Making Money On Shutterstock Stock Photos, Royalty-Free Images and Vectors

Shutterstock is a microstock website for photographers which offer royalty free stock images. Buyers may purchase subscription and then browse images to buy and download from a huge library containing more than six million images. High quality photographers and Videographers upload their skilled work to Shutterstock to make dollars whenever their images get a download by buyers. This is the excellent way to make money and recommended by many professionals. Shutterstock is one of the leading microstock website and has a high reputation and so attracts illustrators and photographers to upload their work on it.

Shutterstock doesn’t allow every image to be uploaded in its library. First you need to submit your 10 high quality works and at least 7 of them must be approved to your account become active. Once this process has been done you’ll be start making some money. But never expect that you will make hundreds of dollars from the day you start. It may take some time and if you’re a hard worker then you have a chance to make a decent income.

Types of earning on Shutterstock:

•    On Each Downloads:
Each time a subscriber download your image Shutterstock will pay you 25 cent. It can be raises up to 33 cents, 36 cents, and 38 cents per download as you reach the milestone of $500, $3000, and $10,000, respectively.

•    On demand download:
A “Small & Medium JPG Sizes Only” plan pays you 81 cents and “All JPG and Vector Sizes” On Demand plan can pay you $1.88 per image download by subscribers.

•    Enhanced download let you earn $28 per image download.

•    Each time your image get saved in users backed up CDs, You will get extra 5 cent for that.

•    Each time your clips get a download via shopping cart or through a Shutterstock Footage Subscription plan, it will pay you 30% of commission sale.

•    For test products, single images, and new product per image sale will pay you 20% of the total sale.

Tips to earn even more on Shutterstock:

Before you start your work on Shutterstock, here are some tips that you must follow to make more money:

1.    Link and Promote your Portfolio:

Every photographer needs a website to promote their portfolio and work. You can provide your personal contact information there to promote your work and brief introduction about yourself. Here you can link your Shutterstock profile and sell your images or you can sell directly from your website. Promote your portfolio on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networking sites.

2.    Choose the Right Keyword:

Choose a right keyword when you are submitting your images on Shutterstock library. It is important to provide the right keyword with your image; it will help buyers to browse your images easily. Images with having irrelevant keyword might be deleted by the admin. Also batch upload your work rather than uploading it one by one.

3.    Learn the Buyers demands.

4.    Learn from other experienced users who already working on Shutterstock.

5.    Upload more images on Shutterstock to make more money.

Conclusion:

Shutterstock is the best, high class, and most recommended microstack website in the market. It is easy to use and high pay outs as well. Illustrators and Photographers recommend this because it helps them very much pay the bills. In the other hand buyers love it for its over six million collections of images, different category of images, abd affordable subscription plan. So start uploading your work and start making dollars with Shutterstock.