Telltale Tips - Creating Digital Files for Juried Art Shows, pt. 2
We continue our discussion here about preparing and presenting your art digitally before a jury. Once you have your monitor calibrated, investing in Adobe Photoshop Elements will give you the ability to edit and convert it into any format you need for shows, cards, ads, prints and websites. With just a little research it is very easy to learn how to get your images into the formats you need. There are many programs out there that will do the same job, we prefer Photoshop because it doesn’t have the gimmicky consumer type shortcuts that try to do everything for you. Competitions are looking for specific requirements and many of the less expensive programs do not have the capabilities Photoshop offers. Utilize the internet to help answer the many questions you have. It is amazing what you can learn on the internet just by going to Google.com, asking a question and doing a search. Your first question might be “How to crop an image in Photoshop” We guarantee...