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[ 7 ]All my best,Scott Kelby
KelbyOne President & CEO
Editor & Publisher, Photoshop UserGET YOUR WORK RECOGNIZED!
As artists, one of the things we all struggle with is get-
ting our work out in front of more people. The more
people we reach, the greater the opportunity for cool
stuff to happen, right? You’re probably already familiar
with the competition we do during the year to feature
an artist’s work in The Gallery at KelbyOne, and all that
entails (and if you’re not, here’s a link to the gallery
site). But there’s something a little closer to home that
can get your work viewed by thousands and thousands
of people, and you’re holding it (well, you’re looking at
it anyway). On the cover of each issue of Photoshop
User we feature the work of one of our members. Not
only is it a way to get your work seen, but it’s also
a nice résumé builder (e.g., “That’s my image on the
cover of the July issue of Photoshop User magazine”).
Getting the cover of a magazine is no small thing, and
you might have the perfect image, illustration, or com-
posite just sitting there on your hard drive collecting
dust (well, you know what I mean).
So, how do you go about getting one of your images
selected for the cover? Well, first you have to submit
a link to one of your portfolios that contains some of
your favorite images (and it helps if you include some tall
images, of course, but in many cases, with enough res,
we can crop a wide image to fit our tall cover). You can
submit a link to one of your portfolios by clicking here.
There will be lots of members who submit their portfolios
each issue, so if you don’t get in the following issue, keep
trying. Hey, ya never know. ☺
Besides snagging the coveted cover shot, you could
also get your work featured inside the magazine in our
“Artist Spotlight” section. Keep that in mind, as well, when
you’re submitting a link to a portfolio or site with your
images. You can check out pages 13–15 in this issue to
see the KelbyOne members featured this time around.
Another way to get some eyes on your work is to be
featured on our “Member Mondays,” where we share
your images on the KelbyOne Insider, so you might get
some social media juice that way, too. Click here to check
out all of our previous Member Mondays. Again, these
images are selected from the same portfolio that you
submit to the link above. (By the way, sometimes we
get portfolios with way too many images for us to go
through. So when you share a portfolio with us, be surethat you only include your absolutely favorite images, say
20 or fewer, that you want us to consider for the cover,
Artist Spotlight, and Member Mondays.)
Now, since I’ve been talking about “portfolios,” some
of you out there may be thinking to yourselves, “I don’t
have a portfolio.” Well, I think we can fix that. Included
with your Adobe subscription plan, whether you have
the Lightroom and Photoshop Photography plan or the
full-blown Creative Cloud subscription, included in that
subscription is a pretty awesome online portfolio service
called Adobe Portfolio. It’s really easy to use (it’s templa-
tized), and I just recorded an entire online course on how
to get up and running with it. It’ll be released sometime in
the second half of February 2020, and it will take you step
by step through the whole process. (Keep an eye on your
inbox for when it’s released.)
Okay, back to our story: If that weren’t enough (it’s
probably enough, but...) we also do “Member Chal-
lenges” where we give you a topic and you give us your
photographic take on it. It’s a lot of fun (and it can be chal-
lenging, henceforth the name), but we share the winners
online so hopefully that will get you some eyeballs, too.
We’re really proud of the work our members are cre-
ating, and we’re always looking for new ways to get you
and your work out there, so I hope you’ll take advantage
of these opportunities. One more thing. I did a blog post
recently for photographers about how you can challenge
yourself and grow in the coming year, and I think there
are some ideas there that you might find really helpful.
The post is called “Take my ‘2020 Photography challenge:’
Five things to Push You Forward in 2020.” Click this link
for that post.
Okay, the ball’s in your court. Get those images in, and
we’ll take it from there.
A Note from Scott