You know the feeling. You take a picture, process it in Photoshop, upload it, fill all the titles, description and keywords, find suitable category and than your picture is rejected because of something silly like (this is not what our buyers are looking for, or we already have enough similar photographs). All your time and energy was just wasted.
Not necessarily. There is a website called
Public Domain Pictures.net which allows you to submit your pictures and earn money from them by referring people to stock photo websites.
If you submit your picture under public domain license:
- the pictures are resized to 1280 x XXX pixels (so if visitors require a higher resolution, they could contact you and you can sell them high-res versions)
- keywords from the image title perform a search on Fotolia and thanks to their API they show search results with your Fotolia number - you get affiliates
- you can also let visitors to donate you money for your pictures thanks to PayPal donation button
- you can also promote your Fotolia portfolio and your website (if you don't have one, you could fill it with a link to another stock photo website)
Here is an example of a page where the girl promotes her portfolio on Fotolia with PayPal button and pictures at the bottom include her Fotolia number.
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=404Statistics show that in average every 10 pictures refer 1 paying member to Fotolia per month.
So if you're interested, feel free to give it a try on
http://www.publicdomainpictures.netPlease don't trash this post unless you try it. It's a great service and for example
this girl doesn't submit almost any pictures to Fotolia any more as she's just happy with earning she makes by referring new members.
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) It's in my favourites, and I just thought that some of you might like it as well.
