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you guys are too kind. Yes I do some things well, but I would invision this more as a GROUP thing, than a competition thing. I visualize all of us linked somehow together working as a team, instead of as individuals, (Remember the ole "two heads better than one") where we could all work together with lots and lots of high volume work. Kind of like a group of 20-30 people working with the same common love of Photo Restoration and Enhancements. One gigantic internet business. Hmmmm...
Brian Randall Photography
http://www.pbase.com/brw_2909
 
i LOVE that idea
how to make it work though?
wouldnt be easy!

feivel
Brian Randall said:
you guys are too kind. Yes I do some things well, but I would
invision this more as a GROUP thing, than a competition thing. I
visualize all of us linked somehow together working as a team,
instead of as individuals, (Remember the ole "two heads better than
one") where we could all work together with lots and lots of high
volume work. Kind of like a group of 20-30 people working with the
same common love of Photo Restoration and Enhancements. One
gigantic internet business. Hmmmm...
Brian Randall Photography
http://www.pbase.com/brw_2909
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sure it's been done in one form or another
hopefully, this could be another..

feivel
commodor said:
retouchex said:
OK, forget about reality and just try to imagine the following web
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commodor said:
What do you think about such a web site ? Pros, cons, anything ?
Consider this topic as a brainstorming session.

Nicolas
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Good idea, but alas it has been done in one form or another.
Many online sites offer photo retouching, embelishments,
corrections etc.
Some of the digital printmaking sites also offer various forms of
correction for little
or no charge.

Good idea though!
Keep thinking

MC
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When one is faced with an idea that has legs.... One should NEVER not do it because someone else is doing it. A Good Idea, is A Good Idea. So all one needs to do is make sure you have a good enough talant pool to ensure the sites work is a good as you can get.
Oh well that my .02

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'My camera is for creating memories.... Not taking pictures'
All My Best
Doug Barber
 
Yes this is me....I straightened that mess out so I log on and log off now to prevent trouble. Clean the cookies out everyday and clean temp files out as well everyday.

I do have a hard time finding my old posts since I had to resign up but oh well, it is okay now.

Thanks...Melissa
Doug Barber said:
Don't sell yourself short....
As I sit back in the weeds and read this board (when I can) you
have skills that most would kill for.
So just get your butt back to work....lol

PS....
Miss "M"....
Is that really you or is it someone else..... sorry to here about
your troubles....

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'My camera is for creating memories.... Not taking pictures'
All My Best
Doug Barber
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Melissa
I am a PBase Supporter
 
feivel said:
i LOVE that idea
how to make it work though?
wouldnt be easy!
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There has got to be somebody, somewhere who could link all of us together on a Common Website domain, maybe: http://www.props-artist.com??? (Professional Photoshop Artist.com). We would all be linked through computer networking, and then as stated the photos would come in ("build it and they will come") in volumes unimagined. The sight could be set up to upload images, and requested information sheets uploaded where we could all (via networking) perform our own specializations, and submit the end results back to the client, or customer(s). Payments could be received via online transactions, credit cards, debit cards, etc.

Yes, it would require some financial expertise and many folks would have to be involved in the daily operations of the website as far as the accounting and financial ends of it. But something I am quite sure could be done with the right web design company behind us.

That would be my thoughts here. We else could one turn to for more Professional Experts in Photoshop or PSP than right here. Hmmmm....
Brian Randall Photography
http://www.pbase.com/brw_2909
 
retouchex said:
OK, forget about reality and just try to imagine the following web
site:

1. you take photos but you don't know how to post-process them very
well. You come on the site, you register and you publish your
photos a la pbase. You propose a retouching job and any comments
that go with it (the max price you can offer, technical data,
wishes, etc...). The next day you go on the site and you discover
that 3 professionnals have retouched one of your test photos (with
a watermark on it of course). You are amazed by one of them and you
decide to let him continue on all the pack. When done, you pay the
guy and that's it.

2. Inversely you are the guy who knows how to retouch photos and
you would like to make some money with it. You come on the site,
you register and you browse all the job offers. You propose your
skills to some of them by retouching some photos and some people
will hire you to continue all the pack. When done you are paid via
the site and that's it.

What do you think about such a web site ? Pros, cons, anything ?
Consider this topic as a brainstorming session.

Nicolas
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Kent
http://www.pbase.com/kentc
 
A few issues as a graphic/website designer that I can immediatly think of is this..

1) Would need some serious bandwidth, not talking 20k images here either. Each image could be 2-3 megs. With that many people downloading and uploading the costs would be enormous. So, having said that would need some financial backing. Memberships, advertisements something that would generate money for the server and bandwidth cost.

2) Would need each image to be approved my admins before it was uploaded. Surely there might be images that should clearly not be worked on. Humourous or from a legal standpoint. So that means a hand full of people working around the clock to ensure the standard and quality a site like this needs to be maintained properly.

3) I personally think that if I was to upload an image to a server to have people to work on it then I would hope the "worker" has a colour calibrated monitor. Paying good money for someone to "correct" your image(s) only to find out when you printed it or had them printed, and they turned out poorly. What looks orange on one monitor could infact be brown. Contrast and colours would need to be bang on.

Yeah, it's a good idea, but it needs more thought.

Oh, and if anyone wants to go ahead with it.

http://www.edgeflowmedia.com

I'll design it!! :P
 
well for SURE it needs more thought.

i think the farmer is trying to decide at this point whether or not to drop the seed onto the soil

feivel
vander said:
A few issues as a graphic/website designer that I can immediatly
think of is this..

1) Would need some serious bandwidth, not talking 20k images here
either. Each image could be 2-3 megs. With that many people
downloading and uploading the costs would be enormous. So, having
said that would need some financial backing. Memberships,
advertisements something that would generate money for the server
and bandwidth cost.

2) Would need each image to be approved my admins before it was
uploaded. Surely there might be images that should clearly not be
worked on. Humourous or from a legal standpoint. So that means a
hand full of people working around the clock to ensure the standard
and quality a site like this needs to be maintained properly.

3) I personally think that if I was to upload an image to a server
to have people to work on it then I would hope the "worker" has a
colour calibrated monitor. Paying good money for someone to
"correct" your image(s) only to find out when you printed it or had
them printed, and they turned out poorly. What looks orange on one
monitor could infact be brown. Contrast and colours would need to
be bang on.

Yeah, it's a good idea, but it needs more thought.

Oh, and if anyone wants to go ahead with it.

http://www.edgeflowmedia.com

I'll design it!! :P
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retouchex said:
OK, forget about reality and just try to imagine the following web
site:

1. you take photos but you don't know how to post-process them very
well. You come on the site, you register and you publish your
photos a la pbase. You propose a retouching job and any comments
that go with it (the max price you can offer, technical data,
wishes, etc...). The next day you go on the site and you discover
that 3 professionnals have retouched one of your test photos (with
a watermark on it of course). You are amazed by one of them and you
decide to let him continue on all the pack. When done, you pay the
guy and that's it.

2. Inversely you are the guy who knows how to retouch photos and
you would like to make some money with it. You come on the site,
you register and you browse all the job offers. You propose your
skills to some of them by retouching some photos and some people
will hire you to continue all the pack. When done you are paid via
the site and that's it.

What do you think about such a web site ? Pros, cons, anything ?
Consider this topic as a brainstorming session.

Nicolas
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If you have seen my attempts at retouching, you know that I am not one of the stars of the forum. However, there are some real experts here that would excel in an adventure such as this.

Some, like Vikki, even make their living doing this kind of work.
http://www.lifetimephoto.com/

But, from my perspective, it would ruin this forum, and I would lose the best source of information and learning that I have ever found (if you start doing it for money, then you will not want to give it away for free).

The other day, I posted a retouch that included the whitening of teeth. The requestor was impressed and asked me how I did that. That made me feel good. I told him that it was a technique I learned from feivel. That should make feivel feel good too.

You all probably wouldn't get rich in this activity, so wouldn't you think that it is more rewarding to share your knowledge and have the appreciation of others in this fraternity?
retouchex said:
OK, forget about reality and just try to imagine the following web
site:

1. you take photos but you don't know how to post-process them very
well. You come on the site, you register and you publish your
photos a la pbase. You propose a retouching job and any comments
that go with it (the max price you can offer, technical data,
wishes, etc...). The next day you go on the site and you discover
that 3 professionnals have retouched one of your test photos (with
a watermark on it of course). You are amazed by one of them and you
decide to let him continue on all the pack. When done, you pay the
guy and that's it.

2. Inversely you are the guy who knows how to retouch photos and
you would like to make some money with it. You come on the site,
you register and you browse all the job offers. You propose your
skills to some of them by retouching some photos and some people
will hire you to continue all the pack. When done you are paid via
the site and that's it.

What do you think about such a web site ? Pros, cons, anything ?
Consider this topic as a brainstorming session.

Nicolas
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If the world was a logical place, men would ride horses sidesaddle.

Gary Willson
http://willsononline.com
 
D Juan Hundred said:
That's "you're", not "your", Byron.

You are certainly better at Photoshop than me, but I am better in
English than you. AND, I am a Texan, and Texans are known for
completely butchering the language. lol.
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that's "better at photoshop than I", not "me", gary :-)

feivel
 
From where I see it, it would kill nothing. This is like when one said that ebooks would kill paper books. Or does http://www.bookcrossing.com impact on amazon and vice versa ? This community will stay exactly the same whatever new business is born aside... just my thought.

Nicolas
D Juan Hundred said:
But, from my perspective, it would ruin this forum, and I would
lose the best source of information and learning that I have ever
found (if you start doing it for money, then you will not want to
give it away for free).
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