If you have some good images, you can sell it now, it is a easy way of making money online.
DreamsTime is a distinguished leader in stock photography and a major supplier of high quality digital images at unbelievable prices. All stock images available are provided by Dreamstime
community’s photographers, shot on film or digital and approved by our editors. Structured on categories and subcategories, the database is renewed with thousands of fresh images and titles on a daily basis.
Dreamstime provides imagery to an infinite gamut of clients in the creative market from independent customers in the private sector to Fortune 500 companies (including the world’s largest advertising agencies, national and international magazines, film and television production companies).
As of December 2007, Dreamstime numbers 500,000 registered members, more than 26,000 contributing photographers and over 2,000,000 images online. With unique visitors exceeding 4,000,000 monthly, the agency occupies the 3rd place in stock photography audience and image licensing worldwide.
How to sell your images in Dreamstime:
Your first step in selling your images is to register to the site, which you can do for free on the Register page. Then go to the Upload Files option, under the Photographers tab.
How many can i earn?
As soon as your application is accepted, your files will be available for sale on the site. Upon review, the file will be included as a 1st level file. Depending on the quality of the s
hot, composition, subject and print size, the file will have more or less downloads than other similar shots. As soon as a specific file reaches 10 downloads, it automatically becomes a 2nd level file and begins to sell for a higher price. In a similar way, as soon as the file has 100 downloads it becomes a 5th level file. This approach is intended to give an equal chance to all files in the very beginning. It is also a way to encourage good shots that have less downloads, against other similar shots that have many downloads.
For each transaction, the photographer receives a 50 percent fee. Exclusive images receive a 60 percent fee, while exclusive photographers enjoy an additional bonus of $0.20 for each approved submission. Considering all bonuses that are awarded to the buyer, the actual royalties can reach up to 80% or more. Dreamstime awards the highest royalties in the industry, according to a recent study of PDN Magazine.
When and how can i receive my money?
Any photographer may request to be paid for his/her sales on Dreamstime.com as soon as the balance has reached $100 and the photographer submits a payment request from the Management Area. We currently send payments by bank check, Paypal or Moneybookers.
We ask our contributors to maintain/keep online a minimum of 70% of their approved/accepted submissions for at least 6 months.
Before uploading a file you must make sure the following criteria are met:
- image must be your personal work and you must own the copyright upon
everything within it
- image must be 3MP in size or more
- image must be RGB, saved at the highest JPG quality (12)
- have a Model Release for all people recognizable in your image
- upload the original image from which you traced an illustration in the Model Release area in the same time you upload the illustration (if it is not the case you should mention the illustration is your own, created from scratch, work in the notify admins area)
- check the image carefully for copyright issues, anything that is label, logo, characters from cartoons or movies, are protected and are not accepted. Also some buildings are protected by a trademark, new sculptures, cars like Ferrari and Porsche, Harley Davidson motorcycles, the Coca-Cola bottle, the Olympic logo circles.
- check the image for all the faults listed in this guideline
- don’t upload offensive content like explicit nudes, drugs, people in offensive positions, racism
- add a relevant description to your image. It must be more then one word and explain the image
- don’t write the image name and description in capital letters
- don’t add model releases that are not jpg or pdf. Filename of the MR must be made of letters and numbers, no special characters.
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