Whether you’re a professional photographer, that photography is your hobby, or simply have a digital camera and take photos you like, a way to make money online doing what you like, is selling your photos online through specialized sites that deal to sell your photos to magazine editors, web designers, business, or any person requesting images.
The general process for using these sites (called image banks) is checking into them (create an account), upload some pictures so that the administrators of those sites to evaluate and decide if we approve as contributors, and then, if approve, put our pictures in their catalogs, and hope that visitors to buy them and gain a commission or percentage of the sale.
With this way of making money, you may not get to become millionaires, but probably we manage to earn a good extra money, yes, as long as our images are attractive and of good quality, and manage to sell many of them.
Some of these sites are most popular and recommended:
- IStockphoto (www.espanol.istockphoto.com): one of the best known and most visitor traffic. It is one of the most demanding when assessing the images you present, so that the images we send must be of very good quality. Grants 20% of sales, may increase to 40% if we choose to be exclusive to the site contributors. The site has a Spanish version.
- Stockxpert (www.es.stockxpert.com): one of the best known and most visitor traffic, although not as much as the old site. They are also demanding when assessing the images you present. Offers 50% of sales. The site also has a Spanish version.
- Area (www.es.fotolia.com) are not so demanding when assessing the images you present, giving us more likely to qualify. It presents a simple and fast process to upload photos. You do not have many visitors as other places, but offers 33% of sales, may increase to 64% if a contributor decides to be exclusive of the site. It has a Spanish version.
- Shutterstock (www.shutterstock.com): for many is the best option. It may not have as many visitors as other places, but has a favorable sales for the contributor. The commission you pay is $ 0.25 for each image sold, may reach $ 0.30 once we have achieved sales of U.S. $ 500. It has a Spanish version.
- Dreamstime: (www.dreamstime.com): one that provides greater benefits to its contributors. It offers a rate of 50% of sales, may increase with increasing the times when the images are downloaded. It also offers some bonuses. It presents a simple process to organize and categorize the images.
- BigStockPhoto (www.bigstockphoto.com): small company compared to others, but with good potential. It also presents a simple process to upload and categorize pictures. It is not so demanding when evaluating the images you present. Gives 0.5 to $ 1 per downloaded image.
These are some of the most known, however, there are many more, before deciding on any of them, we take our time and read well your requirements and the payment system they offer, always trying to choose that or those which we provide the greatest benefit in the shortest time possible.