Best microstock photo sites for photographers, illustrators and designers

Thank you for your visit! If you are a photographer or an illustrator or mayne a videographer who wants to earn money selling your work online. Or you are a designer looking for affordable royalty free images for you creative designs and presentations. Or maybe you are building a web site and want to buy nice and cheap images for it? Then this web site is for you. Here you can find links to microstock photography agencies where you can buy great and affordable stock photos and sell your works. You can make good money with your hobby or it may even become your profession and full-time business. It's possible to earn $1000 and more per month with 1000 or less images online. You can also sell your 3D and vector illustrations and video footages there. All you need is to meet technical and artistic requirements which are slightly different on each of these web sites.

I would recommend you to start with your initial 10 image submission at ShutterStock one of the leading subscription microstock photography web sites. Your images must pass the inspection for you to be approvedas a contributor. It's not hard, but it is much easier if you have a 6MP+ DSLR camera and studio lighting. Also, make sure you use ISO 100 or 200 settings and don't have much visible noise and artifacts in your images. Before submission you should always look at them at 100% magnification to check for dust, artifacts and noise. Save files as jpg, with quality level 11. Other good sites to start from are Fotolia and Dreamstime. Here is a list with detailed description. Good luck!

If you are a designer you will find links to web sites where you can buy royalty free stock photos for low prices starting from 1 dollar or subscription microstock photography agencies where you can buy images in large volumes with suitable for you subscription plans. At most of these web sites you are able to acquire images with cheap extended license for large distribution prints and publications or commercial usage.

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Sell you photos at Recommended microstock photo sites for photographers and illustrators:

Sell you photos and footages at ShutterStock(one of the best places to earn money from selling pictures)
Really great place to sell you photos and illustrations. Watch your sales real-time!
You earn $0.3-0.38 for an image sale (up to 1000 sales a day depending on the size and quality of your portfolio)
You get $20 for an extended license sale
Also you can sell your video clips there.

Sell your pictures at Fotolia (very friendly and easy to start site)
You have 30-50% from your image sales, set your own price for extended license (up to $200)
Standard RF license price $1-5

Earn money selling your photographs at Dreamstime (simple uploading process and friendly web site)
You get $0.25-$3 from sales, or $25 for an extended license sale

iStockPhoto
One of the best sites to sell your photos and footages
$0.2-$2 for an image plus $15-25 for an extended license sale

You can earn $2-10 per footage salePantherMedia
New mid-priced stock photography agency.
Prices vary from 4.90 euros/image for a small web resolution to 49.90 euros/image.
Photographers get 30%-50% commission.

ShutterPoint
Interesting option to sell your images
You set the price for Extended license Commercial Royalty-free starting from $20
But you should pay for the web space for your gallery. You get 85% from a sale.

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Buy pictures at Recommended microstock sites for designers:

iStockPhoto - Buy great and cheap pictures
(the greates microstock photography site)
Great selection of more than 1.5 million images and footages
Buy Photographs and Illustrations - $1-15 + Extended License
Video Clips - $5-50

ShutterStock - buy cheap subscripton and single images
The best subscription site if you need a lot of images and often - 25 images/day (750 per month)
Subscription plans:
1 Month $199
3 Months $559
6 Months $1059
1 Year $1999
Footages - $39-159

Fotolia - cheap microstock and extended license images
Great prices on extended license set by photographers may vary from $5 to 200. Single image prices $1-6.
Also subscription license available starting from $0.2 for an image.

PantherMedia
New mid-priced stock photography agency.
Prices vary from 4.90 euro/image for a small web resolution to 49.90 euro/image for a license.

StockPhotoPro
New mid-priced stock photography agency.
Prices vary from $10-250 for a license.

Affordable Stock Photography
Mid-priced stock photography agency.
With prices between $8-30 for a license.

ShutterPoint
Probably the cheapes Extended License Royalty-free images on web
Extended license Commercial Royalty-free Photos - $20-100


 
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For Designers:
Buy affordable microstock photos at these agencies:
iStockPhoto Royalty Free Images
 Fotolia Royalty Free microstock photos Dreamstime Royalty Free Images Shutterstock Royalty Free microstock photography Featurepics Royalty Free microstock photos 123rf Royalty-Free microstock images PantherMedia stock agency

Buy video footages at iStockPhoto and ShutterStock
 

For Photographers and Illustrators:
Register here and sell your photos and illustrations:
iStockphoto
Shutterstock
 Fotolia dreamstime bigstockphoto 123rf Featurepics
Submit your photos for sale to Shutterstock

Sell video footages at ShutterStock
 
 

Sell your photographs and illustrations at the best microstock photography agencies. Microstock photo agency web site link.
Earn money selling pictures with microstock photo banks.Join and submit your photos to industry leading microstocks.

Buy cheap royalty free stock photos, vector illustrations and video footages at leading microstock web site.
Cheapest extended license and affordable Royalty-free images.

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