Hello there fellow and future stock photographers.

This website is growing and I have you to thank for that! We are now listing over 40 agencies which include micro and macro stock websites.

The objective of this website is to teach and guide you with stock photography. Feel free to look around.

These are the website sections:

Not all sites work with just photography. In fact, most of them also accept illustrations, flash design and even footage.

How Stock Photography Websites Work:

This is a step by step of how you should get started on Stock Photography, from choosing the website(s) to figuring out what you are going to do with the money!

We have over 40 stock photography sites to choose from. My primary suggestion for all those starting would be Shutterstock, iStockphoto and/or Dreamstime but you should make up your own mind. You can sign up to all of them if you wish, it will just be a bit more work, but worth the effort.

The basic of Stock Photography is that you sign up and upload your photographs, where they will be inspected for quality purposes. Someone that needs those images (for fliers, banners, websites, t-shirts, adverts, etc...) will download you photos (or illustrations, flash files, videos) and you will get a commision on that sale, which varies from site to site.

	Example:
	On Shutterstock, the comissions have a fixed price of $0.25. I know it doesn't seem a lot but if you have 400 downloads in a month (which is relatively easy) you will get $100. With 2000 downloads, your earnings go to $500.

 

After you've signed up, uploaded, got photos approved and downloaded, got enough money to make a withdrawl (on most sites, there is a $100 minimum withdrawl) you can start spending it!

By the way, I suggest you get a PayPal account to recieve your money. Most sites work with PayPal, Moneybookers or checks.

This is just the beginning of how this works. There are lots more to learn but we're just here to help you get started. Don't forget to check out the tips, links and partners and if you still have any questions, feel free to contact us.

Agencies:

There are inumerous agencies out there at the moment and many more being develop as you read this. We here are going to work with the best ones but if more become well known, we might take them in too. The 2 top competitors in the microstock world are iStockphoto (owned by Getty Images) and Shutterstock... [view agencies]

Tips:

The first thing you should know about stock photography is what sells and that is, well, anything. Ok.. What sells best! Take a look at some of the top sold photographs on these websites to have an idea of what the buyers want so you can invest in that. [view more tips]