Wow! eBook
Get Your Photography on the Web: The Fastest, Easiest Way to Show & Sell Your Work
Author(s): Rafael Concepcion (Author)
- Publisher: Peachpit Pr
- Publication Date: January 1, 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 221 pages
- ISBN-10: 0321753933
- ISBN-13: 9780321753939
Book Description
In
Get Your Photography on the Web, RC Concepcion, curriculum developer for Kelby Media Group and one of the Photoshop Guys, takes you through an easy step-by-step process so you can build your own site from the ground up and have it look like you paid someone a lot of money to do it for you. Even if you know nothing about Web programming, this book will have you building a website in hours, not weeks.You’ll learn:
- How to secure your own domain names and hosting space
- How to install WordPress on your website in as little as seven clicks
- How to add pictures, galleries, and Flash portfolios without learning any code How to sell your images online without having to make a single print
- How to incorporate Lightroom and Flash galleries into an already existing website
You’ll also find interviews and inspirational tips from people you will meet “Along the Way” to making your website. Plus, RC gives you free templates and Flash portfolio components to get you up and running without emptying your wallet.
The techniques RC shares in Get Your Photography on the Web are the very same ones he uses for some of the biggest names in photography—it’s like designing your website with a trusted expert looking over your shoulder. Best of all, you’ll walk away with the satisfaction of knowing that you did it all yourself!
Editorial Reviews
Review
—Matt Kloskowski, photographer, author, and Photoshop Guy
“Setting up a professional-looking blog can be a confusing process. Even after five years of blogging, I still have questions and problems, but luckily I have RC to turn to. His knowledge of the inner-workings of WordPress and the Web have saved my bacon on more than one occasion. If you are trying to establish a presence on the Web or just want to improve on what you already have, you need this book!”
—Jeff Revell, PhotoWalkPro.com
“I can’t think of anyone more qualified to write a book about helping photographers get their content up on the Web. RC is an excellent instructor.”
—Terry White, Worldwide Creative Suite Evangelist, Adobe Systems, Inc.
About the Author
Rafael RC Concepcion is an education and curriculum developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and one of the Photoshop Guys. An award-winning photographer and Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom, RC has over 14 years in the tech industry, designing sites and training thousands in technologies from Adobe and Microsoft. He has combined his photographic and Web experience to teach with famed wildlife photographer Moose Peterson at the You Can Do It, Too workshops in Mammoth, California, the Digital Landscape Workshop Series, and at the Voices That Matter Web Design Conference in San Francisco. RC also writes for
Photoshop User magazine.
