Earn Money as a Stock Contributor

Learn how to earn revenue by becoming a stock content creator. Explore strategies to help you monetize your existing image, design, and video libraries and create new content.

Introduction

• What you’ll learn in this course
• What you should know before watching this class

1. The Business Case for Stock Images and Footage

• What are stock images?
• Who uses stock images?
• The way creators earn money
• Thoughts from a successful contributor

2. Requirements to Sell Content as Stock

• Copyright status and trademark restrictions
• Model releases
• Property releases

3. Choosing Content to Sell

• Existing content or create new items
• Evaluating trends
• Checking out the competition
• Advice from a stock seller

4. Shooting Strategies

• Subject matter considerations
• Advice for shooting photos
• Technical requirements for photos
• Advice for shooting video
• Creating a range of moods
• Technical requirements for video

5. Vector and Motion Design Strategies

• Technical considerations
• Advice for designing vector graphics
• Advice for creating design templates
• Advice for designing motion graphic templates

6. Signing Up to Sell Stock

• Information needed
• Tax documents needed
• Understanding the legal agreements
• The approval process
• Gotchas to avoid: Advice from Adobe Stock

7. Optimizing Images

• Optimizing image exposure
• Optimizing image color
• Optimizing image sharpness and noise
• Saving the project file
• Optimizing video exposure
• Optimizing video color
• Optimizing video sharpness and noise
• Saving the project file

8. Uploading Content

• Saving files in the right photo format
• Saving files in the right vector format
• Saving files in the right movie format
• Uploading via FTP
• Uploading via Adobe Stock

9. Improving Discoverability

• Naming content
• Tagging content with keywords
• Using AI to generate keywords
• Keyword advice from a stock marketplace

Conclusion

• Related courses and next steps