In this video tutorial I'll be covering a topic that I get asked about often: how do I output my images to make them look good on the web and on social media sites like Facebook, Google+, 500px, etc.
We'll be going over two examples, one portrait and one architecture image and cover a number of topics including:
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Building a Facebook Following for Photographers
A little while back I wrote about using Facebook advertising in an effort to increase the number of likes on your Facebook page. My findings for advertising were generally negative and I promised that I would follow up with some alternative ways to help boost your Facebook following organically. If you haven't read the previous post already, I urge you to do so here i[...]
Facebook Advertising for Photographers
Facebook's great claim and the reasoning behind their lofty IPO valuation was that they allow advertisers to specifically target their audience by amassing a huge amount of information about their users likes and interests. When you set up a Facebook ad you quickly learn that this claim is indeed true. During the creation of the ad you're able to drill down to a very [...]
Wordpress on Amazon Web Services Part 1
Now that we've discussed why I chose to go with a Wordpress driven site, let's look at how one would go about hosting it on the web. If your goal is simply to host a blog then you can do so by just setting up an account on worpress.com and have it running on their servers. If however you are planning on launching a portfolio website and having full control over it[...]