Do you want to learn how to make money online? In this article, I’ll show you how to make money online by selling photos online.

Did you know you can make money online by copying and reselling public domain images? Images are typically copyright protected, but some are not, and you can do whatever you want with them to make money.

This step-by-step “How do I make money selling photos online” tutorial reveals to you precisely just how I’m doing this and how you can use this method to earn money online. You can use this method as a side hustle without spending money out of your pocket.

So, let’s jump in.

How do I make money selling photos online?

This method is 4 steps process, an extremely straightforward procedure.

Step# 1: Find a photo

One of the most typical ways to find images online is to head to google and also just placed in a keyword and click images and thousands of images will show up.

But, the problem is, that we can’t in fact use the majority of these images because they are copyright protected.

Therefore we’ll use so-called public domain images which are not protected by copyright law and use these images to generate income online with it.

In this tutorial, I’ll use a website called Free-Images.com which every photo is public domain that can be downloaded and used as we pleased. We can also use any public domain site you wish, just search it on Google

Step# 2: Select a photo

In the search bar of free-images.com, I’ll search for certain photos that I want to use. You can search for stock images, illustrations, vectors, black and white, and fine art.  For the purpose of this tutorial, I’m going to use an example based on a research study that I have actually done, as well as I do understand that this image earns money.

So we’re going to go search for “Sunset” under the fine art section and click “enter”

Now that you’ve searched, you’ll see a lot of images on your screen, but you don’t want to click the top ones because they’re advertising, and you’ll have to pay for those, but if you scroll down, you’ll see a lot of abstract, sunset paintings and these make a lot of money, and you can use this right now.

Click on each one you’re interested in and make sure to choose the right size which is 1220 x 796 or more and then you download the original image and save it on your computer.

Step# 3: Edit the photo

The third step is to find a free online photo editor where you can enhance the image. Of course, you don’t have to do this, you could just go make money right away with it, but it’s always a good idea to just enhance it and make it look a little bit better, so what you want to do is go back to Google and type in the search bar free photo editors, and then you’ll find lots of free photo editors that you can go and use online to apply filters to an image

In this tutorial, I’m using Photofilters.com which is doing a pretty good job. Now upload the image you downloaded in step# 2 and apply some filters to the image to enhance it and make it look better.

There are a lot of filters you can choose from on photofilters.com. I’ll choose the “Brownie” filter for the purpose of this tutorial and apply it to the image.

This filter makes it look really wonderful and red, so this could be something that you might desire to do, yet it’s going to depend on you. This really relies on the kind of image that you have and how you wish to move onward with this.

So since we have the image enhanced, now is the time to make money with it in the next step

Step# 4: Sell your photo and make a profit.

For selling our photo I’m going to use Etsy.com. Etsy is a global marketplace for selling unique and handcrafted goods, which makes it the perfect choice to sell our photos.  The process of selling our photo involves two steps:

1- Choose the right canvas for the photo.

Before selling we need to choose the canvas for the photo. We can do that by using a platform called Printify.com.

• Create an account on Printify.com. You can sign up with your Google account or your email.

• Under the Catalog menu, choose: Home & Living, then choose Canvas

• Choose the preferred canvas size for your photo

After choosing your canvas, Printify shows the cost of the canvas and the shipping and even allows you to preview your photo on that canvas. Printify does all the heavy lifting for you and integrates with many e-commerce platforms like Etsy, Shopify, eBay, and Woo-commerce.

2- Selling your photo on Etsy.com

• Open a selling store on Etsy by creating an account. You can sign up using your Google account, Facebook account, or Apple account

• Go back to Printify and connect it to your Etsy store. Here is a great video that shows you how to do that:

• Start selling and make a profit

Tip. In order to rank your product on Etsy, you have to do some Search Engine Optimization SEO, because Etsy is also a search engine. Here is a great video that teaches you how to rank on Etsy:

Can I really make money with this method?

The answer is yes. There are many people making thousands of dollars selling photos and pictures on Etsy. Here is some proof below:

This seller has made 5425 sales with a price tag of $639/Picture and you can do the math. See other sellers also making hundreds and thousands of sales

Conclusion

Making money selling photos online is a very simple and straightforward method that can help generate a good extra income. Once you have created your store on Etsy, it’ll take a few minutes every day to add more photos to your store and optimize it.

I hope you’ll find this tutorial useful and don’t hesitate to leave your comments below.

To your success!