June 30, 2016 at 10:56 am

@shaloo walia You uploaded is okay but did you follow the rules too? I mean they want specific photos (Place, forts, tourist spots and not persons) in specific size and if they publish them your account will be credited immediately. 

Also as an approved contributor I have written hundreds of articles and profiles there. Check these heads too. (These are accepted from approved contributors only)

June 30, 2016 at 10:49 am

@shaloo walia That is written there for last 4 years but you must check the payment proof (Veethi reward points) at the lower side of the footer of homepage. Click it and you will see what I mean.

@bestwriter No, nothing should be republished which has been published elsewhere or whatever you publish there. That will be against the rules and ethics of course. We should republish on sites which allow you to do so.

June 30, 2016 at 10:44 am

They take up to 3 days before approval of your review @shaloo walia then your account will be credited after a mail in your inbox. Keep a track.

June 30, 2016 at 8:37 am

@bestwriter The site is very much up and running but they open the photo feature once in a year or so. You can register there and post one photo for trial purpose and if they accept it you may go ahead and post as many as you want. The rate is Rs 10 per photo. I have posted all my photos within 2-3 months last year.

June 30, 2016 at 8:33 am

@bestwriter Maybe there was nothing in the queue

June 29, 2016 at 6:29 pm

@shaloo walia  Yes you can go ahead with that site but remember you get Rs40 for a negative review and Rs 20 for a positive review. But beware when writing a negative view a company might come and ask for the detail so decide for yourself what you wish to do.

June 29, 2016 at 3:09 pm

@peachpurple and @bestwriter  I have been trying my hands on professional photography for last few years and have earned lot of money selling my photographs to an Indian website that paid upfront for each of my 4000 photos. I use the same username on that site. I will not go in detail of the site as the program is now suspended for time being but you can search “veethi” > Photos and user suny to check them. If you wish to see my payproof go to footer of the site and check “veethi reward points’

June 29, 2016 at 1:47 pm

@ bestwriter  I agree with you but with some difference

here is what is mentioned on every photo in Wikimedia/Wikimedia Commons 

But you can see that only if you go deeper and check details-

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:

w:en:Creative Commons

attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

You are free:

to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work

to remix – to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:

attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).

share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

June 29, 2016 at 1:36 pm

@Ruby3881 When I mentioned royalty free here I had Pixabay in my mind because I won’t touch an image from shutterstock unless I am using them for a purpose (or someone is paying me for those images for his blog/article as I do ghostwriting sometimes too but in most case I leave the image part to author himself).

And permission to use Images and Videos on Pixabay are released under Creative Commons CCO. to the extent possible under law, members and uploaders of Pixabay have waived their copyright and related or neighboring rights to these Images and Videos. Therefore you are free to adapt and use them for commercial purposes without attributing the original author or source. Although it is not required but a link back to Pixabay is much appreciated but that is not mandatory or to be on the safe side just in case.

June 29, 2016 at 11:19 am

@bestwriter They give you tool to delete the watermark too if you pay them annual/image fee.  Pixabay is one of their sister concern which generally carries first row of Shutterstock images with watermark but those images are not for free use.

By the way, you can become a member and upload your images and if they get selected you get a royalty for your work.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by  suny.

June 29, 2016 at 10:57 am

@Ruby3881 There is no free trial period as such on shutterstock. You have to be a licencee user by paying an annual fee or pay per image as the case be. You have to pay according to size of the images as prescribed by them.

June 29, 2016 at 10:54 am

@bestwriter Royalty free images are the ones you can use on your blog but with credit to them. The use of water marked ones or the ones which need annual or one time payment is serious infringement of copyright act. The site has to pay for being careless in case of approval of such content on their website.

June 28, 2016 at 11:08 pm

@shaloo walia I have also posted one on EW day before besides I am a regular on 2 Indian sites. However, I suggest you to stay here. maybe they have finished the quota for the current month lol :).

On a serious note, as I had said in the beginning that I can easily post 150-200 posts per month on this site but delay in publication is a deterring factor.

June 28, 2016 at 10:14 pm

@shaloo walia I have not yet posted a rant post but I am seriously thinking to post one and money is not the concern but delay in publication. 

June 28, 2016 at 10:11 pm

@peachpurple  I have 4 Chrome, Firefox, MS Edge and Opera but I generally use Chrome. However I use MS Edge in my office as it is the only one allowed for official login.