Do Not Resize Your Images For Duvet Covers

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---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Double bump!

soooooo......it's settled.
size matters.

Lol, Marlene.

The. End.

Do you know when they are going to add Duvets to products on AWs, under Shop>Home Decor ? There are Pillows only now.

Thanks,
Raisa

Very good to know JC. Thanks for sharing this info. BTW, how is the quality of the duvets?

I can't believe no one answered JC with "That's what she said"

I'm disappointed.

Abbie will have to address the when questions.

Keep in mind duvets can print up to 104 inches with a mere 5000 pixels. That means 48 DPI so viewing at 100% to check your image is NOT enough.

Not even with Onone Perfect Resize? Haven't tried it yet but just wondering.

Imagine that

it depends on the image. if you have fine lines, words, things like that, even the resizer will have issues with it. diagonals, and other things will start to stair step as well. usually when i edit, i view everything at 200% and the only things that fit on the covers are my digital art which are 10,000 pix on the longest.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

I have used OnOne and I wouldn't recommend it for this.

I haven't resized anything but I can't help wondering what percentage should we be checking at.

the site is not set up for selling individual items anyway. in the end anyone trying to make just covers, will only confuse the customers.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Regarding OnOne perfect resize.

We all know some resizing may work on some images. But, and it is a BIG but I meab this is the size but Sir Mix-a-lot sang about.

How much resizing is OK? Some may be OK. Pretty vague as the answer varies from image to image, technique and program.

Here's the rub though. Let's say you resize just to sell duvet covers or maybe a couple sizes larger on your image. Let's say it does not work well and you get a 48 inch sale that would have been fine before up sizing. You will likely LOSE that sale and the markup that went with it. For me that is 400 bucks on some images. Now, I don't know what yall's markup is on a duvet cover but I am not about to risk a 400 dollar sale just to be in a market that doesn't even have a great margin.

The only answer I can tell you that works every time on up sizing is DON'T DO IT! Trust m e when I say it is obvious when I see it and know exactly what was done.

do it so i can get the sale instead..


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

What if you take a printable image (4713x3770), keep that image size and add a border (larger canvas size) to a revised 5184x5184 pixel size image ??

While I like the way you think Roger, I don't know. I do know the instructions fir the QA team is to send such bordered images to Dawn. I also know that border may cause a rejected printing issue on certain type prints most notably a mirrored canvas wrap.

JC,

Here is the example:

Original image (4713x3770)



The same image with an increased border (5184x5184)

In that example my guess is it would work fine.

if the border is black or white it will blend with faa's colors and appear seamless.

Only in some formats Marlene.

I have not resized any images and have no intention of doing so but have started to do new work at the large 5000 size.

That lead me to wondering something. I don't know exactly how to put it... but an image that large is well... very large and I will guess that most prints sold are perhaps much smaller. So when we create work that is 5000 in size and then print an image that is so much reduced ...what is lost? Detail? Anything?

I haven't a clue if this makes sense but it was something I have been wondering about...maybe a crazy question. I have always felt that for art there was always a perfect size for a piece and with digital work that seems to be lost.

Original (210x130 pixels)



Nearest Neighbor (8x)



Bicubic (8x)



Smilla Enlarger (8x, two passes)


Notice the clarity of the oval in the fountain, compared to the blocky original and NN

Of course better results would be achieved from two passes in NN and Bicubic, but still much better results from smaller increments. In fact incremental is the way to go in any method.

Val

A small print from big file is just that. You lose nothing though detail cannot be seen. Sort of. Technically detail may be lost because the printer itself cannot print detail that small but it would be something you couldn't have seen anyway without a magnifying glass.

Thanks JC...what I had guessed...that "sort of"

@ Val, there is an example of details reduced in size. The original file is 8500 x 11000. I had to down size to fit file size requirements here...ie 25mg and converted it to jpg
If you zoom in, you will see the details in the background which is one of my fabric designs. When designing for the fabric industry file size uploads are around 200mg per file.

@ JC, question about file size, if someone orders the King Duvet, can I upload a larger file size to fill order so the design is not up sized or stretched to fit?

Cheers, Barbara

Gonna have to let Abbie field that one.

@ Abbie, I just uploaded one to show what I was getting at, but again I had to shrink the file size to fit the 25 MB.
What I would like to do is add yardage to the sides of the design to increase the width to fit the duvet size, so the design is not up sized or stretched.... does that make sense???????? LOL
Can we upload a bigger size to fill the order??? please :-))



Thanks
Cheers, Barbara

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I can size up my photos with fine detail at 10000 x 17000 pixels but I get a file of 50 mg..then if you resize you lose quality.. I find no solution to this..

If you want to upload work purely for duvets then yes, upload a naturally large image.

I spoke to Sean about this enlarging and he has, or is putting it bolder on the image to NOT enlarge.

If you don't have the right size naturally then you just cannot offer duvets at present.

DO NOT ENLARGE AS FAILURE TO PRINT LOSES US BOTH CUSTOMERS AND WE ARE HAVING TO DENY PRINTING!!!

if you can, can you ask him if he could set up an offset tile function so we can just have a repeat and have a much higher chance at selling those things?


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

If a file is an adequate size but includes a range of colors that would make the file too large if it were saved at maximum quality, how many .jpg compression artifacts could be tolerated before the file is pronounced unprintable? Yes, I guess that's more of a rhetorical question. However, the of the Duvet covers can cause a problem right now.. Would you rather have a 150dpi file to size or a file that is compressed to fit the file size constraints? If it were direct to garment, would it matter if you had either scenario given the slight spread on the fabric just so long as the image didn't drop below something like 90 dpi?