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selling your photos with us in just minutes!
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Photographer's terms and Conditions
How does it work?
All you have to do is signup and upload your photos to our site. We
handle the rest.
How much does it cost?
Signing up and uploading your photos is Free.
We handle all of the sales, promotion and customer support and provide
the hosting space and bandwidth for your photographs. In return for
this, our commission is 50%
How much do my images sell for?
The standard fee for the full resolution version of your image is $7.95
(Australian Dollars). There is a second version available for download
for smaller use (eg websites and newsletters etc) which sell for AUD
$3.95. Some clients use the subscription pack option , whereby they
choose to pre-purchase either 10 or 100 images as a pack, and download
them as the need arises over the following month or year. These images
are sold at a discounted rate - either AUD $3.95 per image .
Photographers receive 50% of the price that their images sell for,
whether it be full price, a medium resolution version, or subscriber
pack pricing.
When do I get paid?
Your profit from the sales of your photos is paid to you once a month,
but you must have a balance owed in excess of $30.00 before payments
can be made.
How do I get paid?
PAYPAL! You will need to set up a Paypal account. Your payments will be
transferred via Paypal. If you don't yet have a Paypal account, you can
set it
up here. It's simple, safe and very efficient!
How do I upload?
Once you have registered as a contributing photographer, you are able
to log in to your manager area, from which you can upload your photos,
view your sales, view / edit the photos you have for sale, and edit
your profile. You must upload high quality photos that suit our saled
targets, and this is a covers a very wide area. If you think your photo
is saleable, upload it, we then make our selections, and your photos
get added to our database, and, once activated, are immediately
available to our search engine.
What size files do I upload?
You should upload one file of each image you wish to include in our
library, and it should be a JPEG file, the largest size that your
camera captures. In other words, if you have a 10 megapixel camera,
then the JPEG that it produces at it's largest size is about 8
Megabytes in size, so that is the file you should upload. The smallest
file size should be no less than 2400 pixels on the longest side of the
image. Cameras less than 6 megapixels are generally too small, unless
the files are particularly good, but we will assess each image on it's
merits, so if you believe an image is particularly good, upload it, -
remember - there's nothing to lose- and some spare cash to gain!
Is there anything else to do?
Yes, prior to uploading, you must add some data to
your photoggraph, so that we know something about it. For example, if
you are submitting a photo of The Sydney Harbour Bridge, then you need
to title it , maybe :- "Sydney Harbour Bridge form North Quay" You also
must add a description, and some keywords.
Where do I add this extra
information to the photo?
There are a number of ways to do this, it is called
adding metadata to the photo. The first is to enter it when you upload
the image to us. The upload page has areas for you to enter the Title,
Description and keywords for 1, 3 or 5 images at a time. You might
prefer to enter it prior coming to the upload page, by entering the
information into a part of the image's storage space itself. This is
called attaching IPTC data to the image, as part of it's metadata.
Probably the easiest method of adding this data to an individual image
is in Photoshop, where you go to File->File
Info which will open a sub-screen with another menu at
left. It should already be on the "Description" page of this screen,
where the fields you can complete are visible, but the ones you need to
complete are :-"Document Title", "Description", and "Keywords" . The
Title is simply that - a title that is briefly descriptive. The
description is more detailed, giving more info on the subject matter ie
where what, why and how etc. The keywords are words that are relevant
to the things in the photo. For example The Sydney Harbour Bridge photo
might have keywords as follows :- sydney,
harbour, bridge, water, holiday, travel, boats, australia, nsw,city,
You will notice that the all have a comma between them - you need to do
this also. You can put as many of these in as you wish (up to 70).
These words are used by the search engine to match your photo to the
word that a client types in when looking for a particular photo. Your
photo will be shown to the client if your photo contains the keyword
he/she enters, so obviously, the more you include, the better, but they
must be relevant. If not, the photo will be removed altogether.
Most image software has the ability to add metadata, some can add it in
bulk (ie to many images at on e time) so consult your help files.
REMEMBER TO SAVE THE IMAGE FILE BEFORE CLOSING IT - OTHERWISE YOU WILL
LOSE THE DATA YOU HAVE ENTERED!.
How many images can I expect to
sell?
There is no way of answering this one! Suffice to
say that every day there are tens of thousands of photos purchased, and
you can expect to sell images if they are relevant to the market, and
high enough quality. But what have you to lose? It costs you nothing to
register and upload your photos, so it will cost you some of your time,
and you have everything else to gain. If you are a photographer at any
level, you can earn money from your images without ever costing you
anything,and you do not have to seek out clients, or pay for
advertising, or make contact with clients. So it is about as easy as it
can get to make money from your photography.
How soon after I upload can I
expect to see results?
There is no way of answering this one either!
However, it is best to err on the the conservative side here. More
likely than not, it will slowly build up, and as your portfolio of
images builds up, your sales will build up also.
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Photographer's terms and Conditions
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