Selling a screensaver of photos?

eoren1eoren1 Registered Users Posts: 2,391 Major grins
edited April 3, 2008 in Mind Your Own Business
I was showing my recent DC cherry blossom photos at work and had a few offers to purchase them for use as a screen saver. While I could resize them to 800x600 jpgs and burn that to CD (to limit the print quality), it would be great to put this together as a windows screensaver.
Anyone have experience with this? If so, any thoughts as to price (approximately 20 photos)?
Thanks,
E
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  • Scott BuelScott Buel Registered Users Posts: 134 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2008
    eoren1 wrote:
    I was showing my recent DC cherry blossom photos at work and had a few offers to purchase them for use as a screen saver. While I could resize them to 800x600 jpgs and burn that to CD (to limit the print quality), it would be great to put this together as a windows screensaver.
    Anyone have experience with this? If so, any thoughts as to price (approximately 20 photos)?
    Thanks,
    E

    That is an interesting question. To follow up, has anyone built a screensaver/slideshow using any particular software titles? I'd like to sell some screensavers of particular Great Lakes freighters.

    Sorry to hijack your thread.

    Thanks,
    Scott
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  • RhuarcRhuarc Registered Users Posts: 1,464 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2008
    http://www.grafxsaver.com/

    Check this out, seems to be a pretty robust program that supports packaging.

    One of the tag lines: Creates professional installation for screen savers, which makes installation and setup easy for end users. An uninstaller is also included for screen savers created.
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  • Scott BuelScott Buel Registered Users Posts: 134 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2008
    Rhuarc wrote:
    http://www.grafxsaver.com/

    Check this out, seems to be a pretty robust program that supports packaging.

    One of the tag lines: Creates professional installation for screen savers, which makes installation and setup easy for end users. An uninstaller is also included for screen savers created.

    Very, very cool. It looks feature-rich. When I get home from work, I'm going to look into a trial version.

    Thanks!

    Scott
    Check out my galleries : scenes from the past

    Scan Cafe: let the pros do it
  • chuckinsocalchuckinsocal Registered Users Posts: 932 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2008
    WOW!!! How cool would it be to offer screen savers right here at SmugMug as a downloadable file?

    Is that even doable here?

    Lots of free stuff out there but people might pay a few bucks for specialized content. Or, we could offer them for free and put our URL or name on some of the images in a discreet and tasteful way. Good way to keep our names in front of people.

    Gotta look into this some more.

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  • Scott BuelScott Buel Registered Users Posts: 134 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2008
    chuckinsocal wrote:
    WOW!!! How cool would it be to offer screen savers right here at SmugMug as a downloadable file?

    Is that even doable here?

    Lots of free stuff out there but people might pay a few bucks for specialized content. Or, we could offer them for free and put our URL or name on some of the images in a discreet and tasteful way. Good way to keep our names in front of people.

    Gotta look into this some more.

    Chuck Cannova
    www.customrideportraits.com

    People love free stuff. I guess it can be likened to getting a free calendar from your insurance agent every year. Great idea!
    Check out my galleries : scenes from the past

    Scan Cafe: let the pros do it
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