Re: Imagekind

**Ellen Zachos e*@acmeplant.com**

Interesting site, Betty, thanks.

What are the prices like?  I've looked all over the site but don't  
see any listed.  I suppose I could go through the purchase process  
but I wondered if you had any info.

Ellen

On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:02 PM, bbmackey wrote:

> I signed up at a Print on Demand site for artists and photographers  
> called
> Imagekind (www.imagekind.com) . Have any of you heard of it? Used  
> it? Know
> the background?
>
> They offer free virtual gallery space up to 24 images, or for a modest
> amount you can buy more space. They employ curators to approve  
> "galleries"
> for public showing, but anyone can have a private gallery.   
> Visitors can
> order the images as wall-sized prints, framed or unframed. Members  
> can leave
> comments on other members' work. There's an array of mats and  
> frames, and
> also stretched canvas prints. If someone buys your image you  
> receive the
> difference between your markup and the basic cost of the printing and
> framing. This site is still in beta testing. Alpha testing started in
> midsummer.
>
> So far I haven't sold a thing but it has been fun seeing all the  
> artwork
> posted on the site -- participants come from around the world in  
> addition to
> the USA. My impression is that there are a lot of artists using the  
> site but
> not so many shoppers. I really enjoy the work that is shown  
> although plant
> nomenclature is not so strong there.
>
> It does point up the vast difference between an artistic photograph  
> (more
> mystery!) and one intended as an illustration, like most of mine.
>
>
> Betty Mackey
>
>  http://bettymackey.imagekind.com/gardenworld
>
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