free / licenced & placeholder images

A collection of free or license images as well as placeholder image generators for your emails

We all need photos and imagery to bring live to our email campaigns.

Whether you are looking for royalty-free or license paid for imagery, the below are some of the best of the market.

Unsplash

Unsplash

The internet’s source of freely-usable images. Powered by creators everywhere.

Pexels

The best free stock photos, royalty free images & videos shared by creators.

Pixabay

Stunning free stock photos for download from over 2.2 million royalty free stock photos.

Burst

Download stunning photos for websites and commercial use and search by categories.

freepik

Their goal is to offer the best high-quality content.

Shutterstock

Licence photos: "One platform. Millions of ways to tell your story."

iStock

Licence photos: Find the right content for your projects, at the right price.

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Placeholder images for your emails

Better Placeholder

Create placeholder images for your email designs using this easy to use generator. Simply add in the width and height to create your placeholder image which you can then export.

PlaceIMG

Another similar tool to create placeholder images for your emails but you can choose categories to display photos instead of a coloured plain box. Choose animals, nature, people and many more.

Fun placeholders images

Placeholder images don’t have to be boring or a photo from a stock collection. Why not make them fun and here are our favourites. Enjoy!

Filly Murray

The internet was missing the ability to provide custom-sized placeholder images of Bill Murray. Now it can.

PlaceCage

I think you've got this figured out by now. Choose your size and the tool will create a placeholder using Cage's face.

Placekitten

A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code.