Imageselling

So, that's the main and the first question! What does take to get in?
Firstly, you must be passionate about what you are doing, be it drawing fantasy landscapes or taking photographs of your friends. You don't have to be a future Rembrandt or Ansel Adams (my favourite photographer), to make some nice money in microstock, but you must take into account some key guidelindes>

1.           You MUST like what you are doing and you must know at least some basic stuff about the practical side of it; don't worry, you'll learn a lot along the way. The fact is that not everyone who holds a camera or a pencil in his hand is an artist and few of these people can sell their work;
2.             You MUST take into account that you won't get rich, unless you're the new Yuri Arcurs (maybe the most successful stock photographer). As a matter of facts, I'm contributing for about 1 year and my total earnings from 3 sites (Dreamstime, Shutterstock and Fotolia) are about 220 USD. If you consider this amount small, take a look at my portfolio and imagine how much better your images are . Also, think that I only have about 200 images online...What if you have 2.000 great images laying on your computer? Imagine that!
3.           If you only have some preferred subjects, it's even better. A key term in microstock is specialization. The more specialized you are, usually the more successful you'll be. You only like to photograph bugs? Or food in restaurants? You like to draw manga stuff? Or grungy looking posters? That's great...Keep reading.
4.            PATIENCE, patience, patience! You need a whole lot of it. From dealing with rejections, to adding keywords to your images and editing your artwork, it requires a lot of patience.