Making money with your photos / images – A Microstock Overview
The best way to sell your photos fast and profitable is to submit them to stock agencies.
The agencies selling the images for a low price. You earn money each time a photo is sold. You also can sell vector graphics and videos.
Who can go through
Everyone can go through!
All the same whether commercial artists, Illustrator, film producers, hobby photographer or artist. Everyone has the possibility to make money with his works. This Site gives you many tips and tricks to survive the registration at the different microstock and to optimize your sales. If you not exist the registration with the first time, do not give up, you will see it pay off.
I give you a quick overview of the most popular and profitalbe microstock agencies.
Shutterstock is my favourite microstock agency. Shutterstock maintains a library of royalty-free stock images available by subscription. Visitors can browse the entire image library for free, and can license and download images online through a variety of subscription offers.
Shutterstock adds to its library each day as photographers and illustrators from around the world submit their work. The new photos, vectors, and illustrations undergo a selection process based on quality, aesthetics, artistry, and originality before the accepted images are added to the library.
As of September 2009, Shutterstock had more than 8 Million royalty-free images available to subscribers, taken by more than 189,000 photographers, illustrators, and videographers.
Once approved, submitters can begin uploading their work through the website. They supply keywords, categorize the images, and submit them to the “inspection queue,” where each and every image is examined to ensure that it meets the standards of quality, usefulness and copyright and trademark laws.
Each time an image is downloaded, the photographer receives a flat rate of 25c (with a tiered set of raises as the submitter reaches lifetime earnings of $500, $3,000, and $10,000, respectively).
Fotolia is one very popular in europe countries, especially in germany. Some photographs are offered for free; those that are sold are priced from $1 to as high as $2,000.
As of October 2008, Fotolia had more than 800,000 members who had uploaded more than 4.2 million photographs and graphic illustrations.
Fotolia allows both amateur and professional photographers easy to upload photos to their site without an application. Perfect for beginners. Although there are strict requirements, such as size and quality, that must be met before being accepted. The photos are put into a queue where they are reviewed by moderators for aesthetic and technical qualities, and subject popularity. Those that aren’t given the highest reviews are sometimes added to the ‘Free’ section, where artists are not paid by the users, but the advertising fees that Fotolia receives. This fee varies depending on visitors to the site and how many images each visitor downloads.
Sales commission: from 33%,
iStockphoto is an online, royalty free, international microstock photography provider operating with the micropayment business model. Images cost between 1 and 20 credits, depending on size (with credits ranging from $.95 to $1.50 USD each). General consensus attributes the pioneering of the microstock photography industry to iStockphoto, which claims to be “internet’s original member-generated image and design community.”
The online photo library contains (as of January 2009) over 4 million images (up from 760,000 in April, 2006) contributed by over 50,000 photographers at the rate of 27,000+ images per week.
Images cost between 1 and 15 credits, and credits sell for between $1.20 each and $.95 each in bundles of 12 to 2000.
The vector pricing is $1, $3, $7, $12, and $25, and video pricing is $10, $20, $30, $40, and $50.
Dreamstime numbers 500,000 registered members, more than 26,000 contributing photographers and over 2,000,000 images online. With unique visitors exceeding 4,000,000 monthly, the agency occupies the 3rd place in stock photography audience and image licensing worldwide.
I love dreamstime because it’s easy to upload photos to their site without an application. Also perfect for beginners.
The best on Dreamstime is the paystructure. Dreamstime reward 50% from each sale you make.
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