Daily Archives: April 11, 2015

Apr 11 2015

And the Current #1 Bestseller on Amazon Is…

Images from ShutterStock

Images from ShutterStock

AMAZON BESTSELLER

Go ahead. Guess.

What kind of book do you think is currently the number one bestseller on Amazon?

  • Romance novel? Nope.
  • Fantasy novel? Nuh uh.
  • A short story? Wrong.
  • Children’s book? No.
  • How-to guide? Wrong again.
  • Suspense thriller? Not even close.

Among print books,

the number one bestseller on Amazon,

presently,

first of all is

out of stock

and,

secondly,

(would you believe?)

is

a

coloring book

(no, children’s book is still wrong!)

for

adults.

That’s right:

The bestselling book on Amazon right now is a coloring book for adults.

 

Secret Garden by Johanna Basford.

But that doesn’t mean you should rush to publish one.

I typed in “adult coloring books” in the Amazon search and it pulled up nearly 2000 matches in books.

As usual, you need to deliver good content and market effectively to stand out from the crowd.

Chris McMullen

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Chris McMullen, Author of A Detailed Guide to Self-Publishing with Amazon and Other Online Booksellers

  • Volume 1 on formatting and publishing
  • Volume 2 on marketability and marketing
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Apr 11 2015

Infinite Feedback Loop in PhotoShop

Infinite Loop 4

Infinity and background images from ShutterStock.

 

HOW TO CREATE AN INFINITE FEEDBACK LOOP IN PHOTOSHOP

In photography, you can display a camera’s image on a monitor and point the camera at the monitor to create an infinite feedback loop.

Image from ShutterStock.

Image from ShutterStock.

There is a simple way to create this effect in PhotoShop.

Let me illustrate this by showing how I created the image for this post.

I began with a simple image in PhotoShop, consisting of a background image, a foreground image, a tablet, and a line of text.

Images from ShutterStock.

Images from ShutterStock.

I saved this as a PhotoShop file in PSD format and then created a PNG image of it as well.

Next, I opened the PNG file and resized it to match the screen size of the tablet.

In my version of PhotoShop (I have the Creative Cloud), I used Select > All and Edit > Copy to copy the image, and then I switched windows to my PSD file. I used Edit > Paste to insert the PNG image into the PSD file, and positioned it to fit on the screen.

Images from ShutterStock.

Images from ShutterStock.

My original image was 1024 pixels wide. The tablet’s screen size in the original image is 340 pixels wide. The ratio is 0.332.

Multiply 340 by 0.332 to get 113. The next PNG image needs to be scaled to 113 pixels wide. Copy and paste that image into the PSD file to add another loop to the picture.

Images from ShutterStock.

Images from ShutterStock.

Repeat these steps (multiplying by the same ratio; in my example, the ratio is 0.332) until you can’t tell with your eye that the feedback loop isn’t ‘infinite.’

Chris McMullen

Copyright © 2015

Chris McMullen, Author of A Detailed Guide to Self-Publishing with Amazon and Other Online Booksellers

  • Volume 1 on formatting and publishing
  • Volume 2 on marketability and marketing
  • 4-in-1 Boxed set includes both volumes and more

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