July 27, 2012
The American Craft Council is now using Juried Art Services. JAS has a different policy than ZAPP. Though they both allow you to make changes in your application after submitting it, ZAPP makes you jump through hoops by having to contact the show and asking them if they will set your application status to incomplete […] Read More…>>
July 24, 2012
The Finished Postcard. Sometimes The obvious isn’t so obvious. The original postcard layout (see picture at bottom) called for five images, the Niche award logo and a web site URL. Way too cluttered and nothing could be seen clear enough to be a strong image. I redesigned using the two most important images against a […] Read More…>>
My wife was going to be laid up for a few weeks. She had seen the book “Catherine the Great” at Costco and in my infinite wisdom, I suggested purchasing a refurbished iPad and reading the book on the Kindle app. She had been thinking about getting a Kindle or Kindle Fire or an iPad, […] Read More…>>
July 18, 2012
july 2012 Newsletter I have been shooting more high end jewelry and have the images on my jury slide photography example page. There have been some new additions to my Visitors to my House gallery, including “Willie”, who really got into posing. You can read my old newsletters on the web site. Why 300DPI or […] Read More…>>
Ann Arbor iPhone App Updated and good luck to all the artists there. Today is the first day of the show. Ann Arbor, the combined art shows, updated their iPhone/iPad app a few weeks ago listing all the artists by medium with links to their location on a map of the combined shows. Ann Arbor iPhone […] Read More…>>
July 17, 2012
What Size Images Should an Art Show Use on their Web Site. This is an ongoing issue where some art shows display artist jury images at a too large size on their web site to promote the show. I’m not saying that the shows shouldn’t use the images. In fact it’s in the agreement we […] Read More…>>
July 16, 2012
For the past two weeks while my web site was being updated, I had the opportunity to take some new pictures for my Visitors to my House Gallery. In case you’re unfamiliar with this project. I started it three years ago. I photograph everyone who comes to my house with something they brought. A great […] Read More…>>
August 18, 2012
With the recent upgrade, ZAPP increased the enlarged image size that monitor jurors see from 700 to 750 pixels. My first response was it was too large for some monitors and some jurors wouldn’t be able to see the entire image. It appears I was correct. Read More…>>
August 10, 2012
This is about squaring your images with black borders. I recommend adding black borders to square the images, because if you don’t, ZAPP will do it for you when you apply to any of the shows that project the images – the top shows. Read More…>>
August 6, 2012
Prior to the ZAPP system upgrade, image file names could be used to identify images and to figure out which version of duplicate images was the newest. Images were numbered consecutively as they were uploaded so newer images had higher file name numbers. the ZAPP image identification number How to find your ZAPP image identification […] Read More…>>