Finally, to return to the issue of how to go about getting a PS gallery. You said that you are arguing for a gallery - that wasn't my point. What I said was that you should be campaigning for one, and that's different. Campaigns involve strategy. Can I suggest a few tactics?
- Identify the people in the 2D gallery who use PS as a primary creative tool. IM them, making your case for a gallery clearly and ask for their support. Be polite; don't demand. Don't be rude about other apps. If they decline, say 'thanks for your time' and leave it at that. Keep a list of who you've contacted so that you don't accidentally do it twice.
- Identify forums where people use PS for post-work. IM the moderators of the forums and ask if they would mind you posting a request for support. If they say, no, it's off-topic, thank them and leave it at that.
- IM the moderator of the Virtual Tavern and do the same.
- Post a request for support in the OT forum. Everything's off-topic there - that's the point of the place. And it gets read by more people than this forum.
- Accept Retrocity's kind offer of a backroom gallery. Offer to help.
- Post another request to this forum (or to 'Forum News & Team Contact'). Ask for an undertaking that, if the backroom gallery is a success, the PTB promise that it will be promoted to a top-level gallery. Be clear about the purpose of the gallery - is it a critique gallery? a 'finished work' gallery? Propose some guidelines saying what you think constitutes a 'Photoshop' image. Be clear and realistic about the time-frame you think you'll need to demonstrate success.
If you can prove the demand for the gallery, you'll probably get one. But you will need to prove it because the gallery has been requested and denied before. If you get it, I'll happily come here and declare that you were right and I was wrong. In the meantime, I hope you'll take this post how it's intended - constructive if not necessarily supportive. Peace :-) cam