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good day and welcome to our short
demonstration
and explanation of how to sell your
images online
there are many sites that do this from
well etsy all the way through to getty
images
but the largest uh and well the most
accessible
is a company called shutterstock and
shutterstock
is uh not the highest paying
company so you will spend you will sell
you know upwards of 100 images and get
something like 35 bucks for it but
at least you're selling your images so
let's get to it so you go to
submit.shutterstock.com
and click sign up in the top right hand
corner
fill in the fields pretty
straightforward certify that you're 18
years old with the big check mark
click next open your email and vera
click the verify link
there it is
yay fill out your
typical information here residential
address mailing address
so i skipped uh that so you couldn't see
it because of course i
really prefer that you don't know my
address but pretty straightforward
okay now we're down to uploading images
what they're going to want is high
quality images that are well positioned
focused composed properly lit
interesting photos now definition of
interesting
that's a different thing interesting to
you may not be what's interesting to
somebody else you'll see when i
upload my images that they're probably
not what you were expecting
or anybody else was expecting also if
there's a person
in your images you need to have them
sign a waiver
if you don't have them sign a waiver
shutterstock will immediately reject
them
okay so let's get to it got it
upload images and i'm gonna up i'm going
to upload all of these
and as you can see they probably aren't
exactly what you expected now there's a
few of them i expect to get rejected
in particular this one you see this one
it's not quite straight
really not what they're looking for i'm
also not very happy with the composition
of this one
this uh is not quite straight either and
i would prefer that this was down at the
bottom
that the actual content was down at the
bottom but rather than at the top but
i'm going to submit it anyway
and we'll see what they come back with
so i'm going to select all of these
and select open and it's going to pull
them all in
finished let's click next
now we have to add the details and this
is basically the metadata and not
familiar with the term metadata it's
just data about data
so it's the information about the image
you know things like
what's in it uh categories that kind of
stuff and that makes it
force easy for people that are trying to
buy your images to search for them
and here it's important to you need to
use a few common ones
um but you know you might expect like if
it's a sunset you went with sunset in
there
but also some oddball ones because you
need to stand out from the crowd there's
millions hundreds of millions of uh
images at shutterstock so
you want to have a few little quirks in
there
okay start adding details so we'll just
click on the first one here
this is one i expect to get rejected by
the way and you can see that it's
already come up with a bunch of keyword
suggestions
kind of nice so i'm going to go with
green i'll go with nature
i'll go with background uh let's see
here grass
okay so that's enough of that and now
i'm going to put now i'm just going to
type a few things in
lake
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smallwood bridge foot
bridge marsh
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and now let's go with the description
that's 200 characters total so
that you can put in and let's you have
to put in at least five words
okay so let's call this foot bridge
in meadow
in front of lake
there we go that's enough and go to
category one
now these are their natural categories
that you've gotta deal with so
um you can't add to these so you just
need to make sure that
you've got the right uh category to
start with or you're just not going to
get found
so for this one don't put healthcare
right that's just not going to be found
so for this one i'm so i'm going to
select i think i'll select parks outdoor
there we go let's go with that and as a
secondary i think i will call it
nature location
is chester mere
alberta now let's look at more options
just so you can see what they are
mature content no it's not so nothing to
worry about there and you'll recall i
said
if there's a person in there that's
recognizable you need to have a release
and there's the form if you don't
already have it okay so that's that
now you think you have to click save to
go to the next one but you don't you can
just click on this one
right and now look if i go back to the
first one
right there they are okay so i'm going
to complete the rest of these and then
i'll submit them all
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all right so after 45 minutes i've got
most of these done and you can see
i'll just flip through these quickly so
you can see them but most notably what
you'll
see is these blue check marks and
uh if you don't have a blue check mark
it's not going to get submitted so
let's go to this one and see what's
wrong well
one of the things that's wrong is it has
to have at least
seven keywords so let's add a couple
delivery shipping
career there we go oh got a blue check
mark yay
what's wrong with this one this one's
got lots of
uh keywords this one has
uh six keywords so let's see if we can
figure this one out warning that's a
good one
symbol sure that's good street traffic
road closed
metal sure actually i'll remove metal
it's not well no we'll leave metal in
why not
barrier there we go so that's that but
you can see here it still doesn't have
it marked as acceptable and let's
see what's wrong with these ones let's
go down here
this one i don't have enough thing on
let's go with outdoor
let's go with architectural plastic
box that's six
telephone boom got it
okay so that's seven this one's not
centered properly and i'd imagine it's
going to get rejected so let's go here
and see what's wrong with it
so again doesn't have enough uh items on
it enough uh
tags keyword let's go with uh
street light boom that got a seven
that's good now these two i don't know
what's wrong with them
so my guess is there's just something
technical that doesn't like it with them
i seem to have all of these filled out
so
let's now click uh submit and see what
comes up
well i have to check all of these so i
have to go through here and check all of
these to submit them
yeah and as i'm doing that i can see
action required let's click on that see
if it tells me what's wrong
oh for some reason it didn't take any of
the keywords okay that's weird
so let's clear those and get that going
i've not seen that before
so let's go with road sign
okay i'm gonna go through and check the
rest of these
let's try submit now
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okay so it doesn't like those two let's
figure out why
ah it doesn't have five words okay
um okay so this one now well that's an
easy one to fix
road closed sign well white
and black road closed sign
in new home construction there we go
and this is same thing to uh there we go
orange road close sign
in new home
construction zone there we go we'll call
that
we'll submit these
there we go now what's wrong with this
oh i didn't put the check mark on it and
submit
there we go
let's take a look at pending and see
what's there
now you'll notice at this point we can't
edit these these have been submitted and
there's just nothing much we can do
so we just sit and wait okay so we will
wait three or four days and we'll get
back to you with uh what they accept and
what they don't accept so you can see
why they don't accept them and again
there's quite a well there's a number
here i expect that they will reject
this one as an example just not quite
centered this one's not quite straight
if it's out of focus at all if it's just
not interesting
they will reject them all right so it's
been a few days
and here is what has come back the 22
images
we have submitted let's see what we get
here so this one it doesn't like the
content uh chromience
okay my street light went through
visible trademark
uh if there's a visible trademark in
there it's pretty small
so that's a bit of a surprise spigot got
approved
rejection reasons out of focus okay
these are things i'm not going to argue
with so we just sort of move on
uh out of focus uh camera okay looks
very clear and solid to me but you know
these are not things you can really
argue it's what they say and that's that
so um yeah
let's see what else here so here's an
interesting one uh title
in the trademark so this is uh from
cadillac and i use the word catalog
doesn't like it so i will adjust that
and probably resubmit it let's see what
else we can get through here visible
trademark
canada post yes those are canada post
boxes which are owned by the citizens of
canada so
okay um yeah this one again
it didn't like the didn't like the uh
chromience and so on and so forth
visible trademark what yet again there's
a visible trademark in there i'll
be damned if i've seen it but i'll take
their word for it approved rejection
reasons visible trademark
i don't believe that's the case i think
that they are uh you know
yeah they're being very picky uh this
one the game they just didn't like which
i'm surprised at i
this is one of my more uh interesting
pictures i quite like it
um but anyway there it is so at least
you have an idea of how sort of
arbitrary some of these are
and um you know what you have to do to
get through it uh
or it's just for fun i'll click on one
of these just so you can see what
we entered and not a whole lot in this
one
uh you can see in the top right corner
unpaid earnings is zero which means i
haven't sold any of my graphics yet
be my photos so let's go to um
reviewed content take me right back to
where we are
nothing submitted catalog manager let's
take a look through there
you can see this is what's in the
catalog
so not a huge amount but there's a few
top performers this will be my sales
which of course i don't have any of
now at this point there really isn't
much to do other than wait
i have read a number of blogs
and discussed this with a number of
people who are more experienced with
shutterstock
than i am and the uh what you really
need to do is submit
five to twenty images a day uh to build
up a portfolio
uh and let them sell them as
they do and if the money rolls in good
for you
uh if the money doesn't roll in well bad
for you
that's what it is okay so if you have
any questions or concerns please get a
hold of us at www.urtech.ca thank you
bye
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