Wouldn’t like to come close to a painting and see the artist’s brush (or knife, pastel, pencil, etc) stroking? To me this is one of the most useful ways to learn about the artist’s style and now Paintmap offers such an interesting possibility. Look at these examples to appreciate the usefulness of the Paintmap close-up tool:
http://www.paintmap.com/?item=1224
http://www.paintmap.com/?item=1071
http://www.paintmap.com/?item=429
http://www.paintmap.com/?item=2677
http://www.paintmap.com/?item=528
However, to obtain the maximum benefit from this new tool images should be uploaded as close as to the maximum size allowed (5 Mb jpg). Unfortunately, many of the paintings already uploaded are small in size and the close up tool doesn’t help too much.
Thus, we would encourage the Paintmap community to upload from now their pictures at the largest size possible. Uploading will take a bit more time but advantages will surely compensate for this minor inconvenient.
In any case, our close to 2500 painting collection includes a large amount of works that can be close-up explored, so enjoy them!
Hi Paintmap.
ReplyDeleteOne reason I upload small files is to protect my work from being stolen and used by others. If we upload large files, how can we assure that others cannot access the quality versions?
I notice the heading "Artist's Journey" on the profile pages. The ones I've seen have no content. What is this section for, and how do you fill it out?
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ReplyDeleteProtecting images online is a difficult, almost impossible, mission to accomplish. At the end, the image is there and a "print screenshot" command can grab it and no way to stop this.
If you're really worried about it, we recommend to upload the files in a "medium resolution", say 800-1000 pixels on the long side at 72 dpi. This way you can have a little zoom.
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About the "Artis Journey", this is the timeline of all your paintings. To add them you only have to edit your paintings and add a Date in the new form.
In the future you will be able to group them and create events.
I'm not an expert but I think that a useful image for full size printing (let say, a poster size around 120 x 75 cm) should be much larger than Paintmap 5 Mb maximum.
ReplyDeleteOf course, if you do not want people to see your technical details,to learn about your stroking effects and so on, a small size image is definitively the solution. I still think however that painting lovers will acknowledge the possibility of looking at details and learn from each other. In any case, final image size is a personal decision within the technical limits defined by Paintmap.
I am interested in paintmap. Can you do flower paintings too?
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