Bookmark this list: The only church graphic guide you’ll ever need.
Aboundant is constantly scouring the web to help you find the best graphic resources for your church. We took a close look at many of them and ranked the best ones. Here’s what we came up with:
These sites have great free images for church use. Check out the complete list with ratings and screenshots.
- Unsplash
- Pexels
- Pixabay
- Visual Hunt
- StockSnap
- CreationSwap
- Freephotos.cc
These sites have great church-specific graphics for use for things like bulletins, worship slides, and web banners. Check out the complete list with ratings and screenshots.
- Church Media Drop
- CreationSwap
- Open Resources
- Life Church Open Network
- New Life Church
- Seeds.
- Graceway Media
- CCV Resources
These sites have a great selection of free videos that make great video backgrounds for websites or for worship slides. Check out the complete list with ratings and screenshots.
- Pixabay
- Videvo
- Videezy
- Pexels
- Mazwai
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Icons
These sites have a great selection of free icons to use on you print and web publications.
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Fonts
These sites have a great selection of free fonts for use in print publication or on a website.
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Colors
These free sites are helpful in generating color schemes that follow sound color theory.
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Important Things to Remember About Usage
If you need images for your church website, worship slides, communications materials, and social media, there are several options:
- Take photos yourself or use ones created by church members.
- Pay a lot for high-quality images from stock photo and image websites.
- Pay less for low- and medium-quality images from stock photo and image websites.
- Find free images that will work well-enough for your needs.
Let’s get one thing perfectly clear, though: you do NOT want to use images on your church website that don’t fall into one of these categories:
- Images you have paid for AND which have usage rights appropriate for your context (e.g. personal, business).These may or may not require attribution, so pay attention to the licensing restrictions.
- Photos you have taken yourself or that other staff or volunteers have taken for you.
- Images that are in the public domain, such as old images and images on Wikipedia.
- Images that you have created yourself, such as illustrations. (Note: this does not necessarily include taking someone else’s photo or illustration and editing it.)
- Images which are covered under a Creative Commons license appropriate to your setting.
- Images which are royalty free and OK to use in your setting. (Note: “royalty free” is not the same as “free.” Many royalty free images require a payment first.)
Please read a few of these examples of lawsuits against businesses and organizations for copyright infringement. Could your church afford an $8000 bill sent to you by a lawyer claiming you had used an image without permission? I didn’t think so. Next, bookmark, read, and circulate this page to all of your church staff. It’s a terrific overview of all things related to stock images.