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Five websites for selling your photographs online.

Image Kind ImageKind.com is a site where photographers and artist can upload digital files of our artwork for others to buy. Individual artists don’t have to deal with the printing, storing, mailing, online credit card transactions, nothing. Imagekind handles all of it and pays you every time one of your prints sells. The amount you earn simply depends on how much you marked up the base price. It’s free to become a Member, and it only costs money if you want more online storage space.

Boundless Gallery BoundlessGallery.com sells all types of art by original artists‚ÄîPaintings, Photography, Glass Art, Metal and Wood Artwork, Ceramics, Sewn and Knitted Art, Jewelry, and even Fine Art Prints. Basically, no matter what kind of art you make, at BoundlessGallery you‚Äôll find a category that will work for you. BoundlessGallery.com takes a 25% commission, which isn’t bad considering there is no setup fee or subscription cost .

Artist Rising ArtistRising.com, part of Art.com behemoth, allows artists to have their own personal online gallery. It will be similar the old OAP group, in that you can upload, organize and present your original work for everyone to see, but will have a new feature that will let you sell your original artwork right from your gallery space. You’ll also be able to manage all of your Print-On-Demand pieces from your gallery and set up additional pages about yourself too, including a bio, artist statement and more.

deviantART deviantART.com has been around for quite some time. The shopping side of deviant art isn‚Äôt as well done as the rest of the site. It looks good, but seems to lack any desire to be marketed to the outside world. The prints are amazing; done on Fuji Crystal Archive photo paper. The sizes are limited, so if you’re looking panorama‚Äôs or some other aspect ratio, you may be out of luck.

Original Art Online OriginalArtOnline.com is a website that has been selling original work by Artists for over two and a half years. The site is very clean, but the design is quite lacking. There’s no commission fee charged when you sell your work, in fact, there’s no system for payment through OriginalArtOnline at all. When a buyer is interested in your art, they contact you personally and then the two of you work out the details of payment and shipping. Rumor has it the OriginalArtOnline is in the process of developing a shopping cart system to sell art directly on their website.

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