Help! Need Advice! What Size Should My Images Be?

stop resizing your images ...upload a file at the same size you create from . say my camera file size is 2736 x 3648 that's what i have to deal with resizing to 8000 x 8000 just will not work .or if you start to create your art from a blank canvas maybe in corel painter or something be sure its at a nice size to start 4800 x 4800 or bigger .

What Tom said. You can use any program you want but you can't ever enlarge your photos. Mostly I work from a blank canvas and start with a large one. When working with photos I sometime use a mixture of programs, like you do, that's fine as long as you never enlarge them. You can make stuff smaller but not bigger.

If you still have your original image files, before enlargement, you can work from them. Sorry this happened to you. Actually have been there myself and it is frustrating.

DO NOT ENLARGE OR CHANGE PPI

Ok... now onto the other stuff

The sizes depend on your pixels.

When you upload an image, our software takes the longer dimension and fits it to the following sizes:

8"
10"
12"
14"
16"
20"
etc...

The smaller dimension is then scaled proportionally to maintain the aspect ratio of your image.

Let's that your image is 4000 pixels wide by 2000 pixels tall. The available print sizes would be:

8" x 4"
10" x 5"
12" x 6"
14" x 7"
etc...

If you flipped the image and uploaded it as a vertical image (i.e. 2000 pixels wide by 4000 pixels tall), you would end up with the exact same dimensions:

4" x 8"
5" x 10"
6" x 12"
7" x 14"
etc...

You are setting your prices based on the size of the longest dimension

For the products I have some templates on my personal site http://1stangel.co.uk/fineartamerica/templates-downloads

the images i clicked on - will not print. you can't enlarge things. you can scan it in large, or take a picture of it, but you can't make it bigger after. don't use any kind of resizer, upload the size it came out when you made it.

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

The good news is that once you make the corrections to your images then you can just replace the images with a better version without losing the comments or links.

I hardly ever start from scratch - even if I'm creating everything in the image from scratch - the size - I take one of my worthless photo's into my program - and paint over the whole image in white - I did this because sometimes that image will bleed through if you leave it there. When I save the image - it is the size that my photograph I used was - which is 6016 X 4000 pixels at 300 pixels per inch. That is about 20 X 13.333 inches. IF I want a larger size - I stretch it before working on it - and check the image size. I save my images as PNG but have to upload them to FAA as jpg because the PNG image is just too big.

When I start an image from scratch I start similar to RD, with a canvas size of 6000 x 4000 x 300px, which is the same raw file size I get from my camera. So if I'm combining images creating from scratch and photos, I have the same basic frame to work within. Enlarging as everyone else has advised is not a good thing to have it print successfully.
Start larger, you can always crop or resize smaller, but not start smaller and try to make a large image for printing purposes. and you have some really nice work on your page!

HERE We go again, stop resizing then you get this message, Can't upload its too large. Frustrating!
I never enlarged it, period.

Good morning all!

This is awesome news to wake up to!

I also sometimes pick a crap picture and reuse it within my programs but I never thought of to make it white first and resizing Before I start to create anything! Very smart!

Mostly I use from picsart a transparent image and work from that.

Thank you all for your information I really appreciate it!

Yes Jessica, I was little bit concerned about that. So I just have to go to my edit on FAA of each individual image and only chance the photo?

A another question, those programs I mentioned that I use, are there more similar programs out there to use? Any recommendations?

But before any new creations. I have alot to work on to fixing all my image on FAA first! :~D


Best regards cia

Randy - the original poster is being advised not to resize her images to make them larger because they were originally too small. That's not the same as what you were doing, i.e. resizing them to make them smaller because the originals were over the 25MB upload limit.

Attitude, why not start by ”fixing” only one of your images, upload it with a different title and compare it using the green viewing suare to see the sharpness.

Not sure all of them are ”fixable” for printing other than small sizes.

Lutz , most of my image I have saved it in a separate file with the original sizes and resized in another file, but in the beginning when I started for a year ago I didn't. So I think I have to go through them all because I don't remember when or what image I started this strategy. I might have to delete some permanent. I can just create a new similar to that later on.

Rgrds
Cia

if they look bad up close, you can use a water color like filter in a digital painter and sort of mash it and blend it so it won't look bad up close. better than erasing.

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

Mike! Oh yes, I will try that, good idea! Thank you very much

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