Instant Commercial Outlet for Your Photography

• Upload images and set your own full license prices¹. If your photos are good, why not make them pay for themselves? You provide the talent and we provide all the e-commerce: secure payment processing, order tracking, and online image delivery.
• Make your photos available for sale for commercial use or editorial use and keep your copyright. Royalty-free pricing model allows selling and re-selling the same images multiple times on this website or anywhere else.

Enormous Online Exposure

• Shortly after your join ShutterPoint, you may find that your gallery on ShutterPoint receives high ranking on major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN². Take advantage of the exposure and high search engine rankings we have been building just for our members.
• Each photo you submit to us will be available through the biggest online shopping search engines - Google Product Search and Google Base³.
• Immediately after you create your account, you will be able to access your personal gallery by typing a simple URL in your web browser: it is the username you select followed by .shutterpoint.com - simple, short and most importantly, professional.
• Submit your images and watch how quickly your photos gain exposure. On average each photo on ShutterPoint is viewed 92 times⁴ with almost half of these views coming from the site's guests - all of whom are potential photo buyers.
• If you have your own website, seamlessly integrate your ShutterPoint gallery with your site using many versatile options we provide just for webmasters.

Affordability and Value

• Our storage subscription options allow you to get your portfolio online for just a few pennies a day. You can always get more storage to meet your needs and even lower your storage space quota if you find that you do not fully use it⁵.
• Our commissions are significantly lower than the industry average. While most services keep 50% of the sale proceeds to themselves, and some pocket an incredible 80% of the sale prices, we only keep 15% for full license sales (or 30% for standard license sales). When selling an image for $100, it makes a big difference, and this difference alone may cover up your subscription fees. The more you sell, the more profitable your membership will be in comparison to other services.

Innovative Features and Value for Photo Buyers

• ShutterPoint offers photo buyers a very wide array of online tools and features that make their shopping experience with us pleasant. Image Zoom allows a buyer to view any fragment of any photo in its actual size, search by color provides a way to easily find images matching a chosen color, "More Like This" links make finding images similar to a selected one a snap, and lighboxes allow compiling and storing image sets for further review. All these features coupled with the streamlined checkout process that does not force a buyer to create an account, a collection of over 100,000 images, flexible licensing terms and instant downloads make ShutterPoint a buyer's preferred supplier of stock images.
• We do not require photo buyers to register with us, however when they do, they get an ability to post specific photo requests for all photographers to see, and earn rewards an bonuses worth up to 12% of their purchases. Customer loyalty built with these programs generates higher interest and pays off with more sales.

• Submit your images as either JPEG or TIFF files, one by one or in bulk - various options are supported.
• Take advantage of optional watermarking that allows you to have your own custom watermarks, and disabled "Copy" and "Save as" browser commands to prevent image theft.
• Review statistics that reveal important vital details about each of your photos - counts of views by guests and members, statistics related to ratings, and automatic photo status reviews.
• Monitor advanced pre-sale activity and find out who is shopping for your photos and how they came to find them. Know exactly when your photos get added to shopping carts, lightboxes, and more.
• Respond to the photo requests submitted by buyers.
• Learn exactly what sort of photos can sell - take a peak at what photo buyers look for with the ShutterPoint's own Search Spy, and browse the constantly changing What's Selling section.
• Refer photo buyers or photographers to ShutterPoint by participating in our free Referral Program and increase your earnings.

Feedback, Ratings and Learning

• Most photos on ShutterPoint have ratings or comments provided by members to members⁶. You can greatly improve your photography skills by reviewing ratings and comments others leave on your photos. You can also become a better photographer by giving ratings - learning what works and what does not will make you look at your own photos differently.
• Our photo search engine, as well as many other areas of the site, incorporates ratings into ranking images which allows higher rated images to be shown above others. This ranking makes great images easier to find and pushes poor images down. If your images are excellent, ShutterPoint is your home.
• Leaving ratings and comments on photos is not only an exciting and interesting activity, it is also rewarding in many ways. You can earn points for rating photos - the most active raters can get free storage and get featured on the front page, which further increases their exposure.

Community

• Our online discussion forums are helping photographers every day. Ask questions, share opinions, use private messaging or just chit-chat with others. There are always topics to talk about.
• We have an exciting feature that makes learning a fun and interactive process. Simply post your image in the How can I improve this photo? forums discussion and you can expect others to offer you help and suggestions almost immediately. No book or tutorial can match the eyes of other photographers giving you tips and advice.

Sign Up

1. Minimum price is $20.00. All submissions are subject to submission guidelines.
2. Ranking is determined by search engines and may vary depending on uniqueness of your name. Actual results cannot be guaranteed.
3. Photos may take up to 7 days to appear in Google Product Search or Google Base.
4. Calculated for all images being online for 14 days or longer on January 26, 2011.
5. Storage space can be added or removed in the increments of 100MB.
6. Each photographer can disable ratings, comments or both on any of his/her photos. Ratings may influence ranking of images.