all right so welcome to the first video
of the start with stocks series with me
your host Samuel Elkins first things
first we're going to be talking about
integrating and uploading your own stock
photography to Adobe stock website a
common misconception is that you need a
certain kind of photography to upload to
stock and it's actually not the case you
can really upload anything that you want
because you never know what someone's
going to need down the road if they want
you know a really random photo that you
took of a street sign or you know a
photo of a sandwich that you made I'm a
big believer in taking photos of
everything and just you know snapping
tidbits throughout your life it doesn't
need to be shot with a high quality
camera necessarily even shooting with a
mobile phone is sometimes good enough so
I would encourage all of you guys to
kind of go through your camera roll see
the photos that you've already shot and
consider uploading them to a website
like Adobe stock I think Adobe stock is
also a great way to get into these stock
world because it's so easy and simple to
use it's a great way to just make some
side income so what we're gonna do today
is show you guys some of the photos that
I've picked I'm going to be uploading to
my Adobe stock account showing you how
to categorize everything and upload
right from leg room ok so over here we
have our 3 photos that we are going to
publish down here you see the Adobe
stock published services there's
Facebook that's Flickr there's a bunch
of different other services that you
could click we're just gonna focus on
these three photos right here these are
photos that I took in Banff National
Park they're landscape photos so very
easy to license there's nothing in these
photos that you know is other people's
property so that makes it super easy and
simple this is actually an emerald lake
in British Columbia so I'm gonna take
these photos here I'm gonna select all
of them and it's literally as easy as
just clicking publish right here and
then you'll see up in the top left
corner it's already updating the
published collections to the Adobe stock
website once all these photos are
uploaded we can hop right over to the
Adobe sub website and start naming and
categorizing all these images so as you
can see here as the photos are getting
published right down here it says
published photos it's going to continue
to publish all three of these images up
to the Adobe stock website ok so now
once all these images have been uploaded
we get a notification on the screen that
says go to Adobe stock to complete your
submission and start selling that's
where we were gonna go next
so we're gonna click yes and then it
automatically takes us right to the
Adobe stock website
and now as you can see here we have all
three of these images so first things
first we're gonna start by categorizing
all of these so we'll go one image at a
time first thing it says is is there any
recognizable people or property no
that's why I landscape images are nice
and easy if you have photos of other
people's property or photos with actual
humans in the photo I'm you need to get
a license so that you have the rights to
sell that photo on a stock website we're
gonna type the title here we're gonna
say Emerald Lake Trail includes the
location it also includes you know the
trail so that you know people can search
trail we might even include like British
Columbia Canada all of those words are
kind of keywords and then down here at
the bottom we can actually add even more
of these so I already has predetermined
words for us to use mountain landscape
forest nature mountains it already adds
all these other ones as well trees green
pine travel all these are great I think
I'm going to add Canada in there as well
and then also emerald lake just in case
someone wants to get really specific and
they want to find this exact photo of
this exact lake in Canada you never know
so it's better to just be way way more
thorough than you think you need to be
the file type is photos categories
landscapes writing title keywords in
English and then now we're gonna go to
the next photo over here recognizable
people or property again no and then
also we're gonna say emerald like trees
for ground
this kind of states that you know
there's trees in the foreground but you
can see the lake through the trees and
the mountains in the background
so if someone was looking for this kind
of image it also is really important to
upload stock photos with kind of a good
graphic design I in mind
I personally believe you know a lot of
these photos have a lot of negative
space which is great for putting text on
these images as well as you know just a
lot of a lot of them to work with from a
designer's perspective you know if
someone were to purchase this and you
know make like a brochure or use it on a
website they might want to add some sort
of design elements on top of this photo
or any of these photos so it's important
to have photos with negative space we're
gonna add this at the bottom here with
Canada again and then emerald lake next
boom hide keywords again photos and
landscapes English super easy the third
photo photo here we're going to hit no
and then we're gonna go in here type
emerald like new so this is a photo
taken from the actual canoe at this lake
it's more of like a water level
perspective rather than you know kind of
farther away as the other two photos
were and the other photo didn't even
have the link in it at all it's just at
the trailhead so we got the trailhead we
have photo of the lake and now we have
one at about eye level which is great
and then I'm gonna add canoe here at the
bottom and then Canada so now we're
gonna click all three of these images we
can click select all here and then all
we do at the bottom here submit for
approval submit
and now we're done so at the top here
you're also going to need to add all
your tax information and all that stuff
but for the most part it's really simple
and easy to upload it right from
Lightroom to the Adobe stock of website
make sure Natuna tomorrow I'm going to
be covering an integrating stock photo
and video content into your own personal
content that could be photos or videos
thanks so much guys
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