Welcome to sellstockphotos.net

This website is designed to help professional and amateur photographers sell their digital creations online as stock photos.  What are stock photos?  Pick up a newspaper or open a magazine and you will find an advertisement with a striking picture.  Thumb through a brochure or skim an annual report and you will likely see an image used to illustrate some key concept or idea.  Shop for a t-shirt or check out a restaurant menu and your eye will be drawn to a colorful graphic.  All these images were either created specifically for these purposes or else purchased from a preexisting collection - like stock in a grocery store.  The latter are stock photos.

Online stock agencies maintain huge catalogues of photos and other images, which they license to businesses, organizations, and individuals.  Such entities pay for the right to reproduce these works for their own products, services, and other needs.  The photographers and other artists who contribute to these collections maintain ownership of and rights to their works and receive a commission every time one of their images is purchased.  With little time or investment, contributors can thus earn money from their creations and gain valuable exposure that they could not easily get on their own.

So how do you create, contribute, and sell stock photos?  The pages of this website contain some basic information that will help you enter the world of digital stock photography. You will find

• advice on getting started (Getting Started);
• a discussion of legal issues to consider (Legal Stuff);
• tips on what types of images agencies seek (What Sells);
• suggestions for effectively marketing images and yourself (Keywords);
• a list of agencies that sell stock photos (Sell Images); and
• additional sources of reliable information (Further Reading).

I hope you enjoy this website and find it educational.  Please come back often and share it with others.  Also, feel free to contact me at info@sellstockphotos.net with any questions, comments or suggestions.

-- Andrew Tichovolsky --

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