Removing Logos from Your Photos in Photoshop
In order to sell your photos as stock, any logos and trade-marked materials must be taken out of the picture. This article shows you how to remove these materials using Photoshop.
How to Win an Editor with Your Headline
Headlines are designed to grab your attention and draw you in. Yet most travel writers all but ignore this aspect of their stories when they send them to an editor. Here are a few tips from freelance writer Jennifer Stevens on how to increase your article sales.
How to Reach an Editor
You should always submit your story or your query for your story with a well-targeted headline on it. You want it to catch the editor’s eye and show him, immediately, what your article is about. It’s one of the most effective ways to distinguish yourself from the bulk of other writers also submitting material.
FEATURED PUBLICATION: Connecting: Solo Travel News
Wanted: Veteran Solo Traveler Experiences By Roberta Beach Jacobson in Karpathos, Greece After a year spent on her around-the-world solo journey, editor, Diane Redfern established a solo travel network in 1990. Connecting: Solo Travel News, a bi-monthly newsletter, is her flagship publication. Subscribers can receive it either in print via the mail or online, in…
Photo Tip: Think Clorox Bleach — A Lesson in Photo Copyright Law
SHOOT CLEAN: HOW TO GIVE STOCK AGENCIES THE “PRODUCT ANONYMITY” THEY WANT If you’re thinking about shooting photos for stock agencies, they have to be clean. And by that I mean, Clorox clean. No, there is no need to run out and buy Clorox. But if you’re photographing a bottle of Clorox, the word “Clorox”…
$1,300 in Two Hours Selling Photos Locally
Professional photographer Rich Wagner called yesterday to say that he had made $1,300 from a photo he snapped just two hours before our call. Of course, I congratulated him. But I thought, “That’s not something our readers can expect to do, right? Or is it?”
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Exposure to 3 Million Readers Every Month — and a Hidden Perk, Too By Roberta Beach Jacobson in Karpathos, Greece Madelyn Miller is a food, wine, and travel writer. If you live in the Dallas area, you may know her as the TravelLady — a moniker she earned offering travel tips and advice on KDFW-TV,…
Photoshop Tip: Making Color Corrections
While you’re limited to fixing the color cast of photos in your camera, corrections to the light can be made post-process using color correction in Photoshop.
Photo Tip: The Shady Side of a Cow
See this cow: click here This is a picture that was submitted for this month’s photo challenge — Home Sweet Home — by one of your fellow readers. You might recall earlier this year we talked about how different light has different qualities. (See: Understanding Light for a refresher). One of those qualities is the…
Photoshop Tip: Adding Spot Coloring to Black and White Photos
By using layering in Photoshop, you can spot color simple black and white photos to give your images a little more pop and contrast.
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