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Created by | DesignStudio |
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Date of Creation | April 10 2019 |
Rating | 4.7 (7) |
How to Make and Sell Stock Vectors and Photos: an All-in-One Guide Description
The digital media market is growing exponentially and opens large opportunities for creatives to sell their works. Photographers and illustrators add stock commissions to their monthly income and use this money to acquire new skills, buy equipment, and travel the world.
Becoming a photo or vector stock contributor is also a great way to put your works out there and create a comprehensive portfolio. You will see which items are successful and which skills of yours need improvement.
By joining the stock community, you get access to a huge base of knowledge and experience of other authors. You will get grow your mastery of the most popular design software and learn the tips and tricks of image сreation, processing and editing.
The road to getting stable sales and enviable portfolio usually starts with lots of experimenting and a few rejections. You will be learning as you go and stretching your creativity further than you had expected.
You may be looking through the most popular stock archives admiring the best-selling works and thinking that you will never be able to achieve such results. That is not true. Those who get inspired by the success of others but not discouraged by comparison, grow their unique talents and find their niche in the macrostock and microstock markets.
How can you start your career as a stock contributor?
Get acquainted with the main concepts and general practices. Learn more about the main stock agencies and their quality standards. Make your first photos and illustrations, experiment with different tools and settings. Try to calculate your future income and choose the stock website that offers the best conditions. And then practice, practice, practice.
All these things you will be able to do with this comprehensive guide. It can become a very useful tool for someone starting out in commercial photography and illustration.
Good luck!