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Just a quick post in case you weren’t aware of this. Fine Art America has released a new feature that automatically creates a description and keywords for images that are uploaded without them. An image that already has those pieces of metadata pre-filled are not impacted, but if you upload an image without any metadata, or with just the title completed, their AI system will create the missing ones. I understood that they used a title (if present) to help...
It’s a common question – how much can you really earn from stock photography these days? And I must admit that it is getting harder year by year. But after a particularly difficult January performance, especially on Shutterstock, things have taken a turn for the better in February with total earnings for the month of $2986. I was updating my spreadsheet to add in 2024 and noticed that my total earnings from selling photography since I started in 2008 wasn’t...
I’ve written about Pictorem before – I now have three main portfolio sites for my Fine-Art prints – Fine Art America, Pictorem and Photo4Me in the UK. If you decide to join Pictorem, please use this affiliate link. I might get a small bonus! My reason for writing now is that I idly looked at the Sales History tab on Pictorem and saw a sale that I wasn’t aware of with a date of 18 February 2024. It was this...
A new year and what a poor start to the year! Yes, I know that our favorite agency resets all the commission percentages in January, but even so, January 2024 turned out to be pretty poor. Total income ended up being $2243 with my normal chart looking like this: And my file count chart: So, what went wrong? A couple of things really – the main one being that SS slumped from $610 in November to $407 in December and...
Another year ends! It has taken me a while to write this – I was trying to finish the processing, keywording and uploading of all my photos from the recent trip down the Mississippi (in October!) and I finally did that with probably 700 images uploaded. Quite a few of the ones to Adobe are still in the review queue there, but I did a quick analysis of rejections from recent batches. There definitely was a change in their approach...
What an intriguing month! Firstly, I had a lot of Fine Art print sales that I reported on last week, then I had the conclusion of a private sale of files for prints that I’ll mention below and finally, an OK month for stock photos. The end result was a record $3940 for the month, all told! My normal chart first: And, for a change, a graph showing the growth of files from an agency that accepts most images –...
This would normally be part of my monthly summary, but it has been an exciting month in the world of “fine art” and selling online via Print on Demand Sites and so I decided to cover those separately. I have been mortified in the past 2 months with having published a book on selling fine art online and then getting nothing in sales on either Fine Art America or Pictorem in September and October. Now I find that November has...
Black Friday has some interesting sales, but one I didn’t expect was an extra 20% discount off any prints you have made at Pictorem – the site I use for my own large prints that already has free shipping. All you need to do is to upload your file, add the code BLACK20 at the checkout stage and an extra 20% will be discounted. I made six very large acrylic prints earlier this year and I certainly wish this had...
I only mention these from time to time, and only when it is a particularly good sale! I just saw an email that announced that the Jixipix professional digital painting apps will be on sale for Black Friday, with 50% off the normal pricing. That means that each of the Pro Products that I use are $24.99 instead of the normal $49.99 using the code BLK50. I have an affiliate link if you are interested that gives me a small...
Month’s zip by and it is time for another review of earnings from Photography. I’ve been away on a cruise – this time down the Mississippi and I have many images to process, keyword and upload. 83 have been added so far as I wanted to perhaps catch the interest in the low water levels on that river, but so far, no takers! Back to the month of October. It turned out to be reasonable, although my sales of my...
