all right now if you already have a lot
of photos up on Shutterstock and you're
looking to learn how to get more sales
from those photos then i've got a video
for you and there's a link up here this
video is really meant for people who are
new to shutterstock and how do you get
started selling your photos online if
that's you that you're in the right
place all right before I get into
getting started with Shutterstock let's
talk about about what it is Shutterstock
is a company that markets and resells
creative content like photos so what you
can do is you upload your photos to
shutterstock and you're giving them
permission to sell those photos or
resell those photos to stock buyers when
they sell one of those photos they give
you a cut of that sale now how much
money you'll make will be depending on
how much the buyer pays for what type of
license they get as well as what type of
contributor what level you're at within
the shutterstock ecosystem here's some
examples about how much you'll make for
different types of photo sales when
you're first starting out
all right the first thing you'll need to
do to get started on shutterstock is to
sign up for a contributor account you
can do that by going to submit
shutterstock.com and clicking the sign
up button now from there you just need
to follow the instructions but basically
you just need to give your address
information as well as verify your email
address once you've done that you can
then go in and start uploading photos
for sale on shutterstock click the
upload button then choose a photo from
your computer to upload when you're
starting out don't upload all your
photos only the best ones over time
you'll learn the quality needed to make
sales after your photo finishes
uploading you will be taken to the
submit content page this is an extremely
important step let's walk through all
the options for the image type I assume
it'll be a photo but if you're uploading
your graphic thing you would choose an
illustration for usage if you don't have
releases then you will need to choose
editorial and there's a special format
for the content of editorial
descriptions you'd also use editorial if
you are photographing a public event
otherwise choose commercial for the
description is really important to
include keywords in the description
because it's used in the search results
you can also choose up to two categories
I don't
think they really matter that much
anymore because they aren't really
prominent in the filters but they used
to be required releases are really
important you can download release forms
and they will need to be filled out by
every model in your photos all right now
the rule of law releases is that every
recognizable person in the photo needs
to have a model release to sell it as a
commercial stock photo
however asure stock really takes this
one step further and they're gonna
require you to have a release for every
single person in the photo so take a
look at this photo here this is a photo
of me and I'm a silhouette in the photo
very small not very recognizable but
Shutterstock is going to require me to
have a model release to sell this photo
commercially so the rule is pretty
simple here if there's people in your
photo and you want to sell that photo a
stock commercially you need to have a
release signed by each person that's in
that photo now property releases aren't
that straightforward I'm gonna read what
it says here from Shutterstock if your
content will be licensed for commercial
use the image clip is taken on private
property or has taken on public property
but features distinctive private
property a property release is required
now the key word here in the definition
is distinctive obviously if you're on
private property you need to have a
release to be able to show it you'll
need to upload that release but when
you're on public property it's a bit
more of a gray area I've taken a lot of
photos like these ones where I was on
public property and the buildings are
distinctive their buildings you can
definitely tell that this is a
particular particular commercial
building but shutterstock will still
accept these when they say distinctive
they mean a photo of let's say for
example the CN Tower which is a very
distinctive Monument and if you do a
photo just of the CN tower it will get
rejected without a property release so
when you're first starting out I would
recommend having property releases for
everything taken on private property and
from public property just upload the
photos and see if six after deraad if
they're not accepted you can always
resend
as editorial photos next is probably the
most important section for increasing
your sales and that's the keywords
keywords are how buyers search and find
your photos for now make sure you just
enter ten to fifty keywords for each
photo as you can see here I enter a
number of keywords first and Lightroom
so they're automatically imported to
shutterstock shutterstock will also
suggest additional keywords that you can
choose to learn more about key wording
I've got a video all about key wording
and I'll put a link up here somewhere
now you're ready to submit your photo
for review now what sugar stock does is
they will go through and they will
review every photo before it gets
accepted into the collection typically
the review is gonna take one or two days
before you know whether it's accepted if
it's accepted it will automatically go
for sale on Shutterstock if it's not
you'll get a rejected reason now don't
expect to be a millionaire overnight it
takes time for your photos to start
selling on Shutterstock and the more
photos you have the more sales you will
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up here lastly if you want to see some
more advanced techniques for increasing
your sales on shutterstock I've got a
video on that and I'll put a link down
here
best of luck selling your photos online