A short guide on how to make money off of your photos.
You can make tons of cash off of your original photos if you know what to do.
You can upload them to stock photo sites, like this one, Dreamstime, that pays as people buy rights to use your photo under different contracts, You can make a ton of money if someone buys full rights to your photo (up to a thousand dollars), and can also get paid for referrals.
Upload them to a site where you get paid per view, like Share-A-pic. You get paid roughly a dollar per thousand views, but no one uses your photos anywhere else, and these earnings are continuous.
Upload them to Deviant Art. You get paid if someone likes your photo, and buys a print of your photo. You get paid 20% of the earnings if you’re a free member, and 50% if you’re a premium member.
While these are only examples of sites, most sites will follow a similar layout. If you upload your photos to two or three of these sites, you could stand to earn around $500, depending on how many sites you join, the amount of photos you upload and the quality of the photos.
Image by Mr.Thomas via Flickr














October 7th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Hey Seth – I didn’t know anything about this before your article- thanks for the overview!
October 11th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Good find.