Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Issue: 17   Editor: MissNyx


Picmaking, a good way of making money? whitestar
Making money is every Bootleggers' goal. At least, it is mine! And I'm sure much people share that goal. Interested in ways of making money? So was I, so I decided to write about it. Want to get rich and think making pictures might be THE way to get rich? Read and find out.

It's the goal of almost every Bootlegger, become rich. And not just rich, very very rich. Face it, who needs rank if he has money to hire high ranked people for his OC? Who needs friends to make pictures for them so their profile looks cool if they have the money to afford real quality pictures from real quality picture makers. With that I have revealed the subject of this article; picture making. Is it really possible to get rich from making pictures for other Bootleggers? Read on and find out.

Previous round it was possible to get rich from making pictures. I have know players that became rich by doing so. They made millions by simply creating pictures in Photoshop. They advertised their pictures at the classifieds or at the game forum. They gained a name of being a good picmaker and they sold their pictures to people that wanted cool and good quality pictures for their profile. These people mostly saw their pictures on other people their profiles or on the classifieds. So we can safely say that it was possible to make a good income out of making pictures previous reset. But what about this round? Is it still possible to get rich by making pictures?

First of all, making millions will get very hard. With mission rewards being lower, lower rewards for crimes and lower car values there is less money in the game compared to previous reset. So earning millions is very hard. Is there a chance for new picture makers to become famous and get rich?
That will (most likely) prove to be very hard. Last round when you viewed the classifieds and searched for 'pictures and music' you would see some topics of people asking for picture makers and (free) pictures or music.

But a view of classifieds revealed something else. I looked and only found a maximum of five people (yes five) that made a topic in this category. And they weren't people that needed pictures, they where people that where advertising for themselves. This shows that there is no market for pictures or their makers. At least, not for the new ones. Most people already have people that make pictures for them and they obviously don't need new people. So even low prices for your pictures won't do the trick. But if you pictures are of good quality it might help. However one most surely realize there are faster ways of gaining money.

So, the conclusion: picture making will most likely not be a good source of income unless you are very talented and ask little money at first, then, if you are patient it might prove to be profitable.
But as said before, there must be faster ways. Eager to know which one? You might find out next week when I talk about a new way of increasing your wealth.
Stay tuned for next weeks good way of making money article and thanks for reading!