vcdc | visual communication designers' club 20 Marketing Questions Self-Published Authors Must Answer If you’re a self-published novelist, your line of books is your small business. Like any small business, you need a marketing strategy. There are lots of marketing activities that you can engage in to promote your book, but before you start doing any of them, take the time to think like a marketer by asking yourself these 20 questions. Your Audience 1. 2. 3. Your Competition 4. 5. Your Identity 6. 7. 8. Your Marketing Activities 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Your Line of Books 15. 16. Support 17. 18. 19. 20. Once you answer these questions honestly and fully, you can begin to make a marketing plan for your novel. Image via Shutterstock. Related Posts:
Paj's Home: Cryptography: JavaScript MD5 MD5 is a secure hash algorithm. It takes a string as input, and produces a 128-bit number, the hash. The same string always produces the same hash, but given a hash, it is not generally possible to determine the original string. This site has a JavaScript implementation of MD5, and some other secure hash algorithms. Protecting Passwords Without protection, passwords are vulnerable to network sniffing. Generating Passwords Most people have accounts on many different web sites. Self-Decrypting Pages Internet email messages are vulnerable to interception and generally considered unsuitable for confidential communication. Demonstration hex_md5("message digest") = "f96b697d7cb7938d525a2f31aaf161d0"hex_sha1("160-bit hash") = "90d925d853c3d35cd54070bb75280fefad9de9e7" More Information Scripts Download the scripts, see information about their history and future plans, and links to other resources. more... Instructions How to use the scripts to calculate hashes. more... Advanced Authentication Other Uses
30 Remarkable Photography Tutorials Photography as an occupation and a passion is really an extremely intensive matter which deals with a tremendously huge selection of subjects ranging from art and science. It doesn’t matter in which spot you are located on the professional spectrum, there are certainly more simple ways to learn. Most are low in quantities but if you researched them in details, you will find out a great deal of latest tips and hints in relation to taking photographs. In today’s post, we collected some of the latest photography tutorials from around the web which will help beginners and professionals with different shooting techniques. Here are the 30 Remarkable Photography Tutorials for you to master as well as have fun with your passion. Photo Color Correction for the Amateur Photographer In this photography tutorial, you will walk through the editing process of transforming a basic photo into bright and crisp profile shots.Source The Best Way to Learn About Making Portraits The Art Of Travel Photography
How to Create Scotch Tape in Photoshop Welcome to PhotoshopStar.com! If you find this site useful, you might want to subscribe to our free newsletter for updates on our new Photoshop Tutorials and Articles. Are you interested in learning how to make realistic Scotch tape by using Photoshop tools? If yes, then I will teach you how. I got this effect by experimenting. Final Image Preview Resources Annestown Scenery Step 1 First of all create a new document sized 600 x 400 pixels. Step 2 Open a photo and copy it to your canvas. Apply Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options to this layer. Step 3 Now we are going to create the Scotch tape. Remove the selection with Ctrl+D. Gently erase the edges to achieve a similar result to that shown below. Set the opacity to 22% for the current layer. Time to add some defects to make our Scotch tape look realistic. Looks better now, doesn’t it? Step 4 To finish off creating this Scotch tape effect, duplicate the layer using Ctrl+J and change layer mode to Overlay for the copied layer. Final Image
Blocked - The New Yorker “Yesterday was my Birth Day,” Coleridge wrote in his notebook in 1804, when he was thirty-two. “So completely has a whole year passed, with scarcely the fruits of a month.—O Sorrow and Shame. . . . I have done nothing!” Coleridge is one of the first known cases of what we call writer’s block. After the English Romantics, the next group of writers known for not writing were the French Symbolists. It is curious to see this writing inhibition arise in the nineteenth century, for many of the writers of that century, or at least the novelists, were monsters of productivity. Had this advice been given in 1850, it might have been gratefully accepted. In the United States, the golden age of artistic inhibition was probably the period immediately following the Second World War, which saw the convergence of two forces. In today’s psychology of writer’s block, as in today’s psychology in general, the focus is less on the unconscious than on brain chemistry. We will not hear from Ralph Ellison.
Photo Editor | Polarr - Online Photo Editing Re-imagined. Low light astrophotography from the ISS This long video video (25 minutes) by Christoph Malin provides a lot of interesting information on taking photographs from the ISS with Dr. Don Pettit: This entry was posted in Other Nikon stuff and tagged Christoph Malin's timelapse video, Nikon & NASA. Bookmark the permalink. Adobe Photoshop Tutorials from Beginner to Advanced | Psdtuts+ Self Publishing, Book Publishers, Book Printing, How to Publish a Book Free RSS Reader. Read all your feeds online as a single stream. Now with real-time RSS feed search engine | Feedreader.com The Agony and the Ecstasy An Essay on Large Format Photography Why 4x5? I was once asked, during an interview for the Video Journal, (Issue 1, Number 1), why I decided to use a 4x5 camera. My immediate answer was the one you would expect: I use 4x5 because of the superb detail available from such a large original, the superlative lens quality, the movements afforded by a view camera, and so on. Chinle Arch. Later on that same day, while still being interviewed, I found myself under the dark cloth composing an image on the ground glass of my Linhof field camera. For many years I searched for a camera which would give me 4x5 quality without the problems associated with 4x5 cameras: I went from 35mm to medium format to panoramic cameras. I have an entire closet full of cameras to attest to this fact. This last sentence is very important: "to create the photographs I want to create." Finding The Ideal Format In the field of Landscape photography 4x5 is my format of choice. Four Reasons Why I Use 4x5 Lake Powell. My 4x5 Equipment: A Reflective Medium
35 great InDesign tutorials for graphic designers | InDesign Adobe Creative Cloud's digital publishing platform InDesign has a ton of features which makes it essential for everything from brochure design to eye-catching posters; newsprint publications to screen printing. Here we've rounded up the best InDesign tutorials on the web which walk you through a variety of design projects. You're sure to find something here to stretch your skills, either by jumping directly to a section using the menu below, or just by browsing all 47. Getting started with InDesign What is InDesign? If you're an absolute newcomer to InDesign, spend a couple of minutes watching this short tutorial that explains exactly what the software is, its purpose and who uses it. How to get started with InDesign CC In this 43-minute tutorial, worldwide creative suite design evangelist for Adobe Terry White demonstrates 10 things beginners want to know how to do in Adobe InDesign CC. Basic tools overview Working with frames InDesign is all about frames. Working with graphics
OneBookShelf Pricing Data OneBookShelf Pricing (Part Deux) Scott Holden, scott@onebookshelf.com Just a little over a year ago, DriveThruRPG's CEO, Steve Wieck, blogged about pricing strategy for your RPG and RPG-related products. For the past few months, I've been spending a lot of time slicing up all sorts of sales data from our site to get some insight into best practices for our publishing partners. Pricing Basics First off, some things to consider when looking at this data: It is derived from combined sales on our RPG marketplaces from all sales in 2012 and 2013. Anyway, on to the good stuff! Sales by Price Point One of the most common questions we hear from new publishers, and one of our perennial issues for debate internally, is how to price products optimally. Clearly, there are spikes at each of the $5 increments, but that makes perfect sense since those are also the most common price points for products on our site. But of course that doesn't tell the whole story either. Of course there are outliers.