Describing of the photobank Shutterstock.com
Describing of the photobank Shutterstock.com
It is one of the best photobanks for today. It gives results to the maximum quickly and that is very useful for beginners. Emphasis is on new works, at the same time there is high sales level. It is necessary to present 10 works as examination. They can be photo or vector graphics. After successful passing you can sell all ones. Also there is opportunity to sell video.
You need to have foreign passport or passport of multinational standard (if you are not USA citizen). Shutterstock itself is fully unexclusive photobank. It means that it doesn’t give any advantages to those, who sell works only there.
Selling realize by 2 types of licenses: sRF (standard RoyaltyFree) and exRF (extended RoyaltyFree). The minimal resolution for photographs is 4 MP (megapixel). Size of image is not limited. Loading of works by FTP is supported .
Buying of images realizes by usual subscription – for the sRF license it costs $249 a month, that allow to buy up to 25 works a day (author’s fee for this way are below in the schedule); for the extRF license the price is $1699 for 25 works a day (author’s fee is $28 for every skimming ). Allowances for seller in this case don’t depend on size and format of bought image.
Also it is possible to buy images by subscription “On demand”, that allows to buy 5 works of big size for $49 or 12 small or medium-sized works; and 25 big or 60 smallmedium works will cost $229. In this case you are not limited in time for buying of images. Author’s fees in this case are much higher and depend on size of image.
Fees also depend on how much have you earned in total for the whole time of working with the photobank. They are shown in the following schedule.
Usual subscription
Fee for skimming |
Fees in total |
0.25 $ |
Less than 500 $ |
0.33 $ |
500 $ - 3,000 $ |
0.36 $ |
3,000 $ - 10,000 $ |
0.38 $ |
More than 1 0,000 $ |
Subscription « On Demand »:
Fee for skimming |
Fees in total | |
Small/Medium |
Other sizes | |
0.81 $ |
1.88 $ |
Less than $500 |
1.07 $ |
2.48 $ |
$500 - $3,000 |
1.17 $ |
2.70 $ |
$3,000 - $10,000 |
1.24 $ |
2.85 $ |
More than $10,000 |
There is service for customers – backup copying of images which are bought earlier onto the disc (Backup CD). In this case author has $0.05 for every image.
Payment realizes once a month if you’ve achieved minima sum ($75 for internet-pockets moneybookers and PayPal and $300 for withdrawing by cheque). Other ways of withdrawing are not provided.
Also Shutterstock has referral system and other pleasant services for advertisement of you portfolio and directly of photobank.