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50 Free Photos You Can Use to Make Your Social Profiles More Stunning

There’s no shortage of places on the web where you need beautiful, high-quality images to visualize your personal brand, especially now that LinkedIn has added the option for users to add a cover photo to their profiles. Networking connections and potential employers look to your LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook profiles, personal website, blog, and more to learn more about you—so you want to want to make sure that whatever they see sends the right message (more on that, here).

And while there are many great resources out there for free, beautiful photos to use any way you want, it can take a lot of work to sift through their libraries to find a photo that looks cool and professional enough to put on your web pages and that really represents you.

So we did the work for you, browsing the web to find 50 (free!) options for your professional brand. Choose a photo that resonates with you, click the download button under each for the high-resolution version, and then crop for LinkedIn (1400x425 pixels), Facebook (851x315 pixels), Twitter (1500x500 pixels), or any other place on the web where you need beautiful images.


Incredible Workspaces













Professionals in Action







Doing Big Things
















Inspiring Places








Beautiful Backgrounds












Didn’t find anything you like? All photos in this roundup were sourced from Unsplash, ISO Republic, PicJumbo, Magdeleine, Jay Mantri, Gratisography, and Little Visuals. Feel free to browse their libraries for more options!