How To Download Shutterstock Images Free Without Watermark

Shutterstock is one of the most popular stock images websites where you can purchase high-quality stock images to use commercially. This website basically acts as a platform where Photographers share their photos and people buy photos. In between, it takes some commission and gives photographers an opportunity to earn. This website has more than 300 million royalty-free images of everything you can think of.

If you want high-quality stock images, you need to signup Shutterstock and subscribe to any of their premium plans. Plans start as low as US$ 0.27 per image but only if you subscribe to their costliest plan. Agencies, big publications, and bloggers who need images regularly should check their plans and subscribe to one depending on their requirements. There are also plans for teams. With each plan, you get access to millions of images.

The pricing is not much for earning bloggers or big publications, but newbies always find it costly and look for ways to download Shutterstock Images Free Without Watermark. It is because you can save Shutterstock from its website but there will always be a watermark. So, there is no legal way to download Shutterstock images free without watermark from the official website.

Why shouldn’t you try unethical ways to download Shutterstock images free?

I have used the ‘legal’ word intentionally in the previous paragraph. It is because downloading Shutterstock images free without watermark using unethical ways is not legal. Shutterstock images are not free. When you become a premium member, the company grants copyright to the intellectual property and you get the license to use the photo. If you download it free from unethical sources, your act qualifies as copyright infringement. Different countries have different laws to settle copyright infringement cases. So you are putting yourself at risk.

How to Avoid Copyright Infringement for Images on your Blog?

If you download Shutterstock images free without watermark and use on your blog, you are putting yourself at risk. So, how to avoid Copyright Infringement?

There are ways and you do not need to break any law for beautiful images. You can use free Shutterstock alternatives. Here are a few I personally recommend.

• Pexels
• Pixabay
• Unsplash
• StockSnap
• Freeimages

Here is a big list of websites to download royalty-free stock images for free. Most of these websites also have mobile apps. So, you can access their millions of stock photos on your smartphone.

All these websites are free to use. You can download high-quality stock images for free. These websites suggest you give credits but that is not mandatory. It is up to you. No one will ever come and ask for you to pay or give credit.

Ways to download free Shutterstock Images Without Watermark online

There are still ways to download Shutterstock images free without watermark. As I said, these ways are not ethical. If you use these ways, you are putting yourself at risk.

Warning: We do not encourage the use of free shutterstock images downloaders. If you do, we will not be responsible for any actions taken against you. If you understand this, you can proceed further.

Facebook Ads has integrated Shutterstock images to use in ads. Open Facebook Ads Creativehub. It will ask you the select Facebook ad manager account. Then you will be on the page to create ad mockups. While creating an Ad, you can use available stock images. Facebook has partnered with Shutterstock to allow you to use Shutterstock for free on Facebook ads.

You can easily find the Shutterstock image URL using the INSPECT ELEMENT feature of the browser. But this is also not safe to use. Read the stock image use Guidelines on Facebook. The last point clearly says that you cannot use it on other websites.

There are a few online tools that claim to offer free downloads of Shutterstock images without watermark. I tested a few but nothing worked for me. So, I am not adding any third-party Shutterstock downloader on this page. I will find any working Shutterstock downloader, I will surely update this page.

Final Words

Now you know how you can use Facebook to download a Shutterstock image for free. I didn’t mention any third-party website that lets you download Shutterstock images by entering URL. If you any working and good Shutterstock downloader, let me know using the comments. I still recommend you to buy a Shutterstock image if you badly want it. Check their cheapest plan. Otherwise, you can get similar high-quality images on the websites I mentioned above. Respect the work of other people and do not steal images. This is the only way creative photographers earn. It is always better not to use any unethical way.