Learn photoshop from David Nightingale - Chromasia Photoshop Tutorials
This is the first post in a series about using SEO to improve traffic to your photoblog.
I think that I am making a fair statement when I say that the majority of traffic that arrives at most photoblogs is from comments made on other photoblogs. While this is a proven method of generating traffic, wouldn’t your time be better spent processing new images or actually behind the camera?
I spent some time today contemplating the two biggest issues that face photobloggers as their photoblogs 1) start to grow and 2) more people find out about them. The first problem is the space requirements associated with storing all your images on your hosting account. Simply put, photos take up space. This isn’t a problem when you are getting started, but as you continue to add images to your photoblog space can quickly become an issue. Add to this that there seems to be a “size arms race” when it comes to the sizes of images people are publishing and you can see how this is going to become a problem for quite a few folks in the near future.
Last night, I had received a great email from a reader, and it really got me thinking about blogging and in particular photoblogs.
“…folks who visit my photoblog regularly and comment are generally those whose blogs I previously visited and commented on first.”
If I asked you to make a list of your favourite photobloggers, I am sure that Chromasia would show up on that list at some point, and if I felt like betting on it, I bet that it would show up quite high. David has been running a tutorial program where he lets you peer into how he uses photoshop to create the images that we all know and love. I signed up ages ago, and continue to look forward to the new tutorials and use the existing ones as a constant reference. I recommend that you check it out Chromasia Photoshop Tutorials
I am sure that you won’t be disappointed in the results.
** UPDATE: Demand for Photoshop tutorials by chromasia has been so high that David is going to raise the prices for the tutorials in order to offset his increased hosting costs. Sign up now before the price increase! **
Found an interesting article about Flickr and it’s API.
If you have a Flickr account you should read this article!
If you have your own photoblog and/or enjoying cruising the ‘net looking at other peoples work and haven’t heard of PicLens at this point, all I can say is where the heck have you been?
If you run your own photoblog why not consider extending it with PicLens? There’s a Wordpress plugin available for all you WP junkies, and you can also extend PixelPost.
If you would like to see PicLens in action, I recently extended my Behind the Lens photoblog.
While reading my numerous RSS feeds this morning I came across an interesting article by Rob Haggart at A Photo Editor about Alan Taylor and The Big-Picture blog he created for the Boston Globe’s website Boston.com and it got me thinking about the typical size of photographs that are published on people’s photoblogs.
Why don’t we publish images with larger dimensions? Very few photoblogs that I have come across publish images with the largest dimension being larger than 700px, the images on Big Picture have a dimension of 990px!
I was lucky enough to have registered for the one and only Kelby Training Seminar stop in Toronto for 2008, and let me just say that I am glad that I did! This year, we were treated to the very talented Ben Willmore and I can honestly say that the crowd of what I would estimate to be around 700+ attendees was completely captivated not only by Ben’s casual speaking style, but also his extreme grasp of all things Photoshop CS3.
If you have the chance to catch Ben in any other city I would highly recommend attending.
The only complaint that I could possibly come up with is the fact that Kelby Training only comes to our fine city once a year.
Here’s a full list of all upcoming Kelby Training Seminars
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