New Product: Duvet Covers

Wow! I wasn't expecting duvet covers. How interesting.

Thanks Sean! God bless.

Will this be forced onto the fine arts side as well, or will it stay on pixels where it belongs?

It showed on 2 of my photos now they arn't showing at all?

Very nice, however my 24MP camera isn't even large enough to get that size in a photo. You'd have to edit it larger and that would hurt the quality of the photo. Can that file size even be uploaded with the 25MB size upload max?

What is a duvet? :)

7. You can sell duvet covers from FAA, Pixels.com, your Artist Website, and your shopping cart widgets.

Bed covering. Like an eiderdown.

That is pretty sad that our 24MP cameras cannot even cover the size range. Good luck finding many that do. I only know of about ten cameras, and they are at least 5 to 25k just for the bodies. The cheapest being the Nikon D800, and the most being the Leica S or a few other select medium formats.

seems to be working fine, hard to say if my prices are too high, i nabbed them form google shopping.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Abbie do you know why it stopped working on my sites? They showed for like 2 minutes and now gone?

Are the images 5000 x 5000 +

Yeah the ones I looked at were the correct size, I'll keep an eye on them and let you know.

Check they still have the prices in them

wait hold on, it will only show the product if you have a huge image? that will be very confusing to the customer. i have images that are 5550x3700 - they aren't a square and i won't make anything special just for a cover. especially since this site isn't set up for stuff like that. red bubble, will at least post it smaller. i think we should be able to stretch the dpi on these things. only my digital art shows.

right now it only shows a dozen or so. and anyone that sees that we sell those things will be saddened to find out they can't get it on all things. on RB they let you choose the background color as a fill in. they print at 300dpi for some reason so the images always look small.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

I did the whole bulk upload, I'll recheck though.

I'm curious how many photo images will actually work for this size. My camera does 6000 x 4000.

Two questions,
1. Why are they on the faa site, i thought that for wall art only
2. As they are being printed that large I assume it will be ok to up size standard images in software to get 5000px images - how else can you get sort of size from a low to mid range camera

This product isn't necessarily well suited for photographers.

Graphic designers, for example, have no problem creating images as large as they want them to be (e.g. 10,000 pixels x 10,000 pixels).

Photographers, on the other hand, are limited by the resolutions of their cameras.

Sean

I just tried with one of my photos at 7500 x 5000 and the pricing option isn't available for the duvet covers....
It is actually awesome quality. One photo- a graphic design- on here already, I know it at 8000 something by 5200 something and the option isn't available for that either...

OK Abbie those are back.

"Your image must be at least 5,000 pixels x 5,000 pixels in order to print at this size."

Out of 620+ images, I might have four that meets this size requirement.

Thinking about it, it will be best to create our images with a plain color background, we can then offer different colors and meet the 5000px requirement. The actual image stays the same size and the plain color increasing the canvas size.

I know of people here who DO upsize their images a lot! I know what cameras they use and they would have to upsize to get their high pixels. I think a program like OnOne software Perfect resize does this.

I did the bulk edit and it didn't work, but editing the individual image did.

" Please note - your image must be at least 5,000 pixels x 5,000 pixels in size in order to sell it as a duver cover."

Interesting.... we have limit of 24M on the upload size.

I don't think I have one image that will work.

Great idea, but no cigar.

Next product....

Maybe T-Shirts and coffee mugs are not as bad of an idea as we thought?!

Picture puzzles... I was hoping that the next new product was going to be puzzles. There would not be an size problems there.

Thank you all so very much for taking the time to look and comment here. I really appreciate it.

I did use Perfect Resize, Jessica, but I also added canvas to top and bottom and created a square first - that's the part I was worried about.

Is there anyone out there?????

I was hoping that the shadowing on the duvets images would be reduced. We complained of the same thing on the throw pillows when they were first released and the problem was addressed. They make the products look dirty and not attractive, especially if it is a light colored cover. I am holding back from advertising them as I want my covers to look their best before spending time and effort promoting them.

In case my pictures got lost in the big skip, I am posting them again,



This is how the print looks.......... so much nicer.

I agree, Gill. Maybe this is one for the suggestion thread? Even the dark ones are not improved by the shading - it just doesn't make them look as bad.

they are handy to cover your Duvet with....your Duvet could get seperation anxiety without one...if you don't have a Duvet you can adopt one. I don't think the Duvet's need any shading...cuz you are asleep when you use them. I'm looking forward to iron on tatoo designs from FAA.

Yes Nikolyn, I will post it in the suggestions, I thought Sean would be monitoring this thread as it was his but he must be busy doing other things

The image will not be changed just at present (if at all). The coders are very busy right now I am afraid

That's so disappointing Abbie, surely if you saw the image I posted above you wouldn't buy it!

Yes. I would make the suggestions anyway, Gill. I mean we are told repeatedly that customers ask all the time whether the watermark appears on the final print or other product and that FAA feels that including one does discourage some buyers. This would seem to me to be much the same thing. Customers think products will appear as they do on their monitor. When the display is as ugly as this one is (I'm sorry if I hurt someone's feelings, but it's ugly), why would FAA think that would not affect sales? And with a product that's unlikely to be that popular - in contrast to the pillows, for example - why would you want to reduce your potential customer base at all?

It makes no sense to me Nikolyn, I think they are steaming ahead with new products without refining the ones they already have.

If others agree with me please put your name to this weekly suggestion thread, thank you.

http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2282950

Ok until this is resolved I have given up making pastel coloured images, at least it doesn't notice so much on this one

Speaking recently with several of my collectors, they were very enthusiastic about having home decor options - including throw pillows, shower curtains, duvet covers... - and also silk scarves. I've been trying to find a good drop shipping source for the scarves, and have been disappointed to date, so would be excited to have that as an option.

nikolyn, you are absolutely right. you have to show online shoppers as near as humanly possible what the product they are ordering looks like. they shouldn't be expected to conjure up something in their imagination which may or may not again be off. if it doesn't look good or if people don't have confidence that it will look alright they just go somewhere else.

Yep, the duvet pics., look terrible with the way they are shown with gray, dirty looking images. I managed to add a couple designs, but think I will remove for duvet.....I've looked at other artist designs and know they have good designs but for the duvet.....not so great. Think that needs to be corrected...or only dark, primary color art images will appear OK.

Joseph Stevens, I love that design and colors.

I think this is a great idea for decorating. I personally am looking for a new quilt and don't like anything out there. I have often thought about using one of my own images for a quilt.

Abbie, can they add quilts too ?

Love the products. Seems everything is ok, but when I go into the edit of the image the prices for the duvets are not there. Have tried several times. The other prices (pillows, cards, phone covers) are ok. My images are 9000 x 9000.

Thanks,

meh; my images are not really suited for these - many landscape orientation and few that seem to have the pixel count required. (That seems odd since I upload the largest files I create - never reduce size before any upload and I use high end cameras set to RAW before I create.)

They don't seem to show up at all through my FAA site. I never, ever go to Pixels.

Whatever - more and new is good. Hope they sell well for folks.

What's next? :D

thanks Sean ! :)

OK, I checked the images I upload - most of them fall in the 5184 x 3456 range - 10 - 20MB in size each depending on a few factors.

Because the duvets require 5k x 5k dimensions, my images won't meet that. I could easily blow them up in pixels and reduce the pixels per inch from 300 to 100 without losing any quality for this product but duvets are not my target - prints are - so I'll leave my dpi high.,

I was going to upload my birds. Did one, had to remove it: the shading was horrendous. Pity. A customer. I think, would assume that's what the cover would look like. Not very professional at all.

Hi, 5000 x 5000 x ? dpi? is required for duvets? Thank you.

As long as the image is 5000 pixels square it doesn't matter what the dpi is as far as I know

Thanks but 5000x5000 at 300 dpi (or less) is over the 25MB limit. I guess I just don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Why are we adding products with a suggested mark up of $5? I make more on a card.

Jennifer, You can save the image in Photoshop will a little more compression to get the number down. Save at 9 or 10 instead of 12

I am a bit confused. I don't think my images were large enough 5000x5000 for the duvet covers but now when I upload a new image it is allowing for the duvets? Has it changed, or is it I just don't understand the pixel sizes of my images?
Thanks anyone who can clarify.

Marita

Marita, read the other post about updates that Sean posted about an hour ago. It should explain it. You can set a background color in the uploader and position the image. The background color will create a border around your image.

Please read http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2516637 which updates this thread.

Thank you