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The Art of Retouching Podcast 011 – Best Providers

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Running Time: 30 minutes

Inside and outside of business, I talk about the things you can do to make you stand out from your competition. Pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone will allow for growth. Keeping yourself out of your comfort zone will result in constant growth, and daily challenges that prove you are ready for anything.

My Space vs. Facebook, Yahoo vs. Google, and Microsoft vs. Apple. Large companies become settled in their old way of doing things until they are overcome by someone smaller, more flexible, and ready to adapt on a moments notice. No matter how many years you have been doing your thing, you need to be knowledgeable like an old master, yet act like a young startup. Set your goal, quickly make a plan, then act. I do it everyday. Do you?

 
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The Art of Retouching Podcast 010 – Billing and Payments

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Running Time: 32 minutes

But seriously. I can't believe I have been working freelance, from home, for the past 6 months. I make a full time salery from retouching, and part time salery from free videos I created last year. The more I think about it, the crazier it seems. Episode #10 of this podcast is a bit more personal than most. I bring you into my studio and show you how I estimate, bill, and collect payments. I tell you how I feel about... well... how I feel. And I go off on someone who calls me Luddite. The Nerve of some people!

 
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The Art of Retouching Podcast 009 – Freelance Bliss

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Running Time: 30 minutes

Starting with this episode, I will no longer be having the entire episodes transcribed. Most of you will not likely care. For those that actually prefered to read it, I am sorry. I chose to drop it because it took too long to produce, and cost too much, with very little benefit. I thought I could get some affiliate sales, help people at work enjoy it, or maybe even get some Google love. In the end, none of those things happened.

For now on, I will just be giving a basic show note about the episode and topic, then leave it at that.

 
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The Art of Retouching Podcast 008 – How to Price a Job

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Running Time: 40 minutes

Welcome to The Art of Retouching Podcast Episode 008. In this episode, I will be talking about how I reached this point in my career, how I go about pricing a job, and other advice about breaking the nine to five job.

 
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The Art of Retouching Podcast 007 – Joy and Boredom

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Running Time: 27 minutes

Welcome to the 7th episode of The Art of Retouching Podcast. This time I will be talking about some of the pros and cons to freelancing. I touch upon why selling physical products is a bottomless pit of time. I go in depth about passive aggressive behavior, both giving, and receiving it. Lastly, I bring up various items that lead to a joyful time as a freelancer, and all the back end paperwork that goes along with it.

 
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The Art of Retouching Podcast 006 – Don’t Dilute Your Brand

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Running Time: 32 minutes

You can do way too many things when planning your business strategy. It's easy to get distracted and loose focus on what is most important. From my own experience, after the core goal is established, I find that I come up with so many ideas to reach that goal, that nothing is followed through, clear until the end. I will do so many different things, that nothing is ever fully completed in any useful way. This podcast episode is about staying focused, staying on target, and not letting all the random ideas pull you away from whats really important to succeed.

 
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The Art of Retouching Podcast 005 – Getting Organized

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Running Time: 28 minutes

In this 5th episode of The Art of Retouching Podcast, we will be talking about Getting Organized. I talk about good software, and bad habits. I offer some suggestions that can help keep your work on schedule, and avoid missed billing opportunities. I also discuss specific areas of retouching that are overworked and create a completely fake looking image. Later, I give some information about how to sign up for a Two and a Half Hour Digital Imaging Class for only $1.00. Yes, a dollar. No strings attached. I also give information on the new Beginner and Intermediate Photoshop Classes that will be coming up.

 
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Photoshop Tutorial – Duplicate Image

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Photoshop Tutorial - Duplicate Image

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Running Time: 2 minutes

This Adobe Photoshop tutorial quickly shows how to Duplicate image. Why would you want to Duplicate an image? Well, maybe you need to make an image greyscale, but still need to keep the original. Or maybe you want to create a new variant. Who knows. This is just a simple Photoshop 101 How To video.

 
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The Art of Retouching Podcast 004 – No Power Sucks

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Running Time: 23 minutes

It's been a month since the last episode. Not to mention the complete lack of tutorials. What can I say? I have been busy, and I guess that's a good thing. One night I went off, and recorded episodes 4-8 all at once. I'm not sure what possessed me, but I am thrilled because creating the content requires me to be in the right mindset. I do have to cut this introduction short though, I have a ton of work I need to do tonight. Of course, I've been saying that for 3 weeks now.

 
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