Hi. I'm Michael Scherotter, and today
I'm going to show you Galeryst, a new site that I created that enables
any artist to create a beautiful gallery to share their artwork with the world.
I originally started Galeryst to share
the sketches, watercolors, photography, collage, and mixed media
that I have created over the past 30 years, primarily in journals.
As journals don't exhibit well in physical galleries,
I've always been exploring ways to organize and share my artwork and
found the capabilities of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom worked perfect for the task.
When Adobe added a new feature to Lightroom this year
that enabled the authorized sites to access your imagery.
I saw an opportunity to generate a gallery for my work
that I'd always been dreaming up with a browser based 3D technology.
As I was building it, I noticed that other artists
were wanting to find ways to exhibit their work in the galleries
that could be viewed on a variety of devices With the growing interest
in the Metaverse, Virtual Reality and NFTS.
I wanted to enable anyone with an art collection
to create a beautiful gallery to show their collection to the world.
So I decided to build a subscription service around this technology
and release it as Galeryst
to get started with Galeryst, you log in with your Adobe ID
and select albums that you previously created in Lightroom.
You give the gallery a name and create it.
Most people use Lightroom for photography, but I found it works great for all types of artwork.
After a few seconds, the gallery is created and you can see your artwork in it.
Each gallery has a unique web page where you can enter the foyer
or each of the wings directly
Once in a wing, you can walk around with a mouse
and keyboard, touch on a mobile device, or even with an Xbox controller
clicking on any artwork positions you right in front of the work
and illuminates it.
If you choose to add location information to your artwork in Lightroom
and add a map option for your gallery and galleries,
your visitors can see where the artwork was created
360 degree accurate angular photos or artwork are displayed as hemispheres in their gallery
and can be viewed in an immersive viewer if the visitor clicks on the hemisphere
If you add tags to your assets in Lightroom,
those tags can then define tours throughout your gallery.
Here, I'm taking a tour
through the 12 artworks in this gallery that I've tagged with the journal 2019 tag
Once you've created the gallery, you can customize it
to make the design work best for your artwork.
You can change the layout, the ceiling type, the wall height, and
choose the texture for the floor wall and ceiling for each wing of your gallery.
You can use the built in textures, or you can use your own textures
from your creative cloud libraries.
The information that you add to each image in Lightroom
can be shown in the gallery as a card next to the artwork, and we'll show up
also in an info pane to give visitors more details about your work.
For paid subscribers, you can add external links to the artwork
when customizing your gallery or by using a free excel add in
that works on Windows, Mac on the web or tablets.
This link can be anything from a e-commerce site to an NFT URL
to a YouTube video where you talk about making the artwork.
You can also see the editable descriptive text
for the artwork that has been generated by A.I.
to help visually impaired visitors browse your gallery.
You can use the location information that you add to your Lightroom
assets to let your visitors find your artwork on a map.
All artwork locations that are in public galleries on Galeryst are shown on this map.
Clicking on "See in gallery" takes your visitor
directly to the location in the gallery where the art is exhibited
Any artist with the Lightroom subscription can create a single gallery for free,
and we have a simple pricing model for subscriptions
that vary by number of galleries and subscription duration.
Galeryst will work on desktops and notebooks, phones and tablets.
And even with immersive VR head mounted displays.
Create your own gallery today on Galeryst to share your artwork
with the world in your own 3D gallery.
Thank you!