 Now, in this video, I'm going to give you some tips and tricks on how to sell photos on Envato Elements and Photodune. But before I get into that, let's talk about what these sites are because it isn't exactly clear. Now, both of these sites are owned by the same company, but there's just two different sites, photodune.net and envato.elements.com. Now, the main difference between these sites is that Photodune is a stock photosite only. Whereas, Envato Elements, you can buy all types of creative things like photos, videos, audio, world press templates. There's all kinds of different assets that you can purchase on Envato Elements that aren't available on Photodune. Now, Photodune has been around for a long time, whereas Envato Elements has only been around for a couple of years. Now, I believe it's possible to only contribute to Photodune without contributing to Envato Elements, but to upload your photos to Envato Elements, you need to do it through Photodune. So, you need to have both of the accounts set up to be able to contribute to Envato Elements. Now, another key difference between these two sites is how they calculate the earnings. I've been a Photodune contributor since 2013, and I've made almost $700 over the past, what, six years? And if you look at the last couple years, I'm making like under $30 a year on average right now. Now, in comparison, here are my June earnings from Envato Elements, almost $250. This has been pretty consistent so far this year. So, you know, take a look at May, April, March. So, this year, I'll probably make about $30 on Photodune, but probably about $3,000 on Envato Elements. So, I'm making about 100 times more on Envato Elements than I am on Photodune. So, the difference is huge between the two sites. Now, this difference is primarily because of the way that Envato Elements calculates the earnings, and it's different than the way most sites calculate it. I've actually got a whole video on that, so I'm not going to go into it here, but at the end of this video, I'll have a link to the video that talks through exactly how Envato Elements calculates the contributor bonus, which is actually where I make most of the money on the site. Now, Envato Elements is a lot more lucrative as a contributor than most of the stock sites and all the stock sites that I contribute to, but it's also much harder to become a contributor because they actually have quite hard standards to be accepted. So, here's the application to become a contributor on Envato Elements. I'll put a link to this down in the comments below, but it asks you some basic information. It asks you if you have a Photodune ID. If you don't have one, you can still apply to be a contributor, but you just need to sign up for one to be able to upload your photos in the future. I'll ask you some basic information about the types of photography you do, and it's going to ask you for links to your portfolio. Now, you can provide them with up to three different links. Now, if you're new to stock photography, Envato Elements probably isn't the best place to start because you really do need to have some photos published elsewhere to become accepted. So, if you're brand new to stock photography, I'd recommend that you start submitting your photos to your shutter stock and Adobe stock to start, and then once you get maybe 100 photos uploaded there, you can then apply to become an author on Envato Elements and use your links to those portfolios on those stock sites as part of your application form. All right, now I'll put a link to my portfolio on Envato Elements down in the description below, so you can take a look at the types of photos they've accepted of mine. Now, I haven't submitted a ton of photos there, so my portfolio is pretty small, but I'm planning on uploading more photos there in the near future. However, if you decide to go through and submit an application, it'd be great if you could maybe put a comment down below and put a link to your portfolio, and then if you get accepted or if you get rejected, just go and put a comment below it so that people can go in the future and take a look at the types of portfolios that are being accepted and the types that are being rejected and kind of give people a better idea about whether they're going to be able to be accepted to be a contributor on Envato Elements. Now, if you are accepted to become a contributor to Envato Elements, you will need to log in to Photodune to upload your photos. It's pretty straightforward, take a look. So you log in with your Photodune account that is linked to your Envato Elements account to start the upload. Then you'll just need to wait about a minute for Photodune to upload your file. You refresh your browser and you should see the photo there. Then you can publish it right away, but you'll probably want to edit it first and update the title and description and tags before clicking the publish button. And that's it, you don't need to do anything else. The photo will automatically be pushed from Photodune over to Envato Elements and normally it takes about a day before it either shows up in your account or you get an email from Envato telling you that they didn't accept it, giving some reasons why it wasn't accepted. So every month I do a stock photography earnings report where I basically upload and say what I've made selling my stock photos from the past month. And it's been pretty consistent now that Envato Elements is always number one. So it's definitely a site that you want to try to get in if you've got a big enough portfolio to get accepted. Now, if you found this useful, make sure that you go ahead and subscribe to the channel and turn the notifications on. If you haven't seen my stock photography earnings reports, I do one every month and I'll have a link up here to the most recent one. Also, if you're more interested in how Envato calculates the earnings each month, I'll put a link down here to that as well. Best luck selling your photos online.