To give readers a break from my series of reviews, even though it's hardly begun, I thought I might post word of a new service offered by Fine Art America. For those who are unfamiliar with the site, the company is essentially a printing service for photographers and artists that allows clients to purchase framed prints and assorted items (know anyone who wants to buy a shower curtain with one of your photographs printed on it?) directly from its website, thus freeing photographers from the need to print their work themselves or, for that matter, even to own their own printers. Each photographer has his own page; and I have several examples of my work, such at the flower photo shown above, available for sale on my own page. I'll write about the site more fully in a future post, but for now I only want to mention that it has announced in an email I received today a new service it will be providing to creators - printing and selling NFT's.
The text of the email is as follows:
Fine Art America Launches Platform for Printing NFTs
2021 saw a surge in popularity and general public awareness of NFTs. If you're an artist, you've probably heard of NFTs by now. If you haven't, the acronym stands for non-fungible tokens.
An NFT is a digital object that's stored on a public blockchain. If that sentence makes your head hurt, the easiest way to understand NFTs is to use an analogy. NFTs are somewhat similar to collectible items like baseball cards.
People are interested in buying and selling baseball cards because of their affinity for baseball players and due to the limited supply of certain cards. Similarly, people are interested in buying and selling NFTs because of their affinity for the artists who create NFTs and due to the limited supply of NFTs.
The big difference between baseball cards and NFTs is that baseball cards are physical objects, and NFTs are digital objects that exist only online.
Here's an article that goes into much greater depth explaining what NFTs are and how they work.
In March 2022, we launched a new service to help you print your NFTs and turn them into physical products. If you own an NFT click the button below, and you can transform your NFT into canvas prints, t-shirts, greeting cards, puzzles, and more!
All you have to do is copy and paste your Ethereum wallet address onto the webpage, above. Our system will then retrieve all the NFT artwork from your wallet and use the artwork to generate 3D, photorealistic previews of each available product from Fine Art America. Simply select the products that you want to purchase, complete the checkout process, and your products will be on their way to you in 3 - 4 business days!
As NFT's become increasingly valuable sources of income for photographers, the importance of such a service as that offered by Fine Art America should be self-evident.
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