Pixel Size Discrepancies

I think in your editor you have a PPI of 1696 somehow stuck in there.

that or your 600 x 441 is while zooming.

Dave

Hover your mouse over the file itself and see what that says.

600 x 441 is pretty small for an image file and consistent with only having small prints available on FAA.

What is the source of the files and what pixel dimensions were you expecting? Did you inadvertantly resample them down to the lesser dimensions?

600 is WAY too small even for our smallest print

They need to be at least 800 smallest edge

Thanks to all of you for your answers and suggestions. I looked again at the 600 x 441 image and the zoom is set to 100%. I do know that size is way too small an image to translate properly onto all the products or even produce a viable print selection. Hovering over the image file shows the much larger dimensions so I'm clearly doing something wrong in trying to view the image size from a screen copy.

What I have are numerous new files I'm trying to upload but they are way too small to be effective. I think the only solution is to re-photograph the paintings at my camera's highest pixel settings and try again to upload.

Again, thank you.

Here are some tips for you that we give people photographing their work. However, even if you scan, some will help

First off, all artwork should be photographed following these simple steps:

1. Use at least a 10-12 MP camera, with a manual focus lens not an auto focus. The higher the MP the camera, the larger the file we have to print from. If you want to offer large prints, you need to use a high MP camera.

2. Mount the camera to a tripod. If you don't have a tripod, use a stack of books, a table, anything. You just have to have the camera sitting on something, not hand held.

3. Shoot outdoors in natural light. Make sure you white balance your camera too, or the colors won't be right.

4. Preview the image to make sure there are no blurry areas, flash problems, etc.

5. Export at the highest possible file size while staying under our less than 25 MB limit.

To preview an image in photo editing software simply use the zoom icon to zoom in on the image until it's viewed at 100% print size. What you will find is that viewing it at 100% you will be able to see if there are any problem areas.

The sizes of the prints 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

Never enlarge your images as that degrades the print quality and we will refuse to print and, if your images are too large file size, you can compress to 10 in Photoshop before losing quality

If you sell an image we will refuse to print if the image shows.......

Pixellation
Blockiness
Bad cropping
Blurriness not in keeping with the image (ie not meant to be there)
normal font signature (Arial, Times New Roman etc)
signature cropped half off the image
large watermarks
noticeable camera flash
Upsized images

We do not do quality control until you sell so, it is your responsibility to quality control your images carefully before uploading. You do this by zooming in a photo editor to 100% and then carefully going over the image, checking for the above defects

We require Adobe RGB or sRGB and do not accept CMYK or ProPhoto

Here are some examples for you http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2704747

This thread would be a great Sticky for a while, i.mho