Fotolia is a worldwide social marketplace for royalty free stock images, allowing individuals and professionals to legally buy and share stock images and illustrations.

To start earning money with fotolia you need to make sure you either a digital camera or a program like photoshop. You then need to register to fotolia and then upload the images that you have created. If the image you have created looks good then other photographers and designers will then buy your image and you will receive commission from each photo sold.

If your images are eye catching you will receive and maintain a decent balance. Other than uploading images, you can also upload videos and vectors. To shorten the time it takes for the money to pour in you can always add a link to your own personal website to get traffic to you images.

Just like hub-pages, You can also add tags to your images. These tags will allow other users to view your image when they have typed your tag into the search box. The more popular your images are equals the more money you get.

In fotolia there are a large variety of categories you can assign you image to. These categories include.

• Landscape.
• Architecture.
• People.
• Fauna and flora.
• Objects.
• Transport.
• Food and drink.
• Sport and leisure.
• Background and texture.
• Abstract.
• Other.

Enjoy!!!