Veermarketplace of veer.com is having this promotion to pay back photographers and illustrators with cash. Once your images or illustrations are accepted, each will get paid, details is here. http://www.veer.com/ideas/dashforcash/
if you want to be a contributor, check here contributor.veer.com
A website that let you upload your images and people can buy it in prints, framed, T-shirt, and there is not limitation..If you got some nice images and you want to showcase and share as a gallery, this is a good website and you may even end up selling some of it.
Just to share something about microstock, I guess some of you are contributing it so but if you haven’t heard about it you may try it out.
basically it is selling images through all these website, each image will be sold at a range of price depends on how it is used, for website or for publications. Anyway, i think it is proved that it works and one can generate some incomes by uploading your pictures there. However, i think only these few websites works, especially for beginners.
Basically image requirements are 6MP image, 3000×2000 or above, JPG. If you intend to submit it, try taken with low ISO with less noise. If there it is a studio shoot, you need to upload model release for people, and property release for items. no commercial logo or patent design in images, use photoshop to remove sign or logo if possible. For travel or outdoor shoots with recognised face, if you don’t have model release it is possible to upload as editorial usage for some website.
All website accepts illustration too, like vectors and JPG image done by photoshop or other application. There are some requirements for vectors, let me know if you are an illustrators. I can tell you more.
It takes some time to upload and put keywords for it but i you can try it out it may be something that works for you.
By the way, put the title, description and keywords through photoshop, and it will be embedded into jpg, and most website can read it when you upload, it saves time!
Just try out the first 4 website by sequences.. there are tons of website but i don’t think there are enough buyers in those website. It just ends up wasting time.
1. Dreamstime
This is a website with good traffic and easy for beginner, you can just start to upload your images once register. Good website layout and it can really sell.
2. Shutterstock
For shutterstock, there are 2 website, shutterstock.com is for buyer, submit.shutterstock.com is for contributors.
This is number 1 website in earning for most microstock contributors, however you need to submit 10 images for approval, once you are accepted you are allowed to upload. It is really successful since the sales is almost everyday.
3. Istockphoto
This is first microstock website and is quite successful for some contributors. It requires 3 images for qualitification test too. Once approved you can upload too. But it seems more strict and rejects simple or too common images.
4. Fotolia
This is also one of the BIG 4 website, but it is very strict about images quality, and none of my negative scanned images are accepted. However, i do see some sales in this website too.
the next two can be considered if you have done with the above 4.
5. 123rf
I only have little sales on this website, part of the reason is a small porfolio, but still got sales.
6. bigstockphoto
It is also one of the website that can generate some sales for most contributors.
It happened to me that Selection Tool(V) in adobe illustration is not able to resize object by dragging the corner or edge of the “box”(bounding box), I tried many times, reset computer.. I realised it is because i accidently click shift+ctrl+B..that is command for hiding/showing bounding box.
so if you can’t scale the object with selection Tool, just try shift+ctrl+B… then you will see the box around the object for scaling again.
When i start to play around AI, I use ctrl+c and ctrl+v for copying.. then i found out alt+click is a quicker way..and hold shift for vertical or horizontal move. Ctrl+c for copy ctrl+f for paste in front is also useful if you want to duplicate object at same position.
you can earn some $ by contributing to microstock website..here is my quick summary.
1. Shutterstock, it is the site that most people should start with. It seems many traffic and sales are much higher comparing to other website. It may sell at $0.25 if buyer using subscription, however the sales number are much higher comparing to other website.
2. Dreamstime, just register and you can start uploading without ‘passing an review of your photos’. Do see some sales and the website is alive and continuously improving.
3. Istockphoto, do see some sales too, but the requirement of images and illustration to be accepted is getting strict. The uploading method is a bit troublesome.
4. Fotolia is also worth to upload, the traffic is there so there are sales. However, the interface is not that user friendly. If your uploads are rejected, you will just received a message in email and your fotolia account (click ‘contact support’) that telling your the image id that got rejected. You have to match the id number in order to know the reason of rejection.
123RF, bigstockphoto, canstockphoto.. veer.com, cutcaster..blah blah..the sales are zero or too low for me to spend time.
There is a newcomer, depositphotos.com, it attracts contributors by offering $0.20 for every accepted image. Remember to read the instruction since you need to ‘activate’ this promotion. I am still pending for the application at this moment, will update how is it.
If you are just starting in this microstock, just go for this 4 websites. It won’t be wrong. You can click the banner link at the side to register.
Remember to scan a passport or ID for registration, you need to upload them as identification.
Leave me message if you have any questions.
Always remember to save everything in ai format first before save as eps. There are few reasons.. first it may cause ‘expanding’ when you save as lower version of files, that’s mean illustration divide into pieces that is hard to group it back.
second is more like a careless mistake, you had done a lot of changes in your illustration and you directly save as eps and forgot it hasn’t been saved as original ai file. Then you go on trim everything, remove everything for final image, and save at the final stage for eps. It sounds okay, but you had lost some raw illustration that you may still need.
hope it is helpful.
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