What are some of the ways to get people to look at your work? Any interesting ideas on how? Jinx

Depends what you want. If you want help I'd say the forum is a better place to post then vs the gallery. If you just want more hits well good thumbnails cause that's all people have at first to go by. A well made home page though with good links around the web will get you more hits than here cause your picture is only going to be on the first page here for a very short time, two days if your lucky. Once it's off the main page your not going to get to many more hits. You could try live linking a signature on your posts pointing them to your gallery something like Gebe uses.

Getting people to visit your gallery is an interesting alchemy. There are multiple factors involved. Here is what I observed after almost 3 years of Renderosity. - Post at the right time Depending on what day and time you post your image, your images will be 'covered' by new images more or less quickly. Most people check out 'what's new' by lack of time. If your image reaches 5 pages or more in the 'what's new' area, it is not new anymore and less and less people will visit it. - Choose your public Do you want a lot of visits ? do something popular (like 'half naked victorias in temples' in the poser gallery). Do you want comments ? do something really good or really controversial (ask about 'legume' to poser veterans). Be careful to remain within the limits of the Term o Service though. Do you want to display something original ? Then be ready to accept getting less people and less messages. But the massages and visits you will get will be more rewarding and more meaningful. - Be patient Give yourself time to be known. Unless you create instant masterpieces, it takes time to get to a point where what you do stands out and makes people want to see it. - Participate Ask questions or offer comments or answers in the multiple forums. That's another way to encourage people to look at your work. - Choose thumbnails carefully Thumbnails in your gallery are your advertisement. A well chosen view on your image goes a long way to attract people. To concur with MightyPete, it all comes down to a question of links. The more links to your gallery exist elsewhere on the web, the more people will be directed to your gallery. After that, it is a matter of keeping them and making them come back.

I agree with MPete and Agiel, especially when Agiel said "Participate". I lurked here at Renderosity for several years, just reading posts and looking at galleries. I got a few comments on my first image posts, and always got responses and help from folks on the forums (all of the forums I posted at). But I found that the more I participate, both by posting in the forums here and by offering comments and feedback on others' images, I get more people who become interested in what I've posted. In other words, give a little to get a little. I also posted in the Beginner's Gallery for the first month or so when I started putting images up. I had looked at so many images here that I felt "no way!" to put any of my stuff in Vue or Poser galleries. Only when feedback seemed more positive did I start posting in those galleries. As a viewer, I tend to stay away from galleries of folks who are around a while, and routinely post their 2 or 3 images a day, but never offer any feedback to anyone else, and even from the thumbnail they don't seem to have put any time at all into their scene. Anyone can click on the terrain editor and water plane with default materials and default sky and throw it onto the gallery here, but did they try to do anything with it? I think if you're doing a wip, one place is the gallery, when you title it a wip and people will give you good ideas and suggestions. That has happened for me several times and it really helped me a lot. The forum is also handy for wip or problems in images, for asking for help. But when the forum posts end up as a "here's my new pic" kind of post, I would rather go to the gallery to see what's happening. Most "regulars" do check the gallery; I try to get to Vue gallery every day or every other day to see what's been posted since I last visited. It's often one of the highlights of my day! Anyhow, sorry to go on so long, but wanted to give my 2Euro cents' worth!!

Along with a sales letter, I mail half-page sized printed renders to companies with a 90% transparent PROOF masking .. import their name & logo as mesh (create one if they haven't), then build with reflectivity and caustics in mind, and the positive response is excellent .. its a waste of time with bigger outfits that have an agency hired, but locals are a lucrative market ;)

-Do incredibly wonderful pictures with original ideas and perfectly done, with a very good thumb (that exists ;=) ) -Choose a good title Should apply these rules to myself ;=) Yves

Yves... you are already complying with rules #1. I am not sure about #2 though :)

I think if you try to do consistently good work, and PARTICIPATE, folks will start lookig at your images. When I began posting here I thought the members here were a bunch of snobs! I must say that I have since discovered that nothing could be further from the truth. I also think that creativity plays a significant part in the response received to your postings.

I agree with deevee. I haven't posted any of my images yet but I spend a LOT of time here at the forums. Between looking at the Gallery and reading the forums I have increased my chances of having some images worth posting. Renderosity.com has become a part of my life. Hummm, that may be rather sad depending on how you look at it.