You take awesome photos, and your family and friends tell you to sell them at a gallery. Or you just know your images are good enough to display but it is hard to get into offline galleries, plus expensive to produce the prints.

Now you can sell your prints online at websites that are called “Print on Demand”. Perhaps the most well known is CafePress.com where people have been selling images mostly on tshirts and mousepads since 1999. There are options on CafePress for photographers to sell prints, cards and even calendars. Their calendar selection has grown this year, giving photographers an outlet they didn’t have previously.

Next is Imagekind.com where the focus is on prints on specialty papers and 5 million framing options. if you want to feature framed versions of your photography this is the place to sell your images. Imagekind was purchased by CafePress, so their offerings may become similar in the future. But for now, they are separate entities and you treat them separately and upload your images to both independently. The quality of prints at Imagekind is very high and the framing is excellent.

Zazzle.com also has fine print and framing options, but we are not familiar with the quality.

A new kid on the block for photographers to sell through is LoxlyGallery.com. Created by the former affiliate manager for both CafePress and Imagekind, this site focuses on requests from photographers over the years on the way they want to present their work and market it. This site is not an “open” POD, there is a submission process.

Feel free to leave comments on any of these services and how you use them to market your photography both here on the blog or here in our forum.