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My Facebook Live event
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGL5GLIiL_c&t=115s
Hi. The show is jack and Jill art and culture tell all. Find it on Instagram at rosenfineart. Each week we interview leaders ( like christa) in the art field and learn so much. Xox. Show also on you tube.
This is the photo editing software are promised by Jeff Maresh:
Free (non-trail version) basic photo editing software – all support TIF/TIFF and JPG files unless otherwise noted. I haven’t tried any of them but read reviews on them and confirmed file formats whenever possible. All have a free non-trial version and appear to be relatively easy to download, install, and user. Most of these will likely have YouTube videos on usage if you need help.
Windows: paint.net
https://www.getpaint.net/index.html
Windows, iOS, Android: Photoshop Express
https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-express.html
macOS: Big Sur
https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur/
Camera RAW formats supported: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211241
I was unable to confirm if Big Sur can edit/save TIF/TIFF files
macOS, Windows: Photoscape X
http://x.photoscape.org/
Android, iOS: Photoscape Mobile
https://fixthephoto.com/photoscape-review.html
Hi Crista, I have 2 questions:
1. I have an art consultant who sells my work really nicely in the past year. But she is a very busy person and I’m sure I’m not at the top of her selling list.
So the question is, how often it is OK to ask her if she managed to sell something for me? Is once a month OK? Or maybe I shouldn’t ask at all?
2. Although you are not a prophet 🙂 – How fast do you think a seller/art consultant exhaustive/finishes an artist’s market? How is a normal selling graph looks like (if there is any)?
Thank you very much for your generosity
Hello Crista
In your program you were talking about the photographer James Clarke, who was sponsored by a charity about diabetes. You said he had contacted the charity about his vision and that he’d got them behind him – Could you clarify what this means, or what it entails? I am interested in using my work to help in good causes but I don’t know how, practically. I live in quite a remote area in Wales and it isn’t possible for me to attend events, or build relationships in the way you explain is best done with galleries, so I’d like to know if there is a similar protocol when writing to organisations, or is it a no-go if you do not have an existing relationship with them?
In the WA program you also mention about charity auctions. When artists want to submit their art through these events, how do they make the first contact? Again I don’t know if I should be contacting anyone where there is no existing connection.
On a good note, I’ve been in touch with one of your WA photographers, David Foster. I’ve enjoyed his beautiful photographs in his blog posts and through him, I contacted a program which donates nature photographs to hospitals throughout the world, and I managed to get one of my nature photographs into a hospital this way. Although it wasn’t paid, it was so gratifying to have one of my photographs used in such a positive way. I want to do something with my paintings to have a positive impact in this way, but don’t know practically where to continue, especially where money is involved. (Here in the UK there is a similar art-in-hospitals program, but you cannot contact them – they do the headhunting.) Thank you, Crista 🙂