Selling Photos Online

The most important tool for this digital photo business is of course a good digital camera. The quality of the images depends on the mega pixel of the digital camera and if you want to avoid your

photos being rejected by stock photography sites, you will need at least a 5 mega pixel digital camera, and make sure it is set to maximum resolution.

Also, the more megapixels your digital camera has, the larger and more sharp pictures it will produce. This way, you can sell your images in many different sizes, even an extra large format size, as long as you're using a high megapixel digital camera. This will result in more sales.

In the beginning, you may be tempted to submit all the photos you have stored on your computer, yet, this is not the best idea. Upload no more than 50 photos at a time and be very careful to not duplicate a submitted photo as this might lead to rejection of both photos and, in some cases, possible account closure. To avoid the possibility of submitting duplicates it's recommended that you not change the file name as your PC will point out any duplicated file names. However, once you have chosen the files you wish to submit you can change the file names accordingly. If you have many file names to change there is a built in tool contained in Microsoft Windows that allows you to change multiple file names with a few clicks of the mouse.

Besides your digital camera, the second most important factor is choosing the right keywords for your photos, thereby increasing your sales. The internet contains a variety of sites that have tools to help you figure out which keywords would work best for your photos. Another way you can figure out keywords is to view similar photos on Google Image and see which keywords are being used for these photos. Don't go crazy on keywords however, limit yourself to 6-10 per image as any more than 10 might be considered spam and rejected.

Quality is the main deciding factor to avoid photo rejection, so make sure that the images are not out of focus, and that the light balance is even. Also if your photos may be too large in size, especially if you aiming at optimum quality, so my suggestion would be to use either Adobe Elements or Adobe Photoshop to reduce the sizing, as with this software the quality will not be affected. If you need to make an image larger, don't go over 5% as the quality will be reduced significantly.

Finally don't submit any image that has previously been rejected.

It's better to take that shot again, but this time paying attention to the above guidelines, as this way your photos will hardly ever be rejected and your photos will make you a lot more money.

You can sell your photos to iStockphoto and DreamsTime, two of the largest Online stock photography sites.