Freelancing Overview

You know that you can earn an income by making your use of

Photoshop the foundation of your career or profession with a job,

so that's an option. 

There is always a demand for skilled graphics artists and Photoshop

users in today's visually oriented consumer society.  That's some

great news for you!

You can be a part of this graphics oriented society as a producer
of visual arts, photography and design as someone who contributes and earns income as a freelancer.

Get paid to do what you love to do, control your own schedule
and work where you want to work!

Today there are so many corporations and startup businesses
that seek to release and promote their products and services to the world.

They may be looking to outsource for many reasons such as a temporary project or getting the job done because they can't 'in

house', but this all works to your advantage.

Desktop publishers, web and graphic designers come in handy for
these corporations because they will pay you to produce their
image, products, packaging and marketing message across
multiple mediums.

If you are good at what you do in your Photoshop work AND know how to market yourself and your services you can even make a

livable income from freelancing and work on projects from all over

the world.

You must have the ability to market yourself and get the word out about your abilities. Fortunately with the internet and some of the resources I will give you, it is now quite easy to do so.

This may take a deal of marketing yourself in order to keep the
projects rolling in.

Anyways..It’s good to get paid. But remember that freelancing
should be started when you have another income stream coming
in that can support you.

Remember that you can work on projects from another country
just as easily as those in the U.S. now (if you’re U.S. based)!

Freelancing can bring in extra income for you as you continue to
build your portfolio and reputation. You can gain more credibility
and recognition by getting your work “out there” in the real world.

Make sure that you have good communication and customer
service with all of your clients especially during the project period.

Someone less talented than you could be getting more work

because of their promotional ability and willingness to market

their services so make sure you are working this end as well as improving your creative/technical skills.

Once you are good, REALLY good and versatile you can charge
upwards of $35-$95/hour. But you really have to be a

professional with your results and prove it in your portfolio and

any new task you take on. Your ability to effectively create

industry standard results with your work can set you apart.

And there ARE businesses and corporations that are looking for

the right graphics solution that you can offer them. Freelancing

can be very rewarding because you get paid for doing what you

love to do so it can be fulfilling both personally and professionally.

Here's the thing, if you don't yet have the abilities or skill level to

freelance then you're setting yourself up for failure.  Make sure that

you have a good working Photoshop CS/CS2 proficiency handled

FIRST and then you can start pulling projects in.

Also, I recommend to have something else going on for your fulltime income while you start getting things going though.

Every client that you take on...that’s more work that you can

add to your portfolio and more work experience under your

belt.

If you don’t have any previous work experience, then work on
building a portfolio of your work to show what you can do.

There are a lot of resources you can use online that will help you

leverage your ability to instantly, quickly get yourself in line and

visible for projects which will pay you money (once you have the

skills).

All of these sites are great because they are bringing people who

are willing to hire someone to get their project done TO YOU..
and if you qualify, you can have a paying gig before you know it.

When you start freelancing, you'll want to grow and maintain a courteous reputation for win-win business relationships.

Seek out opportunity and soon it will find you! It doesn’t matter

what country you’re from if you are professional who can both

use Photoshop professionally to get results AND know how to

market yourself to get more income.

If you want to know more of the nuts and bolts of 'How to get

Photoshop handled' and also 'How to Freelance' then keep on

reading. 

There's just a million things to cover as far as learning

Photoshop and if you could find a single resource that would

just have everything all in one place you would be doing yourself

a HUGE favor; otherwise you could just be wasting too much

money and time on getting your Photoshop proficiency handled.

Why you Must increase your marketability>>

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