E N T E R P R I S E S

Established 1983

ARTICLES

by Joelle Steele

The following is a list of links to all the art and photography articles on this website. More articles are added every few weeks or so, so you might want to bookmark this page for future reference.

If you're looking for my articles and resources for the horticultural industry, they are now at www.GreenIndustryPubs.com, and  my articles and resources for writers are at www.WritingWriteAway.com.

. . . . PHOTOGRAPHY & PHOTO RESTORATION . . . .

A Brief History of Photography: Just what the title says, starting with the camera obscura.

Antique Photographs & How They Were Made: The many photographic processes defined, from Daguerreotypes to 20th century film.

How to Digitally Restore Your Antique Photographs: Scanning vs. digital cameras, the scanning process, editing or restoring (color, contrast, enlargement, tools, saving, and sepia tints).

How to Photograph Your Art: The use of digital and manual cameras, lighting, backgrounds, scanning, photo editing, archiving digital files, and more.

How to Select and Prepare Photos and Other Images for Publication: What the eye sees and the brain interprets, selecting images, best and other options in electronic format.

Photographing Your Portfolio - One Picture is Worth A Thousand Words: Some basic tips on how to create and photograph your presentation portfolio or online portfolio to best illustrate your projects or products.

Preserving Antique Photos: How to handle, store, and display your old photographs.

The Origins of Hand-Tinting Photographs: How did they do it in the old days? The same way people still do it today!

. . . . ART & DESIGN . . . .

Advertising & Marketing Tips: A few words about advertorials, press releases, broadcast advertising, updating your image, ad copy, marketing during a recession, keeping ad costs down, sharing your know-how, and display ads.

Basics of Color Theory: Defining color, color wheels, color models, color chips, and mixing colors.

Being What You Are Meant To Be: The artist's road to success is not without its detours.

Chromodynamics - The Psychology of Color: The history of color as it relates to the psychology of color, and the symbolism behind the various colors.

Colors for Your Web Site: The role of color in web marketing, web-safe/browser-safe colors (including samples of each), color palettes, and a few "don'ts" in the use of color on your website.

Color in Advertising: The role of color in logos, print ads, brochures, etc.; the use of color; selecting color palettes; and a few "don'ts" in the use of color in your print work.

Colors - The Seasons of Your Wardrobe: Describes the origins of the seasonal color system (summer, winter, spring, and fall colors), notes the basic colors for each season, and the personalities of each season.

Eight Tips for Artists: How to achieve greater success in your artistic career pursuits.

From Mundane to Magic-Ideas and Inspiration in the Real World: All creative people have many ideas that can bring them success.

How to Fix the Top 8 Most Common Website Mistakes: Learn about the problems that can occur with navigation and links, contact pages, writing, readability, photos/images/graphics, ads, animation, number of clicks, splash pages and loading screens.

How to Hire and Work With A Creative Service: What a creative service is, hiring and working with one, establishing budgets.

Investing in Art: Learn how much it costs, where to buy it, what to buy, investing versus collecting, and what can happen when you want to sell.

Painting Your House: How to select exterior and interior colors for your house, how to select colors that bring the outdoors color scheme indoors, and working with color palettes.

Selecting & Using Fonts For Print Work and Web Sites: Learn about the history and use of fonts and typefaces; what font sizes mean; font names, attributes, and similarities; fancy fonts; fonts on the web; and fonts that fit.