Coding and Design Tips & Tutorials

[caption id="attachment_6797" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image: Chase Jarvis[/caption] At the tender age of 22, one of my friend editors gave me the most important piece of freelance advice I've ever heard: You are the product. Because being successful as a freelancer or creative entrepreneur requires a lot of things: Hard work, a few very supportive friends, and probably at least one credit card that you're comfortable putting some serious spending on until the work starts to pick up.

[caption id="attachment_6780" align="alignnone" width="640"] Image via Flickr[/caption] In school, you got in trouble for copying the work of others. As a college student, you may have worried that the RIAA would show up at your house if you pirated too much music from LimeWire.

The ubiquity of cell phones may have made the self-portrait a point of mockery, but it's not exactly a new medium. Photographers and regular folks have been setting up cameras with timers or posing in front of mirrors since the birth of the camera.

“A lot of people don’t know that there are editing apps,” says Diane, which are usually either free or inexpensive, and can help adjust the color and other elements of your photos. Todd and Diane recommend VSCO, Snapseed, and Photoshop Express.

[caption id="attachment_6700" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image via Flickr[/caption] How many times has this happened to you:  You get to the end of the workday and look back to see what you accomplished.   You realize that it is hard to pinpoint what you did, though you spent a lot of time at your desk.

[caption id="attachment_6683" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo by Kara Harms[/caption] Ever wonder why you're drawn to a particular color? Maybe you feel totally at ease in a sea of pink, and turn into a ball of anxiety around orange overload?

With the frequency that your scissors go missing, you'd think they'd become sentient and grown legs. And finding the right color of yarn (or thread, or paper, or ink) in fewer than 10 minutes?

If you're taking photos frequently, it's likely you accumulate piles of photos (so to speak) very quickly, regardless of your photography skill level. It can be daunting to think about ways to categorize or organize all these images, but it's actually a lot simpler of a task than it might appear to be.