Pinterest.com is a fairly new social media site that is growing like crazy. The basic concept is that you "pin" things that you find on the Internet that you like and want to share with others. It's a very visual site that is perfect for artists and photographers to get ideas from and to share their art/photos with others. If you are not familiar with Pinterest.com, you soon will be.

ArtWanted.com is happy to announce that we have added Pinterest as one of our main social media sites that we are integrated with.

What does this mean? Let us tell you...

1) As you upload artwork/photos to ArtWanted.com, you can now click on the new "Pinterest Icon" to quickly pin/share your art with your friends that follow you on Pinterest.

2) Other people that are surfing ArtWanted.com can also "pin" your artwork in the same way, which will promote your art to new audience and all images link back to your ArtWanted.com portfolio.

3) If you have Pinterest account, you can add this account to your "Social Media Settings" page, which will create a new "Follow Me on Pinterest" button on your main portfolio page.

These new Pinterest options will help make it easier to share your art to your Pinterest friends and promote your talent to a whole new audience. Enjoy!

ArtWanted.com is working on a whole new website design for the summer of 2012. The new website will have a new look and feel and many new upgrades.

While our developers are working on this, we wanted to gather your feedback on what is important to you and what changes you would like to see this year.

We value your feedback, so please let us know how we can make ArtWanted.com even better by answering a few questions on our survey below.

We have just added another new image tool for our members to use, the Image Crop Feature.

Every day we see artwork that is uploaded to ArtWanted.com that has some unwanted areas around the border of the image. Sometimes the picture frame is tilted and doesn't look right, sometimes there is an unwanted background in the photo of the artwork and other times we see areas of the artwork that just need to be cropped off.

With our new Image Crop Tool, you can quickly remove those unwanted areas of your artwork with just a few clicks.

There are multiple ways to get to the new image crop tool:

• Click the new crop icon after you post a new image.
• Click the "Crop This Image" link from the Edit Image page.
• Click the "Crop This Image" from the bottom-left menu when looking at your portfolio image.

We hope you enjoy this new online cropping tool to quickly clean-up any unwanted areas of your artwork & photos. Enjoy!

PS - Check out the new Image Rotate Tool, too!

If you upload an image to your portfolio and you notice that it's side-ways or upside-down, you can now click the ROTATE button to quickly rotate your image to the correct orientation.

There are multiple ways to get to the new image rotation page:

• Click the rotate icon after you post a new image.
• Click the "Rotate Image" link from the Edit Image page.
• Click the "Rotate This Image" from the bottom-left menu when looking at your portfolio image.

We hope this new tool saves you a little time when you need to rotate the images in your ArtWanted.com portfolio.

PS - Check out the new Image Crop Tool, too!

We wanted to let everyone know that the 2012 calendars have been printed and are now shipping out to everyone that pre-ordered the calendar.

If you live in the US, you will receive an e-mail from us with your delivery tracking information. Most of the pre-ordered calendars have been shipped out at this point and the remaining calendars will ship before December 10th, 2011.

We expect to sell out soon, so if you have not yet ordered your calendar (especially if your artwork was selected) we encourage you to do so before they are gone.

Thanks to everyone that participated in our two calendars this year and we hope they bring you additional exposure to your artwork.

These specials are not only valid on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but can be taken advantage of any time through the end of November. Enjoy!

We are offering FREE SHIPPING on all Print Product orders until the end of the month! Now is the time to purchase quality prints, t-shirts, mousepads, mugs, our new mobile phone cases and much more without any shipping cost – EVEN International Orders! Simply select the “First Class” shipping method at checkout and we will ship it to you for FREE! Shop Now!

When you upgrade to the ArtWanted.com Yearly Premium Membership, you will receive a $10 credit in your ArtWanted.com Bank Account. This FREE MONEY can be used toward any ArtWanted.com purchase and never expires! Use this credit to purchase prints, personalized products, calendars or any other artwork you see for sale on our website. This offer is also open to existing Premium Members that want to renew for an additional year. Premium Features Include:

Upgrade/Renew Now

These special offers are valid from Nov. 25 through Nov. 30th, so act now and SAVE!

Protect your phone with a stylish case using artwork from the artists found on our site. Here are a few more details about this new product...

This new product is available for all Premium Members that are participating in our Print-On-Demand program.

There are two types of cases that are offered:

• STANDARD/BARELY THERE CASE: Hard, protective outer shell offers lightweight, personalized protection for your phone.

• TOUGH CASE: Soft, black rubber sleeve or insert fits inside hard outer shell - a stylish, yet substantial double-layer case for added impact protection.

AVAILABLE FOR: iPhone 4/4S(AT&T, Verizon), iPhone 3G/3GS, iPod Touch 4G, BlackBerry Bold 9700, BlackBerry Curve 8520/9300/3G, Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant

MINIMUM IMAGE RESOLUTION: 969 x 1530 pixels.

DEFAULT PRICING: The default retail price of these custom printed cases is $29.95 each. If you are a Premium Member, you can purchase cases for yourself at the wholesale rate of $23.95 each. As with all print products, you can change the price you want to sell the cases for in the "Custom Pricing" area of our Members Area.

These new cases will be available on all NEW artwork that is uploaded to ArtWanted.com that meets the minimum image resolution.

Over the next week, we will be adding these new phone case options to all print program artwork on our site that meets the resolution criteria. If you do not want to sell phone cases of your artwork, be sure to set the price of these items at $0 in your custom pricing group.

We hope you enjoy this new product and that it gives buyers another reason to purchase your artwork.

PS - If you are not yet a Premium Member and part of our Print-On-Demand program, sign-up now.

The new system has several advantages:

Improved Technology - We have stopped using the older "Java" upload applet and replaced it with a new Flash uploading widget. Simply select your images from your computer's hard drive and watch the progress bar for each image as your images are uploaded.

Bulk Posting of Images - This new system also allows you the option to post ALL of your images in a single batch to the website, without having to post each image individually. You can select a gallery, media & subject for your images and all images will use those same settings as they are posted to the website with the click of a button.

Larger File Support - When uploading multiple images, you can now upload up to 50 images at a time and up to 250 MB in combined file size. Repeat the upload process for as many images as you want.

We hope you enjoy this new way to upload multiple images to your portfolio at once.

Try it out and let us know what you think!

October is a fun month for us and we always enjoy seeing the scary/spooky artwork that is found in our annual haunted gallery.

This year, we have put the whole gallery in the palm of your hands with our Mobile Haunted Gallery Web App.

Visit the Haunted Gallery on your mobile phone to browse thousands of images at your leisure or sit back and watch a slideshow. Either way, it's a great way to get into the Halloween spirit and enjoy artwork from our members. Boo!

To view this mobile gallery, simply visit the following page on your mobile phone:

ArtWanted.com Introduces Personalized Mobile Apps

Some artists are paying hundreds if not thousands to get their own personal mobile app. We here at ArtWanted.com realize that most artists can't afford this, so we have gone ahead and created a New Mobile Web App for every Premium Member on our site! That's right - Every current and future Premium Member will now receive a new Mobile Web App as part of their Premium Membership upgrades!

More and more people are using their smart phones to do what they have been doing with their computers for years. Mobile traffic continues to climb and so it's critical that artists have a powerful mobile portfolio to show off their artwork/photos on the go. Every artist with ArtWanted.com receives a basic mobile website, but now Premium Members get a personalized web app just for them.

Here are a few of the features:

• Contains all your ArtWanted.com artwork
• Artwork is broken down into sub-galleries
• Designed to work on all popular smart phones/devices
• View your bio & self-portrait image
• View your blog posts (including images)
• View your contact information
• Includes your Social Media links
• Simple to use interface
• Screen animation transitions like swipe/fade
• Optimized for fast downloads and mobile screen size.
• Only contains your own artwork, no links to any other portfolios
• Works great with our new QR Code Integration
• Always updated with your latest information/artwork

The new Mobile Artist App is a great way to show off your artwork on any mobile device.

IF YOU ARE A PREMIUM MEMBER, your Mobile App has already been created for you. Simply visit your main ArtWanted.com portfolio on your mobile device to be redirected to the mobile app. You can also type in ArtWanted.mobi/username to jump directly to your personal app.

IF YOU ARE NOT A PREMIUM MEMBER, you can still enjoy the mobile apps of your favorite artists. If you would like to get your own Mobile App, then you can sign-up for our Premium Membership, it's only $5/month.

We hope you all enjoy using this new mobile app. We invite you to check it out and let us know your feedback. Thanks!

PS - Read below to learn more about each screen on the mobile app.