if you've been alive in the modern age
and the internet
you probably have seen some cheesy
photos and videos in promotional
contents
online without you even knowing it
they are all over the place in ads
online posts or even on big billboards
even big companies use them to promote
campaigns and new products in different
parts of the world
these materials are called stock photos
and videos
what are stock photos and videos anyway
these are images and videos uploaded by
individuals
pros amateurs or just beginners like you
and me
for the sole purpose of selling it to be
used for commercial or journalistic
purposes
in short people selling photos to other
people who might need it
you have to pay for the rights in the
photos you you can use it to whatever
campaign or promotion you have
this is an oversimplified definition of
course if you want to have more
information on it
there's a lot of other videos on youtube
and other online classes on this one
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so why do people sell stock photos and
videos anyway
well it's a great way to have a very
passive way to earn some money
you upload once and it can be bought by
many people online
some people also have tons of photos
that they wanted to share and somehow
earn some cash other than financial
incentive
selling photos could only mean that you
just really like uploading photos
and maybe a passion of yours
why do people buy stock photos and
videos
well people buy stuff photos and videos
because of its convenience
independent content creators can just
buy one photo
and use it without any hassle in their
work large companies also love stock
photos and videos because they don't
have to hire production crew to
get a short clip that they want for
their ad
it saves them money and time and that's
a win-win situation
so disclaimer i'm not an expert in
selling stock photos or videos
nor am i a professional photographer or
videographer
this video is just meant to get you
started in actually
putting your photos and videos out there
in platforms that can sell those photos
for you
i will teach you how to do basic stuff
with adobe stock
shutter stock and pixta the three major
platforms for this
sort of stuff and my important piece of
advice
is to have a ton of patience don't be
scared to do trial and error
if you're set then we shall begin
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to start off what makes a photo or video
material
illegible for adobe stock shutterstock
or pixta first
you need high quality images if your
material
your photo or video is blurry or noisy
or grainy
then it has a higher chance of being
rejected
you need images that don't contain any
identifiable brand
place person etc and that's why stock
photos have
models that wear generic looking clothes
to be
eligible the word is generic
if your model is wearing a shirt with a
big nike logo on it then it will be
rejected
because nike owns that iep
if your photo includes people on the
streets you might not be able to upload
it as a commercial
but only for editorial or journalistic
purposes
newspapers and magazines can still use
these but it is quite
a small market so these are just the
basic
rules to follow and just to make sure
your photo is clean and devoid of any
branding whatsoever
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so now we're gonna go to shutterstock's
website and
you don't have to be confused with the
shutterstock.com
and the contributor site that they have
so just search for a shutterstock
contributor on your google
search engine and you can see that
it's a submit that shutterstock.com
and here you can see it's highlighting
all the features of the site
all the services and how you can become
a contributor
that's what they call people who are
selling
assets on their websites
as you can see here we're just gonna
skim it down
scan some of the features and you can
see the join now that's what we're gonna
use but we're gonna go up
and sign up click sign up and then as
you'll see it's very typical
you can have your full name and display
name your display name is
the what the users will actually see
once you start uploading
stuff assets on your account
and of course provide an email address
and password and they
will confirm it
once you click next and then once you
have your account you can just
log in go back to the site and log in uh
put on the
put in the email that you provided and
the password and of course
there's some verification stuff going on
to prove that you're not a robot click
sign in and then
there you go you have your own account
now with shutterstock contributor
as you can see here you have a lot of
analytics
as for now these are analytics that's
not really
extensive but as you can see here you
have your upload
right the red button there's also
redundant
button on the portfolio side so that's
it
you have your own account now
so once you have your own account you
can upload your content as you can see
here once you click that
upload button you can drag and drop your
files or select multiple files
i will show you both first you have the
drag and drop
just go to your folder and literally
drag
and drop the file it's very typical it's
very common
in most interface right now and when you
click select multiple images you will be
redirected to your file explorer
or you can highlight or you can just
hold your ctrl key and select multiple
files and upload them yeah
you can see here you have you should
have that.eps.jpg
for images and that mov and that mp4
format for videos so that's
straightforward you can also
see additional requirements you can also
have a lot of options
compared to adobe stock the shutter
stock interface is more
user friendly and more optimized for
uploading there's no drama here when you
upload
images or videos so you can see here
you have to set all the descriptions
categories and keywords for your images
and right here we can see the editorial
has a specific description that has to
be followed
for commercial you can just do anything
you you like you have at least
five words so let's put in blue back on
a mannequin
you can also select the category and the
second one is optional this is let's put
arts and of course
fashion because these are bags
your city or region you can just select
your country
and the keywords these are notes for
your viewers sometimes you
have to put in some specific notes for
your viewer that's for advanced stuff
and new release for models
that you have in your photos so you in
the keywords
the shutter stock algorithm is pretty
smart
you just have to select some of the
keywords by clicking the plus button on
the right side of the words
or you can also add your own you can
just type in
anything that the algorithm has not
detected and then press enter
you can do this one by one or you can
just
select multiple photos like here
just check it and check it especially
for photos with this same category so
you can save a lot of time
so here you have photo commercial arts
and fashion
and of course they can have basically
the same
keywords if you want you can just add in
specific keywords and you can see
you have the blue indicator that it's
ready but the other one that we have
is not yet ready so what's the problem
you have no description for it
so let's put in a description and once
you
complied with that one it's gonna have a
blue indicator
on the lower left of it as well you can
also delete one photo let's delete this
one
and there you go our three photos will
be ready for submission
and you just check them
and then click the submit button on the
lower right
and that's it you have submitted three
photos
to your shutterstock account you can see
that on your
pending it will review it and
you can accept it or reject it if they
accept it it will be part of your
portfolio if not then you can just
delete it
this one is for videos the same thing
there's no drama here
unlike adobe stock that you have to use
an ftp client
right here you have to just drag and
drop as you should
and you can also select multiple files
for videos
doesn't matter for shutter stock and
the same thing you have to click on
you have an error or previous upload so
just
disregard that and we have to put in
descriptions also categories and
keywords
i'm going to show you how you can put in
keywords with
videos you can put in
keywords that are provided by the
algorithm
so you just click uh find keywords
and here we you don't have keywords like
an images
you'll be redirected to a different page
right here and you can search for
similar
similar videos or photos that you have
that you just uploaded so we'll search
for
wine barrel you have to select three
assets that closely resembles your video
and then
it will generate keywords from those
assets
you just select one and please don't
spam shutter stock it will
hinder its ability to categor
categorically list your video if you
spam it with
nonsense uh keywords just select the
things that you
want and of course you can also add in
your own keyword
just like before once it's ready
you can just click submit let's try it
and then there's a an error because it
the description is at least five words
so man beside
wine barrels is just four let's add one
right there and then click submit
and right there you have your video
uploaded
it's also in the pending tab when you
click on it it's going to be reviewed
within five days you can also sort them
by image or by video
so that's gonna be pretty handy to
sort them out so that's it guys
right here we're gonna download the
mobile app
for ios also for android it's also
available
so let's go to the app store and search
for shutterstock
so don't be confused when you see two
results
shutterstock is for the buyers
you can download and buy assets
shutterstock contributor is for people
who sell
assets like you so download that one
and then with the account that you have
just created just
log in don't sign up don't do it again
just tap login and put in your email and
password
and just allow shutterstock to access
your files because you can also
upload images from the mobile app if you
want to
i suggest that you upload with a desktop
but if you have an ipad pro or a bigger
display you can do that so you can check
your images
you can also see the pending images that
we have
and of course your portfolio right here
once it's accepted it's going to be part
of your portfolio and you can see it
right here
so let's go back to the desktop
to see how it looks like on a bigger
display on a
web browser so you can go to your
portfolio and catalog manager and
right here the same photos that you have
on your mobile application
you can also edit all already live
photos that
people can actually buy
you can add in some keywords or reduce
keywords
whatever you can also go to your videos
and see the actual store page
that you have select this one
and then you can also open the page the
actual page
that the people will see once they buy
your
video right here hd or standard
definition hd
and st and of course you can view your
own profile
your contributor profile with all the
available portfolio uh available assets
that you have
so that's it guys that's so simple
shutterstock
is geared towards selling assets online
assets so it's
pretty easy i hope you learned a lot on
this
simple start startup tutorial
so that's it now you can just follow
these steps to grow your catalog
just be patient a lot of your photos
might get rejected because of some grain
or
noise that you haven't noticed while
editing but
you can use this as guides to upload new
ones in the future
also be patient it will take some time
before people can actually notice your
work
remember there is a lot of stock content
that
is already available and uploaded online
so just keep your chill if the revenue
is slow to come along
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