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Yvonne Oien

9 Years Ago

Image Size Question

I am new here. I was wondering why it only lets me sell images at such small sizes. Anyone have any suggeations or experience on this? Help.....

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David Bridburg

9 Years Ago

Yvonne,

Welcome.

Your camera is not offering enough of a resolution to make larger images.

If you have 600 x 400 pixels in shot from your camera, then the rule is to divide by 100 to
get the pixels per inch maximum size. So your image would be a maximum size of 6' x 4'.

Are you using a cell phone? If so there are generally a lot of problems editing and selling images with
the particular device you have.

You might want a camera with 24 MP. Nikon and Cannon cameras have all fallen in price some. Just my guess,
because cell phones are kicking their sales in the butt.

You also need an education in lens etc to match the camera. Dont forget the economics of this. Or your costs
will soar.

Dave

 

Yvonne Oien

9 Years Ago

Wow, I had no idea. I was just having fun and trying to upload some projects. Thank you so much for the suggestions. I will definitely take heed.

 

Heather Applegate

9 Years Ago

Scan your paintings at a higher resolution, as high as your scanner will go pretty much.

 

David Bridburg

9 Years Ago

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/my-blue-johnnyboy-yvonne-oien.html

Yvonne,

I am on the newer side here myself. So my experience on this site is limited in some ways.

That said it looks like you are getting banding in your processes even before you would go to print.

Banding happens when the digital equipment, the FAA serves, the cell phone you are using, etc and the combinations
of equipment dont have enough data to stop banding from happening. Banding is a splotch of an area where
the image's gradient fails. Instead of a gradient you get a flat one hue, one tone area. I mentioned the FAA servers because
I think I can see banding in your images on their servers, but lets make this perfectly clear THIS IN NO WAY IS FAA's FAULT.
This only has to do with your equipment.

And perhaps someone here with more experience will correct me about this or confirm that your processes are
creating banding.

We all need plenty of computer power, whether in our cameras as mega pixels, or in our computers as
processing power.

Dave

 

Heather Applegate

9 Years Ago

It her case it looks like the banding and halos are from forcing an HDR effect on one shot instead of the real HDR process.

 

David Bridburg

9 Years Ago

Yvonne,

Heather's suggestion of using a scanner, if you are not already, would save you a lot of money.

I appreciate your response, but think about price tags. The equipment you need takes an
education onto its self to understand.

Dave

 

David Bridburg

9 Years Ago

Heather,

I have seen that before. But the non FAA member artist I know who does that on purpose has never
sold a work of art.

He has been an on again off again artists for 30 years, no sales.

He is out of NYC, so he knows gallery owners. He can get a corner somewhere in a NYC gallery. He still
wont sell his work. His shots are tiny from his military cell phone with a photo editing software. He says he
is purposely making small shots so the viewers will have intimacy with his art.

He also adds distortions to his tiny unimportant shots and calls the effects texture.

He does not know what he is doing.

Dave

 

Yvonne Oien

9 Years Ago

What is banding and HDR? I'm sorry, I'm extremely amateur and any suggestions I will definitely appreciate.

 

Heather Applegate

9 Years Ago

I strongly suggest starting at the beginning and maybe going through youtube tutorials and such. There's a wealth of info out there. Since we have no idea what you're shooting with or scanning with I'm not even gonna get into it.

 
 

Yvonne Oien

9 Years Ago

Some images I'm shooting from my smart phone. Others are paintings that I photograph with my smart phone and upload it this way as well. I kinds see my issue now. I'm going to YouTube.

 

Yvonne Oien

9 Years Ago

Thank you so much. This information is so very valuable! Awesome!! 👍

 

David Bridburg

9 Years Ago

Yvonne,

Heather is right. You need to start at the beginning, but if you are interested in this, you can
make huge strides in months or even weeks.

There are educational tools all over the internet for free.

Dave

 

Yvonne Oien

9 Years Ago

Do you think maybe I should remove my images and wait til I get them photographed correctly before posting them? I think I just might.

 

David Bridburg

9 Years Ago

If you do put on place card sort of image of "coming soon" so that FAA does not remove your profile.

But yeah those images generally can not be printed, but I am not the final word on that at all.

Dave

 

Yvonne Oien

9 Years Ago

I definitely don't want my profile removed. I will work on this tomorrow. Thank you so very much.

 

Melissa Bittinger

9 Years Ago

When you scan and upload your images, double check for crop marks, one of them has a white strip along the bottom that I'm assuming is not part of the painting. The uploaded images need to be print ready. Good luck and welcome!

 

Bradford Martin

9 Years Ago

You can leave the images up and replace them by doing an edit on the image if you wish. If you put in keywords you will be visible in the search. If you use descriptions it will help Google know what the image is and index it for their search.

 

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