I just sold my 1st photo on Fotolia UK

icemanonline · 13-03-2008, 8:17 PM

I have just sold this image

on Fotolia.com and I'am well chuffed!

Only thing is its sold and I have credits in the account and I'm not sure what happens next.. Its shows it sold for 20 credits and 1 credit = £0.57. Do you have to sell certain amount before they send payment or what do you do with the credits? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!! I still sold 1 though and that will do for me.

icemanonline

willykatie · 13-03-2008, 8:23 PM

Well done

Nice photo

Holowlegs · 13-03-2008, 8:23 PM

Well done

Nice picture as well.

onefivenine · 13-03-2008, 8:30 PM

Nice one iceman!

Not sure how many you need for a cash withdrawal - probably some round figure like £50 or £100.
Upload more and sell more... you could let it build up like a savings account to pay for new toys

springtide · 13-03-2008, 8:33 PM

Fantastic! Great news

Let there be more sales!

icemanonline · 13-03-2008, 8:41 PM

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Originally Posted by onefivenine

Nice one iceman!

Not sure how many you need for a cash withdrawal - probably some round figure like £50 or £100.
Upload more and sell more... you could let it build up like a savings account to pay for new toys

Cheers onefivenine,

In all honesty I totally forgot I had the images on there.....then tonight when i got in .......nice little email telling me I had sold that image, WooHoooo

, and then I went and had a look. I have just this min uploaded another 3 and updated some details. Now I will try and keep the pics going and see if I can sell anymore.......You never know!!

cheers onefivenine

icemanonline

Liquid101 · 13-03-2008, 8:44 PM

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Originally Posted by icemanonline

Only thing is its sold and I have credits in the account and I'm not sure what happens next.. Its shows it sold for 20 credits and 1 credit = £0.57. Do you have to sell certain amount before they send payment or what do you do with the credits?

Well done on your first sale.

You'll make 10 credits from this sale, which nets you £5.70, it'll cost you a credit for each withdrawl, so it's best to wait until you you have a decent amount befor cashing in.

You can have the money placed in a paypal account - which is handy you use ebay for your minor photographic purchases. From there you can have it placed directly into your bank account.

cedmondson · 13-03-2008, 8:44 PM

Well done mate

I'm tempted to have a little dabble myself.

icemanonline · 13-03-2008, 8:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Liquid101

Well done on your first sale.

You'll make 10 credits from this sale, which nets you £5.70, it'll cost you a credit for each withdrawl, so it's best to wait until you you have a decent amount befor cashing in.

You can have the money placed in a paypal account - which is handy you use ebay for your minor photographic purchases. From there you can have it placed directly into your bank account.

Cheers Liquid101 for that info mate........That helps. I will wait I think but will have to look at the settings and see how that is done, moving it to paypal. But 1st it may be a good idea to setup a Paypal account. Will have to do that.

It took just over a year to sell 1 so ................I should be about 70 by the time I have enough for a Sigma 70-300APO....Mmmmmmm!!

Cheers Liquid101

icemanonline

Tobers · 13-03-2008, 10:20 PM

Whilst the amount of money you earn is quite small unless you are producing shed-loads of happy-business-type-people shots or goldfish jumping out of bowls, there is something addictive about Fotolia, iStockPhoto and the like.

I've recently gone over 100 sales on Fotolia though I dont have that many pics on. Crossing the 100 threshold allows you to change the pricing on your pics - it's set to 1 credit minimum below 100 sales. I've now doubled all my prices on the basis that it's just a small amount and nobody will really notice, and today I sold a recent snowboarder pic for 6 credits which would have been just 3 a few days ago.

The thing is, if you are creative and productive, and put a lot of work in, you can make a decent bit of pocket money. It all pales into insignificance if you get some shots on Getty though, where you start getting "proper" money for them.

The overall problem with microstock like Fotolia though is that there are more & more people doing it just like we are, and they now have so many pics online that the chances of yours getting spotted decrease day by day.

Tobers

Liquid101 · 13-03-2008, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Tobers

I've recently gone over 100 sales on Fotolia though I dont have that many pics on. Crossing the 100 threshold allows you to change the pricing on your pics - it's set to 1 credit minimum below 100 sales. I've now doubled all my prices on the basis that it's just a small amount and nobody will really notice, and today I sold a recent snowboarder pic for 6 credits which would have been just 3 a few days ago.

Didn't know that

Thats over 60 sales I could have charged more for

Thanks for the info though

Tobers · 13-03-2008, 10:32 PM

Go for it! Just find your pic, hit edit, and scroll down to the pricing bit. You should be able to adjust the minimum price and all the others adjust automatically. You can change the extended licence price as well independently.

Sorted.

edit: you're just being flash with 160 sales. It's those buses I reckon.

stevegreen · 13-03-2008, 10:42 PM

Nice when someone pays for your photos so nice one, well done

Liquid101 · 13-03-2008, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Tobers

edit: you're just being flash with 160 sales. It's those buses I reckon.

It's the buses all right. One has sold 40 times

I did have to remove one that was doing quite well... don't ask

Just upped the prices, and uploaded some more that I had knocking around my laptop.

D3 here I come

icemanonline · 13-03-2008, 10:57 PM

Cheers everybody for the replies.......will have to work harder and try and workout what sells the most........once done a small trial checking what sold the most on Ebay over a set amount of days and the photo's that sold by a large margin was of Trains

The older the better.

So will have to make a point of traveling further to get some good pics and get them on there......

Thanks for the info people.

icemanonline

Tobers · 13-03-2008, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Liquid101

It's the buses all right. One has sold 40 times

Not surprising! Search "London Bus" and you're right there at the top.

Liquid101 · 13-03-2008, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Tobers

Not surprising! Search "London Bus" and you're right there at the top.

and the toy one next to it

onefivenine · 13-03-2008, 11:10 PM

iceman, you would probably do well uploading loads of local Edinburgh shots - tourist locations and the like. Just keep punting them online.
I'm sure they would go down a treat on there.

dazza74 · 14-03-2008, 12:15 AM

Well done Iceman, is a nice feeling your first sale of anything I feel, I managed to sell my first canvas picture of one of my photo's the other week at a wedding fair of all places. Gives you a bit of confidence if nothing else in your photography.

Spooky · 14-03-2008, 12:22 AM

Congrats on the sale and the shot, just keep repeating "this time next year we will be milionaire's"

icemanonline · 14-03-2008, 8:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Spooky

Congrats on the sale and the shot, just keep repeating "this time next year we will be milionaire's"

Spooky........I really do wish! Mind boggling thought that I could have just about any kit I wanted with that amount of cash.....

Cheers Spooky

icemanonline

icemanonline · 14-03-2008, 8:27 PM

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Originally Posted by onefivenine

iceman, you would probably do well uploading loads of local Edinburgh shots - tourist locations and the like. Just keep punting them online.
I'm sure they would go down a treat on there.

Cheers Dave........Will do. I have bucket loads of shots of old smoky already, just need to clean a few up and choose some. Cannot wait for festival time, HOPE!! we some good weather too.

Cheers

icemanonline