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Advancing your photography skills
Advancing your photography skills
Welcome fellow local guides!
Welcome fellow local guides!
This tutorial can help you get millions of photo views on Google Maps by helping you ensure your pics are always:
1) Helpful and relevant to Maps users.
2) Adhere to the official guidelines.
3) Have the best chances of getting selected as cover and featured photos.
Successfully embracing these 3 main objectives will enable you to make and upload photos that are ideal and precisely tailored for Google Maps. Such photos can be quite different from what makes a good photos for Facebook, your family album, art, advertising, news, nature, portraits, and weddings, etc.
Today, some images on Google Maps are of absolutely amazing quality, while others are mediocre. Low-quality and irrelevant photos are not helpful for the millions of Maps users and can unfairly harm the reputation of places. Helping suspended local guides also made it clear that the photo rules need to be explained better. Therefore this tutorial aims to make it easy and fun for local guides to master the photo rules and make better pics specifically for Google Maps.
The structure of this tutorial follows the workflow for photo walks Shooting, Processing, and Uploading pictures. A fourth and very important topic has been added: How to get feedback on your images. Therefore this tutorial consists of these 4 topics:
This topic covers how best to frame your shots for Google Maps. And helps you get a good and consistent perspective in all your shots. Finally, some Essential shooting tips are shared.
Open Shooting
Learn how to edit your photos before uploading them. Faces and license plates are blurred. Photos are cropped to the wide-format used on Google Maps. And finally, the brightness, contrast, and saturation are tweaked to make your pics look their best.
Open Processing
Learn how best to get feedback specifically on your photos. This will enable you to advance your skills as a Google Maps photographer much faster.
Open Feedback
If you have questions or suggestions related to this tutorial, please share them on Connect*.
Take a moment to appreciate the kind people who helped develop this tutorial.
Your host
Your host
Hi. I am a Local Guide just like you, and I made this tutorial. My username on Connect is MortenCopenhagen.
Reach me on Connect
It can takes hours to study the entire tutorial. So don't waste your time on information you already know or find boring. Just skip ahead. You may want to check recaps, cheatsheets, or quizzes to guide you to find what is more relevant and interesting for you.
Click/tap the blue "Suggested first"-button below to get started with the Shooting topic. Enjoy!
* In this tutorial the term 'Connect' refers to Local Guides Connect, which os the official platform provided by Google for Local Guides.
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