Turn Your Photos into Cash

Make Money with Your Photos

By Misti Sandefur, published Apr 04, 2007
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You may love capturing the most beautiful scenes on camera, but what do you do with all those photos? Do they just sit there and take up space on your hard drive, or are they placed inside folders and picture albums? No matter where these photos are, get them all out, organize them, and turn your love for photography into cash; you deserve something. Besides, you should share those breath-taking photos with the world, and your talent should be rewarded.

Before I reveal how you can make money with your photo-taking abilities, I'm going to help get you organized. Organization should be the first step in photography, because knowing where to find what you need will make the whole process much easier.

Let's begin with all those photos you have scattered about: The images on your hard drive, in folders, in photo albums, in your digital camera and etc. Take all those photos and place them in one pile in front of you. Next, separate each photo into similar groups (family, nature, animals, places, etc.). Once you have all your photos separated in groups, place each photo in sheet protectors, and then put the sheet protectors into a binder. As you place each sheet protector -- with the photos -- in your binder, still keep the photos in related groups in the binder. To keep them in groups, buy lined paper and plastic tabs. Next, place a tab (with the group name) on each sheet of lined paper. Finally, place the lined paper with tab before that group of photos. Later, I'll tell you why you should use lined paper.

Now, set your binder aside and focus on organizing the photos you have stored in your hard drive and digital camera. To organize the photos on your hard drive and digital camera, burn them onto a CD-RW or CD-R using Nero 7. Following are step-by-step instructions you can follow to burn the photos onto CD using Nero 7. The instructions that follow are the way I burn my photos using Nero 7. If you use a different software program for burning CDs, then check your program's help manual for instructions.

1. Start Nero 7. Click "make data CD," then open with Nero Burning Rom.

Sell your photos for cash.

Credit: http://www.sxc.hu/

Copyright: Craig Jewell

Takeaways
  • Organization should be the first step in photography.
  • To organize the photos on your hard drive and digital camera, burn them onto a CD-RW or CD-R.
  • "Writer's Market" is not only for writers, but photographers can use this resource guide as well.
Did You Know?
Landscape and travel photos have a much higher demand.
Resources
  • 9-1-1 Magazine: Pays $50 to $300 for photos.
  • Bird Watcher's Digest: Pays $75.
  • GH Design: Pay not specified, but they do pay.
Comments
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Herstory, thank you so much for referring my article to other photographers, and also for the dig. Best wishes to you.

Posted on 05/03/2007 at 12:05:00 AM

 
Emailed link to three photographers already! Diggin' your article too!

Posted on 05/02/2007 at 9:05:00 PM

 
Wonderful tips. Thank you so much!

Posted on 05/02/2007 at 9:05:00 PM

 
I am kean to exsplor new avenues, i like nature shots wild life

Posted on 04/28/2007 at 5:04:00 AM

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