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Stock Photography – A Good Source of Extra Income

Information pays and this what makes internet an indispensable media especially for marketers and advertisers. It has provided the widest and largest source of information for everyone. With information comes opportunities and earning opportunities have tremendously increased.

Stock photography is one of the field that has so much to offer yet only few among the million web users who are looking for gold have found the mine. Maybe, it is because not everyone has an eye for minute and artistic details. But look at the advertisements in every website you visit. Stock images are everywhere from headers to simple banners. Images convey information that a text may not.

To get you started in digging your own gold mine, here is an initial list of the programs where all you need to do is shoot, submit and wait for the money.

1. Shutterstock – one of the best paying stock photography sites with the largest database of quality images
Requirements: min. 4 megapixels
Payment: $0.25 per download, Paypal
Notes: non-exclusive

2. Fotolia – Simply the best deal for stock photos, EVER! 2,239,130 stock images online
Requirements: JPEG (RGB), 16 megabytes (maximum file size), 800*600 pixels
Payment: Based on ranking, Paypal, Ikobo, Moneybookers, check
Notes: non-exclusive/exclusive

3. StockXpert – the place to buy and sell stock photos
Requirements: JPEG (RGB), 16 megabytes (maximum file size), 800*600 pixels
Payment: 50% per download, Paypal, Ikobo, Moneybookers, check
Note: Check “Do not upload”, non-exclusive

4. Big Stock Photo – Choose from over 1,313,000 stock photos of $1 – $2 each
Requirements: JPG, EPS, AI, PSD, PNG and PDF
Payment: $0.50 up to $60, Paypal, Moneybookers, or check
Note: Non-exclusive, photos must be online for 90 days

5. CanStockPhoto where you use earned credits to buy stock images.
Requirements: JPG, at least 3.0 megapixels in size, maximum 20MB in disk size
Payment: $0.50 up to $60, Paypal
Note: Non-exclusive

6. Microstockphoto.
Requirements: minimum of (1600 x 1200) pixels. Approximately 2 megapixels
Payment: 35% for every photo sold or $0.25 for every image downloaded
Note: Non-exclusive

7. Dreamstime
Requirements: 3 megapixels or more in size, RGB, JPG quality of 12.
Payment: from $0.50 to $30 and if you want to sell the right, you will get 50% – 60%.
Note: Exclusive photographers also receive $0.20 bonus per approved submission.

8. iStockPhoto – is the world’s preeminent collection of member-generated royalty-free images, at the world’s best prices.
Requirements: RGB, JPG, minimum 1200 x 1600 pixels
Payment: 20% for royalty-free, up to 40% for exclusive images

9. World Panorama Stock
Requirements: High resolution, high quality panoramic (medium and large format and 360 degree digital) images only
Payment: 80% of every sale, Paypal
Cost: Free – first 25 images
$25/year – 26 to 50 images
$50/year – up to 100 images
$125 – images more than 100
$150 – promotion with direct contact with the customers

10. The Photo Binder Studio
Payment: 90% of every sale, once a month
Cost: Free

11. Lucky Oliver – a community of photographers, designers and artists who buy and sell stock photos
Payment: $0.30 to $25, 50% of buy-out price
Note: Check “Images that LuckyOliver DOES Need”

12. Creating Online
Requirements: 800 x 600 pixels or higher, JPG only, excellent quality, suitable for viewing by all ages
Payment: 50% of every sale, Paypal, $25 minimum paid 30 days after request
Cost: Free

13. Blue Gel Photography
Requirements: JPG
Payment: 85% of every sale, Paypal, once every 2 months
Cost: Free
Notes: Check the what’s not before submitting. Submission is exclusive.

14. D-Media
Requirements: 800px maximum length @ 72 dpi.
Payment: 70$ of every sale, Paypal, once a month.
Cost: Free

15. Orion Photography and Imaging
Requirements: JPG
Payment: 75% of every sale paid once a month

16. Photo Gain
Requirements: 800px maximum length @ 72 dpi.
Payment: 3% plus $0.79 of every sale, Paypal/checks, quarterly.
Cost: Membership with stock-sales privileges costs only $19.95/month, billed quarterly, for 500Mb of storage space.
Notes: Check the what’s not before submitting. Submission is exclusive.

17. Stockphotographs
Requirements: 5megapixels, RGB, JPG
Payment: 50% of every sale, Paypal/checks
Cost: Free
Notes: Check the what’s not before submitting. Submission is exclusive.

18. IndianStockPhotos
Requirements: 5megapixels, RGB, JPG
Payment: 50% of every sale, Paypal/checks
Cost: Free
Notes: Check the what’s not before submitting. Submission is exclusive.

19. Digital Book
Requirements: JPG, RGB, 300 dpi resolution, taken by 4 megapixel camera, no compression
Payment: 25% to 33% of every sale, Paypal, once every 2 months
Cost: Free

20. ePhotograph
Requirements: Photos appropriate for clothing, novelty items and paper products.
Payment: Royalties in the amount of 10% of the retail price of the product for each usage are paid to the artist

New addtion:

21. Alamy
Requirements: JPG, uncompressed file size between 48MB and 200MB
Payment: 65% of each sale

22. PhotoStockPlus
Requirements: JPEG files, no size restrictions
Payment: 85% commission on all sales minus a 3.25% processing fee.
If you choose to sell prints or photo gift items with your photos on them you receive 85% of the markup you set for products minus the 3.25% processing fee. Payment is made through check, bank wire or PayPal once a month for balances $100 and above.

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