Love to write but don’t want to write an ebook? Just write a good amount of tutorials and build your own web site or blog. Then submit your tutorials to tutorials directories and start watching the traffic come. You can submit tutorials to The Photoshop Roadmap, Photoshop Lover and Tutorialized among many others.
To earn money with this, you will have to display ads in your tutorials pages. The first and obvious option is Google Adsense. But there are also some other interesting choices like Chitika (mini e-malls) and Kontera (in-text ads). These ad networks pay you for each click made by your visitors. You can also join Amazon.com affiliates program to offer products related with your site’s topic and earn a commission for each sale you make. AzoogleAds is another good choice because it offers a vast amount of special offers where your visitors don’t necessary have to purchase something. If your visitors request a free sample or simply leave an email and a zip code, you will be paid. Nice, isn’t it?
You can find a lot of Stock Photography and Illustrations stores around and most of them, if not all, accept submissions from photographers and artists. In general they will pay you on a per sale basis.
At Berman Graphics web site you can find a tutorial about selling your images on ebay
The following list shows some sites that accept submissions from Photographers and Illustrators.
.: Stock Photography and illustration online stores
» Shutter Point Stock Photography
» Dreams Time Stock Photography
» SutterStock Stock Photography
» Fotolia Stock Photography
» Stock Art Stock Illustrations
» Illustration Works Stock Illustrations
» Etoon Stock Cartoons
» Cartoon Stock Stock Cartoons
Warning! Loads of money here! But wait… Bad news: This is not an easy way to earn money with Photoshop at all. Additionally you will have to invest a lot of money in such a project.
If that’s not a problem, then I suggest you to read this article I wrote before: Programming Photoshop Plugins which is a thorough guide about the insights of programming a Photoshop plugin, including the idea generation phase, marketing and selling the final product.
TIP #4 suggests you to write your own tutorials and submit them to tutorials directories. Some directories out there can drive a huge amount of traffic to your site for some days and then some small but steady traffic for a long while.
But sometimes you may come up with an article or project that doesn’t fit the limited categories of most tutorials directories. Then it’s time to contact those who love to discover and show special or unique content to the world.
There are some great blogs out there that can expose your article to a wider audience. Some examples are blogs like LifeHacker, PhotoJojo, John Nack, LockerGnome and Digital Photography School Blog (thanks Darren for mentioning this article!), to mention a few.
Remember that we are talking about Photoshop, photography and graphics here, so you should be very creative in your topic selection to stand out from the crowd.
You simply have to send them a polite email asking if they would like to check your article, and explain them why you believe it may be of their interest. But please, send them an article with some value. Don’t even think of asking them to read your latest chrome text or scanline effect. They will probably delete your email without even looking at what you’ve sent.
If you succeed, the traffic coming from blogs like the ones mentioned above will be large and of an excellent qualiy.Don’t forget that high quality traffic is the best that can happen to your site.
I would like to thank Chris Pirillo, a web celebrity also known as the LockerGnome, for suggesting me this tip. Thanks Chris!
Just a final word: The resources posted on this article are by no means the only ones available. You will have to do your own research, specially if you plan to sell stock images. There are a lot of stock images stores online and they offer very different commercial relationship with the artist. Another good advice is to create your own web site. That will help you do a better marketing of your products.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave a message on the comments section below.
|
This article was absolutely brilliant! It is one of the few compilations that gives real advice on how to make real money! One would think this is the stuff the web is made of. I’m sorry to say I’ve not found it to be so - and so - this article is a breath of fresh air. It’s easy to find info on products, purchases, learning etc - rarely can you find a method to help pay the rent - and this is the real deal - it’s not based on luck and the lottery. I’m a fan and I’ll be back.
Rgds……………Ski
Posted by Ski on January 26th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
This is some Great! info. With all the hype that is out there. It’s nice to see some solid leads and direction for some of us starting out.
Thanks for sharing and keep it coming.
Craig
Posted by Craig on January 30th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Amazing, someone actual said this listing of the OBVIOUS was brilliant!!!!
Next write an tutorial on how to pour water out of a bucket!
I worry about the human race!
Posted by amazed on January 30th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Well, you can’t please everyone!
Posted by Enrique Flouret on January 30th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
[…] [SKILL] 5 easy ways to make money online with Photoshop (tags: Photoshop photos photo adobe) […]
Posted by links for 2007-01-30 ~ Chris Pirillo on January 30th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
This is pretty interesting, Im not that skilled with photoshop though. But who knows its worth at least trying!
http://www.probrooksphoto.com/
Posted by Brooks on February 3rd, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Excellent information, certainly inspirational especially for those of us just starting out
Thank you very much!
Posted by Eden on February 7th, 2007 at 7:00 am
It would be interesting to know a ballpark range of anticipated income from those ads…
Posted by dbltapp on February 7th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Thanks for a great article! I didn’t know about a number of the resources. I just recommend any photographer or other artist read any terms and conditions carefully before selling/licensing work through any stock photo or print on demand company. I’ve read some particularly bad things about how some companies can keep selling/licensing work/products on their site indefinitely even if you want to end the relationship.
All the best,
Andrew Darlow
Editor,
http://www.imagingbuffet.com
Posted by Andrew Darlow on February 17th, 2007 at 12:40 am
[…] Wer kreativ ist und sein Geld im Internet verdienen möchte, kann sich die 5 easy ways to make money online with Photoshop von Enrique Flouret auf The Photoshop Roadmap zu Herzen nehmen. […]
Posted by Technikwürze » Technikwürze 60 - XML und XSL im Einsatz on February 18th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
fantastic efforts and very very usefull thank you so much ang god please you dear brother
Posted by anas on March 28th, 2007 at 6:54 am
[…] Make Money Online with Photoshop […]
Posted by CurrentBlogNews: Blog News and Opinion on March 29th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Great job on the info, especially for us beginners.
Patricia.
Posted by Patricia on April 11th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Some great ideas, but tough to put into place. Thanks anyway.
Posted by Eddie on April 11th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
thanks for the valuable information ,but you did not put much information for creative designing earning from photoshop
Posted by abid farooq on April 27th, 2007 at 4:18 am
Thanks Eddie for your comments.
You are right about that, but let me explain you why.
When I started writing this article, I decided to mention uncommon ways of earning money with Photoshop online.
I assumed that design, printing and photo retouching services are some of the most common ways of earning money with Photoshop. And talking about them would have made this articel lose its focus.
Anyway, it’s a good subject for a future post to write about the insights of making a living as an artist or photographer with Photoshop.
Thanks for the input!
Enrique
Posted by Enrique Flouret on April 27th, 2007 at 5:01 am
Enrique-ignore the naysayers!
This was a fantastic, informative and concise article on the possiblities that exist for any of us involved in graphic arts.
I like the website links you offered( some I had never heard of) and I honestly think anyone that reads this article has to walk away with some bit of new found knowledge- and, well, isn’t that the point?
Keep up the good work- I will keep my eye out for more of your contributions. And I thank you wholeheartedly and with much enthusiam for this one!
Sincerely,
Janice Sclafani
Posted by Janice Sclafani on May 19th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Thanks Janice for your comments. I’m glad you found new resources you didn’t know!
Enrique
Posted by Enrique Flouret on May 19th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
awsome
Posted by John on June 4th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
you are about changing my targets on the web
thank u!!!
Posted by Mohammad Elieba on June 8th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
[…] 5 easy ways to make money online with Photoshop This is the scenario: You are a skilled Photoshop artist, or perhaps you are a great photographer. If that’s not true, then you may be a cool designer or at least have some nice Photoshop tips or tricks that nobody knows. And you need money. No matter what your skills are, if you are capable of creating something with a certain appeal with Photoshop or even other graphics application, there are many ways that you can turn that into money with certain ease. In this article you won’t find any get-rich-quick tips. In fact, to quit your day job and make a living with this information may take you a long while. But, as with most in life, it depends on you. I will only show you what’s out there and make your startup a little easier. Click link below to know more: 5 easy ways to make money online with Photoshop […]
Posted by 5 easy ways to make money online with Photoshop - Ej.am Forums on July 7th, 2007 at 11:33 am
thanx for the info…you have really cleared up alot of things for me especially how to put ads on a website…keep up the good work
Posted by joe on September 14th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Very good article, there are so many ways to make money online even using just photoshop
Posted by Reverse Funnel System Review on December 2nd, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Hi Enrique,
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience! I’m always looking for ways to improve myself and I’m glad to have found your blog. Thank you for sharing with us.
Cheers,
Roy
Posted by Roy Phay on May 23rd, 2008 at 3:11 am
Great tips, thank you for sharing!
I have a good deal of experience with Photoshop, but I’m new with writing tutorials. I am posting on the Ardis Creative blog, where you can find tutorials, tips and articles from graphic design and web design.
Posted by Madalina on May 29th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
[…] 5 easy ways to make money online with Photoshop […]
Posted by Personal Edge Insights - Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach » Archive » Make Money with Photoshop - 119+ Free Photoshop Tutorials, Photoshop Filters, Photoshop Actions and more! on July 1st, 2008 at 5:51 pm
If you already have a site selling t-shirts, embroidery, boat signs or any other decals, you might be interested in our online design software LiveArt (http://www.developflash.com) that will give more flexibility to your visitors and increase the sales by offering to design all those things without leaving your site. Visit http://www.developflash.com and download a demo or request a quote.
Posted by Arturas on July 2nd, 2008 at 2:15 am
idea is good.but how can i send works and from where i get works
Posted by sreek on July 25th, 2008 at 2:42 am