FINE ART PRINTS HAVE COME TO FOTOMOTO. Fotomoto says, “FINE ART PRINTS ARE FINALLY HERE! After several months of trying different print labs and services, we finally feel we are ready to offer you a great quality giclée prints using the best Epson printers on 5 different high quality paper types (see the complete list here). Just log in to your fotomoto account, go to Site > Products > Prints, and you will see the Fine Art option there. Set your pricing, select all the paper types you want to offer, and you are good to go!

“We are adding more print products in the coming weeks, and still expanding our supported sites… stay tuned!”

Fotomoto is an excellent way to sell your photographs, and keeps getting better. TTG Highslide Gallery Pro includes built-in support for Fotomoto, allowing you to sell prints, cards and downloadable images directly from your Lightroom-created galleries. For those TTG users already deploying Fotomoto galleries to their websites, your existing galleries already support the new Fine Art Prints options; there is no need to recreate your galleries. Simply go into your Fotomoto account, setup your pricing options for the Fine Art Prints and you will find the options already available in your galleries.

PRESETPOND IS A NEW SITE FOR SHARING LIGHTROOM AND APERTURE DEVELOP PRESETS. The site is community-based, allowing users to login and to post presets of their own creation. Presets are rated and organized by keyword, making the site easy to navigate.

I’M IN LOS ANGELES. After three days driving through the deserts of New Mexico, Arizona and southwest California, I’ve finally arrived in Los Angeles with an excellent driving-through-the-desert-for-three-days tan on my driver’s side arm. I somehow overshot the Joshua Tree National Park, so will have to make a trip back out in that direction at some point. I did take photos from the road along the way, though, so will surely be posting those into demo galleries or sharing them here at some point relatively soon. I’m roughing it at the moment; at home, I have a borrowed mattress and an upside-down cardboard box to set my computer on. My container will be arriving late in the week with most of my worldly possessions, and I don’t yet have Internet access at the house aside from 3G networks on my cell phone and iPad. For an hour or so a day, the local Starbucks is my office at present.

Once my container arrives, I’ll situate what furniture I have, take measurements and then hit an Ikea, and will hopefully have my workspace back together before too long. Then, when I’m not at the studio doing studio things, or flitting around California doing California things, I’ll be able to work from home on The Turning Gate.