YOz illustrations: des roughs comme ça pour le fun!

YOz illustrations: des roughs comme ça pour le fun!

How to Draw Cartoons Online @prodigalconcepts.com

The web is full of rare gems, websites that we can consider a great find in the multitude if websites trying to get a piece of that popularity pie. As a web designer I often search the web for new skills I could include to my arsenal, and one time I was so inspired by doodle art and those awesome illustrated websites but my freehand skills are limited to just doing basic shapes and tracing. continue reading

27 Alarming Advertisements Dedicated to Earth Day | Part- 2 | chethstudios Design Magazine

If we Could quote one great person who had said "A picture is worth Thousands of Words", We're trying our little bit this Earth Day to raise some awareness. We would be very happy If a bunch of people realise the mayhem in store if we keep treating Mother Earth in the same way. Make sure you share this with others and spread the word this Earth Day. Read More About Earth Day on Wikipedia. Lets all join Hands to Make Earth a better place to Live in! Visit the original article.

Browsing the internet for some real cash - just for noobs

I enjoy browsing the internet, to me it's like going to the mall without the commute. I like to read up on the latest news about gadgets, politics, sports and entertainment, I like to read other peoples blogs just to know what goes on inside their heads. Anything that my mind finds interesting I just search for in Google. All the information I need is just a mouse click away.

I have always been a skeptic of online strategies to make money, except if it's a web design client, but there are times even that seems to be too good to be true. I'm not an expert, I'm not a marketer, I'm a web designer/blogger/photography enthusiast but if you are looking for some easy online money making machines I could name a few.

1.Google's Adsense (a bit tricky, but the pay outs good and it's stable)

2.Offering your services online (writing, graphic design, audio compositions, translations... the list goes on)

3.Affiliate programs (also tricky)

4.Kontera (I'm using this here, haven't made anything yet)

5.Paid to click (easy)

6.In-stream advertising platform (easy)

Now I would like to introduce you to the last two, "Paid to Click" and "In-stream advertising platform" because earning a few bucks shouldn't be complicated.

Let's face it investing and putting up a business is very complicated, but saving money you find on the street then put it aside in a piggy bank or a glass jar until it reaches a certain amount, that's easy right? Now imagine you find money on the street regularly everyday, nothing big but still on a regular basis, and you go out on the street everyday right? Might as well pick it up, right?

My defense mechanism about online money makers starts with.

1. Do i need to make a cashout?

2. Does the registration process seems like it's trying to collect an in-depth personal history information? (financial etc... etc...)

And last but not the least.
3. What do I have to do?

Let's start with Paid to Click.

Neobux



The only paid to click ads scheme I signed up for because someone I know who was more of a skeptic than me told me he just made $2 on this (he even has a Paypal payout screenshot to prove it), it's not much I know, and it took him 2 months to get it. I wanted to sign up for old times sake, he is a really cool guy, so I went back to my defense mechanism list.

1. Do i need to make a cash-out?

Apparently not, I don't need to buy anything to sign up.

2. Does the registration process seems like it's trying to collect an in-depth personal history information? (financial etc... etc...)

Well aside from emails to confirm your existence the rest are just a breeze of personal information. (Name, age, stuff you put when you sign up for social networking sites)

And last but not the least.

3. What do I have to do? I'm lazy, and if it's boring I wont do it.

All it takes is at least 5 mins of your time online (hmmmn, 5 minutes), who doesn't have an extra 5 mins of internet time. I'm on Facebook and I spend about 15 - 30 minutes playing Zynga's Mafia Wars. 5 minutes is all it takes? So I'm in!

It's so easy all you have to do is go to this (http://www.neobux.com/?r=xzykho) link, sign up to get started. You don't need to pay anything or buy anything just go there register and everything is self explanatory.

There are also other ways to increase your earnings aside from clicking ads every day.

You can rent referrals - that means you will pay a minimal fee of $0.75 for 3 other people to click with you for 30 days thus multiplying your daily earnings. (This is optional, it's entirely up to you)

You can get direct referrals - this are people you get to register with you and you don't need to pay them. (How you get people to register is also up to you)

So in a way the more referrals you have either direct or rented means more cash for you. So go ahead spend five minutes a day to make some easy money.

http://www.neobux.com/?r=xzykho

You can cash out with a minimum earning of $2 which is the lowest cash out amount I have seen around. And you can choose from 3 payment options, like Paypal, Alertpay or Neteller

http://www.neobux.com/?r=xzykho

Ok, now what is In-stream advertising platform?

I'm fairly new to this and I've just joined, but of course I used my defense mechs to weigh out things.

This one is actually for those who wants to make money with their Twitter accounts.

It's called Ad.ly

What is Ad.ly?

Ad.ly is an in-stream advertising platform that matches top-tier Twitter publishers with top-tier brands.

Ad.ly enables Twitter publishers to make money from the content they produce on Twitter by sending one tweet every day from advertisers that they approve. In order to ensure authenticity, every Ad.ly tweet is explicitly approved by the Twitter publisher.

They pay you $0.12 per Twit ad and they also have a referral scheme that would give you 12% of each of your referrals earnings.

Ask friends to sign up for Ad.ly using your special referral link. When someone signs up using one of your links, you will earn 12% of everything they make on Ad.ly. You can put the link in an email, tweet or anywhere you want. You can also embed one of the referral graphics anywhere you want.


Another sample of referral graphics -


Go right ahead and try this simple money making schemes, you might enjoy them and it wouldn't cost you more than 5 minutes of your internet time per day.

30 Night Time Photography Inspirations for Beginners

As a Photography newbie I find it really challenging to take photos at night, my first issue is focus. Getting a clean shot is really hard, capturing that right amount of focus on a subject when it gets dark, especially if your trying to shoot using natural light. Then my second handicap at night is exposure, since exposure requirements changes dramatically as soon as the sun goes down. So why do I even bother to shoot at night anyway? continue reading

Basic photography techniques for newbies @prodigalconcepts.com

If you have always been wondering how to approach photography that's good enough to be posted online, but you're not confident that you will get some positive comments or feedback even from your family and friends then this is a good time to start to learn about the basics. Ground level skills of a soon to be photography enthusiast and maybe well get you started on the right track of becoming a professional photographer. The possibilities are endless... continue reading

Awesome Wedding Photography Compilation

Wedding photographs are almost always set in a romantic mood, always fun, sometimes mushy and borderline boring, but sometimes we get real lucky and stumble upon exceptionally interesting ones that literally jumps out of the box and get's in your face. Like these wedding and prenup photos I compiled for you continue reading

American Choppers Got Cancelled

I've been an avid fan of the Discovery Channel reality show about building chopper bikes called "American Choppers". As a fan I even featured their builds as inspirational in my design blog www.prodigalconcepts.com. I do get into an inspired mood while watching the show, and although I feel that season 5 and 6 jumped the shark I kept watching until their last episode for the Kobalt Bike Build. It's sad to see them go but it was almost painful watching them during their last 2 seasons so I guess it's a good thing.

I wrote a post titled American Choppers (O.C.C.) because I would like to share my fancy that these guys are creative with shaping metal and customization. I'm not a mechanic, I'm a web designer, but I was able to absorb from their work the importance of customizing a site according to the clients personality and how the designer is totally responsible for the entire look. So as a designer we sometimes must know when to say "NO" to what a client wants, especially if that would have a negative effect on the overall design which in the end will have more effect on your credibility and how future employers weighs our skills before they start hiring us for a project. As a designer we should know how to steer the clients identity into the direction that would benefit both parties.

Top 20 Photography tips on Shooting Macros | Digital Photography Student

Top 20 Photography tips on Shooting Macros | Digital Photography Student

Learning the ropes of macro photography takes a lot of practice and patience. But all will be worth the agony once you get the perfect shot that you can be truly proud of. I'm just an enthusiast, I don't think I will be able turn this hobby into a full time career, but still I take the time research the topics that would help me to acquire a better image. If you have any additional information that you would like to share just leave a comment here.

Freelance - de deux

Ok, so as usual it took me a month to get back on track, well not that usual sometimes it takes me more than that... I've been having the holiday blues that I couldn't shake off and usually when this thing happens I just wait it out until something knocks it out of my system. And along came Julie & Julia the comedy-drama movie my wife and I saw the other day... It's a story about the early life of Julia Child as a struggling cook in parallel to the life of the struggling writer Julie Powell who decided to start a blog to escape the mundane day to day experiences she has at work and life as an unpublished writer. She attempts to go through Julia Child's book "Mastering the Art of French Cooking", and blogged about her daily experiences while cooking each of the 524 recipes in the span of a year.

The rest of that story will have to be on a different entry (if I ever get around to it) since this article is the second part of my previous entry that introduces my freelancing aspirations. Now that I'm back I was able to populate my personal website *slash digital playground *slash online portfolio *slash freelance H.Q. First order of business after getting the site ready for some time now was how do I pick the topics for my content? Well before I started on the endeavor of putting up my site prodigalconcepts.com I was collecting links of websites I find or stumbled upon while looking for some tutorials or inspirations and from these motley crew I started with the first topics that are now up on my site. So the next thing in line to do is decide what niche I would like to be a part of so I can concentrate on that and get my identity and web cred level up. In addition I would need to showcase some of the best works I've done and start making new ones. It would also be cool to get some interesting testimonials from my past clients and hopefully they have something nice to say about me.

So to wrap up, I need to get new articles, update my work and get it out there... well that sounds easy enough, the realization of this whole idea though would be something else entirely.