Sports Posters Newbie - Where & how to get started?
MichaelKirk
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I am trying to increase my sales of larger than 4x6 prints and it was recommended to offer Sports Posters (I am shooting a lot of Cycling right now). I am using PSP X (just bought XI but havent installed it yet - cannot afford CS2).
How do I actually create a sports poster?
Is there a special or seperate software I need to use?
How do you show them on your SM site?
- show a few examples in a "Poster Gallery" and offer to create one
with a picture of the customers choice??
Can anyone offer some poster samples as well as how you list the posters
on your SM site
Maybe we could use this thread as a How To Guide for creating your first Sports Poster. The MUST do's and the DO NOT do's.
Thanks for any help with this
Michael
How do I actually create a sports poster?
Is there a special or seperate software I need to use?
How do you show them on your SM site?
- show a few examples in a "Poster Gallery" and offer to create one
with a picture of the customers choice??
Can anyone offer some poster samples as well as how you list the posters
on your SM site
Maybe we could use this thread as a How To Guide for creating your first Sports Poster. The MUST do's and the DO NOT do's.
Thanks for any help with this
Michael
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No special software needed. You have PSP. Most use Pshop though. If you can't afford CS2 you can try elements. But PSP is very good, I used to use that and just converted to CS2 and it's a learning curve that I'm on at the moment, but have done a few posters already. Nothing that just blows people away like some that post on here though. But my customers like them!
Create a poster. Easy enough. Choose what size you want and make a new file with those dimensions. Common sizes are 16x20, 20x30 and the like.
Choose what photo's you want to include in them. You can do a simple poster with one photo and the persons name and/or info of the event. You can get more fancy by doing a collage of photo's, then you can get really fancy and do cutouts, do fancy backgrounds, do fancy fonts and all that stuff. Do a search on "posters" and you'll find good info. I'd do a search in the "finishing school" section to start with.
I have a "custom posters" gallery on my site. I just started doing them and I did 2 examples and uploaded them so people could get an idea of what style I can do for now. I uploaded the ones that customers bought after that so now there are just a few more on there. I tell them they can choose any photo's for the poster from my site, but I'll use the ones that I can make work.
My poster gallery: http://motoximages.smugmug.com/Custom%20Posters
A nice poster gallery that I look at: http://gtr.smugmug.com/gallery/146934/1
Remember, I'm just learning this stuff too. Hopefully a more seasoned poster maker will chime in.
Good Luck.
j-bo