In the digital ages there are more than 52 ways to monetize your photos. You can make your bank account full of cash using your photos. That’s fact and you can start today. You can create a blog / website about your photos and get paid for it (for example, using Google Adsense). Don’t have enough money to get custom domain and hosting? Don’t worry, you can use free service like Blogger (Blogspot) and host your image on Flickr.
If you are a photographer, you can sell your photos to get cash money directly. You can also turn your picture wallpapers to get more. Read this article to give you inspiration about how to get paid for your Flicker photos. Are you not a photographer? You can use free photos from internet. For example, Flickr has “Blog This” feature to give you chance to post Flickr photos in your blog.
But please, don’t steal your friend’s photos, especially their private photos. Everyone has privacy. Being paparazzi is very simple guys. There are many ways to steal photos everywhere, includes from your own computer. Protecting your photos with password protected ZIP/RAR archive is not final solution. Once you extract a digital image from the archive, it is stored temporarily on your hard disk, leaving the image file unencrypted and unprotected. Someone can steal the image file from the temporary folder.
It’s better to use secure digital photo album software to protect your secret photo. For example, you can use HidePhotos. This software keeps the digital pictures you want to protect in a securely locked container using newest industry-standard AES encryption with 256-bit keys.
Be careful with your photos 
