One other Very Bloggy Replace — Thomas Fitzgerald Images

I’m rewriting my Lightroom Fuji Guide. Finally. Again.

I’ve lastly, after a number of false begins, begun re-writing my lengthy uncared for Lightroom fuji information. I’ve really discontinued the previous one as a result of it was so outdated, and I had a option to both let it go, or create a brand new one. I’ve had a couple of makes an attempt at this over the latest few years, and I’ve made feedback earlier than about beginning a re-write earlier than. However, between Adobe altering some elementary elements of Lightroom, and Fuji popping out with new fashions, I’ve been placing it off and having to restart time and again.

But this time, I’ve really already began writing, and it’s totally laid out and truly in-progress. I might moderately not promise a timeline, and it’s most likely nonetheless a couple of months away, but it surely is kind of a whole re-write of the previous one. There is a few content material retained, and a few of my related weblog posts have been repurposed for it, however the majority of it’s new.

Bringing again my Patreon and Newsletter

I’m additionally contemplating bringing again my Patreon web page and electronic mail publication. If I do, they are going to be a bit totally different from earlier than. I believe it’s vital to return to methods of reaching individuals, the place the viewers will get to decide on what to observe, moderately than hoping to coax the algorithm into sharing your content material. I’ll discuss extra on this later, however one factor I’m going to do with Patreon is make it a lot easier than earlier than. I’ll have just one tier and I will likely be offering behind the scenes content material and one off stuff greater than the rest. I had made this a lot too difficult earlier than.

I really miss it as a result of it was a good way to attach with individuals, and there was sense of neighborhood there. I had hoped a few of that may very well be replicated on Facebook with Facebook Groups, however boy was I flawed about that. I’m to the purpose now the place I barely use Facebook anymore, and I’m contemplating deleting my account there.

I’m nonetheless making an attempt to determine how finest to do the publication. I actually simply need it to supply individuals a option to subscribe by way of electronic mail. I had used Mail Chimp earlier than, however that was really a little bit of a ache to handle, and it will get costly. I’ll most likely go together with Substack, because it’s free and has various helpful options, though it’s extra appropriate as a devoted separate publication than a method for individuals to subscribe. I might do this with Squarespace’s personal mail system, however that will get difficult too, and I’m not 100% positive how compliant it’s with GDPR guidelines on emails. Anyway – it’s an issue to unravel one other day, but when anybody has any recommendations as to platform for this, I might be thankful for any recommendations.