Stock photography for amateurs and semi-professionals. Dreamstock, iStockPhoto, Shutterstock, Stock Exchange and others...


How to sell your pictures?

Photography is a great hobby, but it can get quite expensive. By selling your pictures on-line, you can effectively reduce the cost or even make profit. Photobanks or stock photography sites are a great way to do that.

  • ShutterStock.com - great photo stock site allowing you to make money by selling your photos and more. Reviewing process is strict but you know you are in a good company.
  • Dreamstime - powerfull photobank with nice system for photographers
  • Fotolia - so far my best experience with revenues
  • Vizitka.cz - soon the website that sells business cards will provide a means for generating revenue by uploading your own pictures for business cards or personal cards

Buying photography on-line

Respecting copyright is the only way to stay out of trouble with pictures. Especially if you are a publisher, you need to buy your photos. Stock photography is a proved way to find top-quallity photos and save time and money.

Where to find free photos on-line?

Maybe you don't want to sell your pictures, but you don't want to buy them, either. Free stock photography sites it is, then.

  • StockExchange.hu - one of the largest free photo stocks. Allows you to register and get high resolution pictures.
  • Sprixi.com - finding Creative-Commons-licensed pictures