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PepeCastro
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February 4, 2022
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Are my works suitable for Adobe Stock

  • February 4, 2022
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Regardless of how interesting it may be technically whether or not your work is published on AdobeStock, my question is about profitability. Is this an ideal platform to sell your work? there are so many images that are diluted in an immense ocean of images, no matter how well organized and well managed, the fact that a person or company chooses your work as appropriate is a matter of luck, that among those millions of images the yours and choose it as appropriate for him, in agreement that it is possible that if it is a company or a creative that has empathized with your work, they need a graphic or photograph again and look for you, that would be like winning a client, but as a rule In general, the one who searches does it in that great haystack of which we are the needles, I ask: Is it profitable to publish in Adobe Stock? o Should I use my time in another way to promote or sell?

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Correct answer Nancy OShea

Don't quit your day job.  Nobody gets rich doing Stock Photography.  Stock is more of a side hustle for earning a little extra income from pictures you have on hand.

 

Success comes when you have developed a large enough portfolio of diverse subjects in a wide range of categories.  To earn USD $500/mo in passive income, it's estimated that you'll need 6,000 or more assets in your portfolio. 

https://shotkit.com/making-money-with-stock-photography/

 

Avoid submitting in fiercely competitive categories like sunsets, clouds, flowers, plants & pets.  Stock inventory has millions of those already.  Find unique subjects and people in real-life situations to photograph.

 

Promote your work on social media.  Also make use of your free Adobe Portfolio website to help further facilitate sales.

https://help.myportfolio.com/hc/articles/360036296814-Selling-Adobe-Stock-on-Adobe-Portfolio

 

How much time you devote to Stock is your choice. 10 hours/week would be a good starting point.

 

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Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
February 4, 2022

Don't quit your day job.  Nobody gets rich doing Stock Photography.  Stock is more of a side hustle for earning a little extra income from pictures you have on hand.

 

Success comes when you have developed a large enough portfolio of diverse subjects in a wide range of categories.  To earn USD $500/mo in passive income, it's estimated that you'll need 6,000 or more assets in your portfolio. 

https://shotkit.com/making-money-with-stock-photography/

 

Avoid submitting in fiercely competitive categories like sunsets, clouds, flowers, plants & pets.  Stock inventory has millions of those already.  Find unique subjects and people in real-life situations to photograph.

 

Promote your work on social media.  Also make use of your free Adobe Portfolio website to help further facilitate sales.

https://help.myportfolio.com/hc/articles/360036296814-Selling-Adobe-Stock-on-Adobe-Portfolio

 

How much time you devote to Stock is your choice. 10 hours/week would be a good starting point.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
PepeCastro
Inspiring
February 4, 2022

Nancy O'Shea. You're absolutely right, thanks a lot for your advice, I appreciate it for what it's worth

RALPH_L
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 4, 2022

Only you can decide that. Search Adobe Stock for the subject matter that you want to sell. Is the subject over populated? Are your photos better than most already published? Can you use keywording that would shove your photo before existing photos? I am making profit on my photos. Could I be making more selling them direct? Maybe. But then I have to do the work of selling.

PepeCastro
Inspiring
February 4, 2022

That's great Ralph, finally someone with experience, who I can ask. Well the questions are:
-Does this platform give you good benefits?
-How much time do you spend publishing your work?
-Did it take you a long time to make your AdobeStock presence productive?
-Is it common to have copyright problems?

Logically it is up to you to answer, in any case my thanks for your interest in my question

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 4, 2022
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-Does this platform give you good benefits?

More than other stock sites. My second-best stock site earns me less than half of what I earn here, with approximately the same pictures. However, my bestseller here is not my bestseller there. The number of sales is approximately the same.

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-How much time do you spend publishing your work?

I don't do this for a living, so I do not spend much time on publishing. So, my portfolio is small, and my pictures are not mainstream in demand.

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-Did it take you a long time to make your AdobeStock presence productive?

Productive is relative… You need many assets in your portfolio. The more you have, the better are your chances. And Adobe has some excellent products with the stock interface integrated. That gives Adobe an advantage.

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-Is it common to have copyright problems?

That needs to be specified. I do not see any, but I do not actively watch my pictures.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer