Photo Suite Test Drive
Do you find yourself wanting to get behind the wheel of one of those fancy new software suites but can’t afford it? Here is an online option to try a sample Adobe installation and test out some of the fancy photo editing software your competitors use.
Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 8 software combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look extraordinary, share your life stories in unique print creations and web experiences, and easily manage and protect all your photos and video clips. Trial users can download a trial version and put their skills to the test and see if the difference if worth investing in the software.
Make sure you have enough memory and the system requirements match. Line up some great shots for processing and filtering. Be sure to package all shots exiting the trial in a format you can access after the trial expires. Read the tutorials and learn the proper way to edit images.
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Photo Opportunity: generic shots of your kitchen implements guest starring various spices, herbs, and proteins as if recipes were on the horizon. Cooking sites, appliance sites, recycling and housewares, and diet and information sites are everywhere. Photograph finished dishes with wines and colorful place settings and cookware. Get used to ‘packaging” your materials.
Winter is a season where every recipe gets hauled out, polished up and improved. As shows like Top Chef, Kitchen Nightmares, Martha Stewart Living, and Hell’s Kitchen show, people care about food and how to make it. That means websites featuring every sweet and savory, gourmet and diet recipe will be disseminating through the email soon.
Get prepped and start getting images for just about every combination of food and implements for recipe and cooking blogs and websites. Group items by color, complementary color patterns, shapes, and brand. get used to making very commercial and slick images but also very “homey” and hearth style appeal shots as well.
Photo Opportunity: How To Images
People need to know how to do things from hanging picture frames to installing painting ceilings to racking dishes in the dishwasher most efficiently. If there is a crafting, hardware, or specialty slant to any activity, build a small suite of images showing the accessories, the project partway, or brush methods or angles of drilling.
Assignment: Pick a household or garden chore and stage and snap all the steps. Edit the suite to form a mini-article. Captions will tell the tale. Post the images for sale at the appropriate online domainers forums.
