Image Masking

A comparison between Pen Tablet & Traditional way for Image Masking!

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pen tablet vs traditional image masking
Image masking is a technique of removing image background. It is applied on the delicate edge of the furry or hairy images, model & fashion images, hairy doll or furry animal images, thin fabrics like muslin, chiffon, and so on. For removing the background from such type of images, only the clipping path is not adequate. So, in such a circumstance, image masking service comes inevitably to complete the job perfectly.

Traditionally, the graphic experts use a mouse, Photoshop, and its various tools & options such as the pen tool, brush tool, add layer mask, refine edge, and more. They do the job manually and they have to do it carefully for the high end quality. But, in case of furry photos, masking 100% perfectly is not possible. Such type of photo requires something more. And for this reason, the expert graphic designers use Pen Tablet.

Pen tablet is in fact an input device. It works with the Photoshop as an ad-on. The graphic designers use the device during photo editing instead of a mouse. It is very hard to select the flying or stray hair using a mouse for photo masking. But, the pen tablet can perfectly perform this work. Besides, the pen tablet enables us to make hand-drawn photos, animation, and graphics. It has a pen-like fantastic stylus that gives a sense of drawing photos same as like a pencil and paper. The designers apply it to get various graphic data or handwritten signatures. They also apply it to grab an image from a paper.

Here Is a Comparison Between Pen Tablet VS Traditional Way


There are a lot of advantages of applying a Pen Tablet for masking an image. Regarding the accuracy in case of delicate edge photo masking, this device can play a master role over the conventional way. Anyway, let’s compare and contrast between Pen Tablet and the traditional techniques of image masking-


 ·        The graphic experts apply pen tablet at the time of image masking because it can perfectly catch the hairy delicate edge of the photo. It is faster, smooth, and more effective than a mouse.
·        The designers can move from every point to point of an image on the screen in a single movement, but by a traditional mouse, it repeats the slides.

·        Pen tablet make us capable of doing more natural input for activities, for example, creative hand drawing and photo retouching.

·        The stylus has two buttons like the right click of the mouse.

·        Holding a pen is better than holding a mouse. Most of the users with repetitive strain injury (RSI) suffer less bad pain when using a pen tablet.

 ·        In a graphic design project, working with a mouse needs repetitive muscle movements when the rest of the hand remains still, creates uneven muscle fatigue. A pen, on the other side, allows you working in a more relaxed position.

 ·        Pen tablet doesn’t change the natural texture. It is very much useful for model photo masking. The designers apply it for changing color tone, exposure, brightness, contrast, etc. of a photo more accurately, but by the mouse, the job cannot be done like that of. 
By the way, if you use pen tablet or not, you have to be very experienced, skilled, and expert to get desired hair masking result. Alternatively, you can go to a professional image manipulation company to get your desired result for image masking such as model photos, fashion, furry animal, etc. Image Masking Service is one of the best photo editing service providers, who use pen tablet for accurate hair masking.

Business plan

START YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS FROM HOME WITHOUT ANY MONEY PART-2

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Please read the part one from here!

Getting targeted Clients

Getting targeted potential customers is not an easy task. You have to do more things to draw their attention to your business. At the first stage, you have to create a brand of your business. You should be strict to provide the best quality services. You must show your own style of photography. You have to target your customers with some specific services like wedding photography, product photography, baby or nature photography, and something like this.

Grow a fruitful and strong network to enhance your business. You may be a skilled shutterbug, but if people don’t know you, it must not bring anything better. So, for publicity and marketing, you must join in the various forums, clubs, meet up with the guys on your track, etc. As a business holder, you should maintain a good relation with your customers. Show your co-operative interest to them so that they can be your long time clients and they refer you to the others.

As a helping hand of marketing, you can use various social media. There are various social websites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and many more. But, for your business promotion, Facebook and Instagram may be the best medium for you. These social media are the best free tools for marketing and generating potential traffic to your business website.

Your first customers can be your friends and family. Thus, they can help you much to grow up your business. So, you should spend time to capture their photos. In this case, remember you should be professional because it is your business. So, make specific rules and give discount for them. Make them understand this fact. Don’t be rude, rather ask help from them.



Grow Up Your Business

Suppose, now your business is established. Then, it is high time to promote your photography business to achieve the goal. You have to take steps properly for marketing you business because marketing is the fuel of any business. However, here I want to give you a short list that you have to do for getting the desired growth.
·   It is the suitable time of investing a considerable fund for marketing your business. It will help much to publish your photography business.
·   You can promote locally. So make banner, billboard, and get sponsor in local events, sports, various cultural events, and many more.
·    For doing digital marketing free, use various social media. Try their paid marketing tools. Create pages, groups, offer contest, etc. for getting visitors into your website.
·    As a paid service, use Google ad services like PPC, use facebook paid ad service and buy some SEO tools to have right analytical results.
·   Create an email list by landing page to give your clients various updates viz: greetings, offers, discounts, etc.
·      Maintain a blog page. It is a powerful way to increase engagement.
·      Photography is a seasonal business and that is why on the season, you can earn a lot, but in the off season, earning will be less than the average. So, make a saving plan to run business smoothly.
·     You have to diversify your business. So, find new opportunities and set another plan. Guess, you are capturing wedding photos, now you can also take the photos of maternity, new born baby, nature, and so on.
·    Keep learning new things. You have to learn from mistakes and avoid not to do that again.
·     Be patient and behave decent with your employees. Mind it, every success is the result of a mutual endeavor--

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."-- Michael John Boba

Hire Help as-needed Basis

Toward the start of any business, most of the work like setting up shoots, taking shots, editing photos and even marketing you do by yourself. As the company advances, you should expand the arena of your business. You should employ people as-required basis. When your business is well established, you should delegate duties and responsibilities among the employees. But, when your company is very busy with a lot of works, you can outsource. For instance, you can take numerous photoediting services like clipping path, image masking, photo retouching, color correction, neck joint, image restoration, and mores. Again, you might think who will provide these editing services with the best price. There are many such companies globally like Color Experts International, Clipping Path India, Image Masking Service, and many mores. They have been providing above mentioned photo editing services professionally.

Business plan

Start Your Photography Business from Home without any Money Part-1

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This content is all about how to start a photography business. Here, you will get a detail guideline and sum suggestion like business plan, branding, finance, marketing, getting client and so on.

Do Your Math to Set as a Photography Business!

Photography may be your passion. You may have spent a lot of time to take images which you want or taken photos as other like. You may love the work and have a lot of experiences. But in a certain time of life, you may think to leave photography. Because, you have to involve with a profession that will help to lead your life.

Again, you may be trying to get a good job or may have already got a job. In this case, since you don’t love your job, you may not do well. Because your mind is crying for the photography that once you did well.

In this situation, I think, to set up a photography business would be the best option for you. Does it sound much? Or are you tensed thinking the way of success? You need not do that. In fact, if you can follow some easy steps, you can make true your dream of success.
As I’m inspiring you to start a photography business, I am presenting some strategies to run it successfully. 
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Determine Your Brand

At first you have to determine your brand. You have to research about the niche you like to run your business strategies.

Since I’m talking about photography business such as wedding, baby, nature, product photography, etc. I assume that you have chosen one of the niches for your business. Then, what you should do right now?

To choose an attractive brand name, you can research on google. Zero result is ideal here. When you completed selecting a brand name or niche, then you should check out the availability of it on the internet. You should also search out whether your brand is available in the different social sites or not, will these social sites let you run groups, pages, slides, or not. Thus you can choose a unique and an exclusive brand identify. You should visit knowem.com for you research. This website will let you check and select your brand name, product or username, trademark, etc. You have to choose your brand name which has available trade mark, .com domain, and Vanity URL for Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Next, you should set up your branding strategies. You can create your branding with your real name, or add it with your niche, or business name. Suppose, you name is Scott Kelby. Now you can brand your own name (e.g. Scott Kelby, Skelby). If you get it very common, then you can add something with your name, may be your nick name or niche name (Kelby Photo). As an individual photographer, it can be Scott Photography or Kelby Photography, which ever you selected. If you don’t like to personify your brand, you can use other meaningful name that instantly tells what your niche is about (e.g. Bridal Lens). If you can’t find any, you can blend more meaningful words connected to your niche. Even if you can’t find any of those as well, still you have an option to choose non-meaningful words for your brand image. But, the pronunciation should be pretty easy (e.g. Cla-ching, the camera click sound evolved from Ka-ching).

There are ways to check if your brand is qualified as a good brand. I won’t go through all the strategies. But, you can try this one: Word of Mouth. Get 5-10 guys don’t know about your brand. Whisper your brand name to the first person, tell him to whisper the same name to the second person. Thus transferring your brand name to the last person, if the pronunciation of your brand name is a close match, you have got an excellent brand name. 

After that, you should create your corporate identity. You need a well-decorated website. Design the site with suitable texts, images, videos, infographics, flowchart, graph, and so on. Create social media network with the most engaged pages, groups, texts, and images. You can create the mentioned contents by yourself, or you can outsource from offshore companies.

Considering your product photos, you might need to take various photo editing services for displaying them sophisticadly. In this case, you can outsource to us all kinds of photo editing services. We, Image Masking Service have been providing various photo editing services such as background removing, clipping path, image retouching, restoration, color correction, neck joint or ghost mannequin, raster to vector, and so on.
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Business Plan

An appropriate planning is almost half of the success of any business. It is same as a road map of a travel. It is a forecast if you would be gainer or not. So, you have to make a specific plan of what you should do or shouldn’t do, what ways or strategies you should follow or avoid related to your business. Remember two famous quotes:
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” --Yogi Berra

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” --Antoine De Saint.
It is a difficult task. You should do some paper works, discuss with the relatives, family or seek help from experienced person for making a proper plan of workflow.

Financial Issues

For starting any business, everyone have to figure out the financial issues minutely. It’s also a part of right planning. A photography business should have gadgets, office space, and studio, editing software, business license, insurance, website, accounting software, globally trademark registration, etc. To purchase these necessary things initially, a considerable fund is urgent. So, initial funding is very important because:

“An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.”—Robert A. Rice Jr.
If you are tensed with your business fund or capital, I would like to say that there are a lot of solutions. It would be the best if you can manage this capital from your friends or family. Furthermore, the bank loan can be a great source for a startup business. Here, you’d get your required loan according to their banking policy.

As a fresher, you can begin your photography business with the fund that you can manage from your family. If you have enough economic backup, it will help to grow your business as you hope. But, if you’re a service holder and don’t have additional income, you should continue the job until your business can generate a handsome annual profit. When your business will get enough revenue to run itself and your daily needs, then you can leave your job for giving full time to your business.

Try to Have The Necessary Experience

Relevant experience of running any business is an asset. In case of photography business, professional experience helps much to go forward. Spend enough time to learn the minute details for your business.

I know a photography business owner who, at the first stage of his life, worked as a helper for a photographer. He got enough practical experience working with that photographer. Later he could start his business successfully. 

Making A Pricing Plan

Setting up a standard pricing plan is quite hard and it’s important also. A competitive and affordable pricing will help much to get targeted order of photography.
During making your pricing plan, don’t forget about photo editing. So, if you take $50 per hour, keep in mind further 3 hours for post-production editing. At the beginning, your hourly rate should be less or average, but as the time will go, the rate must be increased in accordance with the service quality, working complexity and experience.
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Make a Website

A photography business always needs a killer website. It’s a storefront of your services. It’d act as a showcase of the recent services. Now, it may be a matter of headache that how, why and what it should contain.

However, as startup business man, you must have a professional website. It must have engaging look with specific menus such as services, about, contact, etc. For generating various types of potential traffic, make your website all device supported. It will help to attract traffic. Since it is a photography business website, it must have a photo gallery and an excellent slider.

In the about page, clarify about your services, your location and yourself, provide a contact address, company profile, and many more. This page will provide an idea to your clients and help to grow trust. You should also keep a FAQ (frequently asked questions) page to make aware your customers.

It would be great if you attach an excellent pricing page that will help your subscribers to get a primary idea of the service charge. You should create a call-to-action button so that your clients can order directly.

Try to add a blog page in your business website. Write different blog posts regularly to provide photography tips & tricks, tutorials, photography stories, etc. for the newbies and for your customers. Such a page will help you much for marketing your business. There is another important task you should not miss to attach various social media buttons into your website. Social sharing is important for business publicity and marketing.

Photo Editing

Photo editing is the most important thing to scale up your business. You cannot capture the best photos every time since you want photos without any defect. Rather, most of the time you will take the photos, they may be unsuitable and you will feel the need for photo editing.

Then, how you will be capable to solve the photo editing related problems. Don’t get tensed. Just install Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom on your computer and edit your photos. There are a plenty of software or add-ons premium or free for making your stunning photos. For example, Google Nik collection is completely free now. You can download and install a lot of add-ons from here www.google.com/nikcollection/ and use it as standalone software and also as an add-on with Lightroom.

You can manipulate the photos by yourself. So, learn many techniques for making your photos better. But, do you like taking photography more than editing? Then, you should concentrate on what you are good at. And free most of your valuable time, by sending the photos to us for editing.

You can outsource all types of image editing works. Here, Image Masking Service (IMS) can be your best choice. We have been providing various photo editing services such as background remove, photo retouching, color correction, restoration, clipping path, and many mores. IMS can serve 5000 image files within 24 hours without compromising with the quality at the lowest PRICE. This number of image files can be varied considering the image complexity. We are enriched with the latest technology and we have more than 250 skilled graphic design experts who are dedicated and hardworking. 

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