iPod users can now enjoy even more than ever as you can associate the album artwork with a songs using your iTunes. You can transfer your album artwork to your iPod photo with the help of your iTunes 4.7 version which helps you to watch the album when the songs are played.

There is a general opinion that it is very difficult to associate the album artwork with a song. But it is not so in reality. It can be done easily by searching for CD covers online and dragging them to the song album place holder present in your iTunes. Also to make this even easier, there are free sites like clutter and art4itunes.com which helps to add album artwork to the songs.

So, desperate to know what is a clutter, right? Clutter is a tool to associate the albums with a number of songs. Actually, it searches for the album artwork at amazon.com for the songs. If it finds more than one, then it indicates you by an arrow. So you can select any one from them. Then you can easily copy that artwork by entering into the file menu and selecting copy cover to iTunes option.

Even it has an option to check amazon.com by using the “find cover in amazon” option under the file menu. You can get lot of albums which are matching with your song. The best part of this is that it enables the drag and drop option. So you can drag and drop the albums to your desktop. Only drawback of your clutter is that it will not work well when the number of artists is high.

When coming back to art4tunes.com, it is a website that helps you to get the album artwork at free of cost for your songs. This is so simple to use. You can go to that website and select the song to get your album artwork. It too searches various other websites like amazon.com and amazon.co.uk for the album artwork for the song mentioned. Once it finds, you can easily drag and drop it to your desktop.

A lot has already be said about art work and how it effects the Feng Shui and Qi of you home. These guidelines have been used for many many years, but at times, you may not realize that some of your own art is bringing you not the right kind of energy into your home that you actually want, and hence into your life.

To ensure all is well and that you are creating the right kind of Qi (chi) in your home with certain artwork, I have created a short list of guidelines to follow which can help you achieve the growth and happiness Qi you wish to have in your home.

Here are some simple guidelines you can follow when you want to enhance good Qi to enter and be welcoming in your home, bringing you happiness, health, opportunities, good news and wealth.

1. Have a family photo of everyone together placed predominately in your home, make sure everyone looks happy in the photo.
2. For single women who seek more love in their life, make sure your art work does not show a lone woman in your art work. I recently removed a beautiful picture from my bedroom since it was a single woman, albeit a gorgeous print of a European Princess, it is not auspicious to have this in my bedroom, as since I am not married, – yet. The same goes for single men, try not to have lone figures of men. With this sort of art, you are sending out a sign to stay single. So photos of couples happily together is what you should seek to have hanging in your home.
3. If there is a photo, picture, painting in your home that you do not like, say it reminds you of your least favorite uncle, remove it. You will be amazed at how quickly removing said picture makes you feel better, you no longer have to look at the thing that brings you to have negative thoughts.
4. Any photos that seem to show negativity – I recently also removed antique prints from a children’s story “The Pied Piper” And though they were incredible hand-painted illustrations from a well-known artist Kate Greenaway, since the prints showed fear on the women’s faces as they ran from the mice, I knew it wasn’t auspicious to have in my home. I have since sold them on E-bay for a good sum. Who knew?!
5. Don’t keep family photos placed faced down in storage as you are ’symbolically’ pushing down their energy by doing this.
6. Nor is it good practice to keep photos and pictures under your bed, for the same pushing and blocking of their energy by keeping the photos there.
7. With the age of the digital camera, we now have so many photos, many more than we can ever actually use. Good practice is to remove any unflattering photos of yourself and of others immediately. Doing this once a week in the many folders in your computer, will ensure, that you end up with only beautiful and happy looking photos of your friends, family and self. This in turns help bring only happiness to you and your family and friends.
8. Keep a happy looking photo of yourself on your alter, dresser and one of your mate should be placed here as well. Also include a photo of the two of you together very happy in love. This will also help keep the two of you together, and also helps keep happy energy entering into your relationship.
9. Have a picture of many birds – the more the merrier, especially of a phoenix bird is extremely auspicious. Have this hanging in your living room, bedroom or when you enter your home is excellent to help bring into your home many good opportunities and always good news.
10. A picture of mountains, with moving water is also extremely good to have behind you as you sit at your desk. It is said you can also have these sort of picture placed anywhere in your home, as the moving water is a symbol of wealth growth, and the mountains reflect stability and support from both coworkers, family and even bosses when used in the office.

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Do you consider yourself a Monet or Picasso just waiting for your work to be discovered? It can be very stressful being a starving artist if your passion is your art, but you aren’t able to make a living at it. Yet you may not have even investigated or researched how to sell your art.

There are many venues and opportunities for artists to explore to get the word out about their work. Before knowing which venue might be best for you, there are a few steps to take.

First you need to develop your own unique artistic identity. Think of this as branding yourself. How do you wish to be known. You must have a memorable and recognizable identity before you worry about how to sell art.

You should also set goals for yourself. What do you want to accomplish with your art. Is it a hobby or lifelong passion in which you intend to make a full time living. Determine the answer to that before you try to find out how to sell your art.

You should determine the target market for your art. What are their demographics? Of course, you aren’t limited to your local area alone these days because, with a web presence, you can easily use the reach of the internet to even learn how to sell art online.

Don’t rely only on the internet, however, as it can be very impersonal. You will also wish to network with other artists and galleries in order to become a serious and successful artist.

One thing you will most certainly need is patience. If you are committed to your goal, don’t give up and be sure to give your artistic expression time to blossom.

After you’ve done all of the pre-planning as outlined above, set goals and established your brand, then you can move ahead with the marketing and learn how to sale your art.

If you would like to find out the steps I took to discover how to sell my art work, you’ll find a link to a great guide below.