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I figure this would be the best forum to ask.
With so many stock photo sites out there I'm sure there must be some decent cheap/free ones that I don't know about.
We normally use istockphoto, bigstockphoto, and shutterstock which have the credits per photo model.
What other places have you found that you like to use for web-size (2mp) photos that don't cost and arm and a leg?
I've sold some photos over on fotolia and didn't get much for them so I guess they aren't charging too much for them.
Was it so little that it wasn't worth doing?Quote:
Originally Posted by loydall
Yeah I've always been interested in throwing some stock stuff out there but haven't looked into it too closely. What was the MP requirements?
If you could be bothered to put a large volume of stuff on there, you'd do alright over a year or so. I've only put about 15 on fotolia and had about 10 selected for the paid-for section (they can reject stuff is it's not sharp enough, bad photo, boring theme etc..).
I have 1 photo that I've sold a number of times (http://www.fotolia.com/id/12567175). You can set up the licensing how ever you like - I get about $1 each time it sells.
I keep meaning to spend a weekend taking photos of random stuff - food, clouds etc.. and uploading maybe 100 or so photos to fotolia.
I think other sites pay more but their acceptance rate is lower.
I'm sure if you worked full time at it, you could make a fair bit of cash out of it. Just depends how much time you want to spend.
At the moment I'm earning peanuts from it...
Thanks for the info :)
whenever i need photos to do work in photoshop sxc.hu and morguefile.com are my goto spots
in agreement with loydall...fotolia offers reasonable prices for downloading their photos...
www.dreamstime.com are not too expensive and www.photoxpress.com has many free ones.
I used to buy my photos from dreamstime---not anymore.
Hands down, the best place to get good quality photos really cheap is here:
http://mbsy.co/76B99?s=e
I love this place. I get great photos at full resolution for $1 all the time.
Personally, I buy photos at fotolia.com. They are reasonably cheap. One credit costs $1 - for that price you can get a photo in XS format.
Me also usually buy photos from fotolia, but to get the perfect photo sometimes need pay more to buy from iStock.