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40 Websites to Sell Designs and Photos Online

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 10:01 AM PDT

If you're a new graphic or web designer or photographer at the beginning it will be hard to find buyers to your design works. Find permanent job in this difficult economic situation is hard even for an experienced designer, not to mention about the beginners. If you are a talented photographer or designer you can easily sell your works online, working for yourself. In this article I summarize the best 40 websites where you can sell the photos, logos, themes and others design works online. You can compare what charges each of websites will pay you, compare all the rules and choose the most suitable service for you.

Websites where to sell photos

Istockphoto

iStockphoto is an online, royalty free, international microstock photography provider operating with the micropayment business model. iStock pays a base royalty rate of 20% for each file download and up to 40% for Exclusive contributors. Files are licensed two ways: Pay-as-you-go (You earn your royalty based on the net value of the credits used to download your image), Subscriptions (iStock pay your canister royalty based on how much of the subscriber's daily limit was used to download your file).

Fotolia

Fotolia is the worldwide social marketplace for royalty free stock images, allowing individuals and professionals to legally buy and share stock images and illustrations. Each time one of your images is sold on Fotolia, you get a commission added to your Fotolia account in real time. The commission amount depends on the exclusivity given to Fotolia for selling this image and it depends on your ranking. This commission is between 33% and 64% of the sales price.

Shutterstock

Shutterstock is one of the largest subscription-based stock photo agency in the world. Every day Shutterstock add thousands of photographs, illustrations, and vectors to collection of premium, royalty-free images. Submit your photos to Shutterstock and get paid every time one of your photos is downloaded. Web designers, magazine editors and other graphic artists purchase monthly subscriptions to Shutterstock to download photos from website. You will earn 0.25 USD per image downloaded.

123rf

123RF is one-stop royalty-free photo library offering stunning, practical stock photos at the most affordable price. 123RF offer 50% commission on sales of your work. 123rf offer three image sizes for prospective buyes: web at 1 credit, print at 2 credits and ultra high resolution at 3 credits. buyers of your work also have the option or an extended license at 99 credits.

Imagekind

Imagekind is one of the fastest growing art communities on the web. Imagekind are dedicated to selling and producing your work with the highest quality framed giclee prints and recognized attention-to-detail. Imagekind is a wonderful tool for selling your artwork as long as you are willing to get out in the world and market yourself. You definitely cant just sit back and do nothing and wait for sales because it wont happen. You can set the mark up for your art, and keep 100% of the profit.

Dreamstime

At Dreamstime.com, you can find a large variety of Royalty-Free stock images. All the images are carefully scrutinized and selected, in order to make sure that only the best are included and that the range of subjects is extensive. For each transaction, the photographer receives a 30-50 percent fee. Exclusive images receive an additional 15 percent bonus, while exclusive photographers enjoy a 60 percent fee and an additional bonus of $0.20 for each approved submission.

Bigstockphoto

Bigstock is your fast, easy-to-use marketplace for quality stock images. We offer over 4 million royalty-free photographs and illustrations from talented photographers and artists around the globe, available for almost any purpose. BigStockPhoto offer a minimum of $0.50 per image download and up to $60 per special license image download.

Crestock

Crestock.com is a website that caters to anyone that needs creative stock images for their website. If you are building a website and need to complement it with some great images, then Crestock.com is the website you have been looking for. If you are a photographer looking to make some extra money from your pictures, Crestock.com caters to your needs. You can upload the photographs you take and post them on the site. If people buy them, then you get a cut of the profit made from each picture with each download.

Cutcaster

Cutcaster offers photo and vector buyers the best experience for downloading high quality photography and vector illustrations for any creative project. On Cutcaster you can set your own price or choose the Cutcaster pricing algorithm to find the market price for you. You can easily respond to bids if you price your content too high through Cutcaster unique photo negotiation platform.

Graphicleftovers

GraphicLeftovers is essentially an online scrap yard for pieces of rejected design. Designers, illustrators and others of their ilk, can use the site to sell off their unwanted or merely unused works to willing bidders for the best price. On Graphicleftovers you will reciece up to 52% of each sale.

Websites where to sell logos

Logomyway

LogoMyWay is a logo design contest website. Basically it works like this: companies post design projects and designers submit their ideas for that project. There's a time limit for each project and at the end one logo is selected from the entries. The winner receives the payment minus 10% (website fees).

99designs

If you like to draw and your drawings are good and you want to earn from it, you can try your hand at 99Designs. 99Designs, basically is a site where various companies fulfill their need of designing their logos, banners, websites, products etc. They just give you the information about the background of their company, its ideas and goals. The designers use these facts and design logos or whatever is required by the company. If the contest holding company likes the job, it awards the designer with the pre specified prize money.

Crowdspring

crowdSPRING is the creative marketplace, where buyers post creative projects (logos, websites, print design, illustrations, marketing materials, etc.) and instead of receiving bids and proposals, designers from around the world submit actual designs. Buyers choose the design they like.

Brandstack

Brandstack is brand marketplace. Brandstack specialize in offering quality branding solutions including logos, print and website designs, and domains. These branding elements are created by some of the best and brightest in a talented and attentive designer community. Designers get 85% commission.

Logotournament

Logotournament is an online community where businesses can go to receive the logo they really want by hosting a logo design contest. This provides many more ideas and variety than a traditional design firm. Logotournament currently charge the winning designer a 15% commission on winnings.

Designcontest

Design Contest is a community shaped by the joint efforts of talented designers and contest holders. By hosting a design contest with Design Contest, contest holders are able to choose from a variety of great designs created by talented, professional designers. Design Contest designers compete for the prize offered, forcing them to push the limits and create innovative new designs.

Websites where to sell blogs themes and websites templates

Themeforest

At ThemeForest you can buy and sell HTML templates as well as themes for popular CMS products like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal with prices ranging from just $5 up to $40. Authors selling unique items on the ThemeForest are eligible to receive between 40% and 70% of every sale depending on the sales volume. If you wish to sell the same items elsewhere then you receive a reduced 25% of each sale.

Cmsmarket

CMS Market strives to be your resource for listing your extensions, whether they are for Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, Mambo or any other CMS. To do that, CMS Market either provide free listings if you wish to distribute the extension yourself or you can let CMS Market handle sales, distribution, marketing, and userbase management in exchange for a commission from each sale.

CssTemplatesWeb

If you're a webdesigner, you can sell your templates at CssTemplatesWeb. If you don't even know how to code (x)html, thats ok, just send your layout that you've made in Photoshop as a .PSD file, and CssTemplatesWeb will make the necessary steps to code it to a valid css template, or send the finished template. If you send a finished coded web template, including all images, css, htm and psd files, you'll get 70% of the selling price at CssTemplatesWeb. If you send the layout as a psd file only, you'll get 50% of the selling price of the finished coded web template sold at CssTemplatesWeb.

Buystockdesign

Buystockdesign is place where you can sell your wordpress them or Joomla or other CMS tempaltes. If you can make any type of Design, Templates, Wordpress or html, that's great - start uploading them now! Every time you sell something you make 50% from each sale. For example if you have a Templates file with a $100 price tag, make 20 sales and you get $1000.

Wpthememarket

WP Theme Market is a user based theme membership site where users can post their themes for sale for a specified amount of credits. Buyers can then purchase their theme from the site giving a commission to Wp Theme Market and the rest goes to theme owner.

Templamatic

Templamatic is a marketplace for a variety of premium themes and templates. Currently the site includes WordPress themes as well as HTML and CSS templates. Designers earn a commission between 50% and 70% on the sale price for every one of their templates purchased.

Websites where to sell designs

Coswap

CoSwap is an on-line swapping service, where members can access details about other members unwanted items, and list items on the site by themselves they no longer need, then make request for wanted goods. You can sell/buy items from site too. If you wish to have a third party handle the exchange, there is an escrow service provided.

Vectorstock

VectorStock is a specialized stock agency – specifically developed to represent the best Vector only images, graphics, icons & illustrations - all available for download. The starting payout on VectorStock is 25% for each file per download. 30% if supplying images for exclusivity. An Artist who has a download on 10 credit vector will earn $USD 2.50 per download.

Graphicriver

At GraphicRiver you can buy and sell royalty-free, layered Photoshop files, vectors, icon packs, Adobe add-ons and design templates for just a few dollars. Authors selling unique items on the GraphicRiver are eligible to receive between 40% and 70% of every sale depending on the sales volume. If you wish to sell the same items elsewhere then you receive a reduced 25% of each sale. Note that you can sell other items elsewhere as an exclusive author.

ActiveDen

At ActiveDen you can buy and sell royalty-free Adobe Flash and Flex files for just a few dollars. Items are priced on the complexity, quality and use of the file. The site is home to a bustling community of Flash designers and developers and is the largest Flash library on the web. Authors selling unique items on the ActiveDen are eligible to receive between 40% and 70% of every sale depending on the sales volume. If you wish to sell the same items elsewhere then you receive a reduced 25% of each sale. Note that you can sell other items elsewhere as an exclusive author.

Zazzle

Make money online by selling your designs on hundreds of retail-quality products! It's free and easy to create an online store on Zazzle to sell t-shirts online or sell posters online featuring your art, images, and designs.

Inkd

Inkd is one of the best print marketplaces available online. Inkd is a marketplace where experienced graphic designers can offer ready-made unique and professional designs. Designers will earn at least a 20% commission when your designs sell on Inkd.

Texturevault

TextureVault is a community driven supplier of royalty free texture and background images. Texturevault.net allows talented photographers and artists to sign up and sell their textures via the website. The photographer then gets a fixed 60% percentage cut from every sale he makes.

Deviantart

DeviantART is an online community website that allows submissions to be available for the showcase gallery or available for prints. Prints are where the money's at. If your photographs are photo-worthy, your prints will sell.

Websites where to sell T-shirt designs

Spreadshirt

Spreadshirt is an online apparel company that allows people to design, buy and sell custom merchandise on the Web. On Spreadshirt you can create your own store, upload your designs, set prices and earn commission from each sale.

Cafepress

Cafepress is the largest and one of the best and easiest web sites to allow you to sell t-shirts. You can open your store and receive money if any of your t-shirts or other products sell. With Cafepress you can sell t-shirts as well as mugs, prints, hats, and many other products.

Threadless

Threadless is a community-centered online apparel store. On Threadless you can submit your T-shirt design and get money if your design will be accepted. You will not get money for t-shirt sale but get fix price, but you also will get some bonuses when your design will be reprinted.

Tshirthell

T-Shirt Hell is a website that sells humor T-shirts. The company is known for producing shirts that cause controversy due to the offensive material and political incorrectness its products often convey. For each T-shirt design that will be accept, you can earn 200$ cash and extra bonus: 10 free T-shirts.

Shirtcity

ShirtCity appeals to a very young audience and is designed for individual sales instead of the usual bulk screen–printed orders. ShirtCity give you the opportunity to create your own products and collections and sell them online. ShirtCity provide a suitable online shop and a wide range of imprintable products for your use.

Printfection

Printfection is the print-on-demand site that allows you add your own designs to products, create an online store and make profits over the company set base prices. Printfection has a marketplace and allows branding of your own internet storefront to sell t-shirts, apparel and other products.

Logosportswear

LogoSportswear offers mass personalized, custom sportswear. LogoSportswear platform makes it easy for you to design, buy, share and sell customer-designed sportswear, signs/banners, and PromoProducts. You will earn 15% commission on all your sales.

Printmojo

Printmojo offers fulfillment and ecommerce services so you can sell custom screen printed and embroidered t-shirts and other products in your own online shop.

Wordans

Wordans provides a custom t-shirt design site, custom printing on American Apparel clothing. The Wordans site has its own custom t-shirt design tool which offers a great array of cool designs submitted by designers from around the world. On Wordans you can earn 2$ per design sold, up to 15$ per product and 15% of sales from your flash shop.

Shirtmagic

ShirtMagic is an innovative virtual store that enables customers to design and order custom-decorated apparel online. Designers can create store to sell T-shirt designs and earn commissions from sales.