5 Ways to Make Money with Photo Editing Skills on Freelance Platforms
By: Yusi Rose
Tags: Photo Edit, Editor, Upwork, Photoshop, Freelance

Photo by Goran Ivos on Unsplash

With the rise of side hustles and multiple ways to make money online, it is empowering to be able to use your skills to generate income. Whether you are using the free version of the editing software like Canva or a paid subscription like Adobe Photoshop or maybe you’re trying to salvage the last few weeks of the free trial period; here are 5 ways you can use your skills on these softwares to provide services on Freelance platforms like Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer e.t.c to make some extra $$$.

The competition is high on these platforms, so the way around that is to choose a niche task that will help you get ranked high in the search, build your credibility and reviews in that space.

1. Designing Cover Art

This is the graphic element seen on the cover of books, magazines and music albums which can be integral in sparking interest in potential readers or listeners. There are so many self-publishing and streaming platforms such as Kindle, Issu, Soundcloud, e.t.c that writers and artists are able to share their work with a global audience. They would need people like you with photo editing skills and graphic design knowledge to help create unique cover art designs for their pieces.

2. Making Logos

Thanks to social media more people are understanding the value of “Branding” and although there is more to branding than just the logo, the logo can be seen as the starting point of building a brand. Your skills would be needed to design a logo that helps represent their businesses, idea or online personality.

3. Generating Brand Visualization Materials

So now that these go-getters have their logo, what next? Well, they might want to get marketing content to share on digital platforms even before they have a physical product ready or they might just not have enough time or money to hire a professional photographer to take pictures of the finished products. These digital platforms might be social media or online marketplaces like Amazon, Shopify, eBay e.t.c. You can then retain these clients by offering the service to place their logos on prototypes or generic items as instructed.

4. Producing Realistic Architectural Renderings

You can charge to render Architectural drawings, such as floor plans, buildings, 3D views of the interior and outdoor spaces, e.t.c by applying colors, shadows and materials. Even images of actual spaces might need to be rendered to add more details, which helps bring character to the room. You might get proposals like this from homeowners, real estate agents, even architectural firms that might have an overflow of projects or maybe not large enough to have an in-house designer to take on that task. Who knows, you just might land a full-time role with the firm eventually!

5. Creating Posters

Posters are mediums used to convey messages to target audiences such as social media followers, friends, customers or even leads. People would need your skills to produce posters that are text-based, graphic-based or both to share online and physically. It could be to announce events by party promoters, special sales by businesses, giveaway offers by bloggers and so on.