Selling a screensaver of photos?

[eoren1]

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

[Scott Buel]

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

[Rhuarc]

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.

[Scott Buel]

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

[chuckinsocal]

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

[Scott Buel]

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 (http://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!