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4 Things You Need To Do Before Uploading An Image To Your Blog

January 17, 2017 By Paula 14 Comments

Did you know that there are things you need to do before uploading an image to your blog? These things can keep you legal and help you know what you need to do before you put that picture on your site! This post contains affiliate links, meaning that at no extra cost to you, we get a small percentage of a sale- we use that money to help support our site and our families. Thank you! 1. Make sure you are legal! - Many bloggers don't know ...

Affordable tools for better blog photos

October 20, 2016 By Paula Leave a Comment

We know that a photo can all too often make or break a post, but what is a blogger to do if she can't afford a DLSR and a fancy light kit just yet? Today, we have some tips to help you take better images on a budget! This post has affiliate links. If a full light kit isn't in your budget yet, you can get a ring light for your iphone for around $10. I love using these for in-kitchen shots as well since my light kit stays set up in my ...

Let’s Get Intense…About Images!

July 2, 2016 By Paula Leave a Comment

Have you ever heard the saying, images can make or break a blog post? I hate that this is true, but it is! You can have a brilliantly written post but it will still fall short of it's true potential without a great image. It's time to get intense about it. What does that mean? That means we're scheduling our next live blog intensive and this month, we're covering IMAGES. For the most part this will not be a photography course. It would be ...

5 things you MUST DO when using the photo editor picmonkey

May 2, 2016 By Becky Mansfield 6 Comments

Some of us (myself included) do not have photoshop. I rely heavily on Pic Monkey. I will never put a photo onto my blog without editing it. Here are the 5 steps that I take every single time… 1- Adjust the exposure to make it brighter (brighter pictures look better on Pinterest & other social media). You can do this automatically. (see picture below). 2- Adjust the clarity & sharpness. This makes a WORLD of ...

Free Christmas Images

December 21, 2014 By Becky Mansfield Leave a Comment

Scroll to the bottom of this post to grab one of our Free Christmas Images for "taking a blogging break"! First off, Merry Christmas from all of us here at Blogging on the Side! We hope each of you have a wonderful week celebrating Christ's birth with your friends and family!!! After today, things will be quiet on this blog, until friday when the scheduled interview will go up. Each of us will be spending extra time with our families and ...

why EVERY image should be edited

November 15, 2014 By Becky Mansfield 2 Comments

I hadn't planned on writing this post today, but when I was looking for a new juicer to buy, I noticed something…. and it made me realize why EVERY image should be edited. This post contains our affiliate links, because we love what we are sharing! Take a look at this picture. Its great, right? I would use this picture on my blog, without questioning it… UNTIL I saw their edited image. Look at this new one: They are the exact same image! ...

How to Make a Text Overlay on an Image

November 3, 2014 By Paula Leave a Comment

Have you been wondering how to make a faded box on your images so you can write in some text? That is one question that was brought up in our Facebook Group this week --- join here, so we made a tutorial to answer this question! We will be working with this photo today: To start, open picmonkey.com and click the "edit' button. This will then allow you to choose from any image on your computer. Select the image you are wanting to put text ...

How to put image on a larger white space

August 30, 2014 By Becky Mansfield 3 Comments

This post, as with any on Blogging on the Side, may contain affiliate links to products & companies that we love! My friend Keri asked me recently how to put an image on a large white space. I have to do this a lot because my featured image size is a perfect square. Start with PicMonkey. I use PicMonkey for every post, on Blogging on the Side & Your Modern Family. I just take an old picture & resize it to the size that I want, ...

Where to get FREE photos for your blog

June 28, 2014 By Becky Mansfield Leave a Comment

I just wanted to share where we get free images! If you are following this thread on our Blogging on the Side Facebook group, you will get a ton of info there! (If you aren't a member…. just request to join & we will approve you!) Here are some places to go for FREE images for your blog… New Old Stock. Canva Microsoft Images Morguefile Photopin (remember that the sponsored posts are ABOVE the dotted lines & the ones that you ...

Make a Media Kit with Picmonkey

June 25, 2014 By Becky Mansfield Leave a Comment

I keep reading more and more about media kits. I had never done one, but then I read an article that said that "3 out of 5 sponsors prefer them" so I decided that I better get to work. Then, coincidence would have it that someone posted about Media Kits in a Facebook group that I am a part of that they were going to charge $50 for a kit and I was going to go ahead and purchase it. Before I hit that purchase button, I googled "Media Kit" and it ...