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Rita Drolet

9 Years Ago

Pictures Too Small For Duvet

How can you get the pictures big enough for the Duvet cover, mine are all too small


Rita Drolet
http://rita-drolet.artistwebsites.com
http://ritasfineartwork.blogspot.com

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Murray Bloom

9 Years Ago

Within reason, this may be the perfect place for upsizing. I doubt that people expect tack-sharpness on duvets.

 

Pamela Patch

9 Years Ago


Why waste time trying to make your images fit the product. We are soon to have lots of new products on our pixels site why not concentrate on uploading new art for those products?

 

JC Findley

9 Years Ago

You would assume incorrectly Murray.

OK, allow me to say this again, DO NOT UPSIZE.

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Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

you don't. if its not big enough you can't sell it. if you enlarge it, it won't print. its not worth messing with. this is a fine art print site. not that many will come looking for blankets. especially when its hit or miss whether people have it or not.

i can only sell it on a few of mine.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

JC Findley

9 Years Ago

We all know some resizing may work on some images. But, and it is a BIG but I mean 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 me when I say it is obvious when I see it and know exactly what was done.

 

Marlene Burns

9 Years Ago

Yours may be too small for duvet covers, but we are bound to have hankerchiefs soon..... ;)

 

Lisa Kaiser

9 Years Ago

That's good information JC.

 

Murray Bloom

9 Years Ago

JC, I was thinking of the possibility of uploading upsized images to a Duvet Cover Gallery, and the same images would remain unupsized in our fine art galleries. Are you saying that QC will apply the same resolution standards to bedding as it does to fine art prints? To me, that just seems wrong.

It seems that the 5Kx5K minimum size requirement would limit images to those taken by 37+MP cameras (assuming a 2:3 aspect ratio), stitched scans, or totally digital art.

 

Alfred Ng

9 Years Ago

Marlene, I think tea towel would come next.

 

Rita Drolet

9 Years Ago

how about a washcloth?

 

JC Findley

9 Years Ago

The reality is that the duvets print at 48dpi. (Large duvet cover and 5000 pixel image.) That means that they need to be pretty darn clear or they will not pass QA. The upsized images I have seen come through QA have been really bad and pixilated.

 

Alfred Ng

9 Years Ago

Rita, many tiny washcloths can make into a large quilt.

 

Murray Bloom

9 Years Ago

What are the actual printed areas on the various size covers?

 

Rich Franco

9 Years Ago

Rita,

Almost ALL of your painted or sketched work can be upsized, if done correctly. The issue here is that FAA doesn't want artists to randomly enlarge images,especially photos,just to sell larger prints. The duvet covers are just the opposite and your designs would be perfect. Stuff gets sold here ALL the time, that has been "tweaked" to a larger size and as my younger brother, Murray points out, only those photographers or artists with a 37mp camera sensor,which until recently wasn't available to most,was needed.

When you design new images, keep this size in mind.

Send me one of your drawings that you would like to offer as a dew-vay and I'll fix it!

Email me privately and I'll send you the address for my personal email and then attach the file and we'll see!

Here's the standard reply to FAA and JC's remarks:

Photography Prints

And here's teh original:

Photography Prints

I understand where FAA is coming from, but the issue is that they have introduced a product, that keeps out 99% of all photographers and most painters,etc. and don't know how to deal with it! If FAA want this product line, then let the "printer" decide what will or won't work,

Rich

p.s. You have some GREAT images that would work well on the duvets

 

Rich Franco

9 Years Ago

Rita,

On the other hand, I do see some problems with your copying of images. The "fish" above, seem dark on my screen and the background, I would assume, should be white and not gray/blue-ish. This can be easily fixed, if you just bump up the whites or the exposure and also pop the saturation. Many of the images that I see on your site could use some tweaking, brightness and contrast and saturation,

Rich

 

Rita Drolet

9 Years Ago

Rich,

I know my Pictures are not at all perfect, and I been working on everybody's advice I received here on the Forum about the settings, but I just CANNOT for the life of me, do it right!!
Its to the point that I am totally frustrated and giving up for now

Rita Drolet
http://rita-drolet.artistwebsites.com
http://ritasfineartwork.blogspot.com

 

Rich Franco

9 Years Ago

Rita!

You've created great images and this is nothing! I just sent you an email and we can talk. 99% of stuff here is about the "ART",which you have and the other stuff is just learning how simple this can be to get those great images PERFECT!

Rich

 

Mary Armstrong

9 Years Ago

Rita, if you have a program, like even Gimp for example, you could create a file size(large enough for the duvets) and then try one of your designs repeated in a design......you have some really fun pieces that could work well repeated, thus get the whole piece large enough for a Duvet.....Good Luck!

 

Mary Armstrong

9 Years Ago

How about printed fabric?

 

Abbie Shores

9 Years Ago

To re-iterate JC's post, Do NOT upsize the images for anything, not even duvet covers. If your images are not naturally large enough, consider tiling them or creating a new image that does fit.

Do not upsize (enlarge) images at all

 

Rose Santuci-Sofranko

9 Years Ago

...just searched for this for size....so 5000 x 5000 will work, right?

 

Richard Reeve

9 Years Ago

Why do people spend so much time fretting about the duvet covers? It's fascinating that so many obsess about FAA being a a FINE art site whilst still trying to print their images on anything that comes along. I assume we're not far from mouse mats and mugs...
Bottom line - if it fits then fine. Otherwise I think time is better spend promoting work off FAA rather than worrying about reworking stuff that has relatively small margins anyway.

- Richard Reeve
ReevePhotos.com

 

Pamela Patch

9 Years Ago


yes Rose.

 

Richard Reeve

9 Years Ago

...or perhaps only upload vector graphics saved as 5000px x 5000px JPGs at least, as I assume FAA doesn't accept SVG files...

- Richard Reeve
ReevePhotos.com

 

Rose Santuci-Sofranko

9 Years Ago

Thank you Pamela

 

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