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Now with Photrade you decide when, where and at what cost your photos are used online. Photrade provides unprecedented protection for your photos and offers a free photo marketplace where photographers can sell stock, prints and merchandise, or use the Adcosystem™ where photographers get paid for every click on their photo on the Internet.

Photrade has a lot to offer its users – kick-off by creating a profile, after which you can browse photos, upload photos, create galleries, protect images (with watermarks and disabling the print-screen option on large image views), sell photo merchandise, sell stock images and even turn on ads to earn to earn some extra dough from photo views.

This is quite an interesting website for those wishing to reserve their rights to ownership of their photos. Although it’s still at beta stage, its main aims are at protecting photographer’s rights, whilst also changing the way bloggers and online publishers find images – say a win-win situation.

Here’s a go-through of the Photrade process:

• Upload an image

• Grab the code for blogs, provided by Photrade, and embed it
• Options for sizing and borders
• Options to turn on/off ads (to make extra bucks/click)

Photrade’s competition is mainly in the form of either online stock agencies or white label galleries and storefronts, which mostly attract professional photographers, example Digital Railroad or the amateur, e.g., Zazzle.

Competitors also range from website services like Flickr, Photobucket, Smugmug, and iStock.

Although Photrade’s primary target audience are ‘prosumer photographers’, says the VP of Marketing at Photrade. This group ranges from enthusiast photographers, to semi-pros or pros. And the fact that Photrade’s receiving positive feedback from bloggers who like protection features and monetization features, is a good sign. Bloggers can also get free legally licensed images from the site.

You can subscribe to a couple of blogs, namely: HyperPhocal and Photrade News and share photographs tips, tricks, news, reviews and features – and receive updates from the team about the product and its users. Oh and yeah, there’s a stats area too, where you can keep tabs on all your activities and earnings. While all this seems a lot, they kept a social side to it too – where you can view people’s profiles and leave comments – competitions among users and more features coming up soon, are an added attraction.