Coding and Design Tips & Tutorials

A career as an entrepreneur is seldom the safe path lit with streetlights -- embarking on a self-propelled career instead often feels like the unlit walking trail scattered with fast food wrappers, discarded coffee cups and dark shadows. Most take one look at the path, imagine what’s hiding in the shadows and walk away from what could be a liberating, successful career as a creative.

Fine artist, illustrator, and author Lisa Congdon was named among 200 Women Who Will Change the Way You See The World -- but starting out, Lisa Congdon was just a name. In fact, if you asked Lisa in her early 20s, she would tell you that she wasn’t a very good artist at all.

Elena S. Blair has built a mini-empire in under a decade by capturing authentic family moments.

If you're in the process of trying to become a working artist, is it okay to start calling yourself one?  Impostor Syndrome -- the feeling that your success at various ventures is a fluke or a mistake, rather than the product of your own competence -- is a real struggle for creative people.

Watching that social media follower count is like fast-forwarding your favorite Netflix series just to watch the credits -- ineffective, and a complete waste of time. Most businesses get the importance of being active on social media, but few know what’s really important when it come to social media marketing, or even how to actually create meaningful interaction.

Quick, what’s your favorite myth about creativity? That it’s a divine thing that just happens?

I got to thinking about a few things I wish I knew before starting my business. Yes, I wish I knew more about the technicality of photography (wait, so you're telling me f-stop and aperture ARE THE SAME THINGS?

Dodging and burning is a photo editing and retouching technique as old as the darkroom itself, but bring the process of lightening and darkening small, specific portions into the digital realm and a traditional tool becomes a modern retouching power tool. From lightening under eye shadows to reducing the intensity of a wrinkle, dodging and burning can produce dramatic before and after results by adjusting light and dark areas without affecting texture.

Are you looking for a social media transformation? Jasmine Star shares how to create a custom image library for blogging and social media will drastically improve your digital strategy.

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