Imagekind Partners with Flickr; New Products for Everybody!
Imagekind is happy to announce we’ve partnered with Flickr to add another great way for Flickr members to do stuff with their photos using the Flickr API.
Flickr photographers can now go to Imagekind and easily produce framed prints of their Flickr photos, and set up their own stores to sell their work to their adoring fans.
You might have seen our handiwork at Flickr’s recent birthday party, which gives you a good idea of the kind of quality and size we’re talking about!
Create Your Own Masterpiece
Flickr members can now easily create any Imagekind product, from framed fine art prints, to beautiful prints on canvas, and even our newest framed products (see below), from any image in their Flickr Photoset – without any re-uploading!
Sell Your Photos
Any Flickr member can easily set up an Imagekind account to start selling their work right away, and directly import their images from their Flickr photoset! These members will get the same great options and on-demand service as every Imagekind member:
* Great quality prints and framing – reliable on-demand service
* You control the pricing and markup, and you keep all of your profit
* Additional 15% commission on sales of mat and framing options with your art
* Joining a thriving marketplace that is redefining how people worldwide buy art online
Any existing Imagekind member can now also effortlessly import images from their Flickr photo sets directly into their Imagekind galleries – right from your Imagekind member admin.
In addition, we’ve been working hard to implement a few new product offerings, continuing to provide more and more options for anyone creating or buying art.
Launching New Products: Ready-Made & Multi-Opening Frames
More ways to show off your art! Don’t want to spend a fortune framing your prints? Ready-Made Frames to the rescue! Ready-made frames come in fixed standard dimensions, but you will still be able to choose your mat and frame style.
Plus, you can now you can even frame multiple images at one time! With our Multi-opening frames you can select the images, determine the number of openings, and choose how you want them arranged. To find out more about these new offerings, take a look at our Ready-made page.
One important note; these options are not currently available for work being purchased from an Imagekind gallery by the shopping public. We have a few kinks to work out regarding how to allow more pricing control for images going into these ready-made products, as we’re sure many of our artists would like to set different markups for their work when used in these frames.
However, any Imagekind member can create these items themselves for their own use or for resale, from any image in their Imagekind galleries or Flickr photosets, at our wholesale or “base†cost.
As always, we’d love your feedback on all of these new developments, so feel free to post away here, or join us on the Imagekind Forum. Our members and their original art are what make this endeavor really special – so thanks for all your support while we’ve been busy, and welcome to all our new Flickr friends!
Hi,
Looks like a very interesting development – please feel free to post to http://www.photographyvoter.com
Hi,
the import function to standard framing for IMAGEKIND members does not work! No galleries show up.
I use this blog because I don´t want to handle an extra ID and password for the forum.
all the best
Martin
Looks like your Flick importing is not working. Fix this and I will try it out! Thanks…
Any issues with the Flickr import functionality is being worked out right now. Please stay tuned and try again soon!
Flickr importing worked fine for me, assuming I was importing from images/sets that were marked as “public” on flickr. Any of the private photos/sets wouldn’t appear. Bummer… all my good photos are of my baby girl, and marked as private
This would be great if I could find the prices for ordering my own “creations” on the Imagekind website. Perhaps I’m looking in the wrong place?
Could there we a way that those of us who are semi-famous artists could use imagekind as our darkroom? We could then let our buyers pay for a ’signed’ print that may or may not be framed and imagekind would ship it to us to sign and return for framing and shipping to the buyer? The thing that makes a CurtisNeeley original valuable is the signature. POD works superbly and I have gotten pieces printed through imagekind and then signed them and hung them in an art show. They sold fairly well. imagekind could just retain the cost of the piece till they receive the signed print to ship.
**POOF** A signature limited edition is available!
Could there we a way that those of us who are semi-famous artists could use imagekind as our ‘darkroom’?
We could then let our buyers pay for a ’signed’ print that may or may not be framed and imagekind would ship it to us to sign and return to imagekind for framing and shipping to the buyer? The thing that makes a CurtisNeeley original more valuable is the signature. POD works superbly and I have gotten pieces printed through imagekind and then signed them and hung them in an art show. They sold fairly well. imagekind could just retain the cost of the piece till they receive the signed print to ship. It would give the artists the ability to use imagekind as their own custom ‘darkroom’ and take advantage of selling directly through imagekind. As it is now, I could sell using Paypal and order the print myself. That is what I am considering doing but it would be more convenient to use imagekind to process directly and pay a small per-sale fee.
**POOF**
Offering a signature limited edition is available for photo ‘artists’ using imagekind as their darkroom!
The ‘collector’ could also pay for shipping from the artists location out of the proceeds of the sale and imagekind could send the shipping label with the piece. There would be a USPS delivery receipt. eBay does this. You guys could too. It would open up a new realm of possibility for pro users. It would take only three more minutes of your time and open up worlds of potential.
Also, Could you consider offering a feature for pro members that they can offer the above idea from their own site without the imagekind header.
You see it on my site at http://www.CurtisNeeley.com/ART.html
I would prefer it look like this – http://www.CurtisNeeley.com/ikart.html
It looks much more concise and worthy of being on MY own site that the version I have there now that invites anyone with a fancy phone to sell art prints while presenting what I feel is much more significant a body of work. It would be nice if it did not try to sell imagekind while I sell my art. This would help maintain my artistic ‘flair’.
**Poof**
Somebody please tell me why this isn’t a option already or just say screw off!
I think this would be a simple option to add that could be triggered using the referrer information? I may not have a leg to stand on when saying this. Having no legs makes that a common occurrence for me! Ha. My website gets upward of 200 unique viewers a day. If I must, I will incorporate a shopping cart via PayPal to bypass presenting imagekind while I try to sell my art.
CurtisNeeley
I’m having an Art Gallery show opening on June 9th (Opening night and the monthly
Ballard Art Walk night.) at the Laura Frost Fine Art Gallery in Ballard;
5801-14th Ave. NW, Seattle, WA 98109
206-783-5314
blowingsands@hotmail.com
I’ll be showing some of my latest Acrylic paintings along with a series of latest
prints. To view some of my art for the show and see other commercial ventures, click
on the link to my website:
http://www.mikecressy.com
Thanks,
Mike Cressy
When I import my flickr images, they appear to arrive at a lower resolution than the flickr version. I have to upload from desktop to imagekind directly in order to see medium and large size prints on the Choose a Print Size page.
How can the import be done to ensure the full resolution is imported?