Step 1. Learn How To Edit

This is imperative, especially if you want to make money with your photos online.

One basic yet very important thing is to shrink and compress photos for online use. As far as quality things like Adobe Lightroom presets for photographers are amazing for helping you get a lot from your images. You may see that a lot of photographers do a lot of editing to their pictures, this is something you want to avoid as it’s the number one tell of a bad photographer. You should be looking to make subtle tweaks that highlight your work. When it comes to editing, there are hundreds of amazing options you can look at, and some of them are even free. You should start with free ones until you get a little more into editing and then look at buying some more advanced software. Should you take both of these things into account, you may find that your hobby becomes something more, and you could even start to earn a little bit and get some recognition for your photographs.