For this way of earning, we essentially need only a phone and a little time. We will earn money on photographs that do not even need to be taken.

In general, to make money, we need the Shutterstock contributor app (enter this name in your app store). It is needed in order to upload photos to the Shutterstock website. We will sell photographs for which we will be paid.



But you can’t just download some photo from the Internet and upload it, it will not bring money and will be considered copyright infringement. But we will show you a way to get around this rule. In the end, not everyone has landscapes outside the window.


Where to take photos:

In the YouTube search, enter something like: travel video 4k. You will see a large number of travel videos, where there are many moments with beautiful scenery. However, they are in excellent 4K quality.

The theme of travel was chosen as an example, use different themes, such as beautiful beaches.

In the upper right corner, click on the three dots, go to the filters and select the item "Creative Commons " these videos can be used for your own purposes, i.e. these videos do not have copyrights:




Open videos in good quality. Then find a beautiful frame, take a screenshot, cut off the excess and save. Further, through the Remini mobile photo editor (you can find it in your app store without any problems), we improve it a little and the photo is ready. It needs to be well detailed. If you know the best photo editor for enhancement, you can use it without any problems.

Next, upload the photo to Shutterstock. We write a description in English (you can use a translator), after which you need to add keywords that fit the meaning and choose a name. Then the photo will be sent for moderation.


How to earn:

Since you are a beginner, you will be paid approximately $2 per photo. Those who have long established themselves as top photographers get much more from one photo.

To earn more, upload 20-30 photos per day. Buyers, in principle, will not have to wait long, because they come to this service just to buy photos.

If you upload 20 photos per day, then it is quite possible to sell 15-20 photos per week. From this you will receive approximately $35.

With the growth of your sales, the amount for which you will sell photos will gradually increase. You can withdraw money through PayPal. And from there you can already transfer anywhere.


How to earn even more:

No one bothers you to use this method immediately on a large number of different paid photo stocks. Others include: Fotolia, Dreamstime, Depositphotos, etc. So your task is to find as many different paid photo stocks as possible with the help of Google and then also work according to this method.


Here is such a simple and fairly simple way to earn money. You need to spend about 30-40 minutes a day. Remember that photos need to be uploaded every day. The bigger, the better.