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Qaunain MeghjeeQaunain Meghjee
·6 min read·16 March 2025

7 Million Free Images: The Largest Free Stock Photo Library for Designers

Search and use over 7 million high-quality royalty-free images without leaving your canvas.

What you'll learn

  • How to search 7M+ images from Pexels and Pixabay without leaving your canvas
  • The difference between Pexels and Pixabay and when to use each
  • Licence terms — what commercial use is permitted and when attribution is needed
  • How to save favourite images and use the AI generator when stock isn't enough
7 Million Free Images: The Largest Free Stock Photo Library for Designers

The Problem With Finding Free Images for Designs

Every designer knows the pain: you're deep in a project and need a specific image — a diverse team in a modern office, an aerial view of a city, a close-up of fresh produce.

You open a stock photo site, wade through watermarked thumbnails, hit a paywall, and lose 20 minutes of your creative flow.

CollabDraw eliminates that friction entirely. With over 7 million royalty-free images from Pexels and Pixabay embedded directly in the app, you never have to leave your canvas to find the perfect photo.

How the Built-In Image Library Works

The image search experience in CollabDraw is designed for speed:

  1. Open the Images panel from the left toolbar
  2. Type any keyword to search across both Pexels and Pixabay simultaneously
  3. Filter by orientation, colour palette, or source
  4. Drag any image onto your canvas — it loads instantly at full resolution

Images can be cropped, resized, masked, filtered, and layered with other canvas objects. Your design workflow stays completely uninterrupted.

What Makes These 7 Million Images Special

Not all stock photo libraries are created equal. Here's what sets this collection apart:

Pexels

Hand-curated photos by a global community of photographers. Known for authentic, editorial-quality images that don't feel generic or staged — perfect for marketing materials and editorial content.

Pixabay

Massive in quantity and diversity. Excellent for niche topics and unusual subjects that mainstream stock sites lack. Great for technical, scientific, or specialist content.

Licence benefits

  • Zero watermarks — every image you see is the actual full-resolution result
  • Commercial licence included — use any image in client work, advertisements, and publications
  • No attribution required — though the photographers always welcome a credit

Like and Save Your Favourite Images

CollabDraw lets you like images so you can quickly find them later. Your liked images appear in a dedicated panel, making it easy to maintain a curated personal library of go-to visuals for your style of work.

AI-Enhanced Image Search

Can't find exactly what you're looking for in the stock library? CollabDraw's AI image generator is just one panel away.

Describe the image you need and generate something completely custom — the ideal complement to the stock library when you need something truly unique to your brand or project.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about 7 million free images: the largest free stock photo library for designers

Try it yourself — it's free

Everything described in this article is available on CollabDraw's free tier. No credit card required.

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