Get paid for your images.
Imagine being able to put your original work up for sale. Whether you’re a novice or seasoned photographer, did you know that you could sell photos online and earn money?
Waiting for a booking is a thing of the past. Now you can crank out your work at will for the world to see and buy.
Not only can you earn extra income, but you can crank out originality without tailoring to a specific customer or theme.
Selling your photos online is a quick and easy way to earn extra income and selling photos online has been simplified by some amazing platforms.
The traditional way of booking a customer has been revamped.
Let some of you shine through!
500px
“The global network for photographers”, 500px was created with the photographer in mind and is great platform for selling your photos online.
500px is teamed exclusively with Getty Images and VCG (Visual China Group) to increase global exposure for the photographer.
Getty also owns iStock, another photography submission site.
You can exclusively license or retain royalties for any image used.
If you license your image exclusively to 500px, you earn a 60% net of every license purchased.
If you opt for non-exclusive licensing, you will earn a 30% net for each license. 500px is membership based with memberships starting as low as 3.99/month.
The base “Awesome” membership includes unlimited uploads, gallery slideshows, a directory listing, advanced statistics, history of liked photos, and more.
You are also free to scale as needed as you can upgrade to a higher membership at any time.
To find out more, check out https://500px.com/licensing/contribute.
Alamy
The world’s largest independent agency for news, stock, and footage imagery is Alamy.
Being an ethical and philanthropic based site, Alamy not only specializes in stock photos but also allows you to upload niche’, creative, and editorial images.
Each non-exclusive commission is 40%.
Although Alamy allows non-exclusive photos, you can also sell exclusively to Alamy for 50% of each direct sell and the image is also allowed to be uploaded to Facebook and Instagram!
Alamy also offers an additional way to earn income by offering a network of stock photo agency distributors in which you could receive 30% in commission if you were to opt in.
For more information, click here https://www.alamy.com/contributor/.
ClickASnap
ClickASnap is a non-exclusive platform.
It is also a free platform and one of the best to sell photos online and earn money.
However, if you do have a free account, you will be limited to only uploading 7 photos per day.
If you were to purchase a membership, you are able to upload an unlimited amount of photos.
Membership is about $3.75/monthly.
Also an advantage of ClickASnap, you can upload photos directly from your phone.
ClickASnap is an ideal site for a novice or a beginner photographer testing the waters.
It offers less stipulations than other platforms.
With a pro or seller account, you are also allowed to include your watermark along with any personalized text.
Another advantage CickASnap offers over its competitors is the platform only takes 10% of your sales.
This is extremely low compared to the above mentioned platforms.
If interested in hosting on ClickASnap, check out https://www.clickasnap.com.
Foap
Foap is another great platform.
With the ability to upload photos from your phone, Foap is an easy platform to use for novice and beginner photographers as well.
Foap is a great way to sell your photos that are just taking up memory in your phone or hard drive.
You can upload all of your photos to a gallery.
Each photo sells for $10 and you receive 50% of the profit for each photo.
Participate in a mission on Foap to maximize earning potential.
Missions are themed photo submissions.
Each mission has a first through third place monetary prize.
Each prize and mission differs.
Find out more at https://www.foap.com/photographer .
Quick recap
When choosing one or more of the platforms above to sell your images, bear in mind some do have specific technical requirements.
Platforms such as 500px and Alamy have specific technical specifications for each image such as a minimum 3 megapixel resolution, in RGB color format, 100% zoomed in and other requirements.
Check out each platform for more information. Also weigh the pros and cons of non-exclusive and exclusive licensing.
Selling photos online is without a doubt a great and easy way to introduce your genuine work to the world and earn income from it.
Why not cater to your passion and release your own personal touch on the world? Gather up all of your old images and start creating your own future innovations.
Put them all on display for the world to see and in turn fill your pockets!
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