How Much Money Can I Make Selling My Photos Online - Shutterstock Contributor Earnings

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You might think you’d have some luck at getting these, but if you haven’t, it can cost you thousands or tens of thousands.

According to online-cost calculator website CostumesUK, a website for businesses, you’d have to make a few thousand dollars on a single image of a photo.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption How to set up your own gallery and use them and where

You can use an existing gallery to set up the gallery and use it for all of your pictures as long as the website’s address is correct when you sign up.

Once you have set up a gallery you can put on your profile, but in very limited ways.

You are only allowed to sell your photo for a certain time of the year - for example, you can only sell it for three weeks, and only to a maximum of 100.

When a new account becomes active, you may not be able to sell the photo again for a while, so you need to sell it a bit more often.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption You can sell your photos for five minutes and up to 2,000 views per minute

There are no limits on how long you can sell a photo in the UK and people around the world can sell photographs online.

It’s possible to set up a gallery to sell more than one image, though.

If you sell more than just one image you are able to sell all images - for example, to people who own a large number of business listings, and use them as long as one is active.

How often do you sell photos to people in your network

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Businesses with more than 20,000 customers sell at least 500 images per day for 20-plus days (and up to 100 per day for a second day)

Businesses who sell more than 25,000 images per day for 20-plus days can keep up to 250,000 on average.

You are also allowed to sell photos to people you’re not interested in for up to a week.

That means if you advertise, people will still want to buy from you at the start of the week.