deviantART delivery and print quality

As I mentioned before, so far I'm going with deviantART as an online prints service. They offer a wide variety of prints with a choice in finishes. I ordered some sample prints about two weeks ago, which arrived yesterday, and I was pretty pleased with how they turned out. Each print came protected in a cardboard sleeve, and the colours seemed fine to me. I ordered the "matte" finish, and I've also ordered one in "lustre" finish (should arrive in about a week) to compare.

I'm still going to do more investigating before I start "officially" publicizing my print shop but if you're curious, you can see what prints I have available now. And thanks so much to those who have already purchased prints! I haven't figured out if there's a way of finding out who has made purchases, but I do know what prints have been bought. I've decided to remove the small white margin from the print shown in the photo above, by the way, to make it consistent with the other Little Nightmare pics. The change(s) should go through once my newly uploaded images are approved.

I recently discovered Imagekind, which is apparently a Seattle-based startup in acquisition discussions with Amazon. Imagekind has a more professional-looking site, and also sells frames for your prints. There are tiered levels of services for artists. I've signed up for the free account (200 MB bandwith/storage, up to 24 images) and am going to check it out.

I realize that I could probably get much higher print quality by taking the files to a pro print shop but unfortunately I lack the time and motivation. A growing number of people have been asking about buying prints so I figured I could do this by using an online service that did pretty much EVERYTHING for me, even if it meant I'd get a smaller cut. Anyway, I'm using my deviantART print store for now, but will continue investigating.

Thanks to those who answered my Morning vs Night people survey in Inkygirl yesterday! I've posted the results today.

Will Write For Chocolate has been updated! Accompanying blog topic: Useful software For Writers (Part 2). I also posted a survey for writers about what question THEY tend to dread. :-) Please feel free to post your answer in Will Write For Chocolate. Click on the image below for a bigger version.

Links O' The Day

Body painting: Incredible examples of body painting by Guido Daniele. Amaaaaazing! Be sure to click on the hand painting section (the one with the hand painted like a cheetah).

Pooktre Tree Shapers: The site could use some design help, but the shaped trees are impressive...they look like a younger cousin of the Ents. :-)

RiverStyx.com: I limited myself to only exploring a little bit of this site because I could tell it was a potential time vampire. At first glance, it looks sort of Myst-like, sort of educational. I'd be interested in feedback from any of you who are brave enough to explore further.




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