free stock photo site founded by German technology experts Hans Braxmeier and Simon Steinberger. It is crowdsourced from a global group of users. The library is huge (over 1 million) and the royalty-free images are all available for free. Most of them are high definition and suitable for commercial use. Pixabay has a professional curator that manually reviews and vets images for technical quality as well as legal validity. There are also paid images that will take you to another site for purchase.

Photo by Amy Irizarry on Pixabay

License Details: Pixabay uses a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license so images are free for commercial purposes with no attribution required.

9. Kaboompics

Kaboompics is owned by designer and photographer Karolina Grabowska. It offers free high-quality stock photos with a natural feel and multiple subjects. There are more than 8,000 images in the library and the pictures are quirky and modern. You can even search by colour palette.

Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Kaboompics

License Details: Kaboompics has a custom license granting free usage for commercial purposes that includes a sensitive use clause. Images may not be sold as-they-are-downloaded (so alterations to the original file are a requirement) and redistribution is also forbidden without permission. There is also a warning about the commercial use of photos with brands or trademarked subjects on them.

10. StockSnap.io

StockSnap.io is a stock image site by Christopher Gimmer and Marc Chouinard who also developed the graphic design tool Snappa. The site offers free high-resolution images in a modern and trendy style. Users submit the photos and all images are free so there is the usual risk in terms of copyright. There are also paid images that will take you to another site for purchase.

Photo by  Travel Photographer from StockSnap

License Details: StockSnap uses a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license so images are free for commercial purposes.

Choose Quality as a Priority

There are many other websites offering free images but these sites combine the benefits of quality, library size and trustworthiness.

This article was first published on May 17, 2020 and has been updated for clarity and content.

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700+ Presentation Images That Will Enhance Any Presentation [Free Images]

Written by: Chloe West

When creating a speech or a pitch to present to an audience, there’s one element that you especially want to focus on to create an engaging experience – your presentation images.

Your presentation images allow you to showcase your story through visuals. Whether you choose photography, graphic design elements and so on, your imagery is key to helping you make your main point.

Helping your audience to visualize your point is essential to a good presentation . While your overall content and your slide design matters as well, you need high-quality images to really prove your point to your audience.

Not only that, but people are visual learners. They want to see what you’re talking about.

So we’ve put together a list of over 700 presentation images that will enhance even the driest slideshow.

Plus, s croll down to the bottom for some tips on using these presentation images within your slides.

Click on the image gallery under each category to view tons of handpicked images to use for your presentation.

1 Business Presentation Images

There are so many different types of presentations that you’ll need to do in business or in your career. Whether it’s a sales presentation, a marketing presentation, a pitch to an investor, a presentation for a conference or networking event and more.

And these are typically made in an effort to promote your business. So you really don’t want your audience to get bored due to a lack of visuals.

Including images within your business presentation is the perfect way to keep your audience engaged and interested in what you’re saying.

However, we don’t mean you want these images to take up your entire slide and nothing else. You need to work it into your slide in a way that simply boosts your content. Add these presentation images as a background to your slide.

Place an image on one side of your slide and your content on the other slide. Add an image into your presentation as an accent.

There are many different ways to include imagery in your business presentation.

And to help you find the perfect images to include, we’ve created a huge list of presentation images that you can find right in Visme’s photo library and easily drop right into your slides.

Click on the image gallery below to view business presentation images.

2 Nature Presentation Images

Are you looking for some compelling and beautiful nature photography to use in your next nature presentation?

When you’re leading a presentation for your environmentally friendly nonprofit or sharing a nature-focused movement, you want to use photos that help to argue your main point and sell your presentation to your audience.

There’s no shortage of beautiful imagery of the earth, and your presentation should show off everything that this planet has to offer.

Fighting climate change? Trying to save an endangered species? Working against littering and pollution? Share photos of how the earth and wildlife is supposed to look.

To help you do this, we wanted to put together a comprehensive list of all of the nature presentation images we have right in Visme’s photo library.

Browse through our nature photos below, then dive right into your Visme design dashboard to create a beautifully captivating presentation.

Click on the image gallery below to view nature presentation images.

3 Marketing Presentation Images

When marketing your business, you really need to sell in your presentations. If you’re marketing your business at a networking event, tradeshow or conference, your presentation's visuals really matter.

They also matter in a sales pitch, or even just in a marketing presentation or report with your team. Keep your team and your supervisors engaged using a combination of data visualization tools and beautiful images.

Peruse Visme’s photo library to find photos that represent your target audience for your buyer personas. Search for images of social media users to help prove your point about the importance of social media.

You can even find images with analytics and data that will help visualize the statistics you’re working to convey. 

Picture this: your interactive charts on one side with a high-quality stock photo right next to it to really pull your entire slide design together.

Scroll through our top marketing presentation images to find the ones that work best in your presentation design.

Click on the image gallery below to view marketing presentation images.

4 City Presentation Images

Show off your city in your next presentation. These images can be useful to present an idea to the city council or to share a local movement or project with an audience.

Visme’s stock photo library has a plethora of images from cities around the world. Show off your landscape, sights to see and more for free.

It doesn’t matter if your beautiful city includes more skyscrapers or shopping centers, farms or amusement parks. Regardless, you can find the perfect stock photos to represent your city within Visme’s searchable library.

Your city presentation will hold that much more emotion and power if it includes visual representations of the exact locations you’re talking about.

Check out our city presentation image options below to start your search for the perfect photos for your slideshow.

Click on the image gallery below to view city presentation images.

5 Political Presentation Images

Whether you’re running a local, statewide or national campaign, you’re going to have to give a few speeches and presentations. And it’s essential to include visuals and imagery inside any presentation slides you create alongside your speech.

People are passionate about their political views, and integrating visual aids to support your speaking points can make your stance on the issues seem even more impactful.

Help to rally your supporters by including patriotic photography alongside imagery that speaks to your focal campaign messaging.

Share images of the area that you’re running to represent to showcase your love for your district and how you want to change it. 

Whether you’re running for student council, city council, or even president or prime minister, you need to include photos that help to sell your messaging and let people know why they should vote for you.

Click on the image gallery below to view political presentation images.

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6 Animal Presentation Images

Who doesn’t love animals? And when you’re putting together a presentation about animals (whether it’s to help animals get adopted, share information on an endangered species, combat animal cruelty, etc.), what better way to appeal to your audience than with photos?

Visme’s photo library includes images of pets as well as images of wildlife so that you can find photos that suit any presentation talking points.

Search for photos of lions, tigers, bears and more. Or on the tamer side, find images of some puppies, kittens and bunnies.

Looking for something a bit more exotic? Check out our selection of reptiles, like alligators, lizards and snakes.

Simply dive into Visme’s design dashboard, click over to Graphics in the left sidebar and start searching through the massive photo library to find the perfect animal presentation images for your slides.

Click on the image gallery below to view animal presentation images.

7 Holiday Presentation Images

There’s a never ending list of holidays, so the list of stock photos needs to be just as long! If you’re referencing holidays in your presentation or putting together a report that covers a single holiday extensively, we’ve got your images covered.

Find any and all holiday presentation images in Visme’s stock photo library. Whether it’s winter holidays like Christmas or Hannukah or summer holidays like Fourth of July or Cinco de Mayo, you’ll find the perfect images in our photo resource.

Remember, an image is worth a thousand words, so you always want to have a few good photos to visually represent what you’re saying.

Do a quick search of holiday presentation images in this gallery as well as in Visme.

Click on the image gallery below to view holiday presentation images.

8 Educational Presentation Images

Whether you’re putting together a report for school or giving a presentation on the importance of education, the need for photos to accompany your words is essential.

Showcase children sitting at their desks, eager to learn. Share images of kids at play during recess. Visualize what it means for students to make friends in class. 

There are so many different ways to show off education in stock photos through your presentation, and we’re only here to help.

Take a look at the photos included in our roundup below, but don’t forget to conduct a thorough search in Visme’s design dashboard.

You can use imagery as the background of a slide or to simply create an accent or emphasis on your slide content.

But one thing is for sure: you need to visually represent your words with graphics and photography. Browsing through the gallery below can help.

Click on the image gallery below to view educational presentation images.

9 Nonprofit Presentation Images

There are many different reasons someone involved in a nonprofit might need to give a presentation. There are donor pitches, fundraising events, speeches and more.

And each of those presentations is made up of two components: words and images.

When it comes to a nonprofit presentation , the need for an emotional appeal to the audience grows exponentially. The purpose of these presentations tends to be to generate or increase donations, because nonprofits operate exclusively through donations.

Including imagery that represents what your nonprofit is fighting for or against is the best way to appeal to your audience’s senses. Even more than words, visuals help people to understand or relate to an issue.

And Visme’s photo library is full of images that your nonprofit can use in its next presentation. Just start browsing through our selection below.

Click on the image gallery below to view nonprofit presentation images.

10 Financial Presentation Images

Putting on a presentation to talk finances? Maybe you’re a financial planner, and you’re trying to show potential clients why they need your help.

Or perhaps you’re putting together a presentation to let the board on your nonprofit or supervisors in your company know about your revenue and spending.

Either way, a presentation is a great way to visualize the dollars and cents and help to create a compelling argument for how well your company is performing.

And any compelling presentation needs visuals. While financial presentations will also require some powerful data visualizations , don’t forget about the images.

Financial presentation images can provide context for your argument, add an accent to a slide, or give you a background to overlay your information onto.

Check out the images we have in our massive photo library that can help improve your financial presentation.

Click on the image gallery below to view financial presentation images.

11 Motivational Presentation Images

If you’re giving a motivational speech , you definitely need presentation images to accompany your content. An image is worth a thousand words, and incorporating photos into your motivational presentation is the perfect way to inspire your audience.

Your motivational presentation images can range from photos of inspirational sayings or scenes to photos of people working hard to succeed at something.

Consider what your topic is, and find photos that are relevant. You want to inspire and motivate your audience to take action to better themselves and their lives.

Browse our extensive photo library to find the perfect motivational photos to accompany your presentation.

Click on the image gallery below to view motivational presentation images.

12 Art Presentation Images

Are you discussing art? Whether it’s the history of art, modern art or simply how art can be found in life, you’re in luck.

Our library of stock images can help you find the beautiful and artistic presentation images that you need to amplify your message. 

Showcase the exact types of art that you’re discussing in your presentation by sharing photos of it directly in your slideshow. You can use those photos as a background to your slide, as an accent that appears alongside your content or as the feature photo on a slide.

Art is such a visual concept anyways, that it should be fairly simple for you to find the perfect stock photography to match your information.

Browse through just a few handfuls of the photos that Visme’s presentation image library has to offer.

Click on the image gallery below to view art presentation images.

13 Travel Presentation Images

Our last section of presentation images for your slideshow needs covers travel presentations . If you’re a travel agent making a pitch or a digital nomad teaching others how to do the same, you need some stellar travel photos to show off.

Sharing photos from around the world is a huge incentive to get people on your side, listening to what you can teach them or do for them.

After all, who doesn’t love the idea of vacationing and traveling the world?

Find the perfect travel photos to pop into your presentation slides with Visme’s stock photo library. With hundreds of thousands of photos to choose from, you’re sure to find some beautiful travel presentation images that are perfect for your message.

Check out the gallery below to find a few that will fit perfectly in your next presentation.

Click on the image gallery below to view travel presentation images.

How to Use These Presentation Images

So now that we’ve shown you over 700 of the thousands of presentation images we have available for free use, we know what you’re thinking.

How can you use these photos in a presentation? And furthermore, how can you use them and ensure your slides still look well designed ?

There are several different ways to use images in your presentations, so let’s go over how you can do these right in Visme’s presentation maker.

Color Overlay

A color overlay is a transparent color on top of a photo. These are great to use when you want to add a photo onto a slide for emphasis, but you still need to include text on the slide.

Because it tends to be difficult to see text directly on top of a bright, busy photo, a color overlay is a great way to soften the photo and ease it into the background.

You can create a color overlay in Visme by clicking the Filter setting, choosing your color and selecting the opacity percentage. Check out a few other photo filter options here .

Create an accent in your slide by using an accent photo. The photo can be in the corner of your slide, covering the top or bottom half, taking up the left or right side or even right in the middle of your slide with your content surrounding it.

You can easily create an accent photo by selecting your photo from our photo library or uploading your own, then sizing it and dragging it to the area you want to accentuate.

You can easily upload a background photo by clicking the slide background and selecting a photo from the stock image library.

If the photo doesn’t fit perfectly, you can drag it around to ensure the area that you want to be visible is shown in your slide.

When using a background image with no color overlay, it’s a good idea to choose a photo with a lot of white space. This allows you to add visuals to your presentation slide while also including copy from your slide content.

If you’ve found a photo that is partially perfect, don’t worry. You can quickly and easily crop photos directly in the Visme design dashboard so that you’re only showcasing the part of the image that you want to be visible on your slide.

To crop a photo, select the Crop setting and drag the corners until the area that you want to see is selected. Then click Apply .

Last, but not least, is our feature image.

If you’ve found a photo that conveys your messaging perfectly, but you don’t want any text to distract your audience, you can include it as a feature image on a slide.

All you do is upload it as a background image or resize it so it covers the entire screen and let your words speak for themselves.

Not every slide needs to have copy on it. You can include feature images every few slides so that your audience still has something engaging to look at while you continue speaking.

To learn even more about using images in your presentation design, check out this video from our Make Information Beautiful series:

Create Your Own Presentation

Ready to take charge of your next presentation? All you need are the right presentation images to engage your audience and help to illustrate your point.

Jump into our Visme design dashboard with one of these pre-designed presentation templates , input your content, choose your images and you’re ready to present!

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Best Sources of free Images to use in PowerPoint Presentations

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Finding license free photos on the internet can be difficult. Many good pictures are not free or not usable for commercial purposes – looking for good ones that are free to use can get exhausting. Therefore, we decided to show you our 5 favourite websites for free images that you can use for PowerPoint presentations (or for anything else).

1. Unsplash

Unsplash is an amazing resource for high-quality images, which can be used for private or commercial purposes and can even be modified. Pictures are distributed by photographers all around the world. Even though crediting isn’t required, it is very much appreciated and a way for the artist to gain more prominence.

https://unsplash.com

The Pexels-License is simple – you can edit photos as you like and use them for all purposes. Crediting is not required. We adore this resource for its huge variety of categories and professionally shot images.

https://www.pexels.com

3. Freerange

Freerange images are distributed by their “in-house”-photographers or by the community. Just like the previously mentioned ones, it is free for non-commercial as well as commercial use – attribution not necessary. You can find all kinds of content in the photos, and the amount grows every day.

https://freerangestock.com

4. Creative Commons

CC is a giant network that was built to provide content that is free to use. They provide public licenses and a feature for searching pictures – where you can choose if you want something for commercial purposes, something that can be modified, or both.

https://creativecommons.org

Pixabay provides tons of pictures (photographs and also great illustrations!) and even videos. They’re being shared by a community. To use Pixabay’s content you do not need permission, and it is free to use for all purposes. Pictures and Videos can be changed and adapted as you would like.

https://pixabay.com

6.PikWizard

PikWizard holds a large library of free and paid stock images and videos. The are images for which you need to pay for are labeled with "Premium". For the free images no attribution is required. What's cool is that you can directly edit the images on the site without the need to download.

https://pikwizard.com

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Top 14 websites to download free stock images for presentations

It is often said that a picture is better than a thousand words, a good picture can grab attention and get your message across. There are many websites to download free stock images for presentations. But it’s not easy to download high-quality free images for presentations especially when you do not know where to download free pictures for presentations.

There’s one question we get asked quite often:  Where can I find free pictures that are high quality for PowerPoint presentations?

Nowadays, there are so many websites that can download free pictures for presentations. In this post, we’ll share 14 websites for free high-quality pictures for presentations.

• Life of Pix
• Depositphotos
• Gratisography
• Burst(by Shopify)

After finding out high-quality pictures for your presentations, you should know how to insert pictures into your presentations in PowerPoint.

Because there are so many websites to download free stock images for presentations, this post covers quite a lot of ground! It’s a long read, so feel free to use the table of contents below to jump around.

Basic terms

2. unsplash, 4. freeimages, 5. picjumbo, 6. kaboompics, 7. stocksnap, 8. life of pix, 9. depositphotos, 10. gratisography, 11. stockvault, 12. pikwizard, 13. rawpixel, 14. burst（by shopify）.

Before downloading and using any pictures, we need to understand their terms of use. before we get started, we should understand the following terms:

1. Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. There are various types of  Creative Commons licenses  that range from allowing any type of use with no attribution to allowing only certain uses and no changes.

2. Public Domain

Works in the public domain are those whose copyrights have expired, have been forfeited, or are inapplicable. Finding something on the internet does not mean it is in the public domain.

3. Royalty-Free

Royalty-free images aren’t necessarily free. In most cases, you’ll have to pay a one-time fee to obtain the rights to use the image. Then you can use it as many times as you like. The “free” in “royalty-free” only means that you do not have to pay royalties to the owner of the image every time you use it.

Note: you can download the template used in this post for free.

14 websites to find free stock images for presentations

I will check the home pages, search results pages, and download pages of these sites. When we search on these sites, we use the same term “business”.

Pexels is one of my favorite sites to find free stock images for presentations. You can find many high-quality free pictures for your presentations. And all images are free for personal and commercial use.

The homepage is clean and easy to use.

You can get so many high-quality images by searching.

When we click on an image, a high-definition preview will emerge, you can also click on the preview image to enlarge the preview. For most presentations, we can copy the preview images and paste them into our Presentation instead of downloading them.

Right-click on the image and click “copy image”, and then choose the picture placeholder you want to use and press Ctrl+V .

Please note: You can use this method to insert pictures into your presentations only if your picture placeholders are rectangular.

Pexels has  its own license , which states what you can and cannot do with the images. You can use and modify the images for free for both commercial and personal use without attribution.

You can do whatever you want with their collection of over 300,000 beautiful, high-resolution images from more than 50,000 contributors.

The search results are very good.

Like Pexels, the preview image of the picture on the download page is large enough to be used in our presentation.

Unsplash has  its own license , which essentially lets you use the images for free, in any way you like, except for using them to create a competing website.

Pixabay has a very large database of high-quality free stock images for presentations. Another big advantage of Pixabay is that they also offer vectors and illustrators.

In addition to photos, other types of images, such as vectors, appear on the search results page.

On the download page, the preview image is small, so we should not copy the preview image to our presentations, and we will need to download the image before inserting it into our presentations. There’s a related image section on the right side that’s very helpful for us to find similar images.

Images on Pixabay are licensed under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) , which means you can use the images without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist (though it’s always appreciated).

Free Images provides over 300,000 free stock images.

I like the home page design of this site very much.

Although there are so many pictures on this site, it also contains some low-quality pictures, which we need to choose from in the search results. There are many options on the left side of the search results for further filtering.

The resolution of the preview image on the download page is low, so we need to download the image to our computer before inserting it into a presentation.

Free Images has  its own license . The license allows a very broad range of uses, though it does list several restricted use cases (which are quite common for most free image sites).

It is a thriving free stock photo community with a big selection of beautiful photos.

Although the home page has some ads, it still looks very clean, the design of the homepage is my favorite style. The search bar is in the upper left corner, I think it is a little small, and not easy to find out.

The number of pictures on the site is not very large, but the quality of these pictures is very high.

The preview image on the download page is large enough to be used in most presentations, so we can copy it to our slides.

PicJumbooffers a variety of free images for any kind of use—free of charge with no registration required. Pictures on the site can be used for presentations or PowerPoint templates, even if these templates are for sale.

Kaboompics is a royalty-free service for stock images. To this day the site has gathered over 6 million impressions, and the photos have been downloaded over 21 million times. 

The home page is minimal. I like it very much.

Search results can also be further filtered and sorted, which is very useful.

On the download page, the preview image is small. We should download the high-resolution images and insert them into our presentations.

There are two things that I love about Kaboompics: one, it allows me to search by color, and two, it provides a complementary palette of colors in the photo.

Kaboompics has  its own license too, which is like Creative Commons Zero except that you cannot redistribute its photos.

 All images on Stocksnap are  free  to use, for absolutely any purpose whatsoever.

The home page is simple and easy to use.

On the search results page, some paid images appear above. You can reorder the search results.

The site has a very useful function, that is, you can edit the picture before downloading the picture. Although the editing tool is very simple, it’s practical and easy to use.

Stocksnap uses  the Creative Commons CC0 license  so its photos are free to download, edit, and use for both commercial and non-commercial projects.

This site lists free high-resolution photographs and partners with Adobe Stock for more (paid) stock photographs.

There are some featured images on the homepage and these images are beautiful and of high quality. These large preview images make the entire page look very stunning and attractive.

The images in the search results are all high quality and you can further filter the search results.

On the download page, the size of the preview image is large enough, so we can copy the preview image and paste it into our presentations. Of course, you can download the image first and then insert it into your presentation in PowerPoint too.

Free high-resolution photos, no copyright restrictions for personal and commercial use. All images on this site are donated to the public domain. Warning: no mass distribution allowed.

This site offers a sample of free images, vectors, editorial content, and footage, which is updated every week. You can also sign up for an account to get the free stock files every week.

The free images section of Depositphotos.

There are not only photos in the search results, but also other types of pictures.

By clicking on the picture, you can open the preview image with some download options, the preview image is very small, although you can enlarge the preview image to see more details, the enlarged preview image is with watermarks, so we must download the picture to our computer and then insert it into our presentations in PowerPoint.

You can see the license of the image on the right side of the preview image. All images are free for personal and commercial purposes with attribution.

At Gratisography, you can get the world’s quirkiest collection of  high-resolution free stock images for presentations, comprised of the world’s best, most creative pictures — images you just won’t find anywhere else.

The style of the site is very special, and the pictures on the site are special too.

If you need something quirky… beautiful… arresting. Images that make your audience’s heartbeat just a little faster. You’re in the right place.

On the image download page, the size of the preview image is large enough, so we can copy the preview image and paste it into our presentations.

Gratisography also has  its own free photo license , which lets you do “almost anything you can think of”. While they have a rather limited number of images now, many are high-quality images that I would use.

It is a website where photographers, designers, and students can share their photographs, graphics, and vector files with each other for free.

The home page is very simple and practical. There’s a section on the home page called featured image collections where you can find some great collections of pictures, and I love this part.

But the search results are not very good.

On the download page, the preview image is small. You should download the image before inserting it into your presentations.

There are three kinds of licenses, and you need to check the license on the right side of the preview images before downloading.

Besides having a huge collection of unique stock images for presentations, Pikwizard also offers a design wizard that allows you to make basic edits like adding text overlays before downloading.

The search results page is good.

On the picture download page, the preview of the picture is small, and you need to download the picture before inserting it into your presentations in PowerPoint. On the right side, you can check the license before downloading.

Pikwizard uses the Creative Commons CC0 license so its photos are free to download, edit, and use for both commercial and non-commercial projects.

This site includes over 1 million professionally made free photos, vector graphics, PSD mockups, templates, PNG stickers, and design add-ons.

The homepage of Rawpixel is simple and clean.

On the right side of the search results page, there are many options for filtering search results.

On the download page, in addition, besides downloading the image, you can also check the license of this image.

Burst is a free stock photo platform for entrepreneurs by Shopify.

The home page is simple.

The number of images on the site is relatively small, but the quality of the pictures is high. If you are working on a presentation about business and marketing, you should check this site.

The images are both free and royalty-free. You can check the photo license for more details.

Thanks so much for reading all the way to the end of the blog post. I have some advice for using images in PowerPoint:

• Check the license of the image before downloading and using it.
• You can copy the preview image to your presentation instead of downloading the image if the resolution of the preview image is enough large.

If you do not know how to insert pictures into your presentations in PowerPoint, you can check this article .

Have any questions? Feel free to leave a comment!

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