My New Book of Images

This is the cover of my new book of images of Stratford-upon-Avon. These are images taken with my own camera.

Whilst I own a sophisticated Panasonic camera, I find the colour palette of my cheap Casio Exilim camera (less than £100) preferable for landscapes and, in particular, the colours of Warwickshire.

If you follow this link https://www.photobox.co.uk/my/creation?creation_id=109456223

you can watch a slideshow of the book. I suggest that you watch them on full-screen.

How can I monetise these?

Stratford-upon-Avon is a tourist town with two big outlets – the Shakespeare Trust and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Would it be conceivable that these oulets could incorporate these images into gift products for the tourists?

Also, there is a weekend market where I could sell these via a stall which would cost around £80 for a day or I could take the cheap route of simply handing out leaflets to a web page where the tourists could order what they want.

I have a store on Redbubble where my images are on a wide variety of gift products – you can see my portfolio here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/markcsalmon/portfolio?asc=u

Mark Salmon – Photo Artist

I have just put the finishing touches to Mark Salmon Photo Artist. This is a website that showcases my expertise with Photoshop and my passion for creating works of art from quite ordinary photographs.

This website is fully responsive so it looks equally as good on a smart phone as it does on a desktop computer!

The interesting thing about many of my personal photographs is that they are taken on a rather ancient Casio Exilim, about the size of a credit card. I slip this into my top pocket whenever I go out and snap what I encounter. I then return to my computer and endeavour to stylise these photographs by improving them in a number of ways.

I justify the time by the fact that websites are very visual by their very nature and skilful use of graphics is a definite advantage when creating marketing media.

I am looking for other ways in which I can monetise this skill because I would be delighted to be able to make a full-time income from this passion of mine.

I have always been interested in art and the many pictures on the walls of my home testify to this fact. At one time I was even importing oil paintings from China!

If you would like to acquire Photoshop skills then you can do no better than invest in my training product Easy Web Page Graphics.

Please let me know what you think about my images at Mark Salmon – Photo Artist!

Am I A Graphic Artist?

I think that I have discovered a graphic artist in myself.

I have always been interested in pictures and art. My house walls are covered in other people’s art that I have acquired over the years!

Also, when I was much younger, I used to enjoy drawing but I gave it up as it did not seem to have much income earning potential as a skill.

In working with Photoshop, I have discovered that I have a passion for working with photographs.

Here are a few examples of pictures taken of my grandchildren and how I have changed them in Photoshop using a combination of Photoshop actions and touching up with Photoshop tools:

Apart from creating a family calendar for Christmas, and using these skills to create graphics for my products, I’m not sure where I am going with these skills! All I know is that I enjoy the technical and artistic challenge of working with graphics like this.

If you have any suggestions as to how I can make a living from doing this I would be very grateful.

Am I graphic artist? I don’t know but all I know is that I really love working with photographs like this – the act of creating something nice is very satisfying.