Season 02 Episode 9
– Oct 08, 2019
48:03
Show Notes
Photography and Stock Photos
In this episode Sean and Mike discuss the ins and outs of photography and stock photos for your website. How to choose imagery, where to find it, how to edit it and more.
Show Notes
- How to choose the correct image
- style of photo - illustration? black and white? bright? dark? mood?
- Be aware of authenticity
- cropping photos
- Where to find images or photos
- Tips for taking your own photos
- licensing and model releases
- comments from Lyndon Johnson, John Morton, and Ben Parizek
- how to edit photos
- How to use some native tools on your Windows or Mac computer to make basic edits to a photo.
- The rule of thirds
- focal points and cropping
Show Links
- Headset Hotties
- Sean's Photo Blog
- Istock Photo (paid)
- 123 RF (paid)
- Adobe Stock Photos (paid)
- Unsplash
- Burst Shopify
- Pixabay
- Public Domain Archive
- Pic Jumbo
- Pexels
- Flat Icon
- Streamline Icons
- Undraw
- Envato
- Vecteezy
- Vexels
- Flickr
- Sean's Company Blog
- Photoshop
- Affinity Photo
- On1 Photo Raw
- Improve Your Composition With the Rule of Thirds
- Canva (paid)
- Pixlr
- Thomas Yu
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Season 02
- 1 Season 2 Introduction
- 2 Web Hosting 101
- 3 How to Choose a Web Developer or Agency
- 4 How Much Does a Website Cost
- 5 Web Jargon Part One
- 6 Web Jargon Part Two
- 7 Minimal Viable Product
- 8 Copy Editing and Copy Writing
- 9 Photography and Stock Photos
- 10 Ecommerce with Shopify
- 11 Season 2 Recap and Season 3 Teaser