Apparently you don't even need to have any photography experience to
get paid for editing photos. Let's talk about that. You're watching
this because you were probably thinking about how you can make some
extra cash from photography without even leaving the house, right?
Specifically making money online from editing photos. It's what I was
curious about. So I did some research. And here's what I found.
So making money online editing photos, why did I choose to explore
this? Well, being a photographer these days hasn't been exactly like
it used to be, especially if you are a full time photographer, or even a
part timer, who is getting paid to take photos of people. So instead of
just being depressed about the situation with the pandemic, and
restriction outdoors, I've been trying to see how I can innovate to
keep up with the times. And I found out that you don't even really need
to be a photographer, or have any kind of experience with photography
to get paid for editing photos. Or let me explain, if we were to look
at four main areas of traditionally getting paid for photography, number
one, getting clients, all of the work that is entailed in turning
somebody from a visitor into a customer, the second one is
shooting, actually taking the photos with your camera three, editing the
photos, you took the shots, and now is the time to make them look really
good. And of course, the best part number four, getting paid for all of
that hard work that second one, though, when we're actually taking
photos, we don't have that much control of how much of that could be
done right now, in the current situation. So what we're looking at
is how we can eliminate that number two, key madrone eliminate the
second one, and still run through this process and become profitable,
preferably not even having to leave the house. Well, everybody's
situation is a little bit different. I've been a photographer, so I
already have all of the tools, the skills and the knowledge, I would
have spent a lot of time using software like Adobe Lightroom, Adobe
Photoshop, and develop the actual skills to edit a photo and have it
look great. That's from learning right here on YouTube, and
Skillshare, where there's a link in the bio to get 40% off. Now it's
cool if you have those skills and the experience that I just
mentioned, well guess what? From what I've seen, you actually don't
need any of that to make money online editing photos, you can do
this as a complete beginner. Now I know I'm definitely not the only one
curious about this. So I decided to bring you along to see what I found
out what's involved, while you're editing and enhancing photos aren't
getting paid for it. That's all really what matters is that you're
doing a task and getting paid. Is it a way to make a living? Well, it's
low stress, and you get to be paid for being creative, you control how
much work to be done. If you want to edit one photo a week versus 100
photos that's up to you, you're your own boss. And you're basically
working from home or wherever your laptop is, which is ideal for the
current times. So based on your financial situation, it's up to you
whether you want to do this part time or full time. Well Believe it
or not, some people make full time income on sites like Fiverr, which
we'll get into in a little bit, let's just run through some of the
specific tasks. Some of the popular ones on these sites, for example, at
removing stuff, or somebody from a photo. Maybe there's an ant in from
a family or family wedding portrait that people just don't get along
with and they prefer that she wasn't in there, you have one of those
color correction is an action. Let's see, there's a bright green light
that's shining on the faces of people in a portrait, making them
look like the Hulk.
So you'll have to modify the colors to fix that, or can even be a washed
out image where you modify the colors to get that done. Photo
restoration is another one where you're bringing an all photo back to
life or just fixing a damaged photo. Another popular task is background
removal, where you guessed it, you just remove the background. Now you
might be thinking that must be hard to do. Do you need to know
Photoshop? You don't. There are free sites that I found that can do that
with just one click More on that when we get into the tools. Oh
actually, we're here ready? So what skills and tools do you need? I
would suggest that if you are already a photographer and have the
experience with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom then you should use that
but if you don't own it as yet, I do have an affiliate link in the
description below where you can get a discount on your monthly
subscription with that, check that out. You don't have the skills with
Photoshop but you you wish you did well, there may be an alternative
that is free and you don't even need to install it. It's cool photo p or
maybe it's photo peer. I don't want to pronounce it but this is how it's
spelt. There's another one called makeup for tool for Dotto. There's
also a really cool AI photo enhancing tool called luminar ai
that gets a lot of different tasks done in just a click. So you don't
really need to know anything about editing or enhancing photos. And if
you didn't know it before, there is a demand for this type of stuff. As
you can see right here there are people with a lot of reviews, which
means that they get a lot of business done with this amount of
reviews. You can just imagine how much jobs they actually do. And just
like all these other tech freelancing types of jobs, some
platforms may be more competitive than others play wondering if it
could appeal well, right as we check here for two types of jobs can range
from $5, all the way up to $100 per photo. And just to give a quick
snapshot of what the process is like, you create a profile, a job, a
gig, something specific around one task, somebody searches for a
service, they select you, you get the job done, you get paid, then you
add that to your portfolio. Hopefully you get a good review. And
then you repeat setting up all of the accounts of very straightforward
as well as how you would go about finding jobs. Now there's several
different freelancing websites out there, that's good for this type of
task to mention a few Upwork. freelancer, there's guru as well.
But the ones I would suggest that you focus on is Fiverr. And people
put out fires a simple website online where people pay you for
doing simple things. with them, it's probably complicated, which is why
they'll pay you either that or they just don't have the time to get
something like that done. For you. It will be simple Evo per hour is
very similar to Fiverr. But it's not as competitive, though there is a
bit of an approval process, which is good, which means that any and
everybody just can't apply and get through which would reduce the
overall quality of the platform. It does require of every Freelancer to
apply and be approved before they can sell their services. But there's
a chance of you getting hired for a job probably faster on people per
hour as a newbie, I would say out of those two platforms have seen a lot
of people really make a side hustle out of this on Fiverr as you can see
right here and if you're interested in getting set up on Fiverr to
really become a successful freelancer, then you can check out
this course on Skillshare that costs you $0 to watch since it's a free
trial, it will teach you how to freelance on Fiverr and make some
money during paid for photography is really cool, uniquely cool if you
don't have to even leave the house. And this was just one of the ways
there are many others. One of the others specifically is where you
could get the photos or graphics done for free on one website and
then submit them on another site and get paid for it and you can check
that out right here.