How to sell photos on shutterstock

Many photographers are selling photos on Shutterstock, you can start sell your photos and vector stock photography as a job, not a hobby, on shutterstock. How to sell photos on shutterstock?

-The first thing you need to register an account on Shutterstock
submit.shutterstock.com
With more people registering Shutterstock take quite some time, you have to send 10 images try to wait for approval, many people have sent more than once before being accepted

- Submit 10 sample images for review, Shutterstock will review the photos and if 7 photos pass the review, we can be a user and sell the photos on Shutterstock

Don’t submit two and more photos of the same subject – even the variations of same subject. Don’t try to submit photos of:

your pet, flowers,sunsets

Try photos of

food and drinks, fitness, healthcare, IT, computers, communications...

Shutterstock has grown rapidly, it is the agency's most recognized microstock. Shutterstock is a good resource for images with high resolution, especially for large-format design. With a huge library of Shutterstock 50 million stock photos, videos, illustrations and vectors, they do not have the audio file in their database.

Contributor rates	Images - from 25c per download. It will increase to 33c once you reach $500, to 36c once you reach $3,000, and up to 38c once you earn $10,000. Video clips - 30% of the sale price.
Minimum payout	$75 (can be set by contributor)
Payment methods	PayPal/MoneyBookers, Cheque
Upload methods	Webform or FTP

Shutterstock always gives me the highest income compared with other sites. Their starting wage at 25 cents per photo, but they have different license allows you to earn anywhere from 25 cents to $ 120 per photo. After doing $ 500 you get a raise to 33 cents. When you hit $ 3000 in your total income went to 36 cents. Then you'll get your last pay rise in total income of $ 10,000 to 38 cents.

From the contributor perspective, the characterizing element about Shutterstock is that it very supports new pictures. The subsequent system of givers is to then keep creating and transferring. This functions admirably for Shutterstock and has brought about their building the biggest accumulation of substance among all microstock offices.

You have one fairly important error. To make 33 cents per DL, you need $500 in earnings. 

Shutterstock is a strong performer for me. They are a clear #2 to iStockphoto in terms of earnings, but they do contribute significantly to the bottom line. Their tools are simple, and very good. The ease of upload is fantastic. I like their HTML upload so much that I actually use it more than FTP these days. Never thought I would say that! But then I am not a high volume producer and tend to upload in small batches. They also simplify categories by eliminating subcategories altogether.

You need to stay active to keep sales high. I’ve heard this from several contributors. As soon as I went inactive last month, my sales were literally cut in half! Once I started uploading again, they perked back up. Apparently your activity affects your search position, including older images. I can’t prove it, but my sales highly suggest it.

Pros 

Very high volume. You’ll need it with the low payout, but if your images are good you will definitely get high volume. Many contributors cite Shutterstock as their highest earning agency. Others are quick to point out that the per-sale / per-download earnings are very low.   Regardless of how you look at it, Shutterstock is the most consistent earning agency in microstock.

This methodology likewise functions admirably for purchasers. With the membership model purchasers have effectively downloaded a greater amount of the pictures they'll require from the current portfolio, so they can then focus on the new pictures making it through. In any case, the membership contract does breaking point "stockpiling" by precluding utilization of pictures the purchaser hasn't officially utilized six months subsequent to downloading them.

Ultra-convenient stats – Shutterstock provide all sales (photos and footage) and referral earnings on a single convenient page with a row for each day of the month (also see updated keywords tool and lightbox stats)

The best advice I can give is to educate yourself on stock photography, learn from the mistakes and successes of others, and get a lot of hands-on experience with your camera. And most importantly, don’t ever give up on your dream.

Once you are accepted on shutterstock, you can start sell photos on shutterstock your initial submission becomes the beginning of your portfolio. After that, you can upload as much and as often as you wish. Each image submitted is subject to a review process and is either accepted or declined based on a number of criteria including quality and the subjective view of the reviewer as to its commercial value.