If you love photography, one of the ways to make extra money online is selling your photos to micro stock agencies. Micro stock agencies are the companies that store or stock your photos and pay you whenever someone buys your photos from them. The post describes some of the basics you need to know to start making extra money. Have fun taking

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Many have asked me on how to take photos of a subject with seamless white background that makes the subject stands out and isolated. Most of the time, this type of photos sell very well since the one buying them can easily cut out the subject from the background. In this post, I'll describe my home made studio setup for creating this type of

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A blog about everything stock (photography). Random news from the microstock world like:

The message below was displayed today in the Shutterstock Forum:

...We wanted to let you know that we will be shutting down Photosights as of November 11

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Individual photos which used to sell for thousands of dollars - thanks to a new concept called Microstock - now you can pick them up for pennies. Nowadays everyone is a photographer. Did you know that you can sell your photos online and make substantial amount of money from that as well?

I found great online resources where

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If you want to know how you can make an exra income by selling your photos, footage, sounds, vector graphics and renderings online, here a first article to start!

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So you're asking yourself what this Microstock stuff is all about? In this post I'll explain what it is and why it could be just right for you to ear

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iStockphoto is one of the most important Microstock (selling your photos/media online) sites today. Here's a snippet of the article:

Today we'll be reviewing iStockphoto, another one of the big players in the Microstock business. Find out why millions of people love this site and why it could help you to even monetize your

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Even if Microstock has become the ultimate opportunity to buy high quality images for just a few bucks, still people steal and use images on the web and print they didn't pay for. TinEye now helps you to find your stolen images.

The idea behind TinEye is not new, but ever since a service like this has been really expensive

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After Ebay bought PayPal, the electronic payment systems importance grew a lot. Today I'll tell you why it is just right for you if you want to get paid, especially if you live in a non-US country.

Let's start by summarizing what PayPal is: It does the same as a normal bank transfer, it delivers money from a to b. The poin

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Today Microstock-Secrets tells you how you can compensate little sharpness issues with a few simple tricks. Also I'll explain briefly what sharpness is and when it is wanted.

To talk about sharpness, we first have to find out what sharpness is concerning digital imaging. Also we need to face some everyday problems consideri

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Shutterstock has made a step forward and raised the payouts per download. It's not such a big deal until you sell thousands of pictures, but a good move generally.

The payments are now as following:

Total sales under 500$: 0.25$ per download
Total sales between 500-3000$: 0.33$ per download
Total sales between 3000-100

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n the first part of the series I'll tell you about some of the Microstock basics. We'll start off by explaining a way to get a basic workflow.

Own a camera
To start off, the first thing you'll need is a camera. It doesn't necessarily needs to be a high end digital camera, even an old 35mm film camera will be fine!

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In the second part of the series I'll explain why a good software is essential for your organization if you don't want to get lost in a flood of images.

Get an image managing software suited for you
First of all: Since I'm using a MacBook, most of my recommendations will be about Mac software, but I'll try to mention so

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So an image of yours just got refused, again. In this post you'll find out why this can be a good thing and why it can help you getting more % of your images accepted in the future!

It happens every day: These unthankful Microstock sites keep refusing your images! How dare they? First of all I can tell you that it's nothin

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iStockphoto, well known for delivering high quality Microstock images, vectors and flash files today launched a new service: iStockaudio.

By taking the next step iStockphoto is now delivering everything from still pictures, over vector graphics, flash files, footage and audio files. Again iStockphoto is one of the 'innovato

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