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Kevin Carbone

8 Years Ago

Restricting Print Sizes And Shapes

how do i restrict size and shape of printed product

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Abbie Shores

8 Years Ago

The sizes depend on your pixels. Unlike other sites we never crop or skew images to fit standard sizes, instead allowing the artist free scope to just upload what they have

The only limits we have are that one of your dimensions is going to be forced to fit the following list:

8"
10"
12"
14"
16"
20"
24"
32"
36"
48"

The other dimension will be scaled proportionally to maintain the aspect ratio of your image.

4800 pixels is 48" at 100ppi So you can work out your sizes really before even uploading

We allow 25mb only and you can change the compression as low as 10 before it hurts the image

To have products on sale you need to have prices on them. Remove them from sale by not adding or removing prices. Do not add 0. Leave totally blank, not even a space.

There are four ways of changing prices on your work

UPLOADING As you upload the work you can see the pricing areas. These are for your markup. What YOU wish to earn
DEFAULT SETTINGS in your Behind the Scenes you can see Default Settings. Set these for all future work you load. That way the prices will be ready populated as you upload.
GLOBAL PRICE EDIT If you wish to price already loaded images and you have a lot, use this.
EDITING Edit the image and change the pricing (don't forget to click SUBMIT to save the changes)

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Anndraya Blayer

8 Years Ago

How can I change the default price setting for images I've already uploaded? Do I have to delete all my images and re-upload with new prices? Thanks.

 

Joseph C Hinson

8 Years Ago

Get to know your Behind the Scenes area. Default prices are for future uploiads. Bulk edit is for past uploads.

 

Joseph C Hinson

8 Years Ago

Dont delete! You can also edit individual images one by one. It'd be a good idea to click through all the pages on your site to get to know it inside and out. Lots of neat tools here for us to use

 

Janina Nowak

8 Years Ago

@Joseph C Hinson: "Don't delete! You can also edit individual images one by one...." Yes, I've found that out.

However, is it possible to upload a new image, and keep it Private, *before* making it available to the public? I would want to do this, so that I can see how the image looks on the pixels.com site, as opposed to what it looks like on my PC. So far, I have found a couple of my (then) uploaded images looked quite different (I don't think it had anything to do with color profiling, they just looked terrible on pixels.com). I had to delete them. I received confirmation of this particular 'terrible image rendering' by purchasing greeting cards of one particular image. I may still post about this issue at some point soon.

@Abbie: No-one has yet answered his query about 'Shapes", which I presume he means the type of wall art one can offer, ie acrylic print, canvas print, and so on. I'd like to know how to make that choice too. Or, perhaps it is only a feature available to Premium members?

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

you can make a private gallery with a password. not even google can see it.

i have no idea what he means by shape. you can't force it to be a square. it has to be the shape it was as uploaded.

you have to sell all the base types - canvas, paper etc. he never broke that up, probably to keep that section even and clean looking. premium people don't get that many incentives. we get an extra 10% on extras gotten, unlimited uploads, i think a widget and our own webpage.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

 

Janina Nowak

8 Years Ago

@MikeSavad: "...you have to sell all the base types..." When I first signed up and looked at other artists' profile pages, and then individual images, I did come across someone who had been able to make the choice of what type of wall art they offered -- they had only a few items available, eg canvas print, metal print, and one other. The rest just weren't there! I didn't think to keep a link to that artist as I expected that choice would be available to all of us. But, of course, it isn't. I wonder how they did it?!

Personally, I think it should be a choice -- we as artists have a better idea of how we wish to present our work and how it will look best. Some of us have an idea about printing, from past experience. Some of us may not want to have all wall art types offered. I would also wish to be able to set the paper types on offer; for instance, I have the Sample Kit as a guide.

Private gallery: Yes, you can create a password-protected gallery. However, the only images you can put therein are ones that have already been uploaded. You cannot add to that gallery by using, say, the Upload New Image feature -- it just isn't available. I thought there may be an option to turn it to Private, once the image is uploaded. However, I couldn't find anything where I would expect to see it when in Edit Image mode. What I have done tonight, as a test, is to tick the box against the text re the image not being safe for work viewing against my M Pixelated Red image. However, due to pixels.com image rendering not functioning this evening, I am unable to see whether that image has now been hidden, which is my expectation. Next time I'm on pixels.com (which could be a few days hence), I'll let you know.

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

the base types are what they started with. shower curtains and all the foldable type things, they didn't sell until recently. you can also not sell cards. but the prints, one price fills them all in.

beyond that if the image is too small, it won't show up as a poster at all.

i think he forces the substrates because he wants choices for the customer (some only buy canvas), it would annoy them if you didn't have metal prints for example. and it would break up the overall look and flow of the site. paper types is the same, if a buyer is buying 25 things, they want them all to match, they will get the same frame, same paper and matting, and if you don't have the paper choice, it will only confuse and annoy the customer.

i never used the private thing, i guess because he won't make the max amount of money on it, it has less features? ideally though you can upload and check off the gallery you want, it should be in the list. i do know that anything marked private - google doesn't index.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

 

Janina Nowak

8 Years Ago

Tonight, before I signed in, I saw that my M Pixelated Red image is still visible. So, I guess marking it as unsafe for work viewing did not hide it.

Here's something I might try: To quote Abbie -- "To have products on sale you need to have prices on them. Remove them from sale by not adding [...] prices...."

 

Kaye Menner

8 Years Ago

Janina, it is my belief that if you don't add a price to a certain size image, it will not show for sale.

 

Abbie Shores

8 Years Ago

Private galleries

Create the gallery - tick it on upload
Edit the gallery - add the image

They are the same as other galleries

If adding after and they made it to the search...this will take up to 24 hours to not show them

Images will always show in your image/ all artwork age, but only to you

 

Janina Nowak

8 Years Ago

@Abbie: re private gallery: Thanks for the tip. I had worked that one out. In the meantime, my attempts at not putting prices against two images and waiting for more than 24hours, before viewing them as an ordinary not logged in viewer, did not hide them. They appear on the page, only without any products! I guess I'll have to skip that idea, but it was an interesting exercise nevertheless, and I've learned a lot more about how the site works, which is always a good thing!

@Mike, and everyone else too: Re Product offerings -- I am not complaining! Just making an observation based on my expectation (as already mentioned), which I think is a reasonable one, don't you?! I have no interest in restricting choice for the customer. That's not what I'm about. It's about selling, and presenting one's work in the best light, so that the buyer is enticed to buy; after all, that's what FAA/pixels.com is here for.

I'm very pleased to be here, associating with some wonderful people and artworks. I find it very inspiring being a member of various groups and seeing the work that is featured, and already some of mine, from my very small selection so far, have been featured! Wow. That gives me some confidence that I'm on the right track. I also find it very inspiring looking at the Collections, especially 1X -- such superb work! That collection reminds me of onexposure.net, otherwise known as 1X, a juried site, you had to submit your 1X image to be accepted. For me, that was THE top visual arts source on the internet, and I've known about them for many years. Now, I have the FAA 1X collection to look through! Thank you, all the artists and FAA.

Now, I find it curious that Mr Carbone has, so far, not made any response to any of our comments! ;-)

Good night! And enough for me and from me...lol.


 

Joan Shaver

8 Years Ago

Hello-I need more info on the earlier message on restricting size. If I upload an 8 by 10 inch JPG 300 Res file and it shows on the FFA site----as 8" by 9.77 " what am I doing wrong...is there a table with pixel number for standard sizes? I hope so....A customer of mine getting ready to place an order but wants to know why this is.Thanks-Joan

 

Sarabjit Singh

8 Years Ago

I would love to see a table too where we know the final size as customers prefer standard sizes. Also is 300res. the best or should one go higher. Thanks!

 

Gregory Scott

8 Years Ago

Joan, that is a long term bug in FAA rounding. To avoid this rounding error, make sure that the short dimension has any extra pixels.
For example, an 8x10 image might be exactly in the 8x10 image ratio, or it might not.
if it is 1200x1500 pixels, for example, that is exact 8x10 image ratio, and it should not experience the rounding error. the print will be 8x10.
if it is 1201x1500 pixels, there will also be no rounding error. the print will be 8x10.
However,
if it is 1200x1501 pixels, there WILL be a rounding error, and the print will be labeled 8"x9.77"
To avoid this issue, make sure that the short dimension, when you crop, is slightly too big.

When using the crop tool in photoshop or lightroom, in the fixed ratio fields, enter 8.01x10, or 10x8.01 depending landscape/portrait and this FAA rounding error will be circumvented. You can't see the difference, and ordinary framing will conceal any very slight variation for the precise 8x10 ratio, if indeed there is any. Actually, the print may come out with precisely the aspect ratio you want (I don't know), and perhaps the only error is in the displayed value of the print size. But I always add an extra 100th of an inch to the short dimension when cropping to a fixed ratio in photoshop to avoid this issue altogether.

In general, FAA encourages you to use a different "default". FAA prints are too good to be framed without matting, which puts the print surface in direct contact with glass, which is very bad for your print. Proper matting is preferred, and thus if the frame is a standard size, the mat can be cut to accomodate any aspect ratio. This frees the artist to choose the best possible crop, and not to slavishly adhere to standard sizes for prints.

With regard to another issue, if you wish to restrict print size to no less than 300dpi, simply restrict the sizes offered by FAA to less than the largest size FAA allows, divided by 3. FAA will print to 100 dpi, and so simply only put prices only in the smaller 1/3 of the sizes offered, and leave larger sizes blank.
Frankly, though, many people find that at a reasonable viewing distance, 100 pixels/dots per inch on a print looks better than one might suspect. Unless there are issues with the clarity of my images, I always allow folks to buy the largest image that FAA will allow. With Quality Assurance monitoring print quality, and a money back no questions return policy, the customer is protected.

 

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