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5 free sites to find quality visuals for your PowerPoint presentations

Our 5 favorite free sites for our royalty-free visuals

Author

Gaëtan Spiga

Updated on

February 12, 2025

Created on

January 28, 2025

Category

Design Tips

5 free sites to find quality visuals for your PowerPoint presentations

The use of quality visuals is one of the main vectors of the impact your presentation will have: if it only consists of a series of slides full of text, it will be difficult for your audience to maintain their attention throughout your speech.

If you already use sites such as Shutterstock, Getty Images or Adobe Stock on your team, but the photos of office workers with their best smiles, thumbs up, all with their eyes glued to the camera don't speak to you, this article is for you (if these photos are for you but you simply don't have the budget to buy them, don't leave right away, it may be that you will find what you are looking for a few lines below)!

We have all used photos found on Google Images in a presentation at one time or another, but it should be noted that in addition to their generally poor quality (low resolution or excessive image compression), they will very rarely be royalty-free. This is why the sites I am going to present to you offer excellent visuals, free of charge, and completely free to use in your presentations, including for commercial purposes.

Unsplash

Created in 2013, Unsplash is undoubtedly the best known platform offering royalty-free photos for free. With a selection of more than 2 million photos submitted by 200,000 professional and non-professional photographers (as well as a few brands such as Harley Davidson, Le Creuset or even the UN), it is still the site that I use the most for my presentations today. All the visuals on the site are grouped under a single license (https://unsplash.com/license).

Pexels

If you knew Unsplash, Pexels will probably be familiar to you too, since one year younger, he was able to establish himself as quickly as his elder in design communities. Based on the same principle as Unsplash, Pexels has a major advantage: that of also offering videos. However, be careful not to abuse it by ending up with 500MB .pptx files.

La Pexels license is just as simple as that of its rival, adding a few points that are more common sense than real prohibitions.

Rawpixel

Rawpixel is a slightly more restrictive platform to use since it requires you to create an account with which you can download 10 images per day from the “Free” category for free (and images from the “Public Domain” category without restriction) for free. You will then not have access to the Premium category, which requires a subscription, but if I chose to present this site to you despite these constraints, it is because it is one of the few to offer transparent pngs, vector illustrations and PSD mockups for free, under The same license only photos and therefore free to use for commercial purposes without attribution required (always for visuals in the “Free” category).

Pixabay

Pixabay offers content that is more similar to traditional paid stock photo sites (Shutterstock, Getty, etc.) but completely free and royalty-free. You can therefore find photos, vector files, illustrations and some videos, but it stands out especially for its royalty-free music section, which other sites do not offer. All under one single license like Unsplash and Pexels.

Burst

Burst is a platform launched by the e-commerce CMS Shopify, originally to offer oriented photos for entrepreneurs starting their business, although today there is a selection of more classic photos. Again, all photos are grouped under only one license.

Bonus: Everypixel & Stock Up

If you did not find what you were looking for on these 5 sites presented, maybe you will find it on Stock Up or Everypixel. Indeed, these sites are not strictly speaking platforms for providing photos, but indexers of other sites such as those mentioned above. It was Stock Up that made me discover Burst, it's up to you to discover your own nugget!

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