My photography skills are way below the bar; with a curve. If you are a seasoned blogger or ahead of the blogging curve just skip over this post and check out my “WOOF” tab at the top of my blog notatrophywife.com.
This post is for the newish or sleep deprived bloggers who upload grainy photos because it’s such a pain to reshoot images when you have a handful of readers. Or you are newish or tired. So when I take a good image I want to maximize the photo for multiple blog posts. The icing image below was my blog “aha” moment because I realized this same icing image would be great for a rugby theme cupcake for my son’s rugby season. Meaning, I didn’t have to reinvent a new icing image. I just had to change the “save as” with a reference to a different blog post. In this case “rugby-icing-image.”
In the past when I captured a good image, like the icing, my instincts were to layer the image with a title, watermark, add a banner and by the time I right clicked to “save as,” the image had more letters than pixels. And once I saved it I no longer had a blank image to work from and I would have to start over with a new unedited photo. I was creating more work because I was saving my images in reverse order.
Now I save my original feature photo as a “blank image” with no titles, graphics, watermarks and save the first image as “save as…some generic name” or save as “basic icing image.”
This is the foundation of one photo. From here I can add a title relevant to the post I am working on because I have a “blank image” already stored. Take a look at how to maximize one photo for multiple photos and blog posts. The first image is saved as a blank image, followed by an image with the title “Royal Icing” and then the same image with the recipe typed on the image. I can also take this same image and crop or zoom in to give it a different perspective. The time saver is I always have the “blank image” to use for future or similar theme blog posts. Time Saver Tip!
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