Edward Bussa
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The web is a remarkable venue for marketing a product - especially for photographers.
However, it seems like the pro photographer services marketplace is still surprisingly immature. Though, not being a pro, perhaps I am just uninformed!? My final question for everyone is are there services out there that support what I want to do?
I have put some thought into the kind of sales workflow I would like if I were selling photographs for a living. Here are my criteria:
However, from what I understand, you must put "Powered by SmugMug.com" on your pages, they don't offer ICC color management and they don't offer premium prints.
I think I can implement this workflow if I can find a lab that offers ICC profiles and quality prints and backend services for automatically submitting orders!
Does anyone know of a lab that offers this? How do you manage this part of the sale?
However, it seems like the pro photographer services marketplace is still surprisingly immature. Though, not being a pro, perhaps I am just uninformed!? My final question for everyone is are there services out there that support what I want to do?
I have put some thought into the kind of sales workflow I would like if I were selling photographs for a living. Here are my criteria:
- I want to have complete control over the presentation of my images. This means I will host my images on my website at my domain without having to credit another business (like smugmug).
- I expect my prints to be color-managed via an ICC profiled printer.
- The process of sending a user-purchased image off to a lab for printing needs to be completely automated.
- The user browses my website and finally purchases an image named "The One" in a 20x30 gallery print.
- Then they use my sites cart to specify quantity, shipping and payment details.
- On my website, there is a color managed image optimized for printing at 20x30 ("theone_20x30_mylabicc.jpg").
- Scripts/software running on my website correctly picks "theone_20x30_mylabicc.jpg" and submits the image to MyLab.com, automatically placing the order to have "The One" printed as a 20x30 gallery print and shipped directly to me or the customer, depending.
However, from what I understand, you must put "Powered by SmugMug.com" on your pages, they don't offer ICC color management and they don't offer premium prints.
I think I can implement this workflow if I can find a lab that offers ICC profiles and quality prints and backend services for automatically submitting orders!
Does anyone know of a lab that offers this? How do you manage this part of the sale?
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