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Learn Photoshop Elements – Best Realistic Digital Tattoos

This tutorial covers how to use the displacement map, stroke and levels to make the most realistic tattoos in Photoshop Elements.

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blinkx Partners with Diagonal View, the World’s Biggest Independent Producer of Digital Video Content
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Photoshop: Digital Tattoos in Photoshop

Photo Taken by: Katie Tegtmeyer Use Photoshop to digitally add a tattoo to your model! For more tutorials, head to www.tutcast.com Music: Kevin MacLeod

WAYS TO START YOUR OWN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHIC BUSINESS! (Part Seven)

Your own digital, photography based, home business could start here. . .

*  HOLIDAY PHOTOS.  Holiday photos can be sold to holiday companies, or agents who supply holiday companies. I am presuming here that you have some skill with a camera, but don’t think you have to be a pro. If the shot is unusual or humerous, some degree of imperfection can be corrected or overlooked. A lot more instant capture, on the run stills and videos are making it onto the front page, or tv screen now as advertisers try to get more ‘real’. Also remember there is quite an industry surrounding the holiday companies too, car hire, golf courses, hotels, to name a few. Always have your camera ready and don’t discard that shot out of the plane window too quickly. Someone may want it, the inflight magazine for example.

*  BROCHURES.  Brochures are everywhere for every type of business. With your computer you can not only provide the pictures, but the rest of the brochure. Brochures, flyers, business cards are all commonplace business promotional items, but what about specialising? Become the brochure king in your area, with not only competitive prices, but extra personal service, do a bit more than your competition and see the difference.

*  STOOLS.  I’m not talking animal droppings here! But stools you sit on, in your kitchen, at a fast food outlet. You can easily personalise them, or make them into a great promotional item for bars, restaurants and burger joints. You can either supply the graphic for them to apply, or source some stools of your own and offer the complete finished product. This would offer you more room for profit.

*  TRAYS.  You have probably seen stacks of trays in cafeteria style eating places which are just plain brown. Isn’t that a great place for a message? Special offers, or to reinforce the company message. Care homes, day centres, how many trays do you think are out there?

*  VIDEO COVERS.  I know we are all into dvd’s now, but videos still exist! Video outlets, second hand video outlets  wedding videos, personal collections, promotions, there are millions of kids videos out there who have lost their covers. Investigate the market, someone will.

*  VASES.  These are great for adding photographs to, both inside and out, just takes some imagination. How many plain vases do you see. Look in a flower shop, they need something extra, that excites and entices the people in, not to say promotes the shop as well.

*  PENS.  Pens are amongst the cheapest items to use as promotional items. They can be given away by the box full, for less than a short newspaper ad. And carry on working long after. Pens with pictures on invite further investigation than ones with just words. How many words does a picture paint?

*  DOOR KNOB HANGERS.  You know the ones you hang on hotel room doors, do not disturb and the like. There’s a big market right there, B&B’s, office blocks, millions of doors out there. Not to mention doors in the home, ‘keep out’ with a scary photo of little angel!

*  CEREAL BOXES.  You can get printed well known cereal boxes with your own photo on. Hotels and guest houses again spring to mind, but what about in the home, to help the kids eat up those healthy cereals?

*  FINGERNAIL DECALS.  This is a great one on its own, but would go even better with temporary tattoos. Can be sold with a general image on, or maybe on behalf of a manufacturer. Personalised ones could be offered by mail, or with a booth in a shopping centre. You decide.

This is just to get your creative juices going and your brain storming with ideas! The internet has opened up a never ending need for images, of anything and everything. Stock photography has changed, gone are the highly professional, large format shots of models and beaches, that had to be technically perfect, well they are not gone, but they are not the only opportunities for aspiring photographers who want to make a living with their hobby, their passion. Images that you would’nt believe started life as a photograph end up everywhere these days and the ability to transform these images is available to everyone, and in the comfort of their own home.

Don’t forget a lot of well known high street businesses started life on a kitchen table, why not yours?

WAYS TO START YOUR OWN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHIC BUSINESS! (Part Five)

, Your own digital, photography based, home business could start here. . .

*  TEMPORARY TATTOOS.  People love tattoos, kids love them, but after a while they lose their novelty. Thats where temporary tattoos are king! You can remove them, or they wear off. Apart from a personalised service, tattoos of loved ones, pets etc, how about a mobile service? Track meets, races, football, fairs, carnivals, markets. Add it to cartoons as well, with the right media, a camera and a printer you are in business.

*  LIGHT SWITCH COVERS.  You have seen the plastic light switch covers in hardware stores. Well how about making your own, either a cut out print on its own, or behind the plastic bought cover. Business premises, households, gifts, souvenirs. Advertise in electrical outlets.

*  FAKE HEADLINES.  We have all seen the newspapers (genuine), that were printed on the day people were born. How about copying, (not exactly don’t want to get sued) front pages of newspapers,trade press, magazines? Offer a front page spread of someone’s story on their favourite rag “Cindy Taylor Is 11 Today!” “George Trent Catches Worlds Biggest Fish!” You gert the idea, have some humerous fake news stories to fill out the page.

*  MIRRORS.  Stickers or transparency film work well to liven up ordinary mirrors, can be bought ready to go, made quite cheaply, or picked up for pennies at sales, or markets. A mirror covered with a theme, or personalised as a gift stands out. You can’t buy them. Cat lovers,  fishing nuts, sports, you decide.

*  PHOTOMONTAGE.  You can make great unique works of art here, with many images of a famous place, or any theme you like. Make it big, sell as a poster,or frame it. Keep it on your memory ,as you may need lots of copies!

*  SUNCATCHERS.  Suncatchers, or even dreamcatchers made from transparency film are great selling items. And you can let your imagination go wild on the dreamcatchers. Light landscapes work well on the suncatchers, when they are illuminated by the sun and cast colourful images around the walls. Good for advertising, or themed ones, how about coffee shops?

*  KEYCHAINS.   Personalised keychains, or corporate ones can be made quite inexpensively with oven shrink film. How about hand carwash places as advertising media? Car hire firms, taxi companies, couriers? There are a lot of keys out there, don’t forget the housing market estate agents, rental properties!

*  STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY.   This is a broad subject that includes libraries and agencies. Basically you lodge your best photographic efforts with them and they try to sell it for you with their, hopefully, strong contact base in the publishing industry. For their trouble they take a percentage. This was an area where your work had to be mostly large format and on slides. And technically perfect. A lot has changed with the digital photographic revolution and the arrival of the internet. Most things are digital now and the subject matter is endless, the internet wants pictures of everything. It is still a crowded market though. Why not start your own? Or just have your own website, selling your particular area of interest.

*  BOOKMARKS.   Lots of places to sell these, bookshops have become coffee shops, or is it the other way around? Either way the bookstore owner or coffee purveyor would love the customers to be using their bookmarks.

*  AMATEUR SPORTS.   You have to be careful here, with the privacy laws that exist, for example in swimming pools. But I am sure if you introduced yourself as a budding sports photographer who would make available prints, or downloads for any rising star at a competitive price, you would be welcomed. Especially if you looked the part and acted in a professional manner at all times.

This is just to get your creative juices going and your brain storming with ideas! The internet has opened up a never ending need for images, of anything and everything. Stock photography has changed, gone are the highly professional, large format shots of models and beaches, that had to be technically perfect, well they are not gone, but they are not the only opportunities for aspiring photographers who want to make a living with their hobby, their passion. Images that you would’nt believe started life as a photograph end up everywhere these days and the ability to transform these images is available to everyone, and in the comfort of their own home.

Don’t forget a lot of well known high street businesses started life on a kitchen table, why not yours?

Digital Tattoos in Photoshop

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