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Jo Nathon Dutton

9 Years Ago

Fresh Uploads

I have fresh uploads that I am not getting many views on...any ideas?
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/jonathon-dutton.html

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Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

your first clue is that they are fresh uploads. hundreds come up every minute, and unless you putting it in groups, and your advertising it, no one will see it. plus it's easter.

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this has very few keywords, and will probably not print it's too jaggy up close.

anyway, you have to join groups, contests and advertise all the time. views aren't instant except for kiez germany, they are very fast even for a bot.

---Mike Savad

 

Jo Nathon Dutton

9 Years Ago

Thanks Mike...when I said "fresh" I meant a few days old, not from today, as you probably guessed....I know views aren't instant.
I do advertise, but probably not in the right places I guess, I'll work on that.

I should ask, what dimensions do you suggest posting a piece in for best printed result?

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

if you don't tell people, even if its a year old, is hidden from view. lost like a shell on the beach. at the very least you'll get 10-30 bot hits from twitter. it's not just tweeting and such, you also have to build up a following. it's a lot of work. i don't recall how many i get per image, but i average about 1500-2000 hits a day.

it's not the dimensions, it's the quality of the work in that size you make it. like that car was originally 4 times smaller and taller. i can see the blocks and i can see it was grabbed and stretched. the details up close should be sharp and crisp, free of noise and blurriness, no blocks or loss. my digital art is 10,000px across, 6200 is the max they will print. i like nice sharp details. however the image is clean up close. the rest of what i have are photos, but they come from the camera like that. never enlarge an image.


---Mike Savad

 

Jo Nathon Dutton

9 Years Ago

Thanks, I only stretched it b/c I figured for poster size or whatever it needed to be bigger. My mistake.
I will try to make the work clearer in the future. I will delete my current uploads, and start over.
I feel dumb, but when I printed my posters in the past most came out well, so I figured it was fine for here as well.

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

always make it to native size. to date, i've been here for like 3 years now something like that, and have sold only one 72" print, and maybe like a dozen 60" prints, they aren't super popular. you don't have to erase what you have, just decrease the prices your selling them at, or reduce the size.

the reason they want high quality is to reduce the chance of a buyer returning them. also keep in mind - i assume you printed them small? try it as a 60" print and you'll see the jaggy parts on some of them. i didn't click through all of them, but that one above had issues.

---Mike Savad

 

Jo Nathon Dutton

9 Years Ago

Reduced the size of some of the work, deleted quite a bit of them as well. I am thinking of just redoing my whole portfolio, nobody's bought any of my prints here yet anyway.

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

thing is you've only been here 2 weeks, most don't make sales right away like that. and still you have to advertise. when making art think about where people might put the art.


---Mike Savad

 

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