How To Make A Living Offering Textures And Photos For Free

The question about free textures or free stock photography being free is a tough one. Sure photographers and artists must be paid for their work. This is the reason why there are a lot of paid websites that offer textures, reference images, stock photography and many other forms of artwork.

I tend to agree with this trend, but have another idea. Amount of your exposure as an artist is usually minimal on the site. Lets take for example a site that offers one million photos. To have at least a 1% share you need to put one thousand of your artworks online.. See, there are many photographers on a website. Sometimes their number can reach astonomical figures. This brings chances of your art being exposed to a potential user to a minumum. Competition is your main enemy. Chances of a user finding your work from millions of files is equal to none. That sure sounds bad? It is great for the owners of sites that sell textures, artwork or stock photos. Those sites always strive to have big number of photographers selling their work. It is easy to understand them – they want to overwhelm buyers with huge numbers. However, this can be a very bad thing for a user.. Everyone wins in the situation, but not the artist selling his or her work.

No scratch your head and have a thought about it. Why not offer these textures for free? By now, you must be thinking that this is not very wise. No you’re asking why should you offer your textures or photographs for free, when it is quite reasonable to sell them online through some third party website. No catch the answer!

Having a private web resource, full of free textures, free stock photography, free artworks and reference images makes you a great competitor for those paid web sites. You have a huge advantage, because you’re offering the same content, but don’t charge money for it. Traffic is what brings money to site owners and this idea will sure attract a huge user base.

Placing advertising on your private resource, which offers free textures can generate much more revenue than any third party service, which offers to sell your artwork. There are key points to this idea. First is traffic. This part is very important, as big amounts of traffic to your web resource can generate a very good income. Second part is smart planning. When the resource is planned very smart you may even start selling your work after a short period of time.

There is no free pie. The good side about sites selling textures and stock photography is that they already have a web engine ready with search features and all the bells and whistles. It is your advantage that the content on your site is free. However, you must not forget, that the ease of use of your resource mucst be competitive to those paid sites. This way your will blow themaway. I know that not everyone is a web programmer, so either find one or get a free gallery software for your site. You’ve done that. Now sit bakc and enjoy all the money, traffic and recognition.

In conclusion, I want to say that the market of free textures and free stock photography is very great. Millions of artists, web designers search for free textures and free stock images every day. This way, your potential customer base, which seeks free textures and free stock photos is very big. Hundreds of millions of people browse the Internet daily. Those are the one that will bring you money. You may want to check my site with free textures and free stock photography and see how I implemented this idea.