Selling Your Photos

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One of the questions that keeps coming up on myLot is "how/where can I make some money from my pictures?". With on-line sales, a lot depends on how ready the webmaster is to promote your photos - after all, they have thousands of posts to manage. I am trying a new site at the moment and I am very impressed by the way they go about the job. You get a free "private gallery" which you can sub-divide into categories. No-one sees that unless you invite them, so its good for say, that wedding you shot last week, or a collection of nudes etc. You can view thumbnails, individual images, or make slide shows. Then you can submit pictures from your private gallery to the Public Gallery, where anyone can see them (and buy them). The site manages the sales, printing, framing, delivery etc. and you get a commission. Finally, you can submit pics to the Collectors Gallery. That's very selective, and if you have a work accepted, it becomes a Limited Edition; no more than 20 will be printed (ever) and you give the site the exclusive license to market them. But the licence applies only to wall art...framed pictures for hanging. Any other use (magazines, illustrations, calenders, post-cards, mouse pads, mugs etc. etc.) is unaffected. And the commissions on the limited edition prints are quite high (if all 20 sold you could get back thousands of dollars). They are also in the process of setting up a Stock Library, so get in early! As to promotion, for the third time in as many weeks, they are featuring some of my pictures on the front page (all day today, in fact), which is great publicity. The site is called PhotoArtgallery and the URL is http://www.photoartgallery.com/Default.aspx for anyone looking for a sales outlet.