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If you think photography is an expensive hobby, you are right, it can be. But that doesn’t mean you need pro-quality equipment to generate money from your photos! Selling Photos On Ebay Copyright

In actuality, if you’ve got a decent phone cam and a steady hand, you’re already in with a shot.

But you get your clicks, you will find an increasing number of opportunities to monetise photos you have already taken. And when photography’s already your luggage, you will find heaps more ways to develop your abilities, and income; from selling your Insta stock to pulling a Brooklyn Beckham (famous parents optional).

You know the drill: read, learn, and give it a celebration for yourself!

If you’ve got a digital camera (or fancy picking one up for a steal), you’ll have more options for selling pics to stock libraries, to websites for prints, or for print-on-demand products. This is because cameras will generally produce larger file photos (although some camera phones are trumping digi cams nowadays so this isn’t always the case).

Got a camera phone? A growing number of inventory libraries are catering for mobile snaps, plus you still have a shot at the other biz ideas below. Continue reading!

It helps to have…

Some type of editing software will help buff your pics for the best results, so it is well worth sniffing out a nice package (and learning how to use it!) So you can make more money with your photos.

Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop are industry standards for photo editing. But they cost dollars! Don’t crack open your wallet until you’ve checked out the freebies:

FastStone Image Viewer can open RAW files directly from your digital camera and save them as JPG, TIFF or PNGs. OK for basic edits like colour correction, straightening, cropping and contrast.
Raw Therapee is a Lightroom-like editor with loads of tools for tweaking colours, curves and more.
PIXLR is a persuasive alternative to Photoshop, and even recognises the very same shortcuts directly out the bag. You can run it directly from a browser through the program for free.
GIMP can do much of what Photoshop excels at, though some users guess it is a more demanding learning curve.
There are loads of phone editing programs to be had for free or a few pence, but Snapseed (iPhone, Android, free) always makes the best-of lists.
Don’t overlook the bloatware image software bundled into your’puter, phone or notebook. Many can make light work of the fundamentals.

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Selling Through Stock Libraries

Stock libraries buy’n’ sell digital photographs to use on websites, in books, on goods and even in advertisements, with the photographer getting a cut of the sale every time.

Selling photos through a stock website is a top way to browse passive income streams: you can upload a photograph once and sell it over and over again, pretty much forever!

You might have to submit a selection of pics (and be accepted) until you may become a stock library contributor. After that, some websites will keep on reviewing all your submissions, and will happily bounce any they don’t think meet standards.

What that means is you will always have to be on the ball about choosing your best shots. Do not get too hung up about rejections, however; combine multiple websites and post pics to all of them to get the best possible policy.

Which Websites Pay Most?

Swing by Alamy first. Their pupil contributor scheme provides you 100% of the sales price of your images for two years. Total win! Your uni will need to be part of this scheme, but lots of UK and US institutions are already on the books. Selling Photos On Ebay Copyright

Alamy reckons images typically sell for $90 (USD) each, but you might get anywhere from $20 to $500 depending what it is used for. If you’re not a student, or your uni isn’t registered, the pay-out’s still a fairly decent 50%. Selling phone pics through their Stockimo program (iStore only) provides you a 20% cut.

Other Websites to Check Out:

Picfair comes with a twist: you decide how much your images sell for. Picfair then add 20% on top for their cut, but the sales price you set is what you get if your image sells.
EyeEm: if Instagram and Alamy had a love child, this is what it would look like. EyeEm is a photo sharing website butif you want to earn more than’enjoys’, you can also pimp your images through the market. EyeEm split every sale with you 50/50, with photos selling from $20-$250. EyeEm Bonus: regular how-to content, themed missions run by large brands, plus you can upload pics via the net or phone.
Foap is built around phone photographers, with everything handled through the program (Android, iTunes, free). Foap sells photos for $10 each and splits it 50/50, so you will make $5 per pic. They also run monthly Missions, where you can submit photographs on a theme to be in with a chance of winning extra money and perks.

Big Name Websites

Dreamstime offer up to 60 percent for exclusives. How much your photo sells for also goes up the more it is downloaded: newbie images start at between $0.34 and $2.38 (USD). If you’re shooting a phone, start with the free Dreamstime app (Android, iPhone).

IStock hands over 15 percent of a picture’s sales price, but guarantee a bigger cut if you make the pic exclusive to the website. Photos typically sell for #7 or #20 a go, but the sort of licence or subscription program the customer buys determines how your slice is calculated.

Shutterstock coughs up $0.25 (USD) per sale on the most frequent subscription plans, but say you’ll find a bigger cut as your life earnings pass different levels. To put that into context, once you’ve earned $10,000, you’ll be bumped up to the heady heights of 38 cents an image…

Playing the Stock (photo) Market

Making money with stock photos can involve a significant cash-in, but there are a couple of things worth bearing in mind…

Stock photography is a numbers game: if you want sales, you’ll need to upload a great deal of quality pics to several sites.
Photos of individuals are constantly in demand, but anyone you pap might want to signal a model release form to say they are OK with you using it (your inventory library will have template forms you can print, sign and publish ).
Assess the account terms! When will you get paid, and in what currency? What happens to your photos if you would like to cancel your account later on?
You often won’t get a say in how clients use your photos, so if you don’t need your selfies turning up in advertisements for STDs or hemorrhoid ointment, don’t upload’em!
Sign-up for contributor newsletters, as they can clue you in on what sells, what to snap next, as well as how to enhance your camera or editing skills.
Add plenty of keywords when you upload your pictures. It helps people find (and hopefully purchase!) your pics.

Selling Your Prints

There is loads of freedom in selling prints (i.e., printed copies of your photos). You decide what to take, who to market to, and for how much and, like selling through stock libraries, it can be a nice little passive revenue earner.

Now, before you leg it down to Boots to batch publish your holiday snaps, there’s a little more to it. While you can run off pictures on your home printer or at a high-street lab, better quality means higher profits! Selling Photos On Ebay Copyright

That means using a proper printing laboratory (one that specialises in art or framed prints), opting for specialist paper, or perhaps selling restricted or signed editions. Sounds like a drag? Not necessarily; there’s inspiration below to get you started.

Use a Photo Host

Photographer-friendly site hosts give you a secure place to store your digital pics, a portfolio (so you can show’em away ) and shopping tools (so you can sell prints, downloads and wall art).

They even handle the printing and any stamp every time you make a sale. Hashtag hallelujah, right?

But the big catch is, not only do they charge for hosting your website, they also take a cheeky cut from each sale — and that is not everybody’s cup of cocoa! If you wish to give it a whirl, be aware of free 14-day trials before you pony up the money: try Zenfolio or Smugmug.

Get Your Own Photo Shop

As an alternative, you could always get your own website or Etsy store and hang onto more of your gain!

Getting prints or gifts to sell is also super straightforward; go for print-on-demand and you won’t need to store some stock (or be out of pocket if you can not shift it!) .

Sell on Social Media Platforms

Eventually the social media giants will wise-up and start letting us market photos and other content right from our profiles.

But until then, take a hint from street photographer Daniel Arnold: he offered Instagram followers the opportunity to order prints from his feed — and made $15k in a single day. Obviously it helps if you’ve already got a strong fanbase, but if you have talent (and the right hashtags) it is worth a shot!

The best thing about selling on social media is that you don’t even need a website: your feed is your portfolio, and you have got a massive potential audience!

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Go print-on-demand

Print-on-demand is a brilliantly simple way to make moolah from mouse mats, keyrings, t-shirts, bags, books and more — often with zero set-up costs.

The real beauty of print-on-demand is that while you can advertise a great deal of goods, none of them actually exist until somebody buys’em — so there is no stock to shop, lose, or fall over. Better still, there are websites out there that do all the producing, printing and submitting for you, so all you’ve got to do is take the photos!

Photo books

First stop: Blurb, the self-publishing publishing platform (learn how that all works here!) .

Blurb lets you create photo books by simply importing your Facebook or Insta images — and you’ll be able to sell your final novel on Blurb or Amazon.co.uk. You could even advertise books on your website (if you have one), but have Blurb/Amazon manage the payment. Easy! Selling Photos On Ebay Copyright

Gifts and Goodies

Turns out you can slap a photo on pretty much anything, from shower curtains to pet clothes and PJs; and you do not even need a glue gun to begin!

Most print-on-demand outfits allow you to upload your photos (or illustrations), choose which products you want to sell them on, and give you a cut of the profits if they sell.

CafePress pays you 10% if your products sell in their market, but you may opt to have your own online shop and add a mark-up into the price (which you get as your royalty) instead. It is free to set up and run a shop, but CafePress take 10% of your royalties each month, up to a $10 max.
Zazzle enables you to set your own royalty rate between 5% and 99% but, while it is tempting to dial it up to full whack, keep in mind that your cut is added to the sales price: go OTT and you might find it more difficult to make sales.
With Spreadshirt you can add a mark-up of $1 to $20 on items sold through the marketplace, or you can open your own shop and grab 20% commission.
Redbubble starts with a product base cost and allows you to add on a mark-up — the default is 20%, but you can tweak it as much as you like.

Running a print-on-demand store is low-fuss and cheap — if you’re contented with the occasional sale, it can be a nice way to make money on the side for relatively little work.

The word from successful sellers is that, to make proper bucks, you’ll want to put in the hours (so the same as a job, sadly). We’re talking uploading lots of photos or layouts, getting the word out, and generally try!

Go Freelance

Selling photos anonymously online is easy enough. But if you want to build a rep, get more glory or just have customers of your own, here are some tips to get started as a freelance photographer:

Know your market . When it’s individuals, pets, food or something completely left-field, it’s easier to market yourself whether your portfolio showcases what you do best.
Take time to learn your craft. You can get lucky selling stock in case you don’t know your aperture out of your elbow, but you can’t afford to chance it if someone’s paying you for wedding pics!
Work out your rate and be sure it covers your time, your costs and leaves you a little on top for gain. And get insurance to your gear!
Offer to photo events, parties or portraits for family and friends to develop a portfolio, and ask them to spread the word for you. Or search out your favorite bloggers and pitch them your pic ideas!
Batter your social media account with your best pics, let folk know you are available, and tell’em how to get in touch. Get cheeky and choose alternative promo shots for brands, then label them to get noticed.
Get in touch with picture editors at newspapers, magazines or websites and ask if you can submit photos or pay local events.
You may have more chance of being adopted by Madonna than getting a press pass, but it’s like a golden ticket that can get you into sports, fashion and other exclusive events. You’ll want to apply each time (or be a member of the National Union of Journalists) however, once you’re in, you’ll get loads of saleable photo opps!

While everyone with an Insta account appears to reckon they’re a pro photographer, the reality is that being a freelancer may be the toughest route you may take.

You’ll need tons of patience, perseverance, good shoes and adequate pics — and you may well have to give away pictures for free when you first start out to get noticed. If you’re in it for the career, don’t quit. If you are in it for the money, get your game on with the other thoughts on this page in the meantime!

Bonus Tips for Aspiring Photographers

Carry your camera anyplace — and not only when you are doing something or going somewhere special. Loads of businesses and brands are after photos of everyday life and often it is the simple things that make the best pics — think streets, food (street food?) , facial expressions, family, pets, sports… anything!
Back-up your best pics (or some you’d hate to lose): maintain copies on an external drive or in cloud storage (Dropbox gives you 2GB of space for free).
As soon as you start getting sales, get to grips with tax and the freelancing fundamentals. It’ll save you stress in the long run, and could save you money on your tax invoice.
You might not be able to sell photos should they comprise trademarked products, brands or even certain buildings. Check out the terms with your stock library, or get the company involved and ask if you require permission to hawk your snaps.
Don’t just do the same-old or what everybody else is doing. Quirky, cute or weird is always in fashion. Amen to that! Selling Photos On Ebay Copyright

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