It is easy and fun to make money with your digital camera. You're already halfway there if you have a digital camera and know how to take a good picture. We'll talk about how to sell your photos online in this post.
It is easy and straightforward to sell your photos online. It's so easy. There's no advertising, no phone calls, and no postage costs. The best part is that you don't have to quit your day job just yet.
How to Get Accepted
All you have to do is take pictures and put them on a site called "Stock Photo Websites" (details below). Most Stock Photo sites let you sign up for free because they pay you a commission for each sale and keep some of that money to cover their costs. Once your photos are uploaded, Stock Photo Websites will sell and market them for you. All you have to do is accept the money for sales. Payments can go up to £75 per picture, and keep in mind that you can sell the same picture over and over again.
Know that the Stock Photo sites probably won't take all of your photos. They will look for pictures that have a good chance of selling because they are well composed and sharply focused. There are a lot of Stock Photo sites on the internet that need your photos badly. All you have to do is take the photos and upload them to one or more of these libraries.
What Happens
It's fine to upload the same pictures to more than one Stock Photo Website. Some libraries will pay you more for exclusive rights, which means that photos you upload to their site can't be uploaded anywhere else. Just think about it: if you upload 500 pictures to five different sites, you have the same number of pictures for sale as if you had uploaded 2,500 pictures. What do you think of that?
When someone buys one of your photos, they only get permission to print it once. So, you can sell the same picture many times, and you will. The next step in selling photos online is to find out what people want.
How to Sell Online Your Photos
I'm still getting paid for photos I uploaded a few years ago. Do pay attention to what kinds of pictures the libraries say they want, because they won't thank you if you send them pictures they already have too many of. I'm not going to recommend any of these sites because I'm sure you'll think I'm getting paid to do so.
How to Sell Your Photos Online and Where to Do It
How to Edit Your Photos
Sign up for a microstock photography site after you've taken all of your pictures and made sure they're the best they can be. This site has a lot of users, so the managers will look over your work before letting you in. After you sign up, you'll have to take as many photos as you can. If you take your time to edit and crop your photos right, they will sell much better. You won't make any money if you are in a hurry and don't edit your photos.
After editing your photos, you have to send them to the site or upload them. You can save time by uploading them to the site in groups. Make sure each of your photos has a title, a description, and some key words so that buyers can find them easily. The most important thing is to make a list of keywords that is correct.
About Model Release
Make sure to get a model release if you sell pictures of a person. You don't know where your photos will end up, and you don't want the people in them to be mad at you. Keep taking photos and making changes to them. Once you set up your online store, it will help you get more people to visit it.
Here are some Stock Photo sites you can check out; (Copy and paste these links into your browser)
- Shutterfly.com
- 123RF.com
- Dreamstime.com
- 500px Prime
- Shutterstock
Conclusion
Look around these sites and you'll see what sells, how much they pay, etc. They will also tell you what books are selling like hotcakes.
You might want to know who is buying your art. The answer is that newspapers, magazines, and book publishers are always looking for the perfect picture to use. YOU could be the one to give it!
This site was made to show you how to sell your photos online and where to do it. There are other ways to make even more money with your camera, and I'd like to suggest this course to help you make more money.
