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Creating A Portfolio

 I have been working on this idea and found this link helpful. 

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/portfolio-8.shtml

 Article and Photographs by: Alain Briot

Introduction

Creating a portfolio of your work is one of the most important things you can accomplish as a photographer. Unfortunately, relatively few photographers create portfolios because they find the process daunting or think their work is not good enough to be included in a portfolio. Others squirm at the idea they will have to review thousands of photographs taken over many years. Yet others do not know how to select photographs for a portfolio. Finally, there are those who believe that a portfolio cannot be created by themselves, that such an endeavor has to be conducted under the control of a museum or a gallery or needs to take place in the context of a retrospective of the artist’s work.
While these concerns are fair, let me start by saying that they are inaccurate. Assembling a portfolio is not the daunting and frightening task it is touted to be. Let’s start by taking a close look at what is a portfolio, proceed to study why it is important to create portfolios of your work, and finally learn how you can create a portfolio of your own work. Throughout this article I will use portfolios I have created as examples

Good Tutorial on Texturing

Flypaper Textures_Learn Texturing with Paul and Jill

 Paul Grand is British but lives in France and Jill (Borealnz) is from New Zealand, they met via Flickr and have been collaborating to create beautiful sets of textures with " how to" explanation an great before and after shots of there work. It is a great teaching blog about texture art. I purchased both sets of high resolution textures and love them because I can experiment following along with their directions and have an idea what the final outcome may somewhat resemble. But remember no two images are the same and every textured piece with have its own personality.
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Making a Musical Slide Show with ClipCook

This is a great quick slide show maker with music . You get the codes from your pictures via Flickr or other sources where you have your images.
You can add it to your facebook page or send emails to friends.
CLIPCOOK LINK

I have made two. Hope you enjoy. To see them click on the links not the images


Click Here "Sail Away with Music"




Clip Andalucia with Music






There is a Group in Flickr where they share and even have contests with the shows.