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Abbie Shores

8 Years Ago

Threads For Help Tab

ok.... Let's have your ideas (and links) for the threads for the help tab

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Dfbdfbd Dfbdfb

8 Years Ago

Today is an Abbies day

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Nancy Merkle

8 Years Ago



Bulk editing comes up all the time. Don't do it often enough to remember how. Here is a good explanation:

http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2654020




 

Rich Franco

8 Years Ago

Abbie,

Everything needs to be explained as if they were new to computers and FAA. Like my "How To" for uploading/adding images to a discussion. It needs to be translated to "Franco" so even I can understand what to do!

Over simplify the instructions and many of those posts will go away! They are there now, because they confusing or imply a knowledge of what is normal! This site is not that "intuitive" to new people, who are unfamiliar with sites like this. Otherwise, there would be NO questions about pricing, galleries,images and adding images to discussions,etc.

Simple!

Rich

 

Heather Applegate

8 Years Ago

A sticky in the main section to the HELP section first...

A thread with just the info on every domain we're on or could be one, all in one original post - or directions to go behind the scenes and click the DOMAINS button.
Marketing 101
Bulk/Default Explanation and Editing
How to... Everything [with alphabetical list]
FAQs about Getting Paid

...just to start

 

Marlene Burns

8 Years Ago

Behind the scenes....not a thread but a simple guide and explanation of each icon and their purpose, how to use them.
Better yet, a video....we are visual, afterall..
I rarely send people to the help tabs...just a mish mash of more confusing info, in no special order to help.

To truly help, that tab needs a complete overhaul.
Once a member's account is activated, there should be a welcome e mail with a link to "what to do now."

 

SharaLee Art

8 Years Ago

Maybe a history/explanation of FAA, Pixels, and all other mirror sites, licensing, the frame sites...also why they can't see all products on FAA.

 

Dorothy Berry-Lound

8 Years Ago

I like Heather's suggestion of a sticky. I was going to suggest the idea of a welcome email etc as I would have found that of great benefit but Marlene beat me to it. There is so much to look at and get confused over when you are new to the site that emailing a user guide and having it available behind the scenes (as Marlene also suggested) seems a good move - but it really does have to be simple guide and possibly available in several languages?

 

Jessica Jenney

8 Years Ago

I was also going to suggest a welcome email with instructions. Many may not know about the help tab. On the other hand many don't get the FAA emails

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

i think the basics:

1. why are my pix sideways?
2. how many things can i upload on the free account?
3. where are my tshirts etc?
4. we are not an appraisal service, so don't ask.
5. what is the average time it takes to sell your first thing
6. how to post pictures in the forum.

but mostly what would be useful is a page you can send people to of examples of what you shouldn't be seeing in order to get it to print. i know he has one on the upload page, but its simulated and people are blind to it. not to mention your not on that page for very long. a page showing what is and is not acceptable.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

M E Cieplinski

8 Years Ago

From Mike: "but mostly what would be useful is a page you can send people to of examples of what you shouldn't be seeing in order to get it to print."

Yes. This. ^

I've been on FAA since May and most of my time so far has been figuring out a lot of the lingo that's thrown around. What is noise? What is blocking? Why are these bad? How should my photos actually look in the review window? What the heck is the review window even for? Examples of how they should look and how they shouldn't would be super helpful. I've learned a lot of the answers through googling and reading discussions here. Having it all in one place would be downright handy.

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

noise is the grit that's found on the image, caused by poor iso performance or pushing shadow up too much. bad noise is like 80 grit sand paper, and i think acceptable is more like 320 grit.

blocks looks like little blocks stacked onto of each other. caused by poor jpg compression. the only want to get rid of them is by blurring a lot. its not something that's easy to fix.

blocking just makes the image look terrible. something like a mosaic. and noise makes an image gritty looking, less sharp, and the color won't pop as much.

the close up is just to let people sort of lean in and see what they are buying exactly. on my pieces i leave enough detail to allow pixel peeping.


but seeing the examples i think are far more important. more so - what is allowed, rather than not allowed. it took me a while to figure out what is bad and not. and i've changed my entire way i process things just to clean things right.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Abbie Shores

8 Years Ago

As soon as I get a spare moment (haha) I will try and get one set up

 

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