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New premade cover up on Etsy! It's a fantasy cover this time, featuring a woman with a sword advancing on you with purpose. (Also note the nifty 15-sec video I made for it. Etsy really wants us to post videos of products, and I'm guessing that the algorithm pushes items with videos a bit more, so this is a test.)
I think I forgot to mention the science fiction book cover I posted there last week, featuring a stock photo woman holding a gun on a digital background.
I've also started posting digital backdrops and characters for people to use in their own work. There seems to be a reasonably large market for portrait photographers, pro and amateur, to use digital backgrounds to composite their clients into, and I already know there's a book cover market for digital characters and backgrounds, so purchasers get full commercial rights (barring selling the image with no changes to it) as well.
If you wouldn't mind helping me a bit with Etsy, favoriting my shop and/or various items in it pushes them higher in the algorithm, much like thumbs-up and comments on YouTube videos. If you favorite the shop, you'll get notifications when I post something new, and if you favorite items, you'll get notifications when they're on sale (and you might also get a coupon for the item within a few days...at least I've set it to do that, and Etsy occasionally actually sends them). I'm pricing the digital backgrounds and characters with the intention of holding frequent sales for deep percentages off and doing most of their sales at those times.
Also, a tip about Etsy reviews...
Etsy loves five-star reviews so much that anything less than a five-star review pushes the store lower in the algorithm. So if you like a seller you got something from, please do review, especially if the shop doesn't have many sales yet (they really do help, much like on Amazon) but keep in mind that if it's not 5 stars it may hurt them. Yes, I know that's really, really annoying.
I think I forgot to mention the science fiction book cover I posted there last week, featuring a stock photo woman holding a gun on a digital background.
I've also started posting digital backdrops and characters for people to use in their own work. There seems to be a reasonably large market for portrait photographers, pro and amateur, to use digital backgrounds to composite their clients into, and I already know there's a book cover market for digital characters and backgrounds, so purchasers get full commercial rights (barring selling the image with no changes to it) as well.
If you wouldn't mind helping me a bit with Etsy, favoriting my shop and/or various items in it pushes them higher in the algorithm, much like thumbs-up and comments on YouTube videos. If you favorite the shop, you'll get notifications when I post something new, and if you favorite items, you'll get notifications when they're on sale (and you might also get a coupon for the item within a few days...at least I've set it to do that, and Etsy occasionally actually sends them). I'm pricing the digital backgrounds and characters with the intention of holding frequent sales for deep percentages off and doing most of their sales at those times.
Also, a tip about Etsy reviews...
Etsy loves five-star reviews so much that anything less than a five-star review pushes the store lower in the algorithm. So if you like a seller you got something from, please do review, especially if the shop doesn't have many sales yet (they really do help, much like on Amazon) but keep in mind that if it's not 5 stars it may hurt them. Yes, I know that's really, really annoying.
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I need to read the reviews on other people's backgrounds: I found one earlier today that said the grass on the ground was hard to deal with if the photo they were compositing in wasn't taken on grass. I expect that photographer wasn't too handy with Photoshop because masking is simple, but...if that's the market I'm aiming at, I'd better make some backgrounds that don't require masking for the composites!
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