Zapplication Part 2:Digital Image Prep

Prob­a­bly the most con­fus­ing and intim­i­dat­ing part of using the Zap­pli­ca­tion process has to do with cap­tur­ing and prepar­ing your images for sub­mis­sion. While I won’t go into a great deal of detail here about tak­ing dig­i­tal pho­tos of your work (that will be cov­ered in another arti­cle), I will offer up a few key suggestions…

• Unless you have expe­ri­ence with light­ing and still pho­tog­ra­phy save your­self some headache and find a pro­fes­sional to do it for you.
• If you insist on doing it your­self make sure you have a good cam­era, good lights and a pro­fes­sional back­ground. You may have a hot lit­tle dig­i­tal point and shoot with a bazil­lion megapix­els just know this …all megapix­els are not cre­ated equal!
• Save your­self more headache and have your pho­tog­ra­pher pre­pare a set of your images that meet the stan­dards required for Zap­pli­ca­tion. Do not attempt to pre­pare your images unless you have the proper soft­ware to do so and you are famil­iar with how to use it.

I am using Adobe Pho­to­shop Ele­ments in the video, it is a scaled down and very func­tional ver­sion of Pho­to­shop and prob­a­bly the best soft­ware for this pur­pose. I would also sug­gest view­ing soft­ware that will dis­play your images in thumb nails so you can accu­rately sort and select the best. Again this sub­ject will be cov­ered later in much more detail.

If you have any ques­tions about the video or any­thing dig­i­tal leave a com­ment below and I’ll be happy to get back to you.

To see the video just click on the booth shot below and the video will open in another screen.