Digital BW, The Print

Hello all;

Last week I hung a show in Miami-silver prints on the wall, but 
around 30 inkjet prints in portfolio boxes on the side. I had them 
labeled as 'Archival Quality Carbon Pigment Giclee Prints' on the 
back along with 'care and feeding 'instructions. They were priced at 
$150.00 each, for 9x12 prints on 13x17 paper. At the opening last 
Friday, lot of poeple looked at them very carefully, asked a few 
questions, and some seemed interested in owning one or two. I didn't 
get any really direct feedback at that time, but over the next week 
or two I hope to get a better idea through the gallery manager as to 
what kind of impression they made. I hope that seeing them in the 
environment of a gallery will overcome some of the resistance others 
have reported, though I suspect it'll be a long slow process. I'll 
post an udpate if anything comes of it...

Also: a couple weeks ago I mentioned an image management program in 
development called ITRAK; It is now available as a functional demo 
if any one is interested: http://www.cjcom.net/itrakcore.htm  This 
was written to do a few things well: keep track of your images and 
prints, and provide you with a consignment record/inventory when you 
send work out. A very usefull tool for exhibiting photographers.

Steve Karafyllakis

http://www.stevekphoto.com

Thanks for the message about the Image Trak software. I demo'd the 
program yesterday, and emailed the developer Clayton Jones about some 
modifications he might do, things I liked. He was receptive and he 
even called me today to discuss some changes to the program.

It is specifically for photographers and is exactly the kind of 
simple program I need for keeping track of inventory, and it 
generates a nice consignment report with thumbnails that I can give 
to the gallery when I deliver work. I think Clayton will listen to 
the needs of photographers using the program...and I purchased the 
full program today.

thanks again,
ken smith
http://www.kensmithart.com


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "stevekphoto" <stevek@e...> 
wrote:
>Snip
> Also: a couple weeks ago I mentioned an image management program in 
> development called ITRAK; It is now available as a functional demo 
> if any one is interested: http://www.cjcom.net/itrakcore.htm  This 
> was written to do a few things well: keep track of your images and 
> prints, and provide you with a consignment record/inventory when 
you 

> send work out. A very usefull tool for exhibiting photographers.
> 
> Steve Karafyllakis
> 
> http://www.stevekphoto.com

Firstly, a belated thank you to everyone on the list who helped me out
with advice.

After some fairly extensive trialling, I decided to go with Idimager
rather than Imatch or any of the others.  The reasons were:

- Idimager has a few useful features that Imatch doesn't - such as
archiving of images to removable media (with an inbuilt burning
facility); versions and ratings;

- the responsiveness of the author to suggestions and bugs is
fantastic.   Most of the bugs reported have been fixed inside a week -
sometimes days.  Not only that, but the author will happily add
features in response to suggestions - again, often within a week.  The
contrast to Imatch in this regard, is stark.  

- there are few useful features of imatch and bridge that idimager
doesn't have (yet) (e.g variable size for viewing of thumbs; bridge
'slide show' function for quickly rating & rotating images) but the
commitment to development means that this is likely to change in the
not too distant future;

- previous versions were a little slow on drawing up images but this
is now largely fixed.

Anyway, thanks again

Regards
Gareth