 All right, in this video, I'm gonna be going over my January 2021 earnings from my photography, selling it online. Now, I do apologize, I know this is late, it's already at the end of February. I am probably gonna get this out right at the end of February though, before March starts, but it's just been a crazy busy month. If you follow the channel, you know that we released a brand new version of our Photolubes software on Monday and that took up a ton of time, there was a ton of work to get that out the door. I really do appreciate all of you who joined the preview here on YouTube, as well as all the comments and emails I've been getting about how helpful it is. You know, I really do appreciate it. Building that new version was a ton of work, we've been working on it for like six months, trying to get it ready. So I'm so glad that people are finding it so useful and just, you know, so grateful for all the feedback. So thank you so much for that. If you haven't seen that video yet, I'll put a link up here to that video. Check it out, we completely redid the Photolubes website software and it's just, you know, it makes it so much easier to make money with your photos online when you can kind of have a really streamlined workflow for uploading them, which is what the software does. So check that out if you haven't yet. With that being said, let's get into my January results. Now the top site was Pixabay. So that was mainly due to one person who gave me a $50 donation and $50 a site that, you know, puts it as the top site. So even though I only got two donations from Pixabay in January, you know, one of them being $50 makes it the top site. The second site for revenue is also one of the free sites, Pexels. So Pexels, I did get a lot more smaller donations there, but, you know, those two sites added up to, what is it, about $75, just between the two of them. And it was, you know, the best sites for me in January. Now my number three site was Shutterstock. Shutterstock, I made about $18, you know, not a great month for Shutterstock, but not horrible either, you know. One of the things Shutterstock did last year was they changed the way they calculate how they pay you. And typically, you know, stock photography companies will pay you more the more downloads you get. But what Shutterstock now does is they reset your payment structure at the start of the year. So everybody will make less money in January and then as you get more sales and downloads, they'll pay you more throughout the year. So in theory, this would be the lowest amount that I would make for Shutterstock for the year. To be honest, it doesn't affect me that much. You know, I don't make that much money on Shutterstock anymore compared to what I did two or three years ago. I rely a lot more on other sites for my revenue now. But again, a lot of photographers were up in arms about it, a lot of people aren't gonna be happy about that because if you did make the majority of your income off Shutterstock, you would make significantly less in January than you would in December. So not great, but it was still my number third, number three site for the month. Now next on the list is Deposit Photos. Deposit Photos still seems to be a pretty good site for me. You know, if you were to compare Shutterstock and Deposit Photos three, four years ago, Shutterstock would have always doubled, tripled, quadrupled Deposit Photos. But more and more now I'm seeing is Deposit Photos is doing as well as Shutterstock and the same thing happened this month where it was just like what? A couple cents lower than Shutterstock. Now next on the list is Adobe Stock. Now Adobe Stock, pretty average months for there, but something cool happened with them. What Adobe Stock has been doing for the past couple of years is that if you reach a certain level, they give you free subscriptions to their software. Now in 2019, they based on the number of accepted photos. I think it was like 300. You had to have 300 accepted photos and you could start getting some free software. I don't upload that many photos, especially I didn't in 2019, so I didn't get anything. But they changed it in 2020 in that they did it based on the number of sales. And I actually reached the level required to get a free Adobe subscription. Now mind me, I'm gonna look up my notes here because I made some things to give you an idea about what it is, because this is something you may wanna look into. So if you got between 150 and 5,000 downloads in 2020, you get a free subscription to select Adobe software. Now I use Adobe software. I pay a subscription every month. I have the photography plan with one terabyte. Unfortunately, the photography plan with one terabyte was not one of the free subscriptions I could get. I could get the photography plan with the 20 gigabytes, I think it is. It's like the $13 a month plan. And I didn't really wanna do that, but there were other options there as well too. And one of the other options was Adobe Premiere. So I actually decided to go and get a free version, a free subscription of Adobe Premiere for a whole year. And I was looking at the notes here. Like I've looked at Premiere before and it's pretty expensive, right? Like it costs $28 a month Canadian. These are all gonna be Canadian dollars here by the way because when I look at my Adobe subscription it's all in Canadian because I'm in Canada, but it's about $336. And I really only use video editing software for these YouTube videos. And I found that DaVinci Resolve worked just fine for me. Now DaVinci Resolve it is like, pretty complicated software, it took me a while to learn it, but once I figured it out, I know the basics, I'm not great at it, but it's good enough for me to put these videos together and do my YouTube stuff. So I've been using DaVinci Resolve. However, one of the things that I don't like about DaVinci Resolve is there's not a lot of good training courses out there. There's some, and I've tried some of them, but there's so much more material on YouTube or the training sites for Adobe Premiere. So I think if I did use Adobe Premiere and I got into those videos, I could probably get a lot better at it. I'm sure I could do everything with DaVinci Resolve and probably even more that I could do than I can do with Premiere, but I think it'd be easier for me to learn Premiere. So that's why I went and purchased it and it ends up being a $300 savings for me. I've got a new piece of software and it's actually pretty cool because I didn't even make $300 on Adobe last year. Like if you look at my earnings, I made what, 16 bucks last month, but because of my uploading there, I got a $28 subscription to some software that is very useful to me. So some to think about, Adobe, pretty smart of them actually to go and do this, right? If some contributors, $20 isn't a lot, but you know what, if you're already paying for it, an extra $300 a year off your software costs could make some people wanna upload some of their photos to Adobe and they get more sales on it. So I'm actually pretty happy about that, that I got the free subscription. I'm still gonna pay for my photography plan subscription, but now I'm also gonna be able to do these videos on Premiere. All right, next on the list was Pawn 5. I got $110 sale there and then the smaller sites. So I ended up around $170 for January. Again, not a huge month, probably won't be my biggest month of the year, well hopefully that won't be my biggest month of the year, typically spring and summer. I do a lot better because of the type of the photos that I have online, but it is $20 more than January from last year. So I'm actually happy, that's a 20% plus increase on my January sales. So I'm pretty happy about that. I've also been doing a lot of work kind of planning some other sites that I'm gonna be uploading to in the hopes of increasing my sales this year. So I'll be posting videos about that on this channel. So make sure you subscribe if you haven't, like if you found this useful at all, and best of luck selling your photos online.