Struggling to come up with a unified body of work? Wonder how different combinations of your images work together?
http://juryimages.com was my gift to the art show industry.
There are two parts of the web site. One is free ZAPP formatting. Upload an image and it formats it 1920 pixels square with black borders, converts it to the sRGB color space and saves it under two megabytes. Then you download it to your computer and upload to your ZAPP profile.
The other part of the web site is a way to create multiple combinations of images for you to compare. You can upload up to 19 images in four rows of five across. Change the background color to black for ZAPP or gray for JAS. duplicate images so you only have to upload each image one time and use it for multiple presentations. Flip horizontally so you can test how your presentation flows. Enlarge them to the same size ZAPP monitor jurors or JAS jurors see them. But the best part is that you can drag them around with your mouse. Where do you think ZAPP got the idea to let you drag the images to change their order. You can share a link to your page with a friend or consultant to ask their advice
http://juryimages.com was built in 2009 and hasn't been used often enough by artists because they don't know about it, although hundreds of artists use the free ZAPP formatting part of the web site because it's recommended on the ZAPP web site. But the test your presentation part is amazing to use.
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
Comments
Are you asking about background around the work when it's photographed? That's something all your images should have the same background. Black, gray, graduated but not white.
But the ZAPP format, despite everything you read on their web site, should always have rectangular images masked with black, especially important if you apply to any shows that project the images.
Larry Berman
That's awesome! Thanks for donig that. I know how to use photoshop but there are definitely some tools I would use on there.
Should Zapp backgrounds be black? I did not know that. I have been doing grey. Should they be graduated black?