Can you make money selling stock images on sites such as Alamy?

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Even if you have a great image and use tons of keywords. Your still fighting thousands of pictures with loads of keywords as well.

And if the photo is only selling at £0.10 you've got to make 200 sales to just make £20. So for one print in a fame (sold for a bit more because you've got to get the frame and print it) you could make one sale and still get the same return.

If you wanted £1000 a year you'd have to sell 10,000 photos on the stock market. The idea of actually earning anything that could amount to a meaningful contribution to your income starts to become quite insane when you consider how many thousands of photo licences you'd have to sell.

 

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Yes there is money to be made selling stock images to Alamy, if you're Alamy.