Spondicious Photography

I have the cash ready and have started the process of sending it to the Mastercard so that I can place teh order with Apple.
I will get the 2.8 Ghz version but I will bring the spec up to the top of the range with the hard drive -I have decided on a 500 GB and I will get the better video card as I intend to hang another monitor off it when I get the chance. That will be just great having two 24 inch monitors providing tons of space to work.
No other changes except getting the English keyboard and that will be wired as will the mouse. The wireless versions would be nice but not essential, so I will save the money to buy an extra 2 GB of ram and for the extra monitor.

Tags: iMac,

Oh I wish I had enough money to buy the sort of lenses you see all around the pitch at the EURO 2008 championships.

I have had just a couple of photo sales lately and some illustrations. Not a lot of time available while I am working during the summer in the camp site. Would be great if I had a small wacom tablet to use with this computer and I could use Inkscape to do some illustrations. Inkscape looks to be quite a capable program. I did have a Mac version of it.

My plan is going great to get some money together through some matched betting taking advantage of the free bonuses on offer from the online bookies,  I will soon have the money needed to buy the 24inch iMac. Well I have the money already but I still need to keep some of it back to earn more from the latest round of matched bets. I got a free bonus of 100 Euro today.

I am going to have to send in some of my designs I have already done to iStock Photo also, I was so pleased when I got accepted as an Illustrator on iStockPhoto too

Oh I wish I had enough money to buy the sort of lenses you see all around the pitch at the EURO 2008 championships.

I have had just a couple of photo sales lately and some illustrations. Not a lot of time available while I am working during the summer in the camp site. Would be great if I had a small wacom tablet to use with this computer and I could use Inkscape to do some illustrations. Inkscape looks to be quite a capable program. I did have a Mac version of it.

My plan is going great to get some money together through some matched betting taking advantage of the free bonuses on offer from the online bookies,  I will soon have the money needed to buy the 24inch iMac. Well I have the money already but I still need to keep some of it back to earn more from the latest round of matched bets. I got a free bonus of 100 Euro today.

I am going to have to send in some of my designs I have already done to iStock Photo also, I was so pleased when I got accepted as an Illustrator on iStockPhoto too

Tags: Inkscape, Illustrator, Mac, iStockPhoto, Fotolia

Took a while and was about to pull some hair out, but with some help from a kind person on the Ubuntu forum I got it done.

Still pleased with the Operating system and I mean to try out the photo organising tools soon.

Great that Inkscape is available for Linux and is free. With such a small screen though it is a little difficult to use. Handy to have it there though although what is more problematic is the use of the track pad to do anything. I will see if the Wacom Bamboo works on this. Even a mouse would be a huge improvement

I have just put in an order for a new laptop computer and my preference would have been to buy a MacBook of better still a MacBook Pro. But I had to think abou what I wanted to do with the computer. In this case I want it mainly for matched betting and not for using with illustration and photography. I may consider having it dual bootable so I could do some CorelDraw if I feel like it. I will be using Ubuntu, the linux distribution as the main operating system as it is more secure and I really don’t want to use Windows. But as I say I might put Windows on secondary just for Corel.

I have been looking at Ubuntu on another computer today to see what it looks like. I used a live CD which allowed me to boot up into Ubuntu without changing anything on the computer - not my computer you see. It looks very nice indeed and it will be as secure as using a Mac. Linux is the basis for OSX on the Mac anyway.

I paid 400 Euro for the laptop which comes with Vista, which will be wiped clean as soon as I get it, ready to install Ubuntu. The MacBook would have cost me 1200 Euro. It is not as the numbers suggest that Mac are expensive because we are not comparing like for like. If I would have priced a PC with the same specs as the MacBook it would have been pretty similar. The Mac would have been better value due to the software that comes with it and with it being virus free, that has no price. I hate to waste days reinstalling operating systems like Windows due to malware which is hard to avoid sometimes with Windows.

So you see a simple business decision was made there - Instead of getting a machine which I would prefer - the MacBook - I went for keeping costs down and profits up. On the bright side for my Mac Usage though that decision will give me more money to buy the iMac 24 in that I want for working on the illustrations at my desk. I am planning on hanging an second monitor off the iMac so I have two 24inch screens to work with. I am going to need a bigger desk

Tags: Mac, Apple, Linux, Ubuntu, iMac, CorelDraw, Illustrator

Just a little rant about switching to the Mac

 

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Typical MacUser Podcast

The Maccast

Sold a photo this week on Fotolia that I took about a year ago. Really simple of a worker next to a very small stream or river who was using one of those strimmer tools. He had on the full face mask so we could see who he was or if he was smiling but someone decided it would be the perfect image for some task or other. Maybe on a brochure, maybe on a web site, could have been used in an advertisement. It might even have found its way into a newspaper or magazine. The buyer took the higher resolution version which is great as I got paid a little more.

Still short of time to upload to my Illustrator account with iStockPhoto. I will have to get and do some work in that direction this week. When I get the design for a flyer for a horse riding school done and finished, I will have time.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

From my Fotolia account I sold a vector image of a bad bunny. Qite pleased to have the vector designs selling as I get paid more for them.

I see that Lucky Oliver bit the dust and I didn’t et paid for the sales I had there. It wasn’t many sales or much in money terms but it is the principle of it.

Still not got the illustrations into iStockPhoto as I am short of time. On top of the work at the campsite six days a week, I have been working on the matched betting to take money from bookmakers. That has been too successful to ignore or make wait. Then I also have a design job for the Riding School nearby for a Flyer to be put in the hotels. campings and places for this season.

I will be buying a MacBook soon and although it has a small 13 inch screen I will be able to hang a large monitor off it and it will be faster than the iMac I have now. I will be buying a new iMac at the end of the summer also. That will be specifically for the illustrator work.

Tags: Fotolia, selling images, illustration, design, art, vector, iStock Photo

The image I sold was a vector I produced which was a tribal spiral type design, those sort of designs are very popular right now. I see them everywhere. The buyer only needed a bitmap though so I didn’t get the full price as if I sold the vector image.

Last month started well with the sales building up well and I was able to pull out 90 dollars from Fotolia with some referral money included, then the rest of the month was really quiet for sales and that was that. Still it will always be unpredictable, it is the nature of the beast.

LuckyOliver one of the sites that I had a growing portfolio bit the dust. I didn’t even get to know about it until I saw the Microstock diaries blog. They could have sent out an email to let us know - They could have paid me for the sales I had there too, even if it wasn’t much it was still mine.

I got on to iStockPhoto as an illustrator after much trying but since been so busy that I have not uploaded and art yet. I think that will have to be my task for this week.

Tags: fotolia, iStockPhoto, Microstock, Lucky Oliver, portfolio, illutrator