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4 Popular Online Services for Photographers to Make Money Easily

In our earlier post was had covered some Impressive Photoshop Tutorials. While most of them click photos as their pastime, there are services where you could make money by selling your photos by just few clicks. These sites have pictures with professional quality and are quite popular where buyers visit quite often.

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In this post we have covered the top online services where you could sell your photo by just uploading. While the services take care of printing the photos and shipping to the buyers, they charge a marginal fee from the price tag on the photo.

Here is a list of four services where you can sell your photos.

1. photo4me.com

Photo4me is an online gallery that currently has over 3000+ photographers selling 10K+ photos as posters. You can register here and put your photos for sale by just uploading it into the different categories provided.You photo will be sold with many finishes like Posters, Canvas wraps, or with acrylic modern styles. They are made available in all sizes and also services large amount of prints.

2. ShutterPoint

You can become a member on ShutterPoint.com and start selling stock images in just 3 steps: Open an account, upload the images and start earning. ShutterPoint boasts of providing the highest payout rate on the internet while selling your photos.

3. PhotographersDirect

Photographers Direct is a photographic portal to help picture buyers and researchers find suitable. The photographers receive 80% of the sale price of their images (through an agency they normally receive 50%, through sub-agencies they may receive as little as 8% of the sale price!).

4. Fotomoto

Fotomoto enables photographers to sell photos on their own website without sending their customers elsewhere. If you are a photographer or you operate a website with a big photo inventory, Fotomoto helps you monetize your photos and sell them in a professional way — on your own website. You will sell without any hassle. Fotomoto takes care of everything: processing orders right on your website, processing payments, making print (or other products based on your photo), and shipping it to the customers on your behalf.

How To Create Most Real Looking Fake Magazine Covers Easily?

We had earlier features top 10 online services to create fake magazine covers. Here we present the pioneer who not only introduced the services of Fake Magazine, but also creates covers that are most “real-looking”. It has be to, after all these covers are made by human beings who take extra care unlike online service that uses automatic software. We say pioneers because they first introduced fake covers on wwww.YourOwnFrontPage.com website back in year 2007 then published FakeMagazines.com in November 2007.

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Here are some of the features that you would agree are way beyond other similar services available on the web.

  • Covers are made by human beings so that captions are positioned not to hide main subject and some other design imperatives that no automatic/blind software could perform.
  • They check and correct typos and most common mistakes unlike the automated software that do not have the intelligence
  • Artists who create the magazine covers use the well-known www.wordreference.com for spell checks of uncommon words
  • The main subject is cut-out so it partially covers the magazine name just like a real magazine
  • As the covers are created by real human beings, they would check the quality of the picture and offer a replacement of the picture when the uploaded picture is small, blurred or lack resolution
  • They also perform picture like brightness, contrast and color balance adjustments, rotate image so horizon and level, teeth whitening, red eyes correction, removal of picture date etc that not provided by other services available on the web
  • Once the cover is delivered, any changes within the original order’s parameters are done for free of charge
  • They issue a refund to unsatisfied customers even after the delivery of the covers. Well having said that there have not been more than 10 refunds in the past 2 years! This speaks about the quality of the work and customer satisfaction
  • They are pretty quick in processing the orders. All orders get processed within 24 hours, except for very few occasion during Sundays and major holidays

Above all, they have an excellent customer feedback on the quality of their services, their clients love their work and like to work with them again. There are over 200 different magazine cover samples that you can checkout on the site. Here are some of their samples.

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Checkout more samples from their gallery. Try fakemagazines.com and we are sure you would be delighted with their service.

20 Stunning Still Life Photographs

For many years, many artists have depicted still life scenes i.e arrangements of inanimate objects, in paintings and photography. One of the best way to sharpen your photographic skills is shooting still life subjects, as you have all the time in the world to spend with your subject. Its very important to have a good composition, framing and lighting to transform your still life into a great photo. Here we present some great still life photographs from various photographers that will inspire you to try some still life photographs on your own. The copyright of these photos are owned by the respective artists/photographers.

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1. Photo By: Sergei Sogokon

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2. Photo By: Piotr Kowalik

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3. Photo By: Robert Ottohall

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7. Photo By: kevsyd

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8. Photo By: bill.lepere

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9. Photo By: Sofia Doncheva

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10.  Photo By: Lyubov Pimenova

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11. Photo By: S.B

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12. Photo By: Paul Photographer

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13. Photo By: Irina No

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14. Photo By: Lászlo Baranyai

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15. Photo By: edwindejongh

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16.  Photo By: Brian Naughton

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17. Photo By: Charles Grixti

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18. Photo By: Lena Friess

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19. Photo By: Thomas Daly

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20. Photo By: Naseer Fedaee

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50 Refreshing Bing Wallpapers For Nature Lovers

If you are fascinated by the stunning wallpapers on the Bing, then here is a collection of 50 spectacular wallpapers for those who love nature. Bing wallpaper images are copyright to their respective owners

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Creating Polaroid Effect Easily

We previously talked about 20 Impressive Photoshop Photo Editing Tutorials and some Terrific Tutorials in Flickr.

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All those photo tutorials need some hands on skills on photo shop. Here is an easy way to create Polaroid effect on your photo as easy as creating fake magazine covers.

Though there are so many tutorials available to create Polaroid effect, nothing can be as simple as Rollip.

Rollip provides an easy 2 steps approach.

First step it provides an option to enter a text or decoration on your photograph. You can skip this step if you do not want to add a text or decoration.

Second step, you just upload the photo and its done. The Polaroid is ready!

Download the photo or share the URL with your friends.

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If you like this, try it out and consider making a donation to Rollip
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