Make Money From Selling Photos

This short guide is on how to sell your photos Online and if you are someone who likes to travel and has a love for photography, hopefully this money making method may be just up your street.

You may already have heard about people making money Online from their photos and that may be the reason why you are looking for the best ways to sell your photos Online. If you haven’t and you have just stumbled across this page, then it might be something that interests you. Whichever your one of the circumstance it may be, hopefully this page will shed a little more light on the way that you can make a little extra income from your passion and your photos, whether you are a total beginner or established professional Photographer.

A List Of Websites Where You Can Make Money From Selling Photos

Alamy

Alamy is a very popular website for selling photos, with over 125 million photo in its library (at the time of writing). Alamy have one of the highest paying commission structures to photographers at 50% for each one of your photos that is sold. Alamy determine the selling price of each one of your photos, once they have been uploaded. Another really good factor about selling your photos via Alamy is that once your photos are uploaded to their website, they are non-exclusive, which means you don not have to give them exclusive rights for your photos and you can sell them on other websites to.

Shutterstock

Shutterstock.com is one of the leading stock image websites Online and is another very popular platform for selling photos. Shutterstock is now available in 150 countries globally and has approximately 194 million photos in their collection. The commission structure ranges from 0.25 cents up to $100 (£85.00 at the time writing) for every photo sold, which can make the potential for your earnings pretty good. Shutterstock also offer a non-exclusivity programme, which means you are free to sell your photos on other platform. This means that you could have your photos listed on Shutterstock and Alamy at the same time to maximise your earning potential from your photos.

iStock

Another really popular platform for Photographers to sell their photos Online, is iStock.com. Istock offer a commission structure of anything from 15%-45% for every photo you sell via the website. Another reason why the iStock platform is popul;ar with Photographers is because they have thriving community forums. The great thing about forums, is you can go in them and use them for inspiration for your own photos. So, don’t be afraid to go in and check out what other people have because it can really give you some inspiration.

iStock offer both exclusive and non-exclusive partnerships and the difference is, with the exclusive partnership, the royalty commissions range from 22% all the way up to 45%.

Fotolia

Another really popular website that many photographers use, is Fotolia. Fotolia is run by Adobe, now has over 200 million royalty free stock photos in its library, and you too can have your sat in the library providing you with a passive income. Fotolia, has over 4 million members signed up to the platform, which means there is a huge audience of potential buyers for your photos.

The royalty pay out on Fotolia ranges from 20% – 46 % and your sales and commissions are immediately credited to your account and paid out every month.

Fine Art America

Fine Art America, is a little different from the other stock photo websites, as it allows you to sell physical print on demand product from your photos on its Marketplace in various forms. A range of products such as posters, canvas prints and cards to name but a few products, can all be printed.

Also, for a small fee of per year, you can upload all of your photos and sell them on your own website. There is also a free option but it is stripped of many of these premium features.

500px

500px is a website that you can get a free account, upload your photos to the website and receive up to 70% per for each one of your sold images. You also have the option to sell your photos, either on a exclusive or non exclusive basis. A large number of the user of 500px are large companies, websites owners and in print. So, the good news is that you can upload your photos knowing that your images have a large corporate audience, who are looking for photos to purchase for their business.

123RF

123RF, is a website that pays you, if you can upload to their website in large quantities. Photographers that upload less than 250 images will only thirty percent commissions, whereas if you the more you upload, the higher percentage commission you will receive, making you more money.

Canstock Photo

Canstock Photo is free to join but you do have to undergo an approval process before you are accepted. The approval process is simply, you having to upload 3 photos for review. Once you have successfully been approved, you can earn up to 50% commissions on your photos.

Dreamstime

Dreamstime has quite a rigorous vetting process for each and every photo you submit to its platform. This is simply to guarantee of the photos that are available via Dreamstime and the royalties you earn are between 25%-50%. This commission rate can increase to 60%, if you sign an exclusivity agreement with Dreamstime, as well as receiving an additional 20 cents per approved photo.

Big Stock

Big Stock is another website that quite strict on the photos they allow on their platform and wil review the photos you upload. Once you have signed up with Big Stock and successfully uploaded your photos, you will earn up to 30 percent for each photo sol. However earnings can change if your images are bought with their in-house currency.

Summary

So, as you can see, there are a large number of websites that allow you to start earning money from your stock photos. You can join just one or two of the websites or you can join them all (if you have a non-exclusivity agreement with them) and start to reach a large audience of potential buyers for your photos.

Don’t Forget

Take your camera anywhere, especially when you are going to places you think are going to be interesting. Don’t forget to take your camera to outdoors concerts, festivals, museums, sporting events, basically take it everywhere! Doing this, will ensure have can take a photo of the most interesting things that can be seen and captured for your portfolio.

We hope you found this short guide on how to make money from photography online but if you are still looking for money making ideas, as well as ways to make money from selling photos, check out more on this page: Ways To Make Money Online From Home