Comment on Approvals and Tickets and Fraud, OH MY! by renonevada
I have a question.
I've been thinking about offering some of my more original pictures as prints just on the off chance someone would use them. The art software I use is very primitive and is only capable of exporting as a 640x480 JPG. There's always some slight weirdness from the export process, but there's nothing I can do about it. If you were to deny something for quality reasons, and it quite literally cannot be changed on the artist's end at any size, would we be able to negotiate with you to get small prints out there?
I've been thinking about offering some of my more original pictures as prints just on the off chance someone would use them. The art software I use is very primitive and is only capable of exporting as a 640x480 JPG. There's always some slight weirdness from the export process, but there's nothing I can do about it. If you were to deny something for quality reasons, and it quite literally cannot be changed on the artist's end at any size, would we be able to negotiate with you to get small prints out there?
I'm going to use this image as an example as it is set at 640x480: flamewarflipsides.deviantart.c…
Speaking just about the quality and not the category it is in, it would pass. However, you would not be able to have many options. Possibly only the small magnet would work as a print. The faq below will give you better understanding of the sizes we need for quality larger prints.
FAQ #132: What are the minimum image sizes for each product?
With such software limitations, I would consider an alternative such as Gimp, which is free.
Speaking just about the quality and not the category it is in, it would pass. However, you would not be able to have many options. Possibly only the small magnet would work as a print. The faq below will give you better understanding of the sizes we need for quality larger prints.
FAQ #132: What are the minimum image sizes for each product?
With such software limitations, I would consider an alternative such as Gimp, which is free.
You clearly haven't read any of the previous comments I made very deeply. The Gimp is far less intuitive and would crash my computer. I can't afford to buy a more advanced one or fix the one I have.
Still, good to know I can sell magnets. Thanks.
If the size is fit for small prints, there's no need to negotiate.
Every time I submit something that isn't fanart I get badgered to offer like, magnet prints, but I'm wondering if I actually went through with that, would it get rejected because of the tiny tiny artifacts that come from my software only exporting in JPG? It's not like I resize or crop anything artificially. I just can't control the output.
Why negotiate low-quality prints, when you could opt to use one (or more) of the plethora of vailable free software that won't limit you to 640x480 px images?
The software I use isn't on my crappy computer; it's on another device. I'd have to spend hundreds of dollars to do anything half as good at what I do on anything else, plus learn an entirely different software suite that works completely differently.
I have to disagree about the need to spend money, unless you're asking for touch capabilities.
I get where you're coming from, but you're not actually asking an administrator to accept low-quality prints; in fact, you're asking the audience at large to accept low-quality prints. But these people pay money for prints and if they prints they order turn out to have artifacts, or be pixelated, they won't be able to return the product, plus they'd lose confidence in actually purchasing prints.
Evidently, you don't need to negotiate for prints on small items. So long as the art you're submitting doesn't have artifacts and whatnot, you'll be fine. (plus you can always submit the print and see whether it goes through) If prints are enabled for a certain size, then resizing isn't necessary for the enabled prints.
I get where you're coming from, but you're not actually asking an administrator to accept low-quality prints; in fact, you're asking the audience at large to accept low-quality prints. But these people pay money for prints and if they prints they order turn out to have artifacts, or be pixelated, they won't be able to return the product, plus they'd lose confidence in actually purchasing prints.
Evidently, you don't need to negotiate for prints on small items. So long as the art you're submitting doesn't have artifacts and whatnot, you'll be fine. (plus you can always submit the print and see whether it goes through) If prints are enabled for a certain size, then resizing isn't necessary for the enabled prints.
My computer can't even handle youtube for very long. Even if I got free software, I'd have to get a new rig to do any kind of large-scale, print-sized artwork on it. I do everything on my 3DS on Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone, and while the art export comes out higher quality and more finely detailed than the prints, if you zoom in it occasionally looks jpg-y. I would never blow up an Art Academy export larger than the 640x480 (or 480x640) default, but I guess I'm just concerned that my watchers who like my AA stuff would order a print knowing the limitations and be denied anyway. It's like, why should I bother to go through my work and find the few things that aren't fanart and do all that mess just to find out I can't sell teeny tiny four inch magnets that are probably smaller than the screen I painted on?
Seeing this post makes me less apt to try and set my art up in the print system, rather than more.