Shooting Outside Gallery

This is where I keep my images for customers to view and select for purchase. With a lot of image sharing and selling sites to choose from Imagekind is certainly at the top of my list because of their print standards, as they use top of the line Epson printers. But I recommend them also for their community. Questions are constantly being asked and answered, updates are frequent, and they add improvements much more often now. And they make it easy for someone viewing your work to comment on it, which if you are there for purposes of selling your art, makes it easier for your sales to increase. They also have a display feature which allows for near fault-free framing and matting examples as it might appear in your home. If you'll allow here is an example from one of my Galleries where you can look below Buy A Fine Art Print, and click on Buy a Framed Print and Buy a Canvas Print, to discover how this works. And here's that tool . Imagekind also maintains a blog for artist

Let's take a photo I shot of our cat Rayden. He's slightly large and rather soft looking anyway but we thought we'd like to see an even softer version. So as you can see the original shows quite a lot of the photo in focus save some to the right rear. Understand that for this purpose I am pushing the results to demonstrate how far one can go to get maximum effect. You won't probably go this far, nor would I. Open your photo in PS, make a background copy, by dragging the background image in the layers pallet down to the create a new layer icon, just to the left of the garbage can, and release. You now see a background copy of your original image. Make sure that copy is still highlighted. Go up to Layer> Layer Mask> Reveal All. Next click on the photo so the mask is not highlighted, but the photo to its left, is highlighted. Then to Filters> Blur> Gaussian Blur and choose a rather high blur so that your brushing out the blur will be obvious. Of course this d