Various Design Elements:
(* – Kar’s personal favorites)
Free deals/cheap commercial/extended license sites (Accounts sometimes needed):
Most if not all of these have Freebie corners, so check them out! Personally Creative Market, Dealjumbo and Deeezy I highly recommend, but all their freebies on these sites are good! Dealjumbo also has it if you sign up, you get freebies 2-3 times a week in your email. (These are free for personal use!)
These sites have vector images, raster images, video, fonts and more!
- Creative Market
- Creative Fabrica
- Dealjumbo
- Deeezy
- Design Cuts
- Hungry JPG
- InkyDeals
- PixelBuddha
- Graphic River
- Refe
- Pixel Surplus
- Behance
- Unblast (Free for Commercial & Personal Use!)
- Graphic Pear
- DeviantART
- Archive.org
Stock Images (Raster):
PUBLIC DOMAIN:
FREE FOR COMMERCIAL USE:
- OpenVerse
- Pexels
- Pixabay
- UnSplash
- CLKer (Clipart)
- Designer Pics
- Focastock
- FoodieFeed (Food Pictures!)
- Free Images
- Free Stocks
- Free Range Stock
- FreePhotos.cc
- Gratisography
- Image After
- ISO Republic
- Jay Mantri
- Kaboompics
- Life of Pix
- Little Visuals
- Morgue File
- New Old Stock (Vintage Photos)
- Old Design Shop (Vintage Images)
- Picjumbo
- Picography
- Pixnio
- Realistic Shots
- RGB Stock
- Startup Stock Photos
- Stockpix
- Stocksnap.io
- Travel Coffee Book (Travel Photos)
- Subtle Patterns (Free under Creative Commons license)
- Transparent Textures (great for websites!)
VARIED LICENCES:
Please make sure to look at the usage rights of each image on these sites as some may only be licensed for personal (and educational) use but not commercially!
Stock images (Vector):
PUBLIC DOMAIN:
FREE FOR COMMERCIAL USE:
- 123 Free Vectors (with attribution)
- Freepik (with attribution)*
- Free Vectors
- Vecteezy (With attribution)*
- Vector Portal
FREE FOR EDUCATIONAL / PERSONAL USE:
These can be used for classwork projects, or projects you plan to use for yourself. They cannot be used on anything that is planned to be sold.
- Brands of the World
- Free Vector (with attribution)
- The Noun Project (with attribution) *
- Vectorish
- icons8 (with attribution; paid commercial license)
PSD Mockups:
Digital Brushes:
These are mostly for Adobe Software, some might have GIMP or Krita sets, but you might need to dig a little further. Just make sure read the info on the sites or in the zip file for licensing.
- Obsidian Dawn (Free with attribution, but the licensing is very affordable.)
- Brush Lovers
- Brusheezy
- Brush King
- F Brushes
- Wow Brushes
CGI/3D Assets:
CG Cookie and Art Station also has Photoshop brushes for use too! If you’re into concept art, they’re great resources to have. Many of these sites also host paid assets so be mindful when searching.
- CG Cookie
- Art Station (Make sure to set the price range to FREE)
- Quixel (For Unreal Engine only, if you have the Unreal Educational license you can get access to the Megascans for free)
- 3D Ocean (Paid assets only)
- TurboSquid
- Cube Brush
- Sketchfab Store
- 3D Export
- 3DRT
- Blender Market (Assets for Blender)
- Free 3D
- CG Trader
- CG Channel
- Hum 3D
- 3Delicious
- Render Hub: Mostly Assets for the Daz 3D program)
- Mixamo: Assets for Adobe Fuse and Aero.
Stock Video:
Stock Audio:
- Freesound
- Free to Use Sounds
- Sound Jay
- Partners in Rhyme
- GameSounds
- Zap Splat
- Videvo
- BBC Archive
- US National Park Service
- Wikimedia
- Jamendo (Free for personal projects, paid commercial liscence)
Music:
Fonts:
MyFonts: Paid fonts, but sometimes gives out free fonts on Fridays.
FREE FOR COMMERCIAL USE:
VARIED USAGE RIGHTS:
Be sure to look at the usage rights before using! Some are free for only personal projects, others may be used commercially, some others might ask that you donate to the creator before using.
