The story of a man from Indonesia being paid by Adobe Rp. 90 million for photo edits

KOMPAS.com – There is an expression that sounds follow your passion, do what you love and the money will come. It means more or less persevere with what you want then the money will come.

This expression is sufficient to describe what happened to Kevin Pramudya Utama. The man from Indonesia who is now domiciled in Japan got the result of his hobby photography which he does.

Thanks to his photo processing skills, Kevin was paid US $ 6,000 or around Rp.90 million from a well-known software company, Adobe.

This story he later shared on Twitter. At first, Kevin entered a photo contest Lightroom held by Adobe and the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO).

This contest took place in February 2020. Kevin was also determined to send some of his works even though it was not clearly announced what prizes would be given to the winners.

With the knowledge of editing photos from Youtube University, I tried to compete with masters from all over the world who turned out to be also following dong woi, but yes, I have nothing to lose, I did it as well as I could, below are my 6 edits. pic.twitter.com/QD59YoMJr9

— ???? (@sadness_loop) September 10, 2020

The announcement arrived on March 11. Kevin did not think that his work would appear at the very top. In fact, not only one, but two of Kevin’s works were included in the announcement, one of which was chosen by another sponsor.

In his tweet, he admitted that he was moved after seeing the announcement, even though at that time he did not know what prize he would get. On March 20, he got an e-mail from an Adobe representative.

The e-mail contains an offer worth IDR 90 million to create 20 tutorials, 40 Discover Files, and two social media posts on May 8, 2020.

For information, Cover Files is one of the features in the Lightroom application that shows the editing process from start to finish.

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Adobe also took him face-to-face online and made an agreement with Kevin to create Discover Files and 20 editing tutorials for Lightroom with the available website.

“Long story short, after the” bloody “struggle, working on tutorials after coming home from work at 7 pm until sometimes 3 am, thank God Alhamdulillah, I don’t know how we ended up with 15 tutorials with various levels,” he wrote on Twitter who had received permission. Kevin to quote KompasTekno.

Kevin’s Ligthroom Discover Files can be found at link following. Kevin also shared that when he followed the content, he was using an illegal version of Adobe. He also shared this confession with Adobe during a virtual meeting.

“But I told you about this too time meeting online and in the end I was given free Lightroom original 20TB of storage for a year, “he wrote.

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