New subscriber benefit... ImagePro@Photography.com (VERY nifty)

[joshroot]

I'm excited to finally announce this. We have a new benefit for photo.net subscribers. It's called ImagePro @

Photography.com.

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It is designed to give photo.net subscribers a location to have a more

professional looking portfolio presentation away from photo.net, and with their

real business name (if they use a pseudonym on photo.net). URL's will be a

_____.photography.com format (for example, mine is joshroot.photography.com). Also, there will be no ads

whatsoever on ImagePro sites. This system

is not meant to be a replacement for a user's own photography website. But it will give

users an advertising-free professional location without the trouble of setting up their

own site. There will also be a "search for a photographer in your area" that

will give prospective clients a way to find local photographers to hire. Much the same way that subscribers have

access to an @photo.net email address, ImagePro users will also have access to an @photography.com email address

that can be forwarded to any other email you choose (just like the photo.net system).

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SRC="http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00P/00Psyq-50451584.jpg" width="400"></a>

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The gallery slideshow is a nifty Flash plugin. There are pages available for upcoming events, photographic

specialties, professional endorsements, etc. You can customize your ImagePro site in a number of ways. Colors,

custom tabs at the top, layout, etc. The style of the site is based on CSS, and for those who are advanced

enough, you can actually go in and create a completely customized css file to dictate how you would like your

design to look. For those who aren't as tech-savvy, there are a number of existing themes to start with, and

we'll be adding more and more in the future.

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SRC="http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00P/00Psz0-50451884.jpg" width="400"></a>

 

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The ImagePro Galleries are directly connected to your photo.net galleries. So whatever you upload to photo.net

will be available for you to show on your ImagePro site. You just pick which images you want to have included in

the gallery there. However, images that you choose not to show will NOT be seen on ImagePro. Furthermore, as

there is no direct link from ImagePro to your photo.net member page, you will not have to worry about visitors

coming from one place and seeing one set of images, then going to the other site and seeing another. That means

that if you want to have your ImagePro site focus on your wedding photography, you can choose to only show the

wedding images from your photo.net portfolio.

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SRC="http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00P/00Psyy-50451784.jpg" width="400"></a>

 

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<b>PLEASE READ:</b> ImagePro is still officially in "Beta". That means that there will likely be a few bugs that

need to be chased down. Please be patient and help us fix things by letting us know when you find something that

doesn't work correctly. We have tested ImagePro extensively, but we know that we aren't going to be able to catch

everything.

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<b>PLEASE ALSO READ:</b> When you first log into your ImagePro account, the slideshow will default to showing ALL

of your photo.net gallery images. This includes any "hidden' folders you may have. If you have images in your

hidden folders that you would not like the public to see, I highly suggest that you go to the Gallery Manager and

deselect those folders/images. This has to do with the way that the two sites interact. Ideally, it would have

been best if we were able to exclude the hidden folders, but that wasn't possible.

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SRC="http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00P/00Psyv-50451684.jpg" width="400"></a>

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As a sample, you can check out a few ImagePro sites here:

<p><ul>

<li><a href="http://joshroot.photography.com">http://joshroot.photography.com</a>

<li><a href="http://rosell.photography.com/">http://rosell.photography.com/</a> (uses many of the same images as

above)

<li><a href="http://hannahthiem.photography.com">http://hannahthiem.photography.com</a></ul>

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To get started on your own site, you can go here (first you are going to have to click the "register your

photo.net account" link to set up your ImagePro account, then you can login.

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<a href="http://imagepro.photography.com/login">http://imagepro.photography.com/login</a>

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There is a "getting started" guide here:

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<a href="http://imagepro.photography.com/pbp/pdf/ImagePRO-user-guide.pdf">Image Pro Getting Started PDF (you will

need adobe reader or another pdf program to open)</a>

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And a ImagePro Help forum here:

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<a href="http://www.photo.net/bboard/forum?topic_id=2301">ImagePro Help Forum</a>

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Quite honestly, I'm pretty stoked about this feature. I think it is something that many PN members will find

useful and it really adds some great value to the photo.net subscriptions. Plus, it is a great example of how the

photo.net community can move forward with new features and opportunities, but still stay true to the things that

have made this site successful for 10 years.

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Any questions, post on the ImagePro Help forum or contact me via the <a href="http://www.photo.net/info/contact-us">"Contact Photo.net"</a> link if you need privacy about the issue.

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Thanks everyone for making photo.net the great place that it is.

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P.S. If anyone isn't a photo.net subscriber and wants to be, let me encourage you to <a

href="http://www.photo.net/info/photonet-subscriptions">click here to subscribe</a>.

[amax]

I'm a subscriber but i search to connect by my user & password and i can't login. You can help me? I give you my e-mail and i waiting for your response.

regrads

[joshroot]

Massimiliano,

 

You need to log into ImagePro with your photo.net login email, not your @photo.net email. For you this would be your @email.it address.

[images_in_light_north_west]

Very cool thanks Photo.net !

[rarmstrong]

Josh,

 

I just tried the login as you described using as my username and my current password for photo.net and it did not work.

[joshroot]

Richard,

 

Please contact me through the "Contact Photo.net" link and we can try to troubleshoot the issue.

[joshroot]

People, PLEASE do not post your email address on this thread. You are just going to get piles of spam if you do that.

[ewartphotography]

Josh,

 

I have signed up for this, but when i selected the images i wanted to add, and click on save it gives me an error.

[photobiscuits]

looks handy, has potential.

[Matt Laur]

One observation, Josh... if I deselect a few images from a gallery, the rendered output seems to have some trouble with the skipped-over images (the resulting table has holes in it). Here's an example:

 

http://imagepro.photography.com/MattLaur/gallery/?cid=14725

 

And... since there's no way within the new area to alter the ORDER in which the gallery folders (and thus the home page slideshow) appear, perhaps the query that fetches those listings could just honor the sort order that's used in the user's normal PN environment?

 

Just some stuff for your list. Keep up the good work.

[tmcleland]

Josh,

 

Gotta say, it looks uber cool, but I also cannot get in with my photo.net username/password.

 

Can't wait 'til I can though!

[lake_photography]

Is there a fee to use this site

[joshroot]

<i>"One observation, Josh..."</i>

<p>I'll have someone look into it. Thanks Matt.

[photobiscuits]

hang on now! what's this?<br>

"For a limited time - ImagePRO web sites are FREE with a $25 annual subscription to Photo.net"<br>

Alright, how much more will I have to pony up?

[joshroot]

<i>"Is there a fee to use this site"</i>

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Not if you already a photo.net subscriber. Which you are.

[joshroot]

<i>"Alright, how much more will I have to pony up?"</i>

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I think that is badly worded. As far as I know, a subscription to photo.net will include the ImagePro service.

[Kostas Angelopoulos]

I'm receiving error message when I'm checking a photo out of a folder of one hundred (well, more than twenty I guess is what it matters). Thanks for the new opportunities whichever they are.

[joshroot]

John Ewart, TM & anyone else who is having a problem signing in with their PN login info:

 

Please contact me through the "Contact Photo.net" link at the bottom of the page.

[joshroot]

<i>"I'm receiving error message when I'm checking a photo out of a folder of one hundred"</i>

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Please explain further. Are you saying that when you pick a single image in a folder that has 100, you get an error message? What does the error message say? When do you get it, right as you click or when you go to save? What browser and OS are you using?

[images_in_light_north_west]

Josh, would like to add,being able to change the folder order would be good so at least it maches PN or we can do a custom order sort. Thanks Ross

[joshroot]

<i>"Alright, how much more will I have to pony up?"</i>

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I have confirmed that the "limited time" statement was miscommunication between the PN crew and the

graphics/layout guys. I will be changing it to:

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<i>"When you purchase a Photo.net subscription of any length you will receive an ImagePRO site FREE with web

hosting, unlimited image galleries, and six content pages included."</i>

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Or something similar. Sorry for any confusion. I can see how that would be suspicious. Like we were taking a page

from the bait-and-switch mail order shops or something. No worries though, I'll get it straightened out.

[Kostas Angelopoulos]

When I'm saving.

 

Error

Something bad happened, please try again.

 

More details:

 

Transaction failed

Unexpected error, please try again

 

IE7 on XP sp3

 

The image is this one:

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/7379127

[joshroot]

Kostas,

 

I will report the error to the programmers.

[Kostas Angelopoulos]

"Error Something bad happened, please try again.

 

More details:

 

Transaction failed Unexpected error, please try again"

 

 

To not confuse anything.

[joshroot]

<i>"being able to change the folder order would be good so at least it maches PN or we can do a custom order sort"</i>

 

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Matt brought that up in the first reply to this thread. As I said, I'll have someone look into it. To be honest, I thought it was already ordering the folders the same as on PN. If I had noticed that it wasn't, I would have said something to the programmers earlier.