Thanks for the comment! Sorry for the late reply I've been travelling the past month, Hope the NY photos turned out amazing!

Thanks for the comment, glad it's helped! Please tell me if I ever ramble on as I'm not patient either!

Thanks for letting me know and for the comment! Try that again I've just redone the page :)

Financially, I worked on a client side teaching music to have some more regular income. Definantly lost hope on the store, but then doing the product research side was what allowed me to find my competition check if my product was still selling in the market or if there was something better. I spent a lot of time on Everbee finding things then created some new listings more in line with competition and paid marketing for about $3 per day to test it. This really helped recover my store.

Thanks for the comment, the FAQ photos were a game changer to reduce customer messages. Personally I only stay in the UK market as I can manage delivery expectations better. I have though of partnering internationally for printing but at the moment its easier national and I get the sales I need, so I'd rather keep the rep of the store high with good reviews and stay national rather than risk international.

Thanks for the comment! Watercolour reproductions I generally use this paper but I've also used the Marrutt 316gsm Standard Fine Art paper for more of a texture finish for oils as it still gives good colour and the texture helps the brush strokes.

@@ross_wilson Awesome, thanks! Great channel.

Thanks for the comment! It can be frustrating but also so rewarding, there is definitely more on Etsy AI wise but I believe it is largely about making for the market and what they love! I found moving art into the personalized area help improve sales. Keep going and doing what you love :)

Thanks for the comment!

Thanks for the comment! I've just been in the middle of working on switching a website over. The link should work now.

Thanks for the comment and support!

Thanks for the comment! Glad that you liked it :)

Hey, thanks for the comment! AI art is definately the trend at the moment but i find most people are still looking for unique bits or art and handmade. I do have some training and materials coming soon to help start or improve shops (so bit of watch this space) but I wouldn't say your art is ever useless, it might come down to how it's packaged as a listing, SEO photos etc, or it could be that the audience for your art might not be on Etsy but a different platform. I've had products in the past that didn't do well on Etsy but worked better through my own website.

Ah awesome, 0.6 is one of my favourites especially with tidepools, really helps to show motion in the water, but it really is set up and take loads of shots until that perfect one comes along! Hope you managed to get some good ones!

Thanks for the comment, I've found Etsy to be one of the most successful places I've sold but as most platforms there are still scams and bots. I think it will come down to the market that you go into. Most of what I do is personalised so harder for bots as theres more customer interaction.

Thanks for the comment! I can only think that you might have it on Parametric Curve instead of Point Curve. At the top of the curves tool are 5 circles, select the one to the left of the red this should open the point curve and allow you to click anywhere on the curve to make the dots. Hopefully this fixes it!

@@ross_wilson not long after I commented I had a look and figured out what it was and it’s basically what you just said haha

Thanks for the comment! It's a very powerful tool in both Lightroom and Photoshop with a lot of potential. Glad the video helped :)

Thanks for the comment! Glad you found some value in it :)

As far as I know, not at the moment, theres point colour and you could use curves in the mask to bring in some extra colour but I prefer the wheels as well!

Thanks for the comment! It's a quick handy fix the global option. I'm still finding hidden icons myself in Lightroom!

Thanks for the comment, I do have some free Lightroom training on the channel at the moment as a Part 1 and 2 long video that goes through the various tools :)

@@ross_wilson found that, really good info in there thanks for sharing! Legend

I haven't tried Affinity myself, I guess I mainly use Lightroom as I have a workflow that I'm used to on there that helps me speed through edits! Adding depth with masks and light I found helps give me that punch which might be why I use Lightroom quite a lot but I do need to explore Affinity!

Oh I agree, I'm not going to be shooting everything in focus at f13 above. With a lot of these new tools I'm keen to push them when shooting to see what can be achieved as I always try to think about the edit when shooting, so will try shooting at different focus' and see how the edits go. The Bokeh addition is particularly cool! Hopefully as Adobe gets feedback the artefacts will be improved.

Thanks! I hope its helped with your editing :)

Thanks for the comment and sub! I haven't tried it as I usually make use of the tone curve and colour grade for this style. You could try unifying the cool and warm colours in the HSL sliders and removing the other colours, in the past to achieve a similar look I have also used in Photoshop a solid blue colour overlay to act as colour grading. Hope this helps!

Thanks for the comment, hope it helped!

Thanks for the comment! Glad it helped

Thanks for the comment! Glad it's helped :)

Thanks for the comment! Glad it's helped with understanding the tool!

No worries hope it helped!

Thanks for watching! Hope its helped with your edits!

It's one of my favourite styles to edit, but glad it's helped!

Thanks for the subscribe! I used to do the same and got addicted to buying new presets and brushes, so glad this helped :)

Thanks glad it helped, I've found myself using it alot for inspiration since it came out

Absolutely if you want to drop me an email at [email protected] will see what I can do for you!

Hmm I must have missed the recently found photographs of real dragons? When have you ever seen a "real"dragon? That generation could be 100% accurate for all you know! The easy work around for "realistic" (or at least more realistic) images such as animals/humans is to prompt them in MJ and then Gen them in PS. You'll find the results will be quite pleasing. As for the overall concept art he created. It's actually very nice. Not sure what you're seeing?

@@Lensman64 As you said, integration with Mid Journey or other artificial intelligence can be the perfect combo in getting a consistent result, especially in animals and humans. I never claimed that there were pictures of realistic dragons, and for that very reason I would never have included it that way. A warrior in armor would have been much more functional for the test. As for the rest, I personally do not find the image pleasing and I have explained what the reasons are. The way I see it, it would have been much more appropriate and functional to transform the image to make it more "illustrative" and less realistic. There are elements that clash with each other in the total balance and the lighting and postproduction were not done properly. However, this is my very personal thoughts as a graphic designer and illustrator- I definitely don't want to be petulant :D

its called a "concept" for a reason

No worries, thanks!

Thanks, glad it helped!

Thanks!