Techzerker Art: My First Shutterstock Experience
Keeping this short and sweet, as I’ve starting planning and converting a few disparate sites and page into an actual brand under Techzerker, I knew my own artistic abilities would not suffice! That being said, big or small I would like to build Techzerker correctly and legally, which means I couldn’t just roam google images for cool artwork to make banners, backgrounds, etc.
After a little research and checking a few competitors, I found the two pictures below on ShutterStock.com and paid their basic rate for the pair of images in incredibly high resolution. From that point I made my light modifications with text using GIMP open source image editor and it was ready to launch! I love that services like this exist to make it easy to find good quality images without any legal concerns.
Obviously I’ve uploaded my edited images in a “regular” resolution, as the last thing I want to do with this post is provide someone less honest the high resolution originals to steal! So here they are:
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Note in 2024: As I moved from Wordpress, to WriteFreely, to Hugo and here to Write.as, I often only moved some posts, as others were dated or now in-accurate, but I’ve still pulled some along to provide history or evolution of my thoughts.
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