New Instagram Image On Artwork Pages

Its cutting off the sides of panorama images as well

https://1-dawn-currie.pixels.com/featured/parakeet-trio-dawn-currie.html

https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/social-media/17652177?domainId=12

Oh boy Dawn you're right. This doesn't look good, cuts off the owl's head.

Maybe they could make it adjustable...like on the products.

I agree with Mark! Would be great to post interior design settings of our products as well. It takes a lot of time to create these things to post on all Social media. People like to see a visual of the artwork/ products/designs. Happy to see these new links for social media .. instagram is the hardest one to post to. A clickable link is very difficult...... need a clickable link :)

If the image has to be square then maybe give us the option to position it in the frame. Other than that I think it is awesome! Very tasteful. :)

Just stumbled on this. I don't know if this has always been and I just noticed it or someone was listening to us and just added it but when you go to the your AW and along the far side where you can copy the URL to your picture for posting in groups and such there is a preview link. Click on that and it will open the image with the Pixels link below where you can save it to your hard drive. No crops at all.

If this is just new then thank you so much. I love it and will be using it in FB, Twitter and anywhere else I want to share an image. If it isn't new then my apologies for not noticing it before. That single link makes cropped images a nonissue.

Thanks for this info Leslie. Good to learn about the preview & saving the link.

Thanks, Leslie! Very useful.

If only Twitter had stuck to the square format... that (relatively) new rectangular image window is just horrible.

The Instagram image is 800x800 pixels. I wonder what the size of the preview image is. I also wonder what size the thumbnails are. Because they also can be used to promote on Facebook. My point is, I don’t want to put large images on social media that someone else can use freely for their own benefit.

I want my images cropped when I share on social media. I did not realise I did until I started sharing these and I love them. Even if large and people infringe on them, they got the wrong image :-D

@Carol I just checked a square preview image and it's 800 wide, 950 high. The extra 800x150 pixels are the black banner at the bottom with the avatar, work title etc.

I basically have almost no useable images to link to IGor FB if they are going to be square with no black up top. I am glad I am not the only one to realize this,

Carol I did find they were large sized but I just popped the whole image into PS and made it so the largest side was 800 pixels. I might even make the next one a tad smaller

Good to know, Western! I don’t think that’s too large to use for marketing. And if someone made the effort to crop off the black banner, they’re still only left with 800x800. I think it’s worth trying out on Instagram, and maybe even Facebook. I’m watching several people that are already using this new feature.

Yes, Leslie, that’s an option as well.

Dawn Currie beautiful work, it's really amazing. You don't have a bio?

What I did was make the preview image smaller and also cloned out the pixels URL and put in my Domain name URL.

Good to hear other perspectives - I also had not realized the preview had the Pixels website with our profile vs our custom domain. Good to know. Thank you Jessica! I will be modifying the previews as well. I want to ensure my SM promotion takes potential buyers to my website.

I think the format looks very nice, but I'm of mixed mind on the cropping. Abbie makes a good point about any infringement/copies would not be the full artwork, but are potential buyers going to check out poorly composed artworks, if they don't realize the preview is cropped?

Yes, I truly believe they will.

You can always add it as a clicking point....

'This image is cropped. To see the full, beautiful work, click now'

or words to that effect

Good job, Jessica. Looks great.

I totally agree with Abbie. The cropping will keep the infringers away, and with just a sentence or two, entice potential art collectors. Kind of similar to having the FAA watermark and explaining the print doesn’t come with it on. However, I think this is a much better and more attractive option than an ugly watermark.

Jessica that is brilliant to clone in your website but I think it would be best to leave mention that it is FineArtAmerica that you have been a member of since 2010. Otherwise it leaves questions. Or maybe that is me being a little OCD.

That is exactly what I would do Jessica; I would add even more text. It's a little more work, but prevents "click through" and makes a nice custom advertisement.

It depends on the image, some look great, others not so much. It's the same thing when you share to facebook, chose your images carefully.

Test:

I know that I am missing something, but what is the next step after this:

"Did you know that we automatically create images for you like the one, above, to make it easy for you promote yourself on Instagram?

Go to any artwork page on Fine Art America, and then look for the link that says "Instagram Image"."

Angelo you can find Instagram image under the embed link. Then you can save it and do what you want with it. Or not.

Kathy, I love your avatar! Much better than a face for these! But then we can put our own avatars on them! ;)

Thank you Jessica,

I’m aware of that link. Once open, do we just save that image?

I was just thinking that you copy/paste the url and then upload to Instagram.

I tried that to no avail, hence my confusion.

@Angelo, you can't link images in Instagram. You need to download them to your hard drive or whatever and then upload them to Insta.

@ Western Exposure~Duly Noted.

I want my images to be the very best presentation for the potential buyer so they can make an informed decision as to rather they want to even go any further than seeing it on SM and improve the odds that they will click through to where they can make a purchase. Nothing less than the full image is likely to do that as well as showing the entire image, IMHO.

Almost all SM infringements are minor and very few have any monetary loss associated with them. However, discouraging potential buyers by showing some truncated versions of original art that fails to spark their interest probably does.

The quickest route to an online sale is the one that involves the simplest path with the fewest clicks.

I expected them auto post since when I logged it that first time that the feature was introduced it asked for all my SM handles. Why ask for that info if it does not have any function?

It's got nothing to do with posting

https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/cliff-wassmann?tab=about

I found an easy workaround about the square cropping issue when downloading to Instagram. I click to download the image when it is framed and matted, then when it is cropped into a square on Instagram, the frame and mat is cropped, but it still shows the full image in the center. If I had a computer to edit the photos, I would add white border to the narrow sides to make a square, but in the mean time, the cropping out the frame will have to do.

as I said in another post, the Instagram image is cut BUT
just above that is the preview code
Press the word preview
That is not cropped

Thanks...that looks a bit better, and is just as easy.

Great idea the Instagram link, I just found it thanks to Jessica Jenney. Hopefully curiosity clicks in and the viewer explores. I’ve just used the image on Instagram and Twitter, but unlike Instagram I can use the direct link back to the design on Twitter.