Creating your own photo blog

Award-winning blogger Catherine Jamieson has released a book on creating your own photo blog. The $24.99 book, appropriately titled, "Create Your Own Photo Blog," promises to teach users how to set up their blog and offers photo ideas to jumpstart creativity. The book covers how to design a blog using Movable Type, how to shoot, edit, and select photos that work best on the web, and how to enhance and promote a blog.

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Create Your Own Photo Blog

Photo blogs are the fastest-growing form of personal publishing on the Internet. Whether the goal is to create an online photo diary, showcase a professional portfolio, or just share with family across the continent the pictures from the reunion, a photo blog can accomplish this. No one understands this phenomenon better than professional photographer and award - winning blogger Catherine Jamieson. Her new book, CREATE YOUR OWN PHOTO BLOG (Wiley; April 2006; $24.99), is a richly illustrated, full-color guide to planning and designing a photo blog. Legions of fans visit Jamieson's blog, Utata, every day in order to view the latest of her photographic creations. In her book, she imparts her knowledge and expertise and shows readers how they, too, can share their photos through blogging.

CREATE YOUR OWN PHOTO BLOG walks readers through setting up their blog and offers photo ideas to help jumpstart creativity and get would-be bloggers shooting. It also covers:

Deciding on the purpose of your photo blog
Designing a blog using the Movable Type publishing platform
Learning to shoot, edit, and select photos that work best on the Web
Using flicker.com to showcase photos
Enhancing a blog to attract high volumes of traffic
Promoting the blog, networking with other photo bloggers, and syndicating content
Improving photographic skills with professional tricks and techniques
Exploring and learning from some of the Web's top-rated photo blogs
The companion Web site, www.createyourownphotoblog.com provides a library of professionally designed, easily customizable templates and links to all of the photo blogs mentioned in the book.

Photos are meant to be shared. With the help of CREATE YOUR OWN PHOTO BLOG, anyone can tap their inner muse and share their creativity with the world