Shutterstock Contributor Tutorial and Tips for Beginners

This is a Shutterstock contributor tutorial for beginners, I start at the Shutterstock contributor login, review how to signup as a Shutterstock contributor then walks through how to upload photos to Shutterstock and include tips for selling your photos online.

This is a great tutorial guide for anyone getting started with selling stock photography on Shutterstock. Any questions please let me know in the comments.

[dionthompson]

THANK you for asking me to like it after and not BEFORE, I had a chance to view your content. It was EXTREMELY HELPFUL, and because of the useful info, I was automatically going to like your video! GREAT JOB!!!

[stargazer]

It's a good beginners video. Other things beginners should know:

1. Although Shutterstock claims on their website you can upload Tiffs of up to 4GB you actually can't. Maximum image size 50 MB and JPGS only. Maybe in the past you could upload Tiffs, but now they probably changed it for whatever reason. They either forgot to remove their claim from their website or they left it on purpose as clickbait for new users. They do say Tiffs get automatically converted to JPGS, but it's pointless information since you can't even upload Tiffs in the first place.

2. They try to be quick reviewing your items but if they reject them you cannot re-edit them from your account. You'll have to re-upload them from scratch.

3. They are not obligated to give you more than one reason for rejection. For example, they reject an image for whatever reason and if you later correct your mistake and re-upload if there is another reason they can reject it again. They say, it's because they have too many images to review so they can't give you 100% reviews.

4. Once rejected an item is automatically deleted at their end. You can see your rejections for about 21 days and then they get permanently deleted from your account too. For example, if your rejection is for missing word in the title and/or keywords, once rejected not even they can edit it for you.

[victoria]

this is the only shutterstock video that actually teaches you something, thank you so much!!

[dronetumulud]

Thanks for the sharing Sir..crucial information that i really need as a beginner Shutterstock Contributor users..my first previous uploaded 30 pictures was rejected due to didn't comply the requirement from Shutterstock. I subscribed your channel to get more lesson from you. Cheers from the island of Borneo!

[geno]

thank you. this was one of the most useful video for beginners I have found. very upfront and easy to understand. i appreciate that you didn't try to push your own contributor link and just upfront told us the information we needed.

[valparmenter]

Very helpful for a "newbie" like me Thanks so much Val

[hollyburgess]

great information, understood it all, only thing I did not notice or hear was how much to join if any thing

[MehdiRazaToronto]

Great! I liked it and found very informative.

[abhishekchaudhary]

I uploaded 2 pics and one of them got selected. After that, I received 20 straight rejections and it was disappointing. I recommend you do it only if you are passionate for photography and not for selling them.

[WendySeymour]

Thank you very much for your beginners video much appreciated I have taken many photos over the years...

[ladyclai]

thanks to this very informative video since I am also beginner in shutterstock

[johannmitchelllimjoco]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! This definitely helps. 😃

[gppv]

Huge thanks for actually helping me out

[dominioo]

Thanks for the time maming and uploding this video

[letmepickmynameidiot]

What about taking a photo of a street and of course there will be some people there. It goes to editorial as I cannot get a release from all those people I don't know?

[pramodkngowda]

Your videos are very helpful thank you for that, and can you explain the Eligible for data licensing on shutterstock, please.

[loizosloizou]

Thank you for your video! Is someone here long time in shutterstock on selling his/her photos? Can you please share your experience with us?

[FPS]

I have an issue where my photos are too small and shutterstock says it needs to be 4 megapixels bigger. How do i solve this?

[martinagrigio]

Hiii, your video really helped me get started thank you so much! My only doubt is where do I get the release forms? Even if my finger comes out its counted as a person? Appreciate your help! Martina

[Golden_cheese_first_Lover]

Thanks for infomasion this helpfull for me