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Top 5 websites for selling your photos as detailed in video:
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I love photography almost as much as I love traveling, and the two go hand in hand perfectly. One dilemma I’ve always had though: How to sell my photos online? Where are the best sites to sell my photos and what’s required?
Most photographers, both professional and amateur would agree, finding how to sell photos online and make money takes research. And while many of us may overvalue our photos just slightly, we don’t want to take pennies on the dollar for our captured moments.
When I first starting researching how to sell my photos online I didn’t know where to start. Where’s the best place to sell photos online? For starters, there are a handful of sites where you can sell your photos online for a decent commission and not be asked to be exclusive to that site? This means that if you do your research right, you can create revenue from multiple sites at once. Simply upload your photo, and they do all the rest.
In this video, I’m going to share with you my top 5 picks for best sites to sell your photos online and exactly how you can combine some of them together to maximize your revenue potential.
These how to videos should called "how to offer your photos for sale" online because getting them uploaded is the easy part. Finding an actual buyer is the hard part. Stock is totally different then selling to buyers looking for art for the living room. FAA – I sell every day here after years of building up my following. Alamy – haven't licensed a photo with them in over a year.
very helpful video Eric, thanks for sharing.
you cant register at shutterstock those dumdums cant resolve 4 year old issue with email verification
Is it legal to sell photos shot in the US when I am holding a B1/B2 visa?
They will make you sign a tax form on those web sites.
Great video. 1) Can you sell photographs of people without their permission? 2) Do photographs need a watermark or logo before you can place them with any of the nonexclusive sites
Can I sell one photo on more than one websites?
Informative! I have a question, can I also sell photos taken with my mobile phone or seeling photos are only exclusive for DSLR? By the way, how about the photo format, jpeg or raw? Thanks a lot.
What if don't have licence
Very cool thank you
Great info! I’ll dig in photoshelter tomorrow.
Hi Eric! I was looking at Fine Art America at the photo prints they have available and then noticed the options for different frames, sizes, etc. Is that my responsibility or is my job just to post the photo and FAA takes care of using my photo to create what the customer wants and shipping it to them? Thanks!
Thank you!
hallo sub, comment, like…i do the same…thank u
I've never seen or heard of Photoshelter sounds very similar Fine Art America, as Fine Art America you can pay a yearly fee have a example a web page plus access to other features and tools for social media, web sites etc.. but using their domain name, I've never sold anything on Fine Art America and I've been a member to these sites plus others for maybe 6yrs.
also you have to be aware some stock sites are connected to other sites as they don't like you uploading the same items, I've only sold a small amount of images on istock .
have an alamy account but don't have any images, I can't remember why I didn't upload there.
I sell images on Shutterstock but not enough to quit my day job, Shutterstock use to be one of the hardest sites to be accepted.
oh you may have a style of process editing and it maybe accepted at one site and not the other which can be alittle frustrating, for example I can edit an image to be uploaded to Shutterstock it's accepted and then go to upload this same image to another stock photo site and it's not excepted and vice versa.
You not going to be rich over night, it's a hit and miss thing you either have it or you don't, cause my wife and I belong to the same sites and have a similar amount of images uploaded on each of these sites and I earn a whole lot more then her, the most I've sold an image for is $70 and gives one a warm fluffy feeling when you sell 3 @ $70 each in one day, most of the time it's small amounts of around .33cents to $2.48.
I have a copyright watermark on low res photos. Those are the ones I would like to submit. What are your thoughts on this? I have had photos stolen in the pass so I started doing it this way. I am leaning toward Alamy and I understand you have to submit photos for their approval? I have tens of thousand photos. Am I limited as to how many I can upload? I plan on doing my own domain just not right now.
Hi ,how can I know whether they like the picture which I have posted ? Is it from the online payment or something?If they want to buy it do they contact the owner of the photo?
Thank you
Shutterstock are NOT like Alamy. Shutterstock are MICROSTOCK, Alamy are not. Please don't promote microstock agencies, as they are the reason the image licensing (stock) industry is in tatters.
Thank you so much for all the great tips. Much appreciated! I love being a photographer and travel just as much as you do. I take 30 to 40k photos a month and have been trying to decide where to sell them.
I have been shooting Professionally for 20 years. I used Fine Art America for a year under their PRO membership plan. Not one of my images ever sold. It seems that most of the types of work that sells on this site are actual Art paintings and not so much Fine Art photos. Also, I have read horror stories about them concerning their quality control. Things like images being cropped too tight or off skew, crooked and poor color management concerning printing. Mistakes in customers receiving wrong orders or orders shipped incomplete or arriving damaged or taking too long. I don't know if they have corrected any of these issues but that is why I ditched using them.
Great video, thank you. I shoot lots of local events like zombie walks, local bands at music festivals, school track meets, and parades where I bring lighting gear to shoot the participants. I don’t want to post my work for free anymore on my face book wall. Are any of these good for me.??
Hi!!! I'm really, seriously, considering selling my photos, but I was wondering about the profit because I'm only an amateur. How long til I make a sizable income if I become a contributor to, say, iStock?? (Sizable meaning 100 or 200 dollars)
Nice vid btw 🙂
Thank you very much for this beautiful video.
hello!..How do i know how much to charge my photos, if I try to sell thru my private site/domain?
where can i sell my graphic design photos? i create great composite images and i was wondering if it was smart to sell them as stock.
Can you please tell me what site out of these 5 are FREE?
thanks you very much i liked your vid, just one question fine art america is non exclisive or exclusive ? also what about 500px? ty
How can I upload photo on istock?I can't see any options about that… I was a member of this site,but I didn't use it more than one year,so now this site is reconstructed and I dont't now how it functions.Can you make a one video about that or answer me on this comment?
Thanks in advance.
Hello, I am new to selling photographs and I have bo idea where to start. I would love a plat form that also had an app I can download as well. Looking for something easy to use where i cna make a decent amount of money, thanks!
it works only in USA or all over the world?
Hi, Great video will my work get lost with Millons of photos on the commission sites.
Lost meaning nobody will look at them because so many pi’s are out there.
Thank you for the video, it was very useful. I use FineArtAmerica as well. This is the link to my page: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/inessa-williams.html
Taking your queue about photo shelter I have a few questions. I built my own website and have my own domain so where does photo shelter come in to have the e-commerce component? Second I assume this is not just for photography but also video including drone footage. I will explore your link to see if I can figure more out. Thanks
Loving Vincent is highly underrated.
like+ subscribe. J'ai aimé votre vidéo. Merci beaucoup. est ce qu'il y a une possibilité de faire la traduction de vos prochaine vidéos en français ou en arabe parce que je ne maîtrise pas très bien l'anglais.
Wow, the cover photo from your video is my photo, from Unsplash. Thank you !
If your selling your own photos, are u selling ownership? I mean are you still allowed to use your own pictures?
How much do you have to have in order to get your money paid out for the sites
Do you copyright all of your photos? And where do you copyright them?