Earn Money Uploading Photos on Various Stock Photo Sites

Internet is indeed a great source for many home jobs to earn money for our life. Of which uploading photos to various stock photo sites is also very interesting and nice job to earn pretty good money. These days most of our people begin to use digital camera. If we have good collection of photos taken using our digital camera, we can monetize them uploading on various stock photo sites. This is totally a business as we can earn commission whenever our uploaded images get approved by site owners and downloaded by other persons online. The commission for the downloaded pictures vary from site to site. For instance, if you have got 500 number of downloaded photos with the commission of $0.30 for each photo, then you will be able to make $150 a month from the site. Most of the stock photo sites are sending their payments via Paypal and Moneybookers. In addition there is a chance of earning more money for getting impressions for our uploaded photos. If 1000 number of people see our any one of the uploaded photo, we may get $1 for it. You can also increase our earning by uploading the same images on different sites that allow you to upload unlimited number of photos. Thus you can increase total number of views of your every image on different sites and also earnings.

 Let us see different stock photo sites where we can upload our difgital photos!

http://www.submit.shutterstock.com/

This is a popular stock photo site where you can make 25 cents for every time one of your photos downloaded. Buyers here subscribe on mothly basis and they are allowed to download 750 images per month. FTP, HTML and Active X are three uploaded systems used by the site which make the job easy for those who uploading the photos. There is also a community forum to share our experience with other friends. Any one can easily make more than $1000 a month, if he gets more number of downloaded images.

http://www.pixmac.com/

With the millions of stock photos and thousands of photographers this is also a popular site online. You can upload images immediately after registration you need to wait one or two days to get your images get approved. You can get royalty for your every download. Commissions for non-exclusive rights starting at 30 % and exclusive rights starting at 45 %. Payments are processed via Paypal and Money Bookers.

http://www.123rf.com/

There are more than 4 millons of photos in the site. For the download of your every image you can get 15 to 50% of the commission. Referring friends you can also make 10% of what they made. Payment method is Paypal, Money Bokkers and Check. You can get your payments when you reach $100.

http://www.bigstockphoto.com/

After the sign up you need to pass the online test. After you have passed the test you can start uploading images. When one of your images is downloaded, you will get commission of 50 cents to $3. The payment is processed by paypal and checks. When you reach earning of $30, you can get it via paypal. To get checks you need to earn minimum of $50. Here you can upload images of Business, marriage, sex, food and so on.

http://www.crestock.com/

Here you will get 30% commission on your every photo get downloaded. The fast uploading system in the site helps you to work fast in the system. With lacs of unique visitors every month this site prvides a chance of earning uploading your photos every day. If you have good portifolio, you can easily make good income of few hundred dollars for every month and you can earn even more if you show little bit effort to get more number of approved uploaded images.

http://www.dreamstime.com/

The site admins accept only quality based photos for adding in their site. If your first set of uploading was approved, you would see them in your personal account. Incase they did not select your photos for inclusion, you would receive an email from the site admins stating the reasons for rejection of your images. When you get 5 successfully downloaded photos, your % of commission gradually increases. For your every 20 successful downloads of images, your level increases upto fifth level. In this site you will get good commission of $2 to $7 for your every download of image! If you are confident about your skills on photography, you will be rewarded with good sum of money!

http://www.citizenimage.com/

You can upload unlimited number of photos here. You will be also provided with your own home page to sell images. If you are showing skills on photography, you can earn good income in this site.

http://www.keenimages.com/

To start uploading images you need to register for free and send some samples for free. After the approval of sample images, you can contribute as many images as you can. But, the site admins are strict about quality of the stuffs. So, it's better to check out all of your photos whether they are fit for submission.

http://www.paidpictures.com/

You can send your photo via email and earn good money if they get downloaded. The site owners give all informations such as resolution and format about photos. They need photographers from all over the world.

http://en.fotolia.com/

When you get downloaded photos you will get commission of 1 pound to 2 pounds for each photo. There are more than 5 million photos and 1 million registered photographers here.

http://www.istockphoto.com/

This is also one of the popular stock photo sites in the internet. If your photos are approved by the site owners, you can make sterady income throughout your life. Some photographers who have joined here are making more than $1000 a month. Prices of photos vary according to the sources in which they are going to be used. You can get 30 % commission for your every sale.

http://www.microstockphoto.com

You can get here 35 % commission for getting every downloaded photo from that you have uploaded. In an average you can make $0.5 for every download and payment is made via Paypal.

Five Important things to avoid your uploaded photos getting rejected

•  You should be serious about the quality of your photos. All of your photos should be in right contrast and resolution (at least 1000  x 1000 pixel). You also need to check out whether it is in correct format ( JPEG is recommended). Then you should wait until it uploads successfully.
•  Never get an idea of adding date and time of caption on your photos. Try to submit your photos clean.
•  It is always better to submit less number of good quality photos than sumitting ones in large number with poor quality.
• Lighting and exposure are very important factors determining the quality of your photos.
•  Try to avoid pornograhy and nudity in all of your photos.