If you have a Nikon D40/40X, D60, D80, D90, D3000/D3100, D5000/D5100, D7000 then you won’t want to miss this hands-on, information packed workshop exclusively for the Nikon DSLRs.
We will cover the key DSLR features of your camera including :
• Shutter Speed
• Aperture
• ISO
• Metering modes
We will also explore the art of picture taking and review the essentials of a great capture :
• Fundamental photographic concepts
• Creative composition
• Troubleshooting techniques
Finally we’ll take a dive in to the more advanced features such as :
WHAT : Nikon Digital Reboot | DSLR Workshop WHEN : September 17, 2011, 10am – 3pm WHERE: Front Range Community College, Westminster WHO : Nikon D40/40X, D60, D80, D90, D3000/D3100, D5000/D5100, D7000 COST : $99
While there are only a few days left, you can still enter the photography contest hosted by the Westminster Butterfly Pavilion off of US36 about 10 miles east of Boulder and 10 miles north of Denver.
The contest is open to photographs of any insect or spider taken in Colorado. The first place prize is a gift card to Wolf Camera, a $50 gift card to Timbuk Toys and dinner at Hacienda Colorado down the street from the Pavilion.
Entry fee is $2 per image and there will be a contestant reception to announce the winner on August 4.
If you haven’t already heard of Zazzle.com, you should delay no further. It is one of the top online marketplaces for buying and selling cool custom stuff: from stickers, to stamps, cards to calendars, bags to buttons, neckties to t-shirts — their custom product offerings are staggering. While many people on Zazzle.com are creating their customized products merely for fun — a custom postage stamp for save the date cards here or a poster for last year’s favorite vacation photo there — the company has compelling offerings for the artist looking to earn money and grow a customer base around their work.
Getting Started
Zazzle.com requires marketplace sellers to sign up for a free account. The process is fast, easy and simple. Within minutes, you’ll be ready to upload your digital files and begin customizing products. Once your account is created, you will need to first upload your digital artwork files that will populate your images portfolio. Once uploaded, you must create a store that you will sell your custom products through. The store creation process allows you to choose from 20 pre-configured templates or you can customize your own. The basic customization process allows you to change colors and header images for the pages of your store — not only are you provided a basic product page template, but you are also given an “About” page to place information about yourself and your artwork. You will even have a “Fan Club” page for your customer raves and testimonials! One useful feature of the Zazzle.com store model is that you can make the store private, meaning that it will not show up in general searches through the Zazzle.com search engine. This will allow you to customize the store to your liking before you make it available to the public or even build up some excitement around your “launch” date in advance of your store’s public opening.
Costs
Getting started with Zazzle.com costs nothing. There are no upfront setup costs or membership fees. Your store is free to operate and run, furthermore you will pay nothing to host your product images on Zazzle.com. The cost model on Zazzle.com is very simple. Every product has a Zazzle-determined base price and royalty percentage. For example, a 16×20″ poster has a base price of $19.95 and the standard royalty is 10%. That means you will make $1.95 for every sale of that 16×20″ poster. However, Zazzle.com extends the royalty model further by allowing you to “Name Your Royalty”. If you want to make more than the standard 10%, Zazzle.com adds the percentage over 10% to the cost of the item and you take that home. In the case of the $19.95 poster, say you want to make a 30% royalty, the final product price will be $25.65 and your royalty will be $7.69. Zazzle.com will handle the math for you — the key is to price your items fairly.
Getting Paid
Once you have established your public store and Zazzle.com has taken your custom artwork from digital file to final product and collected the customer’s money, it is time for you to collect yours. Once your earnings reach $25, Zazzle.com will begin sending your money on a monthly basis. You can specify whether you want to have your money sent via check or electronically through Paypal.
Is Zazzle For You?
Zazzle.com has many benefits : a free, mature and easy to use system for uploading your artwork and creating a custom turnkey storefront, a large number of products to customize and a generous royalty system that is fair and easy to understand. The Zazzle.com marketplace is huge, with thousands of stores and millions of products, so getting a competitive edge will take some creativity, ingenuity and commitment. A successfully start, will undoubtedly begin with a marketing campaign to bring awareness to your artwork, and once you have a few customers, building from that base will make it easier to sell more by introducing new products and new artwork. If you are an artist looking to get more out of your digital works by selling customized products into the Internet marketplace, Zazzle.com should be on your list as a serious tool to get serious results.
We have a few new courses you should consider and we are soon to be rolling out personalize/one-on-one instruction for folks who want hands-on lessons.
Finally, there will be a new series of small one-off workshops coming in the late winter / early spring, so stay tuned!
Making panoramas in PS Elements 6 has never been easier. This simple tutorial will show you how to get the most out of the Photomerge feature of PSE6 to make high quality panoramas of any style or size.
Space is still available for our new class which is being offered at Front Range Community College, starting next Thursday, June 26.
We’ll be covering the digital workflow, the nitty gritty details of the Photoshop Organizer and dive into some of the advanced management features as well. We’ll wrap up with a survey of editing techniques and end just short of high dive into full editing. We save the details of hard-core editing for the second, follow-on class to be offered sometime in the fall.
This will be an exciting introduction to some of the core features of Elements 6. We’re going to have a lot of fun, and this course should suit the needs of many folks who currently struggle to take control of their images!
