Stock Photography: 2008

Pro Stock Master Software.

Well, as you may know, I recently started selling my photos as royalty free stock on several different stock sites. I don’t know how many of you are also doing the same, but I was finding it quite hard to organise photos to remember what sites I had submitted what photos too, what photos had been accepted and rejected from what site etc etc etc. If you also are a stock photographer, I’m sure you have come across this before!

Quite a headache!

Anyway, I had been using Adobe Lightroom to help try and organise things into some sort of order, and then I stumbled accross a program called Pro Stock Master. This has turned out to be extrodinarily useful, not only to catalogue my “Stock worthy” photos and to record what ive submitted where etc, but it also works like an FTP client and uploads everything for me. It also includes a great keywording feature that helps make keywording ALOT easier and faster! A very useful program. Anyway, I thought as I had found it so useful, so may some of you.

There is a free trial, which is unlimited and works just like the full version except only allows 5 uploads per day. I started with this free trial, but soon found i would want the full version, so I bought it and haven’t looked back.

The stock sites I am apart of are: Shutterstock 123 Royalty Free Can Stock Photo Dreamstime IStockPhoto Fotolia

and this program works great with these and several others also.

It sure has taken a lot of wasted time out of my workflow, and made things a lot easier!

Click on the link Pro Stock Master. to check it out for yourself.

Why I started Selling Stock Photos

Basically for me the stock sites are a great place for me to put a heap of my photos that are otherwise just sitting on my computer doing nothing, and they actually earn me some money! At the moment its not huge money, I have earnt a little over $10 this week, but for doing nothing other then uploading and leaving them there, well, its better then having them earning nothing taking up space on my hard drive if you know what i mean.

Its a pretty straight forward process really, all though some of the sites are pretty critical of photos and I find quite a high rejection level for some of them.

On average they pay about 30% commision to the photographer (me) which ends up being anything from 30 cents to a couple of dollars depending on the size of the image downloaded. The good thing is once uploaded the image stays their for as long as you want to continue to be downloaded by different people, and to continue to make me money.

I am fairly new to this stock stuff myself, but am loving it, always checking to see if I have sold anything, and getting quite excited when I do!

On average they pay about 30% commision to the photographer (me) which ends up being anything from 30 cents to a couple of dollars depending on the size of the image downloaded. THe good thing is once uploaded the image stays their for as long as you want to continue to be downloaded by different people, and to continue to make me money.

I am fairly new to this stock stuff myself, but am loving it, always checking to see if I have sold anything, and getting quite excited when I do!

Anyway, check out these sites, sign up, and upload your photos. It really is that easy, and then just wait for people to start downloading them!

Hope that answers a few questions.