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 … Read more
Here is a collection of oil paintings of Stratford-upon-Avon that have been compiled in my new book. I have to take my dog for a walk everyday and I take my camera with me. As a result, I have taken numerous pictures of places on my walk and have built up a selection of images … Read more
This is my photo artist review of 2016. I create a book of samples of my work each year, mainly so that I can see how my graphical skills are progressing and to show potential clients. All the images are created from ordinary photos and then stylised using Photoshop, Photoshop Actions and manual editing. I … Read more
Marketing mock-ups are great for branding businesses. These are graphics that enable us to quickly and easily brand our businesses by placing our own logo or branding material into the image. Here are a few examples for a potential new customer I am working on:
I have entered the Envato graphics competition where there is $2,000 in prizes up for grabs. The competition is based around the Flex Photoshop Action. Here are my entries: [before-after viewer_position=”center” is_wiggle=”true”] [/before-after] [before-after viewer_position=”center” is_wiggle=”true”] [/before-after]
I’ve found a good print on demand site at Redbubble.com and I am selling my graphics through this site. Below are a sample of a few of my products: Although I tried to set up a print-on-demand shop through Photobox I did not like their solution. They then decided to outsource their solution to a … Read more
This is my graphics review 2015. In 2015, I took a different direction with my business. It started with my interest in creating better graphics for my websites but gradually the process of creating art-work from any photograph took me over with a passion. Sometimes in life you just have to follow your passion and … Read more
I have been looking for a new way to improve the life of my customers because I pretty much became disillusioned with the value I was offering my clients in the highly competitive niche of internet marketing. I needed to find a new way of progressing my business and in order to do that I … Read more
In one of the sections of his book entitled ‘The Brutal Truth’, John Reese has a sub-heading or chapter with the headline: Mediocre Graphics No Longer Cut It, You Must Use Beautiful Top-Notch Design (No Exceptions). When John Reese says something like this about website design, I listen. Here is a brief description of his … Read more
I have been working on a new product – it’s called Easy Actions – which is all about using Photoshop Actions to make stunningly beautiful graphics. In this article I want to cover: why this product is important what it does how you can do it where and when you can get it Why Easy … Read more
Peter Lik has received $6.5m for one photograph. Here is a link to his website. Here is a link to the article, which also reveals that he sold 2 further photographs to the same collector for $1.1m and the other for $2.4m. That’s $10m in total! Having looked at Peter Lik’s work on his website, … Read more
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! … Read more
I have created a new product called Easy Banner Graphics over the course of the last 3 days. This product was created quite by chance when I saw another banner template for sale and thought that I could create something that was more valuable. I have created 10 Photoshop files covering 10 standard sizes for … Read more
Email Swipe Generator is a new product that is being launched shortly by two of my fellow coaching students – Daniel Madeira and Scrembo. Their expertise is in solo ads and email marketing. They commissioned me to set up a membership site for them and to integrate the site with JVZoo so you can look … Read more
When I take our dog for a walk, I slip a small camera into my pocket and simply snap the scenes of Stratford-upon-Avon that I see. When I return home, I quickly upload the pictures to my computer and process them through Photoshop. I use a combination of Photoshop Actions and ‘play’ with the images … Read more
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 … Read more
I think this could be the ultimate key to your branding success and, by association, your business and monetary success (and mine!) Please don’t read this and move on before you have taken some time out to think about how this applies to you and your business. I had a kind of epiphany last night … Read more
Marketing and branding is enhanced by design skills, so I have been quietly developing my Photoshop skills – particularly using Photoshop Actions to create engaging graphics. Creating graphics is a very desirable skill in website design and it can be expensive and frustrating to outsource. My coach advocates that we should outsource of graphics because we … Read more
Today I updated my resume using Photoshop and then converted it to a PDF – if you are interested, you can download it by clicking on the image below:
This post is about why I re-designed this website. This is how my website looked before the changes – pretty radical, huh! – I was running my site on the Optimise Presss 1.0 theme but this theme is not responsive. Whilst it has many good features, website design has moved on and I guess that … Read more
My latest client website, Tiger Feet, was a super-quick WordPress website build. My client rang me at lunch time, I started work on it at around 4 p.m. and later that evening I sent the first draft of the site to my client. This client is a young lady named Emma Breeze. About 4 years … Read more
Instatheme launches today (6th March 2014 @ 11 a.m. EST or 4 p.m. GMT) and I will be investing in it and offering a bonus. I have been using Instabeauty, one of the themes packaged with the Instatheme launch, on two of my membership sites – marksalmon.info and businesscreationmastery.com. There are 8 or 9 design … Read more
I have been exploring Photoshop Actions recently and, because I share what I am doing to build my business, I thought that I would share this with you. Part of the reason for playing around with Photoshop is that I am creating a product called Easy Web Page Graphics sharing what I know about how … Read more
In this video I outline a source of free graphics that you may have overlooked. In fact it is a completely authentic and engaging source of graphics that will be great for your personal branding. It is easy to build up a nice library of graphics that you can use in future projects and they … Read more
I like playing with logo design concepts and I have just bought a package that enables me to play around with any logo to create different logo designs. Using Photoshop actions, it is easy to get some stunning logo effects and to create something quite sophisticated. I have basically created a number of logo concepts … Read more
