Fine Art America is the premier online marketplace for purchasing fine art originals and prints.  It is also the easiest way to discover new artists and art galleries and to stay connected to your local art scene!   Visit our gallery site at wes-and-dotty-weber.fineartamerica.com    

Looking for some early Christmas gifts?  Or just want a WesDotPhotography print on your wall?   Now is the time!

I know the shopping season can be very hectic so I'm starting my annual Christmas discount early so you can get a jump on things.  So starting today, November 9th, 2013 I am running my annual Christmas discount at our Fine Art America website.

By entering the code XZZUGV the first 30 buyers will receive a 20% discount off our markup.   The base materials e.g. frames, mats, stretched canvas, etc. will not be included in this discount offer.

If you would ever like to see many more of our images 'Like' our page on Facebook by following this link: https://www.facebook.com/pages/WesDotPhotography/183908382540

Thanks so much for your continued support.

Dotty & Wes  
wes-and-dotty-weber.fineartamerica.com   

So what does this strange picture have to do with making your own copyright symbol you might wonder.  Well from my previous blog post showing how to create a 'copyright' action I had promised the next step in automating the creating of a web-sized image or many images at once.  This would be that next step using Adobe Photoshop CS5.

1)   Open one or several images that are all of the same format.  For this example we will open up several portrait images from Adobe Bridge.  To open several completed JPEG images click on each image holding the Ctrl button down.  This will select each image.  Then either click enter or right click on one of the selected images and then select 'Open in Adobe Photoshop'.   All images will appear in Photoshop with the active image in the preview area of your screen and all others in the tabs above the preview.  That is if you have your Photoshop screen set up as I do.  See screen print below for an example of two images opened. 

2)   Run the 'Copyright Portrait' action that you created in the prior blog post 'How To Do Your Own Copyright Symbol' to apply the copyright to the 'active' image.

3)   Click on each image by selecting the 'un-highlighted' image tab to make the next image active and run the 'Copyright Portrait' action.  Do this for each portrait image you have opened in Photoshop.

4)   When all images have the Copyright Symbols added and arranged to your liking you are ready to re-size the images and make them ready to add to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, your website or share online.  Here are the steps:

5)   Click on 'File' at the top left hand size of your screen.  This will open the drop downs.

6)   Click on 'Scripts' towards the bottom of the list which will bring out a 'flyout' box.

7)   In this 'flyout' box, click on 'Images Processor'.  The box that will appear next is the same as the screen print at the top of this blog post.  The items to pay attention to are:

• 1) Select the images to process.   I use the 'Use Open Images' button as I want the images I've just copyrighted to be processed.
  
• 2) Select location to save processed images.  I use the 'Save in Same Location' button as I like the copyrighted images to be saved in the same location as the original.  A new folder will be created in this folder called 'JPEG'.

• 3) File Type.  This has several options. 
  
•     As I save these images as JPEGs I use that file type by checking the 'Save as JPEG' box,
•     I set the quality at '6'.  This will make the image size small enough that if someone does try to print from this it will     be pixallated if printed in a large print.
•     Check the 'Convert to Profile to sRGB' box.  This is the best profile for the internet to keep colors from shifting.
•     Check the 'Resize to Fit' box.  This box is crucial to resizing the images to portrait, landscape or square format.          For Portrait use W: 687 px  H: 1024 px
•     Use all the prior steps for Landscape images with the exception of changing to W: 1024 px  H: 687 px
•     The same for a square format image except change to W: 1024 px  H: 1024 px   
• 4)  Preferences.  You can add Copyright Info which would embed into the images by typing that into the box and click on the 'Include ICC Profile' box if you wish.
• Click on 'Run' at the upper right hand area of this box.  Each image that has been selected will process and re-sized images will populate into the new created 'JPEG' folder within the original folder.
• CRUCIAL LAST STEP:  All the images that you have just processed will remain in Photoshop.  In 'File'  select 'Close All'.  As you close each file make sure you do not 'save'.  You do not want to have your originals stamped and re-sized.
     
  

We were honored this week with being named 'Featured Artist of the Week' on the website, Fine Art America that we use to sell and market our images.  This website has what  is called 'Groups' for different subjects that focus on many different topics.  It also makes it easier for visitors to the site to locate images centered around what you might be looking for. 

This group is a fun group as it focuses not on a single subject but instead on the photographers, hence the name 'Old Masters'.  It's not what it appears to be but is instead....well, I'll let their 'About the Group' explain:

"YOU MUST BE 60 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER TO JOIN THIS GROUP, which is established to promote the work of mature artists OVER SIXTY.
All others are welcome to look (and buy!), but please do not join this group if you are under 60 years of age! "

After clicking on this link scroll down a bit on the Fine Art America web page to see the featured artists:  http://fineartamerica.com/groups/old-masters--photographers-and-digital-arts--5-a-day.html?tab=overview

Come take a peek at one of our latest Kudos and while there click on one of our images from this link.  That will take you to our images where you can browse around.  Or once in our images you can also click on the 'Gallery' tab above the image to look at specific albums.

Enjoy and I would love to hear any and all feedback.  It helps us in our growth! 

Thanks

Dotty & Wes

A map of your visitors on your site.  

The website "Revolver Map" as a very clever map to show who visited your website.  It is a free tool and it looks very nice.  See above who visited wesdotphotography since I installed this map.

This is a very highly customizable map, mine shows depth of the oceans as well as snow caped mountains and poles. It will also change based on the seasons of the year.  It can shows flag and locations of your visitors as well.

Enjoy
Thierry

Visit http://www.revolvermaps.com/?target=setup for more detail.

So, it's been over a year now since I had the honor to photograph the fabulous show, Cavalia.  I had never done a bog but have posted many pictures on my Facebook page.  If you have never seen this show and have the opportunity to do so by all means do it.  You will be rewarded with one of those memories you'll never forget.  They have now taken their show to Australia which has their opening at Brisbane on March 6th, 2013.  Visit their website for more information and make sure you click on all the tabs to get a feel for the beauty of the horses and masterful talents of the riders. 
http://www.cavalia.net/en/cavalia-show

This slideshow below while it has many  of my favorite images from my shoots at the Portland Oregon show in 2011 and Seattle Washington show in 2012 is but a small amount of my images.  If you would like to see even more images check out my Facebook page to view the album links listed below:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150504452337541.365322.183908382540&
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150474729397541.361340.183908382540&
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150431168882541.354250.183908382540&
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150361159562541.345858.183908382540&
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150353877492541.344967.183908382540&
I hope you enjoy as much as I enjoyed experiencing the show in person.