chinkogirl: Original Amateur Content Guide (updated 04.09.2016) Who is this guide for?This guide is
chinkogirl: Original Amateur Content Guide (updated 04.09.2016) Who is this guide for?This guide is for you – amateurs creating their own original content. When we first started posting our own original content, there was a lot to learn, and no single source of information for us to learn from. To help others starting out, and with the help of several other successful blogs we have learned from, here is the Guide for Original Amateur Content. Original Quality ContentWhen selecting your original content, aim for quality over quantity. Strive for your images to be interesting, with proper lighting, in-focus, with attention to composition. The more interesting and appealing your image is the more people will appreciate it. Read up on the rule of thirds as a starter to image composition. Avoid blurry images, images with poor lighting that are grainy and hard to see, and close ups of a particular body part (there are excessive body part close ups already on Tumblr). For many of us, it takes tens or hundreds of photo’s to produce a few high quality images – so it’s natural to take many photo’s just to produce a good one. With many things competing for your time, it may be hard to regularly produce new content. Rather than post all of your content at once, you can release your content over time so you have new things to share more often, rather than sharing everything all at once. Converting images to black and white or by using color highlights you create more variety in your content, making images of the same subject or scene more diverse. Watermarking your contentA watermark is a way of identifying an image similar to a painter signing their painting. Watermarks can be added to your original work using an image editor (Photoshop CS2 is available for free download). When watermarking an image it can be a challenge to make the watermark visible without negatively distracting from the content of your image; aim to make the watermark subtle, but clear enough that it’s visible when your image is scaled to a smaller size – like viewing it from a blog, or on your dashboard. That makes it clear to others the image belongs to you. Using a watermark that uses the name of your blog is a convenient way to identify your work. A watermark will not stop someone who is intent on stealing your work and passing it off as their own. An image can be cropped to remove watermarks along the borders, or edited to remove watermarks in areas of solid colour with ease. There are benefits to watermarking your work. It makes it easy for people using Tumblr to find you; someone who likes your content can search for the name in your watermark to find your blog and become a follower. Your watermark can prevent others from unintentionally stealing your work without credit to you. By sharing your own content you need to be prepared to accept that your work will be distributed to many sites beyond Tumblr, but your watermark makes it easier to file DMCA takedown requests if you choose to do so. Promoting your BlogWhatever your reason is for sharing your original work, all of us have some desire for it to be seen – why else would we be posting it on the internet. When you post your content, using tags can help others find you, and easily search your content. Use your blog name as a unique way to identify yourself in a tag; for us we use #chinkogirl. Choose tags that identify the subject of your post – so people searching for, or tracking a particular tag can find it. For example if your post contains a bikini you can tag it as #bikini. In addition to posting to your own blog, submit your original content to other blogs with many active followers. It’s a mutually beneficial way to promote your blog, and share your content with others, while providing value to the blog with your original submission. Submit unique works you have not posted anywhere else, and make the submissions of quality. By using Tumblr to submit the post, rather than emailing it to the blog, Tumblr will automatically identify you as the submitter. When a blog with 100K+ followers shares your submission, you will gain followers. We generally submit to the following blogs as they have great content with lots of followers: http://we-want-nudity.tumblr.com/http://thepureskin.tumblr.com/http://w-y-s-f.tumblr.com/http://cynegetic.tumblr.com/http://letmedothis.tumblr.com/ Reposting your contentThere are so many posts on Tumblr, that it’s easy for your followers, and others to miss your posts. Some people are in different time-zones, or only check Tumblr on certain days. Reblogging your own content can help someone enjoy your content when they have missed it. Be careful not to reblog too often, as someone might not enjoy seeing the same post repeated. As an example, we usually reblog a new post 1-2 times in the month it is first posted; perhaps again months later if the mood strikes us. We intentionally reblog on different days, and at different times from when the original post appeared for better visibility for our various followers. When we reblog our posts, we do not take the time to tag it again, as the tags remained on the original post. Tumblr, like any software has bugs. One curious bug, is that sometimes a post does not appear on your followers dashboard when you post it – but it appears when you reblog it again later. So it’s not in your head if you think your followers aren’t seeing your posts. It doesn’t hurt to reblog your original work more than once, but within reason. Stolen contentNow for the not fun stuff. When someone steals your content – by stealing we mean posts your original work as their own, you can have it removed from Tumblr. Many thieves place disclaimers on their site claiming the work is not theirs, and perhaps even volunteering to remove content if you contact them. If you contact the blog, and ask them to remove the post, all the reblogs remain active. Asking the thief to remove the post doesn’t work. If you want your work removed, contact abuse@tumblr.com. Tumblr can remove the original post, and delete all reposts of the content. Tumblr also tracks when a blog has a DMCA violation. Repeat offending blogs are shut down. Be appreciative and patient with Tumblr’s DMCA police, as they work hard, and have a lot of things to do; however they usually take action within 48hrs. Feel free to use the below form letter when making a DMCA request to Tumblr, filling in the sections all in CAPITAL LETTERS. Tumblr Abuse,My original watermarked content, from my blog BLOGNAME has been stolen from this link:LINK TO ORIGINAL POST Misappropriation / theft has occurred by the following blog. Please remove the post, and all reblogs. This original content was created using by us, using our own camera with me as the subject and includes our watermark. Blog: THIEF’S BLOGStolen work: LINK OF STOLEN POST Thank you in advance, NAME Thanks toThis Guide would not have been possible without the help, guidance, and things we have learned from multiple other original amateur content creators on Tumblr. We appreciate them for sharing their content and their wisdom in helping us with our own blog. Our thanks to the following blogs (and many others not listed here): bb-kitten, fistmynurse, home-kink, lustification, myhotasswife, ropesnotroses1 and woohoowithyou. Please give them your thanks and appreciation as well. ~chinkogirl & boss Sharing the love & what we’ve learned over 2 years on Tumblr ~chinkogirl -- source link