Has anyone sold any of their photos? If so, how did you start? Online or off? Would love to see some thoughts on this subject.

Not me. If you want to sell some photos, you must be on the Banda Aceh shore, one year before... to take money at Paris-Match (for the frenchies...)

There are sites that say they can sell them for you. Fotolibra is one. Never used it so can't help you anymore than this.

Cheers.....

The best way to start is to print your best work, then have a table at a flea market to get some feedback on your work. Start with 8x10s then you can move up to the bigger sizes.

I've sold quite a few of mine. I started five or so months ago making posters by putting my 8MPX jpg's onto background matts using Paintshop Pro, then using Snapfish.com to print the posters at 16x20 resolution. They cost about $15 U.S. to print. I gave away several of them as gifts - about 10 or so - then people started asking for posters and matted prints. I sell the posters or the matted prints for $30 or so, which means I earn about $.30 per hour of labor. Not bad. I think I'm well on the way to riches, don't you? :-)

No really it's just gratifying to see people willing to pay for your work - that's all. Snapfish has dramatically improved their printing process in the time I've used them, and I've since found a local printer who prints them for about $25, and does a much better job - no aliasing around the text parts - and I use them for really high-quality work.

Set up paypal . build a cool website and start selling.

I tried the Paypal route. A lot of traffic, but no sales. I think most people want to hold the object d'art and look at it before they buy it. They have trouble accepting that the work is high quality when they can't examine it closely for detail or lack thereof. My other theory is that art is generally an impulse buy, and when it's easy to revisit the point of sale (they don't have to drive or fly there) and when people know the work will be there when they return, they'll tend to put off the purchase until they have time to think about it, then they forget.

You need to set it up on your inipendent web site with high quality graphics. With an auto number select that will change the peramitors of the image so tht it can't be downloaded.

Clayton, how do you set up that number selector?

I have a friend who designed a data base that you load all of your images into. As you select an image it is on a numbering codex. as you click on it, it will chamge the number in the select image and stop you from down loading it. I'll get the particulers on it for you. He is planning on selling it to image sites to prevent theft. He used to be a high end hacker until he was busted. Now he does work for micosoft and a few government services.

Thank you. He sounds like the right guy to find the solution. I’d be very interested to find out more.

well, along the lines of what Prismmagic said; I recently started my own site, and I don't know how to attract traffic to it, let alone get someone to purchase a print... Any suggestions?

Has your friend been able to sell any photos using this software? Theft isn't the problem in my experience - I want people to feel free to download the images for wallpaper in low-res format. The issue seems to be getting them to buy prints. They don't seem to buy prints (or posters) off the internet without actually being able to hold them. As for promotion of your site I recommend Google Adwords. It costs almost nothing, and gets your site in front of a lot of eyes. I get five hits per day straight off Google. Combined with my regulars and return hits it builds up into a reasonable amount of traffic. Remember that you're an art-site. You're not going to get a hundred hits per day.