Imagecraft,art is LIVE!!!

[Richard Man]

This is my second (?) "introduction"?

Less than 2 months ago, I got this crazy idea of doing a webapp for artists. Many iterations of ideas, designs, and coding later, the app is now working quite well. We tweaked the messaging many times, currently ending up with "online gallery and social media for artists connecting with their fans focusing on rights protection and sales". It's a mouthful so let me know if I can make the messaging shorter and clearer

There are a few major parts to this app: Portfolio, Social Media, Anti-Gen/AI tools, and Licensing and Sales. We have done the first part and are working on Social Media next. The Portfolio features are super easy to use. As an artist myself, I want something that is powerful yet doesn't get in the way of making galleries. I encourage you to open the app at https://imagecraft.art and click on Quick Start for Artists for a brief explanation. To kickstart this, while you can sign up for the free plan, I will give you a 6-months "Starter Plan" subscription for free if you reply to this message. All you need to do is to upload a dozen or more images and play with the gallery features.

You can send feedback and suggestions to me via email, or use the handy Feedback form on the site. I am very excited about this app, and I hope you find it useful.

Thank you.

p.s. I just graduated from the UC Berkeley CTO Certificate Program last Wednesday. Getting through the program gives me a lot of insight and motivation to work on this project.

 

[Richard Man]

We are making tremendous progress with the platform https://imagecraft.art. The portfolio / gallery is powerful but super easy to use. This month we are adding the capability to add personal domain (e.g. richardman.photo) to connect to your ImageCraft.ART site so that visitors will see a personal domain instead of our platform. When that's done, we will be adding social media functions.

Pic for algorithm A recent photo of Fort Bragg coast, taken with the Cooke RV lens from the 1880s.

 

[Richard Man]

So this is pretty cool. The pano pics in this screencap are taken on my XPan II (actually TX-2 but some people don't know the TXes...) and the 45mm lens. The ones with the road were "shutter-ed" by my wife as I was driving. The one with the shed is actually from the China Camp state park, where the last descendant of the original shrimp farmers stayed until the 2010s.

Anyway, this is cool because I am working on this webapp (online gallery and social media) that we just added the ability to reference user URLs as /@<artist name>/... which makes your branding very clear. We are actually also going to allow you to hook up your personal domain, e.g. richardman.photo to the site directly. This should be added within the next two weeks.

Second, pano thumbnails are fully supported, as you can see. I hate that most apps/sites do not support pano format, so I make sure that this is done correctly.

 

[MFstooges]

I wish the Pano pics will autoresize considering most monitors now are 16:9

 

[Peter Schrager]

Congratulations I'll check it out!@