A customer who uses stock photography instead of hiring a photographer can save time and money, but can also sacrifice creative control. Stock images can be presented in searchable online databases, purchased online, and delivered via download or email.

A collection of stock photography may also be called a photo archive, picture library, image bank or photo bank. As modern stock photography distributors often carry stills, video, and illustrations, none of the existing terminology provides a perfect match.”

Whether you want to purchase royalty-free images or sell your photos and graphics, check out these stock photography sites!

Stock Photography Site Index:

Stock/Microstock Photography Information

• Microstock Diaries – Great site! Ins and outs of the stock photography market
• Microstock Forums – discuss and promote your stock photography
• Microstocks Curse or Blessing? – Extensive article on selling your photos through microstock agencies
• Microstockgroup.com – Forum for photographers discussing the stock photo industry
• Under the Branch – Informative blog on the stock photo industry
• Stock photography network – an extensive resource for stock photography buyers, professional stock photographers, photographic libraries, and anyone else interested in the stock photography industry.
• Selling your photos at stock sites – informative article on the ins and outs of the stock photo agencies
• Increasing your image sales – informative article on featurepics.com

How to Sell Your Images

• Photopreneur – make money selling your photos and marketing your photography business
• Make Money Selling Digital Photos
  

• Selling your photography online – great lens at squidoo
• How to sell your photographs online
• Selling photography on Ebay
• Wikihow – How to sell original artwork for profit

Image Licensing Information

• Royalty Free vs. Rights Managed
• Licensing – easy to read chart explaining the difference between licensed, rights protected, and royalty free images
• Selling Royalty Free or Rights Managed Photos

Where to Sell Your Images

• Dreamstime – Sell your stock images and get 50-68% from each sale you make. Join our powerful photo community and reach new stock photography markets
• Shutterstock – ShutterStock will pay you 25 cents every time one of your images is downloaded. Their subscription model encourages buyers to download a greater volume of images than they would at other stock agencies.
• Fotolia – Now with over 500k images, Fotolia is quickly becoming a great resource for stock images; photographers earn up to 80% commission on stock photos and illustrations.
• Big Stock Photo – Earn $.50 to $2.00 on per photo download. Low $30 payout threshold. FTP uploads and the new extended licensing help you make the most $$ with your images!
• StockXpert – Join our friendly community and start earning money with your work through Stockxpert right now! Receive 50% of each sale you make! Earn $2.00 for each XL sale!
• istockphoto – Earn %20-40% commission with the worlds LARGEST micro stock community. iStockPhoto accepts medium and high resolution photos, vector illustrations, and flash files. Many advanced features to expand you earnings and track your sales.
• 123 Royalty Free – Earn up to 50% of subscription commissions with 123RF (not less than $.22/download). Good commission on per-photo sales as well.

Up and Coming Agencies

• Crestock – When it comes to sales, surely we don’t have the exceptional numbers as the absolute top performers, after all, we’re still fairly fresh. But – if you have a good portfolio, it is indeed possible to make several hundred dollars a month, and with the growth rate we’re experiencing, a four figure monthly income is not far away!
• Feature Pics – Earn 70% commision on all photo sales. $50 payout threshold. Come be a part of our young community!
• Can Stock Photos – We pay a 50% commission for guest & member purchases, and a flat $0.20 for subscription sales. Photographers are free to submit as many photos as they like, and will never be charged a cent.
• Albumo – Albumo Stock Photography is a source to buy and sell royalty free stock images, search huge selection of photos, vector, clipart pictures, background graphics, illustrations, and template designs
• Geckostock – Buy and sell royalty-free stock images. For people that think outside of the box!
• Fotomind – Ideal for Stock Photographers and people looking to sell quality stock photos. Fotomind has a generous credit system; you can make $0.30 – $27 per download.
• Mostphoto – Mostphotos.com is a international picture agency and photo forum, where photographers and customers can sell, buy and talk about images. Mostphotos.com is called the democratic stock photo site by its members since no one but yourself decides whether the picture is good enough to sell or not.