If you have decided to buy a photo from a stock bank, you will definitely encounter the need to pay for the photo (illustration) or illustration at the stock bank, along with a decent variety of payment options available.

As I mentioned in previous posts, if you constantly need a large number of high-quality licensed photos or vector images, the best choice for you is to purchase a subscription.

In early April, the administration of the stock photo agency Dreamstime notified users of precautionary measures when reading emails that are allegedly sent by the stock agency, requesting your account details or suggesting that you follow a link provided in the email to verify your information on the stock agency’s website.

In 2009, first the stock bank Shutterstock, and by the end of the year other major stock banks like Fotolia, Dreamstime, and Depositphotos began acting as tax agents for their authors. How did this manifest? These popular stock banks started withholding taxes from image sales.

As you have read in previous articles or learned from experience working with stock photo agencies, the basic way to withdraw earned funds when working with the main photo banks for microstockers from the CIS and other developing countries has been and still is Moneybookers.

At a certain stage of working with microstock agencies, every microstock contributor faces the question: “How and where to withdraw money from microstocks?” This is a very reasonable question, especially for contributors from the CIS. Most microstock agencies offer options for transferring earned money to accounts in payment systems like PayPal and Moneybookers.