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Earning money with photos
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You have had loads of experience with
your camera lately and have in fact
taken some very beautiful pictures. But
now the photos are compelled to have
a useless existence on the hard disk.
What can you do with them?
Earn money with it! You
do not need to be a professional
photographer for that. Nowadays,
there are online photo agencies, which
specialize in marketing good amateur
photos. The offi cial name for that is
Microstock Photography. A well-known
representative of this genre is www.
fotolia.com. All pictures on Fotolia
are license-free. These may be used
worldwide for commercial or private
documents and layouts. The demand for
such photographs is increasing rapidly.
To be able to use the service, you
must fi rst register. Click ‘Sign up’,
enter a user name and a password.
After accepting the general terms and
conditions, there two further steps, in
which you enter a few personal details
among other things. The registration and
membership is free, can be terminated
at anytime and does not include any
purchase commitment. Once this is
done, you can get going and upload your
pictures.
IMPORTANT: For your photographs to
be seen in the big photo-pool, add many
impressive headwords, e.g. ‘Women,
attractive, smiling, happy, garden chair,
garden, notebook, business’. Since the
basic price of a sold photo is very low,
not only the quality but also the quantity
counts. Earned credits – is what the
virtual currency is called on Fotolia
– which can be converted into euros
through a PayPal account.