I appreciated your reminding people of this resource. There is really some fantastic work here, and some great inspiration. I'm sure you wanted to steer clear of any political commentary, but the WPA was an immensely important project during the Great Depression. I'll only quote from Wiki here, but..."It was created not as a cultural activity, but as a relief measure to employ artists and artisans to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, theatre scenic design, and arts and crafts. The WPA Federal Art Project established more than 100 community art centers throughout the country, researched and documented American design, commissioned a significant body of public art without restriction to content or subject matter, and sustained some 10,000 artists and craft workers during the Great Depression." I'm sure everyone here appreciates the work of Artists, and we should humbly thank them, that make use of their work. Thank you, from a new subscriber.
Hello. All your videos and their contents are marvelous! In the last 3 days I have watched 12 videos (both with your name and Crafty Stax) and I, just now, finished writing a list of many more videos by you I must see this weekend. I am certain this might be the best idea for my "career", as I do not know, how to create videos or design anything much myself. Right now I need to study how to use Canva. I love old-fashioned pics and thus I found your ideas so charming, useful, and practical. But where would I sell those pictures without being forced to wait for gigs? Just list them, and wait for someone to like them and just buy them. Thank you very much. Stay safe.
Thank you for the kind words! You have a couple of options to sell. You can create original artwork from the images and stick them on a t-shirt or apparel (for example, Redbubble). Zen Watercooler channel has boatloads of print on demand stuff but I would recommend starting with Redbubble. The other option is creating digital designs from the public domain resources. You can sell digital designs on Etsy (just search for whatever search term and then "svg" on Etsy to get ideas). Hope that helps!
Which watermark software do you personally recommend if someone wants to advertise vintage posters for sale on vintage marketplaces, selling in printed physical form (with delivery option)? Or is watermark worth at all? Thx for your pretty high quality old poster videos!
That's a great question - typically when I am advertising or listing something like that where a watermark is needed, I just open up the mockup picture and manually type my business name in 15% opacity font right across the picture. So it's pretty light but super annoying if someone wanted to copy it. I haven't used software for it, I have just done it manually.
@@craftystax As you show 10:17 - I downloaded the vintage digital poster City of New York municipal airports, creation date is 1936 or 1937, so supposedly it can be used without restrictions. Do you mean the downloaded picture by "mockup picture"? After downloading, which programme do you use to manually type in your name across the picture like a watermark? Can you also make a totally transparent watermark so that at first glance you do not notice it?
If you are using Photoshop, you would click near the text (but not on it) with the eyedropper tool and take a sample of the color - and then paint right over the text.
I want to use for book cover. is that possible? How do I do that. What software is needed. I'm an older person that is not all that technically versed. Thank you to anyone who can help.
