Dreamstime is a microstock photography agency. This article explains who they are and how they work for photographers.

When photographers and graphic designers think of microstock, three agencies typically come to mind:iStock, Shutterstock, and Dreamstime. Dreamstime opened for business in 2004 and quickly became a powerhouse in the microstock world, thanks to their friendly staff, an easy-to-use uploading process, and for providing an overall great service. For a while Dreamstime was known as the bottom achiever when compared to iStock and Shutterstock. The past year has changed this dramatically. Dreamstime is now easily considered on par with its two main competitors, and may soon surpass one, or both in popularity. Dreamstime continues to improve and explore new markets, they currently accept royalty-free microstock photography, graphics and editorial photos. They are also the only microstock agency to offer photos in RAW and, most recently, TIFF format to their buyers.

Dreamstime employs both a ‘credit’ method and a subscription method of sales. This means there are multiple ways for a photographer to make money on Dreamstime. Every year Dreamstime updates their price model. This essentially gives photographers an annual raise as commission with Dreamstime is percentage based.

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With the internet being used more and more by your average consumer,
you may be wanting to start your own online shop so you can unleash your
products to all those potential customers. I’m sure you know that there
are countless ways to do just this, but here I’m going to talk
specifically about e-commerce plugins for WordPress.

Maybe you’ve heard about the odd plugin that allows you to sell
products from your WordPress blog, but you might not know exactly what
they are. To help you on your way to selling your products, I’m going to
tell you about the five best e-commerce plugins for WordPress.

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