QOOP Blog

Now, for the first time ever, you can buy never before seen photos of Marilyn Monroe as Framed Prints from QOOP on LIFE.com

Now you can share your whole store to other sites and run it within an iframe.

Links to stores are great for flickr profiles or for pasting links into tight spaces on sites.
Widgets are super for blogs and other locations where you want to run small dynamic, attention grabbing mini-stores.

But iframes are the whole darn store, and as we add greater customization, you will be able to meld your QOOP store into just about any site where you want to sell your content and products.

Here is an example using Savio's store:

We're the store behind Rice Uni Press helping them make money on all their books and even the images in the books!:

Etched into history

FROM RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTS

To accompany its latest title, "The New York Etching Club Minutes," Rice University Press has made the art from its pages available in the form of photo prints, posters, mugs and note cards. The book itself is the story of the New York Etching Club -- one of the earliest groups to embrace the then-new art form of etching -- told through the group's meeting minutes and artworks from 1877 through 1893.

The culmination of nearly 10 years’ research, the book is more than the reproduction of an important art-historical document. The author, Stephen Fredericks, infuses the minutes with more than 100 illustrations, including photographs of the artists, reproductions of their works and reproductions of catalogs and other publications of the day. Fredericks arranged the illustrations in historical order, so that a given year’s minutes also include work by the etching club’s members done in that year. As a result, the reader can see the development of members’ skills and techniques, and the growing sophistication of the surrounding community of collectors and critics, as the artists ply and refine their craft.

"In this enlightening study, Stephen Fredericks brings to life the little-documented revival of etching that flourished in the United States during the last quarter of the 19th century," said Roberta Waddell, curator of prints emerita for the New York Public Library. "In his excellent introduction and in his annual summaries of the club's activities, he explores concerns that continue in various guises to engage artists today, among them the issue of the ‘original’ versus the ‘reproductive’ print and the role of the commercial print publisher."

The original 21 members of the New York Etching Club were all established artists -- painters, photographers, architects, designers and others known for their commercial trade work in engraving, lithography and mezzotint.

Fredericks is an artist printmaker who lives and works in New York City. He is the founder of both the New York Society of Etchers and the New York Etcher’s Press. His work, which has been widely exhibited, can be found in many collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Print Research Foundation, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the New York Public Library, the U.S. Library of Congress and the Chongqing Museum of Art in China.

We’ve heard from a number of you that you’d to see greater store sharing capabilities. As a first step, we’ve added a new ‘links’ tab to the header of each store with a drop down menu filled with a few new ways to share stores. The first is a simple link, which can be easily deployed on other sites such as facebook or in your profile on flickr.

After the simple links, you’ll come to a set of dynamic sharing widgets meant for landscape or portrait ad space on blogs and other sites. It’s worth taking a look at the demo of each for your store to see these in action. You just need to cut and paste the code provided and your widget will start driving traffic back to your store. Here are examples of two store widgets in action:

QOOP portrait widget

QOOP landscape widget

We’ll be coming out with full on iframe stores with customization of colors so that you can paste your store in an existing gallery site, blogs, theme, or publisher sites.

Stock Image Downloads

We’ve added the ability to sell your images through Stock Downloads with Standard, Extended, and Resale license levels for buyers. From a single listing you can sell your images as Stock Downloads and sell all our other product offerings. We’ve preset Stock Downloads so they are “on” and preset royalties and retail price points from competitive research online so you can get started by simply loading your images and adding titles, artist, tags, and descriptions so buyers can find your works in the QOOP Galleria and through web search.
The pricing model for selling stock images works the same way as all our pricing for products: Base Price + Your Royalty + QOOP Processing Fee = Retail Price. You can review on our Pricing Model page for further information. You should also check out the Stock Content License Agreement buyers agree to when they purchase your image for use. You tailor what options are available for Stock Downloads and adjust your royalties within the Image Listing Defaults pages described below.

Image Listing Defaults Product Selection and Royalty Controls

We let you pick what products you want to sell. If you want to offer stock downloads, prints, framed prints, posters, and cards in specific sizes but not offer gift items such as mugs and mouse pads you can easily disable gifts. You have 3 levels to your product selection control:

Universal Control: IMAGE LISTING DEFAULTS (found in your ACCOUNTS TAB under myQOOP Accounts Administration when you login) Here you can set ALL your image listings to have the same pricing and product selection. We suggest you keep this as broad as possible because we give you the ability to override these settings for specific batch uploads and for individual image listings.

Batch Upload or Import Control: BATCH IMAGE LISTING DEFAULTS (found during the upload or import process when you are editing your listings) This control allows you to override your account settings for the Batch you just uploaded and apply special royalties and enable/disable specific products for sale.

Individual Image Control: INDIVIDUAL IMAGE LISTING DEFAULTS (found during the upload or import process below the Batch settings; also found in your myQOOP listings, by double clicking on a listing, then go to Edit Item) The control allows you to set the royalties and enable specific products for a single image listing. You might have a special image you cropped for square format so you can use this control to turn on 6x6, 12x12, 20x20 prints only if you want.

Screen shot during image upload and import process:

Screen shot from the image listing edit screen after clicking on the image in myQOOP:

Two recent questions from QOOP users:

1.) How do I print my book on QOOP? John from OH

ANSWER - Click on Create at the top of the QOOP homepage and you will arrive at this screen. Click on the Blue graphic near top of this screen to get started down the Documents path. Click on the "how to make a proper PDF" link on the Upload screen to confirm you have your .pdf correctly set up to print with QOOP.

AND,

2.) How do i get my flickr photos into QOOP to make a product? Ann from MA

ANSWER - The Green Graphic leads down the Photo products path. Click on the flickr logo to start getting your flickr sets into QOOP.

*edit* today (2/17/2009) we launched a new feature right from the QOOP homepage that allows you to get your flickr images into QOOP easier. Click on the button on the right sidebar labelled "Import your Images" to get your flickr Sets into QOOP.

If you have a question about QOOP you need help with, send an e-mail to techmail@qoop.com. Selected questions will be posted in the QOOP blog.

Friday Jan. 30th. QOOP will be down for a few hours in the evening for some routine maintenance. When you get back into QOOP later tonight or early tomorrow morning, feel free to use the following discount code for 15% off any QOOP orders: routine09 (expires 2/2/09)

Thanks in advance for your understanding.

QOOP

Four minute video showing a simple Calendar build on QOOP.

Click on the icon below the video on the right side for the "high quality" version of the clip to see the details of each page better. Or click on the HQ logo on the bottom right of the screen when the video first starts.

If you have photos you think are worthy of being printed on posters, it is now easier than ever to do that using QOOP. Upload your images using the "Design Photo Products" link from the QOOP homepage to get started.

Advanced Poster Builder video clip:

Sample poster currently for sale in the QOOP Galleria:

Upload an image and create a poster or other products for sale in your own QOOP store. Make a poster on QOOP and receive a 20% discount on copies for yourself by simply using the following discount code at checkout: blogposter

* 20% discount code good until midnight, January 15th., 2009,

With the new social commerce platform from QOOP, it's now easier than ever to sell your images on a variety of products online. Below are two image listings on QOOP from user submitted photos:

Yosemite Sunset by Quinton

Yosemite Falls by Preston