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Jason Mraz is a Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter, and musician. He is also a humanitarian, using his popularity to support several important causes. He recently released his latest single, I Won’t Give Up . It is a preview of his upcoming album titled Love Is a Four-Letter Word expected to be released on May 8, 2012. How will the single be marketed? Jason Mraz understands the power of photos when it comes to marketing. He already has a large following of iPhone users on Instagram... Read Full Story

Before this past week, I have never done post-processing of my photos beyond simple tasks.  I limited myself to cropping, rotation and exposure.  The photo editing software I use is much more capable, but I had not learned to use these capabilities effectively. Training books and programs I have tried in the past were either too complicated or required too much of a time investment.  You see, I have a son who is an expert at post-processing photos.  It was easy to get the work done when it... Read Full Story

As a form of socially conscious investment, microfinance is an increasingly popular option for people who want to do something good – and there is plenty of scope to get involved. One study by Unitus found that up to 80% of the potential microfinance market had still not been reached, so there is clearly still a lot of work to be done. A lot of this is due to the fact that the key targets of microfinance charity are primarily poor, rural and often hard to reach. So, if you are interested in... Read Full Story

All of us have had the experience of shooting photos just to find out they look blurry or too soft. In almost all cases, the reason for the poor photo is camera movement. When the camera moves while the shutter is open the result is a soft or blurry photo. Usually camera movements are small and for that reason in high shutter speeds the camera does not have an opportunity to move enough. However, in some scenarios such as when a slow shutter speed is required or high zoom is used, even the... Read Full Story

Online photo sites have improved tremendously over the years. However, with those improvements come other changes. Picnik is a popular online photo editing site. It is free and full of features. Picnik is integrated with Flickr (owned by Yahoo!) to give users an easy editing capability from that photo sharing website. Picnik is the online photo editing software I use when editing on my desktop or laptop is not needed. Picnik became a part of the Google family in 2010. Picnik recently... Read Full Story

If there's a charity that's close to your heart, you've probably put at least some thought into raising money for it.  Sadly, in today's economic climate, it's hard to find people willing to donate to good causes.  It's not that people don't want to help - but there's not much in the way of spare money floating around these days, and people are constantly being bombarded with requests to sponsor charity runs, donate to raffles, pledge on someone's JustGiving page, or sign up for a monthly... Read Full Story

A couple of weeks ago I went on the website of a nonprofit organization.  I was there to register as a volunteer wanting to help. One of the questions asked was what area I wanted to do volunteer work.  The options I could choose from were in a drop-down menu.  The options were a list of acronyms.  I was required to select one in order to submit my request to volunteer.  I only knew what a couple of the acronyms in the list stood for (and neither were in the area I was desiring to support... Read Full Story

Composition is one of the most essential elements to taking great photographs. It can either make or break a photo. One of the popular and effective concepts to support the composition of your photos is the rule of thirds . Rule of Thirds Definition Using the rule of thirds means to divide the scene into thirds horizontally and vertically, like having a tic-tac-toe game printed right on your camera lens. You then place your subject or element of interest along one of these lines... Read Full Story

One way to market with your photos is to use them in blog posts. Creating and posting on a blog is a great way to market your products and services. If your idea of a blog does not include the ability to make money, consider this quote from one of Dr.Mani’s blog posts, A Little Known Secret About Creating A Blog : “Today, you’d be hard pressed to find even a magazine with professional journalists running a blog without ads or other ways to monetize it. In fact, these days blogging is... Read Full Story

In the first 4 parts to this blog series, you learned the basics needed to market your business through photo sharing websites. If you have not absorbed this information and posted your first photos, do that now. The purpose of this post is to encourage you to use an asset you have that is usually overlooked when promoting your newly created photo webpages on these photo sharing sites. That asset is all of the people who are excited about what you are doing and want you to grow and succeed... Read Full Story