@irina Yes they have free themes and you can build on it yourself. I bought one off pikikiwi and I bought my domain for the shop through Shopify to make it simple - you can adjust your privacy settings and transfer domains in shopify. I think the issue is, if you don't privatise your domain name then its on public display in the WHOIS database, with your email address and contact details. So that's why marketers will contact you. I have one of my addresses on public display and get website builders contacting me but I just ignore them or put them in my spam folder. Most junkmail I get already goes to my spambox. It depends how private you want to be. Running a shop online makes you accessible to the public. Perhaps setup a private email address and one you use for the shop.

@lauraa Yes those are the Pantone books I have. The subtractive (CMYK) process colours out of gamut are shown in the colour picker by the little triangle with the exclamation! mark.

Printing on Silver based C-type paper uses RGB printers - predominantly used for photography work, although some illustrations work well on this format too. But CMYK printers have improved a lot and have now added other colours. So worth looking for one of those like the Canon Pixma Pro 10s inkjet printer, which has a 10-pigment colour ink well. So home printing has been proper upgraded in the last few years. I've seen a lot of giclees that have had rare metals and varnishes added on top for the hand finished touch. So that's an option if you want to get some gold leaf in there.

The printers I use in London just want the files in RGB now and no longer require me to convert to CMYK, so that's a blessing. I do have a copy of all their printer profiles so I can see what the colours look like on different paper surfaces.

EDIT - Colour settings - then you can load your RGB and CMYK printer profiles in here:

Hope this is helpful to get you on the printing train. Choo! Choo!

@lauraa The Pantone book is percentage values of colour for mixing paint or for CMYK digital printing. Some colours you pick with say the eyedropper tool (hexadecimal value) can't be printed using the subtractive colour printing process. The LAB values L, a, b in the photoshop colour library of books represent Luminance (L), Red/Green (a), Yellow/Blue (b). This is to reflect an approximation of what the eye can see. In all honesty I don't often look at the numbers on photoshop. If I see a colour I like in a photo I've taken I open the photo in photoshop and use the eyedropper tool to make a swatch. Then have a go at mixing it by sight. But I guess it's good to learn which colour is dominant so you don't mix too much paint.

I just bought the pantone books online for £60-£70/$75-$85, 2nd hand ones go on ebay for a good price. New on amazon is about £130/$165. There's about 8 books in the collection and they do add to it, but generally colours stay the same! I bought mine about 5 years ago and haven't felt the need to update. I like the way they fan out and you get bathed in colour. Great for walking outside and checking what the colours look like in the sun compared to indoor artificial light.

I've only really used the pantone coated and uncoated colour palettes (sometimes metallic) on Photoshop due to almost everything I print in colour is screen printed so those values match the sorts of colours I'll mix with the paints available. When using metallic paint like Liquid Chrome I just can't find that colour in photoshop! And it's very difficult to photograph too.

@lauraa I bought the solid coated and uncoated Pantone books a while back. As it helps to have all the colours in one physical place. Screen colours can often be deceiving to how colours look against different kinds of light.

Next to each strip it tells me what percentage of colours I need to mix together to make each colour. A colour recipe book.

I like having all the different blacks together. It's a great reference tool. And colour memory bank. There's certain colours I love coming back to and these books spark that memory.

@chip-valecek you can make a Timelapse video in Photoshop. Just go to WINDOW then click Timeline then press Create Video Timeline and drop your media in there or click the little video icon and add media. You can add multiple layers to and change the length of clips. Good for making GIF loops too.

@sarah-luann Good stuff. Yes having a deadline for something gets you to get stuck in and you produced quality work. I hope you get it.

@whitney-simms the spaced out kiwi pattern is ace. Such a lovely flowy green. And Living Coral Pink is the pantone colour of 2019! Check out FEATHR. They set up in an arts led village in Scandinavia making wallpapers, fabrics and cushions from artists work. Might be worth asking them a few questions about getting involved in fabric printing. They're a lovely bunch.

@irina Aces! The sample pack is worth having for reference. Nothing like having it in your hand to feel the texture and appearance. They do a lovely Bamboo paper. My favorite paper for illustrations is the Hahnemüle Photorag. I love the smooth, matt finish. It holds the ink really well and looks similar to a screen print. They also do a free helpful book called - Selling Art Online 2018. You can just go in and pick one up from the counter.

I thought I'd share some photos I took of illustrations that stood out to me on what's left of the Berlin Wall.

I've always been a fan of Pink Floyd - The Wall album cover. I would often stare at it for hours while listening to the record when I was a kid. The Bum Judge with his courtroom wig on is still both a funny and scary beady eyed creature. So it was good to meet him and his cronies again, when I wandered down the wall observing all the excellent stuff people had painted on there.

Has anyone else been to Berlin? There's a lot of great murals knocking around. Just outside of town, The NSA Tower is jam packed with giant street art pieces. Definitely worth a visit.

@sarah-luann It was great to see this project develop. Did you get your entry in to the contest?