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Reinventing Your Creative Career: Evolve Your Skills Without Starting Over

Concept by JENN MCINTYRE, Written BY JENN MCINTYRE & JULIA KUZMENKO MCKIM The creative market is undergoing its biggest transformation of our time. For newer professionals, it’s the first significant disruption of their careers. For seasoned pros, it echoes the early...

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Industries That Rely on Photo & Video Production in 2025

Obviously, most of us are wondering about the future of freelance photography, video, and post-production as we watch the flood of new Gen AI tools and platforms that can generate highly realistic visuals in seconds continue to accelerate.

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What is Freelance in the Visual Industry

What is the Visual Industry? The Visual Industry is a broad field of sectors dedicated to producing visual content to communicate messages and shape experiences. Visual Arts are forms of art that are visual in nature, created to be appreciated through...

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Freelance Business, Hardware & Tools

Top Monitors for Retouching in 2025

For a creative professional, the monitor isn't just another piece of equipment; it's a crucial precision tool for producing professional content. Every editing decision, from adjusting highlights and contrast to color corrections and color matching, relies entirely on the accuracy...

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Retouching Freelance Market Trends Report (Q3 2024): Key Insights from Our Survey

Written BY JULIA KUZMENKO MCKIM INTRODUCTION In polling and survey methodologies, it is well-known that after reaching a threshold sample size, the results stabilize, and the law of diminishing returns comes into play. The marginal benefit of adding more respondents becomes...

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Generative AI for Freelancers

The freelance world is undergoing a seismic shift propelled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially Generative AI. In my latest blog post, you will find how I believe this transformative technology is reshaping the industry and can help YOU to recession-proof your freelance...

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16 Useful Productivity Tools for Freelance Artists

Freelance artists have it harder than most because we have to wear every hat for our business. We are the marketers, the customer service representatives, the sales team, the producer, the artisan, the bookkeeper, and every other role in between. This can make running our businesses both challenging and exhausting. Fortunately, constantly improving technology has paved the way for many different applications that can help us work smarter, not harder.

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Passion, Drive & The Everyday Challenges On The Way To Your Success. Part 2

Continued from Passion, Drive & The Everyday Challenges On The Way To Your Success. Part 1 Problem #2  Self-doubt & Lack of inspiration When I was in high school and it was time to start thinking of my future profession, I wanted to...

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Passion, Drive & The Everyday Challenges On The Way To Your Success. Part 1

I used to think that the first two - passion and drive - inevitably would lead me to the ever-desired success as an independent artist because, as we all know, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" and "The harder...

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