So your photo session is just finished or you returned from a trip with a memory card full of photos. Now is time to select your best shots and prepare them for sale.
Agencies look at and approve every photo you submit before they list it for sale. Here are some tips to help you get your photos accepted.
Not every picture you took will be perfect for sale. Select your photos carefully, be critical and think as a buyer. Shots need to be technically perfect and reach aesthetic values.
The decision whether to shoot in RAW or JPG is up to you, but RAW photos are easier to edit without losing image quality.
Your images are inspected at 100% zoom, so start here:
Use your preferred software like Lightroom, Photoshop, Gimp or anything else.
Proper keywords, captions and titles are as important as the quality and content of the photo. Buyers need to find your pictures listed for sale.
Most agencies allow up to 50 keywords and phrases and require relevant descriptions (mostly up to 250 characters) and photo titles.
All photos with recognizable people and properties require a model or property release to be licensed commercially. A model (or property) release is proof that the model agrees to be photographed and that their photos are going to be sold for commercial use.
Once your batch is ready, you can upload via each agency’s interface (often limited to a few files at a time), or use FTP access which most agencies provide for contributors.
Uploading batches of photos to 10-15 agencies means a lot of time waiting and babysitting uploads since they tend to fail and require manual restarts. Tools like dropstock.io were designed to solve exactly this problem — sync once via Dropbox, and your files get distributed automatically.
This service is currently unavailable while we work on the future of dropstock.io.
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