shutterstock questions

[zoranb]

Hi guys, i wanna send some photos to shutterstock too but i cannot figure out the earnings. Can someone explain to me for eg.
1. what are the life time earnings?
2. how do ones photos change type (Per-Day Subscriptions, Single Image On Demand etc.) or how are they categorized?

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[KmH]

As your lifetime earnings increase, so does how much they pay for each of your photos someone pays to use.

In other words you need to upload, and have accepted, a lot of photos. Like hundreds of them, and you need to keep adding photos (hundreds more), if you wnat to make more than just pocket change.

 

[zoranb]

so lifetime earnings is the money that one has earned from the photos selled? but in the beginning that would be only a few cents! correct? how on earth would it reach more than 500$ thats needed to change scale?

and what specs are needed for a photo to change from one type to another? i mean what does a photo acquire to be in the "enhanced license" group and not in the "per day subscription" or vice versa?