As professional photographer or you like photography, you can extend or improve your daily income by selling stock photos online through free stock photography websites. These websites have a large collections of stock photos available for customers to download for a small fee. Keep reading to find out how you can sell your stock photos online through these microstock websites and earn extra money.

8 Steps to Start Selling Your Stock Photos

When you sell stock photos through these free stock photography websites, you are not selling the photo, you are selling the right to use the photo. As the photographer, you retain the copyright to the photo and can sell it in more than one place and as many times as you want to. Some of these websites allow you to sell exclusive rights to your photo, meaning that the person who bought it is the only one who can use it, but this is optional

In order to sell stock stock photos online successfully, you need to take the types of pictures that others want. This means that pictures of your kids playing or your family vacation won’t cut it; you need to think about how enterprising your images are. Look through magazines and browse some websites to get an idea of the kinds of photos that sell. Another good place to check is the stock photography websites. Look through the photos that are already offered for sale and pay attention to how many times they have been downloaded.

Next you need to sign up as a contributor at the stock photography websites. There are several companies that will allow you to sell your stock photos online, so you will need to visit each website, read the guidelines and signup. Many of them required you to submit sample images before they will accept you as a contributor. Some of the bigger microstock photography sites are:

istockphoto
shutterstock
stockXpert
Bigstockphoto
Dreamstime
Corbis
GettyImages
Fotoli

When you signup as a contributor, you are entering into a contract with the company. Make you understand exactly who retains the rights to your photographs, whether or not you can submit them to other websites, how long your photos are required to be on the site before they can be remove and how much you will get paid. Each company is different, but you can expect to be paid anywhere from $0.25 to several dollars each time your image is sold. Images are usually offered in several sizes and customers are charged more if they want to get a larger image. A few dollars may not seem like much in return for your hard work but you have to remember that the images can be sold multiple times. If you have a popular image that is sold many times, you will generate quite a bit of income. Of course, the inverse is also true and you will find that some of your images don’t earn very much at all. Those dollar add up however, and contributors who have a portfolio of hundrends or thousand of images can make a very decent residual income. - See more at:

Once you have been accepted as a contributor of a stock photography website, you can add your images to their collection. Each company has different requirements for uploading images, so read and follow the guidelines carefully. Every photo you submit will be reviewed for quality, composition and content. Anything that the reviewer feels will not be a valuable addition to the collection will be rejected. Depending on the problem, you may have the option of correcting any issues and resubmitting your photo.
Expect many of your photographs to be rejected, especially when you are first starting out. As your photography websites are looking for, you will have fewer rejections. You need to have a not dying spirit when you are selling stock photos online because it is very competitive venture. If your photo is rejected, that does not necessarily mean that it is a bad photo. Photos are rejected for variety of reasons, including poor quality not being commercial enough or because there are too many of that subject already in the collection. Just because your photo was rejected by one website, does not mean it will be rejected by the others. It is beneficial to submit your photos to several stock photography sites because each website has different needs and standards.

Adding appropriate keywords to your images is important when you are trying to sell stock photos online. When a potential a potential buyer visits a free stock photography website, they perform a search and any images that match the search terms will show up. Think about what customers would search for if they were looking for your image. Use both broad and specific descriptive words. Add word to describe any emotions or ideas portrayed by your image. Use as many terms as possible, but make sure that they are appropriate for your image. Your keywords will also be reviewed and if they are inappropriate, your image may be rejected.


· In conclusion, selling stock photos online is not away to get rich quickly, but it is a way to get paid to do what you love. With some hard work and persistence, you can build up your portfolio and begin to generate an awsome residual income

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Hmmn,thanx for the info.

Pls I am new to this photography things but I want to learn,how can ii go about it?

Forget it, it doesn't work in Nigeria.

Tydies:
Forget it, it doesn't work in Nigeria.

says who

Good one OP I actually watched a video on YouTube about this, I'll start today.