I want to join the 57p club!

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Hi all,
I've noticed a few people posting about how they have sold some photo's online - it seems like a fairly easy way to make some cash really.

I was wondering if people have any recommendations for the best sites to sell from? I have a bunch of stock photo's which would be suited to use in websites/print (ie., not of any place in particular - just abstract or simple imagery), and use them in some of the websites I create for my job, so would be interested to see how any T & C's affect my personal/commercial use.

Any thoughts / hints / tips on how to go about it?

Matt
 
There are various option when selling on fotolia, one is just to sell the image continuously (57p one) so you can have it on your other site, but there are also options to sell the image with full licence, more money is made on these, but you wouldn't be able to have it on the other site aswell
 
Why not try www.alamy.com Just think , if you sold an image for 57p and it was used for a big advertising campaign, you would feel gutted, at least with sites like alamy they pay you a reasonable fee. If it is good enough for someone to want to use it, then it is good enough to be paid a decent price for.
 
I can understand people wanting the kudos of actually selling images, but 57p is really taking advantage and extracting the urine. As Gary says, you have no idea what the buyer is going to use your image for. Nobody needs 57p that bad. ;)
 
Do you have to send to alamy on a cd/dvd.....or can you upload?
 
cd/dvd at the moment. But they're going to start providing an upload service this year at some point I believe. Bloody good job too as they're taking over a month to turn submissions around at the moment.

A few tips I've garnered this month.

1) it's better to send fewer images, more often. It helps to speed the process

2) Larger discs also cause problems in that if they find too many images that don't pass qc then they will fail the whole disc outright without even looking at the rest of the images, leaving you to resubmit. This happened to me this month and I have to re-process around 70 images now as some of them were 'soft or lacking definition'

3) There isn't much difference visible (if any) between using genuine fractals or cs2's bicubic softer option for interpolating your images up to the recommended size, despite what they say.

hth?
 
I got some ready....then realized the NO SHARPENING rule! duh!
have to do them again!
 
TBH, unless they're very obviously sharpened they'll get through. I usually sharpen mine before I send them, 20,30,0. Just to remove the digital 'haze'

They haven't cmplained about that one. yet.Their submission service people are pretty helpful generaly, after all, they want to accept your images as they make money off of them!
 
weeeeeeeell,
Supposedly very tight, but my initial test cd was accepted with one qc fail (interpolation artifacts or jaggies) tey're suppose to fail you if ony one of them fails, lol.

I have just had a whole cd failed though as some of the shots were a bit soft.


I think provided you shoot at iso400 or below, the shots are sharp, don't oversharpen and the files are 48mb tiff or jpegs you should be ok.


good luck, let us know how you get on!
 
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