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Oil painting commissions – Two important lessons

October 26, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Earlier this year an individual commissioned me to do an oil painting. The painting took a few weeks to do but when it was practically finished they decided for whatever reason they did not want to go ahead with the purchase! Lesson learned – Always get a deposit and if possible an agreement in writing [...]

How to stop your online images getting ripped off

September 1, 2010 by · Comments Off
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If you have a website or blog to showcase images of your artwork then one thing you must always do is make sure your online images are saved in a picture format with a small file size. JPEG or JPG is the main one to use as it has a compression feature. This has the [...]

Free image editor

May 13, 2009 by · Comments Off
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These days artists often need to take digital pictures of their work for various purposes, including copyrighting, record keeping or uploading to a website. A common problem can occur after uploading the images to your PC or website – It doesn’t quite look the same. The digital imaging process cannot faithfully reproduce what the human [...]