ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

10 years ago - Alève Mine

Karel, thanks much. I see that also Le Mégot doesn't show up it must be a special character issue. I also played around with the code last night to get it to print the full names without file extension, so I might heve introduced bugs here and there. Will dive into that now.

10 years, 2 months ago - Alève Mine

we have a talent for creating limitations in the digital world where they technically needn't be.

10 years, 2 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

Just had a look, not convinced Saatchi Art is anything to do with the Saatchis, just riffing off the name??

10 years, 2 months ago - Karel Bata

But it would be nice if it wasn't a site that made every image immediately available to the masses.

10 years ago - Rob Chan

Try Squarespace, it's how/where I did mine

10 years, 2 months ago - Alève Mine

Don't use artspan: they treat you like shit.
I've got my stuff on saatchiart at the moment though they currently have a bug that causes most work not to be visible for some reason. They are working on it. The only thing that is a sustainable problem there is that you can't opt out of their discount programs. I haven't found anything else that's able to distribute posters autonomously and that otherwise worked, too.

10 years, 2 months ago - Dan Selakovich

Hey Karel, I don't, BUT be warned: people WILL steal your shit for commercial purposes. Be careful. I've had tons of photog friends get ripped off.

10 years, 2 months ago - Alève Mine

"2014 - Saatchi Online sold to Demand Media for $17 million and rebranded as SaatchiArt.com"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saatchi_Gallery

I got on there before that. Can't count on anything nowadays, can one.

10 years, 2 months ago - Alève Mine

If you just want to show your works, not have them printed and delivered on demand, and you have a website where you can add your own html and content, then you can use the function automate - create web gallery (or something like that it was called) in photoshop and upload to your site.

That's what I used in the beginning, but then I started using bandcamp for the music, which took over my website, so I had to revert to a provider for art.

And since last weekend I modified my website so that the home page links to various things, instead of only showing the music, which was confusing when I applied for any other mandate than music.

You have options.

10 years, 2 months ago - Mark Esper

Check out 500px.com. In terms of an off-shelf solutions it's pretty robust and they have a good selection of templates. However, echoing a few points already made in this post, make sure all your images are digitally watermarked.

I use digimarc.com. It will protect your images against people screen capturing them. If you hunt around the coupon sites and you can usually get a discount code for their watermarking service at reduced annual fee.

10 years, 2 months ago - Alève Mine

er... alternatives, assuming that not doing anything is not an "option".

10 years, 2 months ago - Karel Bata

Ah. We double-posted.

10 years, 2 months ago - Alève Mine

no it's a bug: I've been emailing with their support about this. I suppose they'll end up fixing it. Just hope it happens soon enough, before my next exhibition.

10 years ago - Karel Bata

Alève, pics 7 and 8 don't show up.

10 years, 2 months ago - Alève Mine

If you do't want the images available to everyone, how do you see that happening? With password?

10 years, 2 months ago - Alève Mine

http://www.saatchiart.com/alevemine
It says there are 117 works, but when you click on that, a lot fewer works appear. Or is it working when you open it?
I tried on someone else's computer (other than a client's computer which is the one I'm currently using for I can't afford one - too much info) and it didn't work there either.

10 years ago - Alève Mine

here is what the photoshop automated gallery looks like: http://alevemine.com/art/
the image files are a lot smaller than the originals.
saatchi seems to display all images, too, now, but the bug is probably not fixed.

10 years, 2 months ago - Karel Bata

Went back to bed for a bit. ;-)

I see around 36. That's a poor show for a supposedly premiere site. You sure it's not privacy settings?

10 years, 2 months ago - Karel Bata

They won't go up full res, and they'll be watermarked.

10 years, 2 months ago - Alève Mine

Yes, and we did it again.

10 years, 2 months ago - Karel Bata

Thanks. I wanted something quick and easy. It's the 21st century - you'd think it should be a breeze by now...

10 years, 2 months ago - Alève Mine

If you're doing photos only, maybe there are other photo-specialized services that are relevant for you while not for me so haven't noticed them.

10 years ago - Alève Mine

It looks like it's working now! The trick is to just never use in any file names any character that is not in the english language. I tried to keep the special characters but it seems to transcribe it in 3 different way in different places, so I gave up figuring that out.

10 years, 2 months ago - Karel Bata

Makes it useless to me right now.

10 years, 2 months ago - Karel Bata

Saatchi would be good (for credibility reasons). How bad is the problem? Can you provide a link?