Make Money Online With Photoshop

The article, 5 easy ways to make money online with Photoshop by Enrique Flouret, started out with 5 excellent tips on how to earn cash from your Photoshop experience. After some feedback from readers, two additional tips were added to the list. Now, I’m adding three more bonus tips/ideas to the list.

Anyway, I’m going to start with a quick summary of the tips with my thoughts on them. Then, I’ll share three additional ideas for those who wish to look more in to this avenue of making money online (tip #s 8 to 10). Make sure you read the original article as it elaborates on Tip #s 1 to 7.

Tip #1: Create Photoshop brushes or other goodies and sell them online.

An excellent idea. However, this may require a more advanced knowledge of using Photoshop. You will also need to know where and how to sell these products. One option, of course, is to offer them through download sites. Another option is to have your own website where you can sell your creations.

Tip #2: Create your own gift store with your artwork.

If you’re an artist, designer, or slogan-maker, this is one good option. Knowledge of Photoship may range between novice to expert. Anyway, one of the author’s suggestions is to offer stuff via CafePress, of course. But, it also lists other CafePress alternatives, including some of the ones I noted here.

Tip #3: Participate on contests.

Here, the author comes up with a list of places where you can take part in Art/Design contests using Photoshop. Sometimes, the rewards of these competitions are not just monetary. In any case, they can be great fun, useful for building up a portfolio, and may lead to more lucrative jobs

Tip #4: Write your own tutorials.

The basic idea is to set up a website, write tutorials, post them on your site, and put advertising on your site. Nothing revolutionary, but definitely worth considering. It’ll be especially rewarding if you can sell affiliate products that may compliment your income. The author also points you to various tutorial directories where you can submit your articles to increase traffic to your site. Also see: Article Marketing for Your Online Business.

Tip #5: Sell your photographs or illustrations.

Unless you’re going to retouch your photographs, then you might not even need to use Photoshop. Anyway, you can also check out JMMO’s Make Money Online with 5 Stock Photo Sites.

Tip #6: Create and sell your own Photoshop plugins.

Again, like tip #1, it’s definitely a great idea. Even better, since this is something that not many people can do, as it requires a high level of expertise. And, if you can come up with a stellar idea for a plugin, then you can watch your income add up.

Tip #7: Write something that’s cool or unique.

This tip is mostly an extension of tip #4, but instead of submitting your article to tutorial directories and/or coming up with a website filled with articles on Photoshop, this leads to the possibility of just creating a snippet of content on a blog that may be picked up by bigger blogs or sites and linked to.

Now, for my additional tips/ideas:

Tip #8: Offer your Photoshop expertise and be an online tutor.

You can create learning packages and turn these in to an online course, an ebook, or a web workshop. Check out Online Education for some ideas.

Tip #9: Be an “on call expert” or consultant.

If you want to offer your services as a consultant, you can do so using your own resources or third party resources.

Tip #10: Be a Photoshop content provider.

If you’re not keen on creating a full website with plenty of Photoshop tutorials (tip #4), and you want to do more than just write bits and pieces of cool Photoshop stuff (tip #7), then you might want to consider another option if you like the idea of writing. With the advent of blogs and blogging networks, one idea is to come up with a Photoshop (or related broader subject matter) blog and monetise that either on your own as an independent blogger - or as a network blogger where you can possibly get paid on a regular basis for the content you provide. Check out Blogging Jobs from some of these sources.

However, if keeping a blog regularly is too much of a commitment for you, another alternative is simply to write content whenever you have the time or inclination to do so. Of course, the best way to make money from this is to treat it like a freelance writing gig — approach magazines, web publications, etc that may be interested in publishing Photoshop-related articles. Or, if that’s too daunting for you, you can also try using content sites like Constant Content.

So, what do you think? Are you read to go and make some money online using your Photoshop knowledge?

Five Way To Get Money From Internet

Start Making Money Online with your Blog Today Don't know how to blog for money? Not sure where to start? Not a problem - follow this roadmap to making money online with your blog right now! Five Ways to Drive Traffic to your Blog When you blog for money you need to create your own content (and lots of it!), implement advertisement programs like Google AdSense and WidgetBucks, and last but not least – you need traffic. In our offline lives we dread it, but online we embrace it. I want to give you 5 ways to start driving traffic to your blog today. With a little time and patience, you will slowly start to increase your viewer ship. (In no particular order) 5.) Post comments on other blogs. Blogs are everywhere – there’s certainly not a shortage of them. You should have no problem finding other bloggers in your niche that are popular and interesting. Bookmark those that you like, follow their topics daily, and if you find something that sparks your interest – comment. Become a participating voice in the community. The more interesting your comments are, the more likely your peers will follow you to your blog. And who knows – you might stand out among the crowd and be recognized by the author, which can spin off into better opportunities. 4.) Register with blog networks like: Technorati, BlogCatalog, and MyBlogLog It’s important that you get your blog out there for others to see. You can start the process by submitting to search engines, but that’s just the beginning. Technorati, BlogCatalog, and MyBlogLog are just a few of the high profile blog networks on the web. Register with them, network with other people in your releated area, and get your word out. When you register with these services remember a couple of things: 1.) Create a detailed profile. Let people know a little bit about you and draw them in. Without that personal interaction people may flee quickly. 2.) Tag your blog properly. Tags are very important – they’re usually one or two word descriptions of your blog. So for example my blog would fall under categories like: Money, Business, and Finance. Dig around the specific service and look for popular tags and try to use those for your blog. It allows people who are interested in these topics to easily find your site. 3.) Register with several forums. Do a Google search for forums that are related to your niche and register. Try to be an active voice in the community. People will flock to you if you’re interesting. Not only that but it allows you to find out what others are doing and what makes them appealing. When you register with a forum, make sure to fill out the profile, similar to the blogging services. And equally as important – make a signature that is a direct link to your blog. Your signature is shown in every post that you make – helping you gain visibility. This is all the more reason to create thought provoking discussions. 2.) Social Bookmarking and Article Submission. Social networking, bookmarking, and article submissions are all the rage today – don’t let it pass you by. Some of the major networks include delicious, Furl, and of course, Digg. These sites will allow you to tag, bookmark, and submit articles that you think are interesting. What’s more interesting than your own work? People should know about it so go spread the word. 1.) StumbleUpon StumbleUpon really falls into tip #2, but I decided to break it away from the pack because it provides quicker results. Like the rest of the social networking sites, you create a profile and network with others. But what makes StumbleUpon so darn unique, is that you can “stumble” thousands of sites that you’re interested in by the click of a button. So what does that mean for you? Well, you can stumble your own site. By doing this you get into the Stumble rotation, and any people that you network with can stumble across it as well. In my experience StumbleUpon can bring great surges of traffic for short periods of time. Due to the nature of the service, you’re likely to get overlooked more than not; however, those that do stop – tend to stay. And if they like the site, they can rate it and review it for all the friends in their network to see. Are you getting the picture here? Your viewer ship has the potential to explode! As with most things in life, there’s no silver bullet for getting traffic. It takes a lot of research, careful planning, networking, patience, and time. If you have what it takes and start using my recommendations, you will definitely start to see an increase. Hopefully that increase in traffic will help you blog for money.