Whether you love taking photographs or you enjoy drawing and editing
images via Photoshop or illustrator then Making Money Selling Photos is
the right one for you. Before, only professionals and people with
connections to their clients were able to sell photos and images. But
with the help of the internet, specifically microstock and macrostock
agencies, almost everyone can sell photos and images as long as they
meet the quality standards set by your online stock-photo agencies.
- 1Choose among stock photo agencies where you want to sell your photos. For starters, you may choose dreamstime.com, freedigitalphotos.net and shutterstock.com. However, if you are a professional photographer, go with Getty Images or Corbis
- If you have selected an agency, you may register for an account since it is free. For example, if you selected dreamstime then you need to register to dreamstime.
- Before uploading any photos, understand their requirements. Dreamstime requires a minimum of 3MP in terms of size. They prefer photos or images that portrays well defined commercial concepts, marketable good compositions with creative insight, high technical level in terms of color, definition, lighting. They highlight the generic essence of the image. In other words, some pictures rejected by Dreamstime might be accepted by others and become saleable to other stock photo agency.
- Since there are chances that your photos might be rejected by your first agency, be sure to register for another account to another agency other than Dreamstime such as Freedigitalphotos.net, shutterstock, or Fotolia.com
- Once your photos got accepted, they are ready for sale.
- Because there are thousands of photos for sale on the net, you may need to promote your photos. For instance, if you have photos rejected by your selected agency, you may register to morguefile.com, and upload your rejected photos to distribute them for free. This is the same as giving free sample to your products before your customers purchase them. In addition, giving free photos also serve as a means of promotion. You may create a profile to morguefile.com and provide a link back to your photos for sale. (Example here http://www.morguefile.com/creative/username )
