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6th of Oct. 2026 by Michael

Hello! The first post in my “non-technical” blog is about a website I have been building in September.

Basicamente, estoy diciendo que en octubre estuve desarollando un sitio web para presentar mis fotomontajes de manera mas formal y fåcil de usar. Disculpen que esté escrito en inglés justo este primer artículo de mi blog - les prometo que van a seguir otros solo en español.

Picwok.com is a home for my clonebrush-paintings, where people can search my catalog by various criteria, and where they can buy high-quality prints in a more formal/commercial way than over here.

Creating the website has given me a way to review the logistics of my picture collection in more detail than I had planned. But it was worth it: How can I let the program know where my pictures are, what their name is, what happens if I create a new version? How does the website know how to slice and dice the catalog and handle descriptions in multiple languages?

I won’t bore you with details, but the process helped me structure my work-flow and be able to scale my creative work, as opposed to drown in chaos when I edit more images.

The most important question – which kind of led to many others – actually was, how can I make sure that a customer gets the exact file/version of the image printed that they ordered; I couldn’t just keep editing away on a photo and risk having it look quite differently than the one on preview at the website. And having a bunch of similarly named image files in a folder is not orderly enough. So this is sorted now.

Having the website now also means, that the “Photo-Edits” series here on the “Tidings” website will become more quiet. I do think I will add to it from time to time, tidbits about the images that would be out-of-place in a commercial setting.

But the new site is definitely better for discovering and browsing the pictures than the old ways, mostly because Picwok is a dynamic website, rather than this static one, which does have advantages
 sometimes.

If you like this page, consider sharing its permalink .
If this is a page of my catalog, this link (or the name of the image) is what I require if you would like to order a print.

You can send me a message regarding this page specifically using this link, which already includes the permalink reference.

Supporting my website

You may have noticed that this site does not display ads of any kind. I can't imagine it otherwise – it affords us some serenity.

I happily forgo ad revenue, and since maintaining and adding to this website comes naturally to me, it mostly just "factors in" somehow into my freelance work. Just like it does for so many of you. But as you know, it does take time and other resources.

So if you happen to be in a position where you can help out ("Buy me a coffee"), then this would show solid appreciation of my cause, and find my lasting gratitude!

Another way in which you can help, is to pause and consider if you have any work to commission to me as a freelancer. I am not in full-time employment and always looking for interesting projects.

Si les parece interesante esta entrada, compartan su link online!

Pueden escribirme sobre esta pĂĄgina usando este enlace, que ya incluye el link correspondiente.

CĂłmo apoyar este sitio

QuizĂĄs hayan notado que este sitio no tiene publicidad. Para mi es una decision muy clara de hacer sin anuncios, aunque eso signifique renunciar a algo de dinero. Ampliar este sitio es una actividad que disfruto, entonces se confunde con mi trabajo freelance, por bien o por mal.

SeguirĂ­a haciĂ©ndolo, por supuesto, sin contribuciones. Pero si quieren – y si les es posible – apoyar mi trabajo aquĂ­ (“Buy me a coffee”), se los agradecerĂ© de corazĂłn.