Hooray for updates! Here’s what I’ve done to improve my Login and Print Size creations.
PhotoShelter allows you to auto-fulfill your print sales using our integrated vendors. You see a list of their different print sizes and products, and price them as you see fit. Not every image will be suitable for every print size though. For instance, you couldn’t make a poster-sized print from an entry-level DSLR, at least not without it looking crummy. Therefore it’s important for photographers to figure out in advance what print sizes are suitable for their images.
Most of PhotoShelter’s members are experienced professional photographers already used to considering these sorts of things, but newer photographers may not have had to consider this yet. To add to the confusion, there is a fair amount of misinformation circulating about DPI. There aren’t many objective guides comparing DPI settings, and many photographers don’t realize that the DPI set by their camera/software doesn’t necessarily impact the DPI at which their images are actually printed.
I thought it would be cool if photographers could have a simple, quick way of finding out at which sizes they could/should allow their images to be printed. The math involved is pretty straightforward. More…
PhotoShelter has their own API and I’ve been meaning to play around with it for awhile. I’ve never worked with an API before, and my JavaScript knowledge is “functional” at best, so this meant I’d be facing a learning curve. To get up to speed, I visited Codeacademy and started their JS course. I made it about half way through before I got restless and wanted to start working with the API.
Earlier this week a coworker complimented me on my website. Excellent! But realizing that people might actually be looking at this site, I decided I should put in a little more effort and improve some of the things that have been on the to-do list for a while. Here are the key improvements: