Nikolai Sklobovsky
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As some of you know, I recently shot a Christmas concert at my kids' high school.
I did shoot many similar events before, but it never generated neither traffic, nor sales . The reason was obvious - not many people knew about the pictures.
This time I decided to draw the attention. The band's BBS has been shut down for a few months already, so I decided to use the actual bulletin board - you know, the cork one. All I needed was the actual ad.
I decided to create a collage of all the pictures and provide the link.
I had to collate about a 100 of them. From the bitter experience I knew that I need small versions of pictures. Of course I could use Image Processor, but since I haven't uploaded ALL the pictures I had I'd have to go through the sorting process again. It wasn't too much of a hassle (all the winners were "rated"), but I have chosen the other path
With all the images on my smugmug site and the Star*Explorer on my desktop, I simply used its "download images" feature, and requested custom smaller size images:
Few minutes later all the pictures were on my hard drive. Then I used the trick Marc Muench showed during last summer: I used the Photomerge feature of PS on those smaller images to create a collage. Of course, few images were left out, and i had to manually rearrange a few shots, but, hey, creating a 100-image collage in a matter of a few minutes - that's pretty fast, at least by my standards.
Putting the image into Word doc, adding a link to the website was a totally trivial task. Tomorrow all the band students will see this:
with the link to the website, of course
I do hope it will bring some traffic. And hey - maybe even some sales
I did shoot many similar events before, but it never generated neither traffic, nor sales . The reason was obvious - not many people knew about the pictures.
This time I decided to draw the attention. The band's BBS has been shut down for a few months already, so I decided to use the actual bulletin board - you know, the cork one. All I needed was the actual ad.
I decided to create a collage of all the pictures and provide the link.
I had to collate about a 100 of them. From the bitter experience I knew that I need small versions of pictures. Of course I could use Image Processor, but since I haven't uploaded ALL the pictures I had I'd have to go through the sorting process again. It wasn't too much of a hassle (all the winners were "rated"), but I have chosen the other path
With all the images on my smugmug site and the Star*Explorer on my desktop, I simply used its "download images" feature, and requested custom smaller size images:
Few minutes later all the pictures were on my hard drive. Then I used the trick Marc Muench showed during last summer: I used the Photomerge feature of PS on those smaller images to create a collage. Of course, few images were left out, and i had to manually rearrange a few shots, but, hey, creating a 100-image collage in a matter of a few minutes - that's pretty fast, at least by my standards.
Putting the image into Word doc, adding a link to the website was a totally trivial task. Tomorrow all the band students will see this:
with the link to the website, of course
I do hope it will bring some traffic. And hey - maybe even some sales