Passive Income with Galleries
Compared to Messenger and Livecam, where you are active in your account, selling images and videos is a way to also earn money when you are not currently online. You upload your content once and it will be offered to customers for purchase on your profile permanently.
How does it work?
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Gathering Ideas
There are numerous ways to take great photos and videos indoors or outdoors. A few examples of indoor photo locations include the sofa, in bed, under the shower, in a bathtub filled with foam, or why not in the kitchen?
If you go outside, there are many more options, such as by a lake, in a pool, in a forest clearing, in a cornfield, or even in front of a wall with graffiti. If you are looking for photo ideas, you can also focus on well-known holidays. If that’s too boring for you, why not use the numerous fun and creative “Day of the …” that are not known to many. You can find an overview via Google, for example. Whether you shoot indoors or outdoors, there are many possibilities to create unique and impressive images and videos.
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Equipment
For a good photo or video, you need a good camera or a good phone. However, technology alone does not make a good photo. The right light for your photos is also important, as light plays an essential role in the creation of a successful image. For outdoor photos, you should pay particular attention to the position of the sun and thus light and shadow. In the apartment, you need a lot of light to take a good photo, because if there is too little light, the image often becomes dark, noisy, or blurry. If you take photos alone, a tripod and a self-timer are indispensable. If you take photos with your friend or partner, the camera angle can be changed quickly so that you are perfectly in the picture.
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Editing
Editing photos and videos can make the difference between a good and a great image. There are many free and paid tools on the internet to edit your images and videos. A few examples are Photoshop, Gimp, Lightroom, Final Cut, or iMovie. With these tools, you can crop your images, apply filters, adjust colors, and much more.
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Preparing Galleries in LiveCreator
Put together a selection of images that you would like to use in your gallery. Pay attention to a choice of different poses or outfits. By providing variety in your galleries, you pique your customers' curiosity and they will keep looking for new galleries. Choose a suitable preview image, as this is the first thing the customer will see. It should match the content of the gallery. Think of a suitable headline and a description that convinces customers to want to purchase the gallery.
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Publishing a Gallery
In the main menu under the item “My Content”, select “Photos” or “Videos”. Click on the button “Create a new gallery”.
In order to be able to publish a gallery, it must meet at least the following requirements:
At least 3 photos (minimum size 800 x 600px)
Preview image (minimum size 1024 x 576px)
Title and description
At least one selected category
The assigned actors' documents
A video should have a minimum length of 1 minute (formats: mp4, avi, mpg, wmvn)
Once you have uploaded everything, you have two options for publishing:
If you click on the “Publish Now” button, the gallery will be sent to support for review. This means that your gallery is not immediately available to the customer.
The “Set Schedule” option is more suitable in that you have control over it. You can choose a date on which your gallery should be published. In this case, the date must be at least 2 days in the future. In the background, support reviews the gallery and approves it. The gallery will be published automatically on the date you have chosen.
Conclusion
Selling images and videos is a perfect way to generate passive income and earn money even when you are not currently online. Once produced, a photo/video can stay online for as long as you want and can still be purchased by customers after months or years. This means that you invest time once and can profit from it for as long as you like!
Important: Once published, galleries cannot be deleted. If you no longer wish to offer them, you can archive them. This means they will then only be available to you in your account.