This is a my own method of how I make about $300 – $400 per month on autopilot using stock photo websites.
First thing you need to do is to register yourself on stock photography websites like these:
- Dreamstime.com(i recomend this one to start with)
- Shutterstock.com
- Fotolia.com
- istockphoto.com
- Shutterstock.com
There are many other websites you can also join, i just mentioned a few where you can start. Now, when you are registered member, you need to upload stock related photos which are going to be accepted. I have tried alot of picture categories and the most profitable and easy accepted were the ones related to:
- Backgrounds: different colorful backgrounds with different themes
- Textures: from ice, wood, metal, paper, everything
- Frames: different kind of frames, like picture or film
NOTE: The best is to upload pictures that are going to be used for later image processing. Dont upload pictures with models in it.
Where to get pictures? You can always make your own pictures if you have a good camera and you know how to photograph but i have used pictures from web. You can use google images or photo related website like deviantart which has stock photo section.
NOTE: Always mask your photos, make it different then original, change colors, add something, rotate it. I have always done that so that images hasnt been recognized as duplicate and they were accepted.
I upload same pictures to different websites so i can make the most money from them.
I have been running this for almost a year and it makes a nice stream of income for 1 hour work.