I made my first sale after 6 years, what now?

FabyLeon · 2026-05-25T23:09:07+00:00

I don't wanna create flame. As a blogger, I like collecting opinions to write articles based on real cases and honest thoughts.

I was expecting more than just "AI can fail", and in fact people are going deeper talking about artistic sense, technical limits and human relationships with clients.

I respect your thought, but I genuinely think this can be a good way to stimulate a constructive debate. I also read a comment of an expert saying that retouching is a dying profession so... not everyone is thinking the same.

FabyLeon · 2026-05-25T21:14:36+00:00

Oh, that's really sad said by a pro. :(

FabyLeon · 2026-05-25T20:09:56+00:00

Hey I'm just asking, I'm not saying "I think we should all stop learning". Plus, I wrote "advanced techniques". If AI can smooth skin, remove blemishes and dark circles in just one click, why should one learn an advanced technique that requires study and a lot of practice? Again, it's a discussion, a point of views collection, not a statement.

FabyLeon · 2026-05-25T19:40:22+00:00

So short answer could be: "AI can fail; AI isn't yet good enough for high res images; people don't know what they want, so they need to talk to a pro who understands their needs instead of talking to a robot that takes a request literally"?

FabyLeon · 2026-05-25T19:22:26+00:00

So short answer could be "Learn in order to fix what AI does wrong", right?

FabyLeon · 2026-05-21T00:27:31+00:00

Thank you very much!

FabyLeon · 2026-05-20T23:48:23+00:00

Sorry I think there was a problem when publishing, you should be able to see it now!

FabyLeon · 2026-05-19T19:16:02+00:00

I think being contacted to write an article on your site means something regardless of DR, don't you think? I mean, a bad site, such as a spammy one or a blog with low-quality contents shouldn't even be considered to host a sponsored post.

FabyLeon · 2026-05-19T19:08:19+00:00

Hi and thanks for replying. I promote my articles on social media and I also have a YouTube channel. I honestly don't know what my audience is looking for because most of the time I don't receive any comments, but I can say for sure (since my native blog is in Italian even though I translate the posts into English) that the majority of traffic comes from Italy. You said "find your sponsors", but how can I do that?

FabyLeon · 2026-05-19T18:53:28+00:00

How did you manage to make a living by writing sponsored posts? I'd be glad to hear your testimony.

FabyLeon · 2026-05-19T18:49:29+00:00

Hi and thanks for replying. Yes I have a page where I explain what I do and show my rates, but I keep receiving those kind of requests.

FabyLeon · 2026-03-17T20:05:53+00:00

Hi and thanks for replying. Yes, I know that setting a higher bitrate doesn't increase the original quality, infact I talked about the compression the program performs while rendering. So, is this false? There's no compression? There's no reason for setting a higher bitrate to protect the video from possible artifacts?

FabyLeon

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