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Flying Money: History of a Best Selling Stock Photo
Flying Money, My First Photoshop Stock Photo
I noticed, when looking through my sales history, that many of my images have a very long life. The above image of flying money, which I named many years ago, Flight of the Greenbacks, is one of those long-lived pictures. It brought in just under $400.00 over the last year.
Now $400.00 in a year for a stock photo is hardly what one would call spectacular, hardly worth mentioning, I suppose. But the cool thing about this image earning that amount over the last year is that I created this image in 1990! This image was, I believe, the first stock photo I ever created in Photoshop.
Hundred Dollar Bills and Wings of Egrets
I photographed the money, a $100.00 bill, with a 4x5 Sinar camera using Ektachrome 4x5 transparency film. The wings came from a 35mm slide of an Egret in flight that I had photographed for part of a housing project brochure. I photographed the Egret using either Ektachrome or Kodachrome slide film, I don't remember which.
The cloudy sky image was also from a 35mm slide. I had all the transparencies scanned on a drum scanner at a separation house. It cost me a hefty $110.00 a scan, and each scan was transferred to me via SyQuest disk.
Photoshop 1.0 and a Macintosh II
I used Photoshop 1.0 for the digital work on a Macintosh II. My machine had a whopping 32 megs of Ram and a un-calibrated 13 inch monitor. In Photoshop, back then, there were no layers, there was no history, there were no layer masks and there wasn't even a pen tool to create clipping paths (at least at don't remember one).
It took me two full days to create this image, and probably a third day of just cleaning up edges. Trying to get things perfect was the difficult part. Well, that and the fact that everything took forever to do! Rotating a 30 megabyte file took over half-an-hour, and since all you could see during the duration was a bounding box, accuracy was non-existent! I don't even like remembering it.
Finally, I had to deliver the image to Tony Stone Images (this was before Getty Images existed) as a 4x5 transparency output from a film recorder.
$15,000.00, Fifteen Years, and a Time Magazine Cover
Though the earnings of this image have dropped considerably, way back in the day, it earned some good money. I would guess my total returns for this image is in the neighborhood of $15,000.00.
Another interesting point is that it took fifteen years from the time I created it for it to show up on the cover of Time Magazine. The people at Time isolated the flying money and added in a face to illustrate an article on what they called "The Great Retirement Rip Off".
Photoshop, Progress Bars and 3D Programs
In the early nineties I was constantly being told that you couldn't use Photoshop to do professional level work. I just smiled and went back to watching that progress bar. Actually, I should say several progress bars.
You could be much more efficient with two or three machines. I remember once using the "radial>zoom>blur" filter on a photograph in an operation that took 19+ hours to finish, then it didn't look very good so I did the old "command-z". I suppose there are those out there (Colin Anderson, Shalom Ormsby and Phil Banko, for example?) who now experience those same situations doing high-end work with 3D programs.
Income Producing Assets
Every time I set about to make a stock photo, I am trying to create an image with that kind of staying power. In the well-known investment book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki advocates investing your money in “income producing assets”.
That is how I view my stock photos, as income producing assets. I am investing my time, my money and my ideas in stock photo assets. I don’t know about you, but I find it very reassuring that those assets can still, even in these years of industry turbulence, have a long and healthy life.
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Adding wings Photo Manip Tutorial OR Help?
>< What a horrible title.
Anyways, I've finally decided to work on my blending skills in Photoshop and I decided the best way to go was to practice while I was making a picture for my pegasus character, Savynia.
I found the perfect grey Andalusian horse picture, so all I need is instruction on how to add wings.
I have a couple pictures of doves' wings and snowy owl wings that I plan on using, but now I just need help on how to add them, blend them, make them look real and all that.
So....help?
Know of a tutorial or wanna guide me through this?
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THANK YOU (:
here a google search of youtube vids...i've found some good ones before
http://www.google.com/search?q=photoshop&oi=navquery_searchbox&sa=X&as_sitesearch=youtube.com&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3A*%3AIE-Address&rlz=1I7GWYE
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Matt Wertz Weights & Wings Photoshoot with Steven Taylor
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Are we getting anything out of all of the rear wing car spoilers?
If you're one among the lucky ones caught cruising around Woodward inside a new Camaro, Charger, or Mustang, you may have already gotten the back end spoiled! With Auto Spoilers available now for nearly any automobile, you don't necessarily have to be driving one of these great hot rods, to have a spoiler dressing up your ride!
Spoilers are an additional illustration of auto parts that have originated on the race track. Made to help "spoil" the unfavorable air movement across the back end of the motor vehicle on race cars, the spoiler's job was to keep the car down on the track. Further, they added stability, cornering, and aerodynamics to the race cars, creating a complete new dimension in the wacky world of auto racing.
Including a spoiler to a street vehicle is possibly far more for appearance than anything, but nonetheless they do their part to help keep these automobiles a lot more secure while enhancing their fuel efficiency. You are able to find numerous options with the spoiler out on the market nowadays - most generally OEM, Customized, Universal, and Higher Rise or Specialty.
The OEM Spoilers are replicas or replacements of the original factory jobs. Assured to match, they appear precisely the same as the picture in the car brochure. Whether you happen to be replacing a broken one in particular or adding one to a rear deck where there was none, they're one of the most popular.
Following those will be the Customized Spoilers, that are usually designed to suit a particular make and model automobile, but will not be replicas like the authentic factory ones. These tend to permit the customizer who wants a little more oomph on his ride to accomplish that. They are also assured to fit, which can be most helpful.
The Universal Spoilers are just what the name sounds like - one particular dimension piece fits all. They may be made in a very specific design or shape, but without make and model differences. You'll need to perform some careful measuring with these to insure they fit properly across the back of your particular automobile.
Finally, the High Rise or Specialty Spoilers would be the huge dudes that sit higher up off the deck lid. Take a trip down Memory Lane back to the 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona, and its mammoth rear spoiler. Like them or not, they're popping up once again, everywhere, primarily on the smaller compact rides.
The moment you've figured out which spoiler is appropriate for you personally, you many commence shopping the net for the best choice, lowest prices, and greatest matches for your vehicle. You will find plenty of excellent suppliers and aftermarket merchants on line that can guide you toward the car spoiler of your dreams. Surprisingly enough, many can be found to answer questions and offer installation hints or guidelines. So whatever rear spoiler you're after, you'll find individuals out there that will help you get yours put together - folks who already have one particular like yours, people with photos of them, or instructional vid clips on putting them on. Be brave. Check it all out. And don't allow anything to spoil your fun!
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