Recreate Public Domain Images and Sell Them
Besides modernizing public domain text, another alternative you have is to recreate copyright-free images. Again, you do not have to be an artist to do this sort of thing. You do, however, probably need to know a little about digital art software like Photoshop or Corel Draw.
With the help of a good image editing software, you can make alterations in a public domain image, depicting tired old works like the Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa or Picasso’s Woman in front of the Mirror in a humorous twist.
In fact, there may already be several funny depictions of these works circulating the net – propaganda posters like the US Government’s We Can Do It!, Leonardo da Vinci’s The Vetruvian Man, and many more. These images are in the public domain so they are free for use by the public any which way they want.
And once you have a collection of these “modernized” public domain images, you can group them and then publish them as themed calendars, posters, bumper stickers, coffee mugs, or other gift items. You can even print your products and sell them online as t-shirts, hats, book bags, cards, and more.
There are two ways of going about this. You can either hire a company that specializes in promotional products. Have them make an inventory of all your altered public domain images so you can store them and ship them whenever a buyer decides to purchase from your site. Or, you can enlist the services of a Print on Demand company like Café Press or Lulu and let them reproduce or reprint copies of your public domain images.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:49 pm
[...] Besides modernizing public domain text, another alternative you have is to recreate copyright-free images. Again, you do not have to be an artist to do this sort of thing. You do, however, probably need to know a little about digital art software like Photoshop or Corel Draw. [...]