How To Make Money from your photos
Posted
by Rajesh
on 9:43 PM
Yes you can make money using your photo hobby. Infact online you can easily set yourself up a rewarding business selling your photographs on the internet. The best thing about selling your photographs for money online is that you do not even need to be a professional to do it. All you need is to be able to have access to a computer on the internet. So how can you go about doing this. Lets begin. As you may or may not have noticed, every occupation that is out there has some presence on the internet.
Therefore when it comes to media which can be easily transmitted digitally via email like photos, drawings, doodles, etc, businesses specialising in design, journalism or advertising have in the internet a very easy and fast way for getting hold of photos, drawing and all manner of designs from professionals and amateurs the world over who want to sell them. Yes, these are sites on the net that will pay each time someone downloads a drawing or photo that you submit to them. They will of course get a cut and give you yours, or in some cases offer you a lump sum to buy the full rights which sometimes can even run in the thousands or more!
Here is how easy is to find these sites. If you type "stock photos" in a search engine you will get a boat load of results featuring sites that sell or buy your photographs. Getty images is a famous such site where professional and not so professional photographers submit their photos from anywhere in the world. People or companies subscribe and submit their photos that are then bought when a purchaser of the photographs bids on it. This can mean a lot of money for your photographs for doing little work. It is a way to make money online that is just about to explode and which is making a lot of ordinary people a lot of money as we speak.
When it comes to submitting drawings, the possibilities are even more diverse. Different niches require different requirements and there are a plethora of businesses out there that demand art or designs you may have for them. For example the tatoo business is booming online and always looking for art jobs you could sell them. Then you have textile firms looking for art jobs and designs for their materials. The number of firms that you could court business for your art is really immense including not only the North American and European market but also that of the Far East. When you start out doing your art jobs to submit to companies, a good way to test the water are sites like "Artist Bank" or its sister site "Art Bank" where artwork can be submitted on a great variety of subject matter; from surreal stills, to nude drawing, or to religion. Such sites do have cheap subscription fees but have an initial free quota meaning that if you sell anything then it will pay for itself in due course.
And finally remember that even if you do not have great drawing, artistic or photographic skills, that this is something that you will be able to do easily online using a pc, especially if you check the resources at the end here which will get you up and started in learning how to draw and where to sell it fast and easily to make good money with your very own digital art selling business.
