21 July, 2007
  • ArtWanted.com Staff
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Introducing Private Galleries!

ArtWanted.com is excited to announce a new feature...
Private Artwork Galleries!

This new feature allows you to upload any artwork/photos to a private gallery within your ArtWanted.com portfolio that will not be seen by the public or found within our image search. After you have uploaded your private images, simply give your friends, family or clients the 'private gallery keyword' and they will have access to view all the images you have uploaded in this special gallery. This is new feature for all of our Premium Members that includes...

PRIVATE GALLERY FEATURES:

  • Unlimited amount of private galleries.
  • Upload unlimited images to each private gallery.
  • No restrictions on the type of artwork that is uploaded (including nudes)
  • High-Resolution image option, so you can choose to display a large 3000x2000 pixel image if you want.
  • Statistics tracking is recorded on each private image that is viewed.
  • Private gallery images are safe and secure, so even if someone has the link/URL to an image, they can't view it without the special keyword.

PRIVATE GALLERY USES:

Here are just a few examples of how you can use this new feature:

  • Setup a private gallery for each client you work with to store the images that relate to that client.
  • Upload vacation photos into a private gallery and give your friends/family the keyword to view your photographs.
  • Use the private gallery to display artwork to friends/clients that is normally prohibited on our public site.
  • Store your private collection of images/sketches as a backup in case of a hard drive crash.
  • Much more!
HOW IT WORKS
  1. Make sure that you have an active Premium Membership.
  2. Enter the members area and click on the 'Private Galleries' menu option under 'Manage Portfolio'
  3. Upload your private images and assign them to specific private galleries.
  4. A new tab will appear on your portfolio entitled 'Private'
  5. Share the private gallery keyword with friends/family/clients and have them enter it after clicking on the private tab on your portfolio.
  6. They will be able to view all of the images you posted within that private gallery and we record a hit each time the image is viewed.

SUMMARY

    We are very excited about this new feature and hope that everyone makes the most of it. Setup your personal private galleries now. We welcome your suggestions on how to make this and any other feature of our website even better. Enjoy!


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58 Comments

K Jacobs 21 Jul 2007

Whoohoo!

Vivian Allen 21 Jul 2007

Great solution...I mean, great new feature. Thank you, AW!

21 Jul 2007

michael mackenzie 21 Jul 2007

Wow.. that sounds fantastic! So many oportunities now....hmmm.. Thanks AW!! ^^ ~Michael

Anneke Hut 21 Jul 2007

Good work, AW! Thank you! :)

Peter Beard 21 Jul 2007

Great idea, I like the holiday pics suggestion esp; also it give me somewhere online to store images that normally for reasons I understand, AW doesn't allow Thanks and Regards

Mark Peterson 21 Jul 2007

Awesome idea...much of my work is too large to upload here, and of course nudes. I'll be checking this out for sure. I appreciate your efforts and hard work to make this a better place for all of us.

Thanks!

ashok nayak 21 Jul 2007

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY.....yes,it's fantastic.Thanks AW!

Ann Lopez13 21 Jul 2007

excellent idea AW!! Wayyyyyyyy to go, gives us members who do not pay a reason to become paying members, now I will consider this an option for joining!! Yahooooooo!! great job!!! Annie

Jennifer Nilsson 21 Jul 2007

Many thanks for this AWESOME new feature!

sidney orr 21 Jul 2007

Thanks very much AW. This new feature is very much appreciated by many of your members.

Betty Schwartz 21 Jul 2007

Thank you, AW, for finding a way to make so many on this site HAPPY at last!

jorge gallardo 21 Jul 2007

About time! Excellent!

Terry Bassett 21 Jul 2007

Excellent!!!..:-)

21 Jul 2007

Ann Graham 21 Jul 2007

Well done AW!!!! A nice added feature and a good compromise. I hope you give the employee who had this idea a raise!!!

Ann

Patty Fuller-Sturman 21 Jul 2007

HI, Great Idea!

Lisa Weber 21 Jul 2007

Thanks AW!

But...i am wondering a couple of things:

1) Unable to comment on the private gallery images, like regular portfolio images (but do not post on the main page of AW)

2) Unable to edit uploads, such as description etc... like regular portfolio images

3) Might be nice for those of us that have multiple private galleries to be able to provide a one single keyword password to view/unlock all private galleries rather than giving them multiple keywords.

4) Is their prevention from these private galleries being searched via google, yahoo etc? Like when someone enters your name, i noticed that an image name come up, with their name and artwanted.com so whats to prevent private galleries image names to appear and them to gain access as well without the keyword/password?

I know it takes time to fix/make little adjustments and bugs so i thought id bring these suggestions and questions right away to the table.

Vivianne Couture 21 Jul 2007

Thank you very much for this new option.

Brian Sherwin 21 Jul 2007

I'll wait to see how it works out. Will it be buggy?

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