How To Tell Stories With Images
We have all heard the saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. If content marketing in the digital age has taught us anything, it is that the saying is completely true. You can do more with a well chosen, well place image than you can with several paragraphs of text. People actually expect [...]
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Why You CAN’T Use ANY Images on Your Blog
Alright, before we get into this post, I have to admit to something: the title is a little misleading. It isn’t true that you can’t use ANY image on your blog. However, you can’t use ALMOST any photo, and so I decided to err on the side of discretion and hopefully catch some interest with [...]
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How Images Help Social Media Marketing
For the most part, those of us who own blogs have gotten a little stuck in the whole ‘content marketing’ aspect of things. We have spent so long perfecting the way we communicate with words that we could put together a post in a half an hour and be assured of the traffic it will [...]
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5 Types of Images that Work on Pinterest
Pinterest is the new, hot thing. Growing bigger by the day at an incredible rate, the popularity is in equal parts due to the innovation of the idea, and the sharing potential of visual content on the mobile web. It also helps that Pinterest has been largely targeted at the demographic of its early adopters. [...]
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5 Stories behind Iconic Photos
There are a certain number of photos that are timeless. They have transcended the years and distance, becoming so well known all over the world that they are considered iconic. Most of us would recognize them immediately, as much for the emotional response they evoke as the image itself. That is the true power of [...]
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10 Best Free iPhone Photo Editing Apps
Once you’ve got the photos with your iPhone, you may find yourself needing to crop, resize, or otherwise edit them to masterful effect. Luckily, there’s an app – or 10 – for that! Here are 10 of the best free iPhone photo editing apps for handling your SmartPhotoStock.com downloads – and personal photos – on [...]
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Resize and Save Images for Web to Publish on a Blog (Photoshop Basics)
I have a serious pet peeve when it comes to images on blogs being an inconsistent or bizarre size. Especially when it interferes with the overall layout, breaking up the post in strange ways or creating the need for a side scroll. This is such an amateur mistake, and yet I see it on even [...]
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How to Influence With Images
What is the first thing you learn about online content creation? For me, it was that you never create an unending page of text. While paragraphs of writing work well for a book, when placed on a screen it become monotonous, can cause eye strain and is less likely to hold the attention of people [...]
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