You may have seen ads and offers that you can make money with your digital camera. You may have played with the idea. It seems easy and fun too!
The fact is a lot more people are trying out this method of selling their digital photos online to make a few extra bucks, and why not!
Digital cameras are becoming very affordable these days and you don‟t need to be a genius to point and shoot.
You don‟t necessarily need to be a professional to do it either. Of course it helps if your photos are of reasonable quality but we‟ll cover more of that a bit further down the page.
How It Works
Simply put, there are people are looking for and buying royalty-free stock photography online.
Graphic/web designers, business owners and web marketers shop online for photos to use on their websites and or promotional materials like ads, videos, banners, even offline items like brochures and magazines etc.
Example: if you need a photo of a tropical island and you live in the middle of a desert (no snow capped mountains for thousands of miles)
it‟s next impossible to take that shot yourself and you can‟t go around looking for that shot and steal any photo off the web.
Royalty free photographs are the legal way to use digital images! You may not be aware, but there is a copyright law that protects people‟s works including photography, writing, music, video, etc.
This means that „right clicking‟ on any image you see online and saving it to use for your personal or commercial use is against this law. Those works are owned by someone and when you use it without permission,
it's stealing!
That's why people go shopping for those royalty-free stock photographs. They buy the re-print rights to photos they want to use in their commercial or personal applications.
Once they buy the rights to it, they don‟t need to pay the owner of the photograph any royalties on an ongoing basis.
There are thousands of websites dedicated to hosting and selling stock photos which regular people like you and I can join and upload our photos to and make money.
