You are amazing and you have such talent and are a great teacher. Thanks. I just finished your video on designing my workflow for creating my digital art and your video really un-confused the whole sizing and ration business. I'm starting my GIMP work today. I am an ai digital artist and just opened my Etsy store for ai digital travel posters and nature scenes. NOW, this video is exactly what my daughter was looking for. She is a watercolor artist and wants to turn her pieces into digital format. She lives way up in BC Canada and just got her scanner. I will share your link with her. She'll be excited to find your video. Also, thanks for your honesty in your "Long Hauler" video. I appreciate your sharing. You helped me to keep staying protected and careful since I'm a senior with some health issues. Blessings to you and again, thanks for helping me with my Etsy side hustle in my retirement.👍😀
Wow, I've seen a trend of people doing ai digital art that's so interesting! You should make a tutorial video on that, I'd be interested 😉 Yes please send this over to your daughter, tell her to leave me a comment if she has any questions. And appreciate you watching my long covid video - the ones who care about the forgotten are so appreciated. Thank you Best wishes
I am so glad I found your channel. Your videos are some of the best I have come across when looking for this kind of information. Well explained and I love how you add everything other youtubers leave out. very appreciated that you dont charge for all this I feel like I've taken a college course honestly
Hi Brittany, This is very helpful. I subscribed! I am just not clear as to why to left a white border around all your prints? Can you please clarify? thx, Rachel : )
I cant thank you enough for breaking down these file sizing method and explaining everything about the dpi and resolution. I do have one big question though, How to make a 150 dpi image to 300 dpi image ? So that we can improve the quality of the image. Please please please help with this query ....
in GIMP, go "Image", "Scale Image", then you can change both they Y and X resolution to 300 instead of 150. BUT don't forget, this will mean the final size of your image will be half as small when you go to print it.
I’m so glad I found your channel! Love all the info and am currently watching! I do have a question, though. I have art on stretched canvas and some are bigger than a scanner could read (apart from commercial, maybe?). I heard another artist used their iPhone 13 to take a photo and go from there. Do you have any advice or experience with this?
Aww thanks for the love! Glad you’re here. Hmmm. If it were me I wouldn’t take a picture of such a large piece I feel like at that size it’s be hard to capture every detail and all the texture of the brush strokes (my fav). But there is a method called “stitching” where you take several scans at different positions on the Art and then in photoshop “stitch” them all together. I’ve been thinking of making a tutorial on that bc I have large art I need to do that with.
I didn't know it was so complicated to sell art on Etsy. Are there other websites that I can submit my digital files for that they handle all this detail and sell reproductions of my art and they take a percentage of the sale, they also take care of the print on demand and include that in the price. I think you know what I am getting at. I say all this because I can't understand how to do all the detail that you taught in this video. Besides being a talented water color artist you are also very smart to understand and remember how to do all this detail. I hope I can fine an easier way to sell reproductions of my artwork. I am a photoshop user and in Photoshop, it is easier to format my images with a frame (which is similar to making a bleed in graphic design for cropping). I could more easy do your white frame in Photoshop. I agree it is rough to pay each month for Adobe products. Let me know if you know of websites that make it easier to take my digital files (how ever they need them) and on their sight on their website sell my art for me. I truly didn't know it was that difficult to sell art on Etsy. WOW!
Hey Brittany, First, thank you so much for being so detailed in your teaching. I have found this so informative. I have a couple of questions. First, I usually paint fairly small so when I scan my painting can I scan it at a higher DPI to be able to scale it as large as I want? For instance, can I take a 5x7 size painting and scale it at 900 dpi so I can make it 3 times larger? Second question - Since you give a shared link to your files are you concerned that the person getting into the files will remove them? How do you prevent them from wiping the file out so that when the next person uses the link they don’t find an empty file? I am still trying to figure all of this out. I am sure these are naive questions - LOL
Hi, just a question, also thank you for the awesome videos :) … do you paint these pieces yourself then upload? I’m just curious if I can sell this type of thing with things that I didn’t originally create?
Hi there! Thank you so much for the excellent information and for taking the time to teach us exactly what to do. I just have a question please. I am drawing art in Procreate, however, I cannot scale that big (due to my IPad settings) in inches at 300 dpi. But I can create in pixels at 600 dpi. What size do you recommend creating art in Procreate to be able to scale in size? I understand everything else that you’re sharing, I just would like to know what is the best size in Procreate to scale up the art as you have shown in your video. Any response would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your time! 😊
Honest I would just recommend limiting your size offerings to what you can do with Procreate! That would still give you around 15 or so offerings! If you still want to have the large poster size offerings though, you could scale up your 600 DPI image 2x to get to an image that's twice as large at 300DPI.
Hi Brittany - thank you so much - this is very informative and super helpful! Question - I also paint in watercolor and I have noticed that when most people upload their scanned/digitized art I am not seeing their signature on their art, which surprises me. I may have missed yours since it was a detailed painting (very lovely, by the way!). Do you try to include a digitized signature, especially if it gets cut off in the sizing of the different ratio files? Also, do you watermark your thumbnails to prevent theft? Thanks so much!
Aw thanks so much! I love that painting too. Great question: I like to leave signatures for actual physical prints (if I ever get selling my art in physical form... never done it bc it scares me 😅). But noe you've got me wondering if I should leave it on the digital too 🤔.
Oh and also: I don't watermark my images. I know that's controversial but I just hate the way it distracts from the image so yea.. I'm risking people stealing it. I try not to think about it 🥴
@@astoldbybrittany4342 Thanks for replying. I am trying to make sure my signature is on the art I'm currently scanning. Just because someone frames your art print (not an original), doesn't mean you shouldn't still get credit for it!! :) You deserve it! 🙂
I have watched like 5 videos and still lost on the resize to sell various ratios and sizes thing . I sell digital AI art and I can’t crop it off or half the image will be gone . Seems only ratio that doesn’t cut off is 1:1 or 20x20 . Any tips are appreciated. I’m using Photoshop to resize and Lightroom to Upscale or Enhance for now . If there is a more user friendly way let me know
So my original art is usually in 16X20 size oil paint and I want to digitize them by taking a photo since the scanner is not large enough (also I have to wait a week or so for them to dry) would that work?
@@astoldbybrittany4342 Thank you so much. I have one more issue. The original images (2:3, 3:4, 4:5, 11:14 and A1 collectively) of one listing are of around 135 MB. How to upload them on Etsy? I have completed just 3 listing and it sizes 650 MB? What to do?🙂
Thank you so much for this video! Your work is so lovely and your explanations are wonderful. It's also an amazing tutorial on Gimp, so major bonus. I might be getting in my head about this, but on your images that are sized with a 1/2 inch border, are they technically 1/2" over the size listed? So for the 8 x 10 size- is it 8.5" x 10.5"? Thanks!
thank you so much for the love! You're too kind. and NO you're not too much in your head because I wondered the same thing when I started. I include the 1/2 inch border in the overall dimensions. so the size listed will still be the same :)
Omg thank youuuuuu!!!! I literally just spent $50 to scan TWO of my artworks. Looks like I should invest in an at home scanner and put this into practice.
all my pics got around 96 dpi????? O.o I'll just convert them online from 96dpi to 300dpi, the resolution stays the same as I realized. I guess I'm fine right... Just a lot of work to do to convert all these pics one by one...
These are very standard sizes and I'd be surprised if most mainstream printers couldn't print at these sizes. Browse the websites of places like Shutterfly, Office Depot, Kinkos to see!
I'm looking at a comment I posted here, 6, mo. ago - one thing about the internet, if one is serious about his or her study or new business venture, THE INTERNET IS WHERE TO GO, SPECIFICALLY, RUclips!
Nice video. I think it would be easier to re-scan the artwork without hair and lint, rather than retouch it digitally, especially if the image has a textured background. Also if you need to square up the image use the top guides that you pull down from the top ruler as a guide.
These tips have been so helpful. I’ve been thinking ab selling my art for years just didn’t know where to start. Thanks for taking that fear away so I can take the next step. I’m sure your kindness will come back 10x 💜
I had the same thoughts! So happy to hear you feel confident to take the next steps. And I sure hope that karma comes back around for me, that'd be great! :)
I have been loving your videos and I’m treating them like the Bible as I’m learning to use gimp LOL. I have recently become quite confused though as I’m seeing conflicting information with others online. Around 23 minutes in your video, you talk about how much you can increase the size by scaling up and reducing from 600 to 300 DPI. My question is - if you have a certain number of pixels that make up your picture, wouldn’t the pixel number stay exactly the same regardless of enlarging (as in, we can’t create more pixels)? If originally the DPI is 600, changing it to 300 would simply cause the height and width to both double which would mean the same number of pixels would simply spread twice as far causing the height and width of the image to be twice as high, and twice as wide? I think in your example, you are not only changing the DPI to 300, but also doubling the pixel amount…Potentially creating a much larger image than is you should? Would that be stretching the pixels out to a resolution of less than 300 DPI?? Kind of like ‘double dipping’?? This is just me being confused and trying to understand. If this is wrong, would you mind explaining so I can understand? Thank you so much. I’ve learnt so much from you and have saved so much money by not having to use Photoshop! I’ve also opened up an Etsy store Thanks to you!
I enjoyed your video. Have you ever taken digital prints of your work to turn originals into prints? How do you use a digital camera in your world? Most of of my work is big original oils that I want to make into prints. Can you help with that?
That was so helpful. Thank you. So complicated but I have downloaded gimp and I will be revisiting your video for my first edit. Assuming this would be the same for a photo of art?
Also I was wondering after you have done all this work to put an ad on Etsy, do "they" still take a percentage of your sales? If not how does Etsy make money from your ads? Thank you. I hope you have the time to answer my questions.
Are the final images in RGB or in CMYK? For me this part is overwhelming, I don't want to sell something that will not look the same when someone else is printing it out at home.
Thank you Brittany! I’ve spent the entirety of today watching, rewatching and following your tutorials. I have a question about this one piece I did on a small square canvas. I followed all your directions and when I got to the doubling the size of the piece (in Gimp) to the 300dpi/ppi then did the math to find the dimensions of the actual physical print it came to 23.5” x 24”. Basically a square - which doesn’t really fit into any of the aspect ratios…. How would I list that on my Etsy? Just different square sizes with 24x24 being the biggest? I’m confused now 😬😂🙇🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
This is the most helpful scanning & digitizing video I have seen. I love how thorough you are in explaining it. Keep up the good work and thank you so much!
Thank you Allison! I try my best to put things I always had trouble finding information on. And I love that piece too, one of my favorites I've ever done. Gotta figure out where to hang her.
The true real and knowledgeable steps to begin my wall art shop. I applaud you and thank you! You have helped me to move forward with confidence and excitement. Thank you so much for filling in the blanks for me.
Thank you very much! I was in such a confused state and your videos made it all go away! ^.^ Huge relief. By the way, are you afraid of people stealing your art ant reselling it? I'm about to open my printables shop and am considering of at least putting a little signature somewhere? Not that it would help much, but it kinda feels a bit vulnerable to put it out there to download without anything on it.
I was worried a bit at first but not anymore. I have faith people will do the right thing. I know there's many that won't, but I won't give away too much of my peace worrying about it at this point in my art journey. thanks for watching!
I'm an artist, mostly watercolors but I dabble in other media as well. I have been wanting to create digital files, for not only digital downloads but POD prints as well. I watched your other video on scaling and that led me here. This is the video I have been searching for!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! And yes, I have subbed.
Hello, Brittany, thanks for your help, I have a question, do I always have to put the files in Google Drive? or is it not necessary? thank you for your time!
I only utilize Google Drive if the art files are really large because Etsy doesn't allow large files (up to a certain size I can't recall at the moment)
Thank you very much Brittany!, it's very much appreciated. You're able to explain in a very clear and practical way. Hope your're having a great day. PS: Your painting is amazing!
You have no idea how helpful this video has been! I'm just starting the process of digizting my art in hopes of selling and have been overwhelmed with all the different videos I have found. Quick question, are you saving your finished files in RGB or CMYK? I've heard that you should save each ratio in both for different printer settings? Have you found this to be true?
Thanks for the love! Glad it’s been helpful. Ummm…. Gonna be honest I know next to nothing about RGB vs CMYK so I’ll do some research and get back to you! My files right now are rgb which is the gimp, default.
Hey, I'm a graphic designer and hopefully able to tell you something about CMYK vs. RGB. Please consider English is not my native language... CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and the key colour black. These are the colours used by your printer to get the coloured print in the end. The concept works based on the printing grids and subtractive colour mixing (really interesting and worth the research). This CMYK colour space is more limited than the digital light based RGB world (additive colour mixing), used by your computer. Therefore you should always convert or use CMYK for files that shall be printed in the future. Because if a colour (e.g. electric green) is not represented in the CMYK world you can react and change the percentages of used cyan or yellow to get a somewhat similar colour. Hope this helps and offers some keywords to expand the research area. :)
Wow. This was a very thorough and helpful video. I have art that's over 20 years old that I'm finally ready to sell online. This video has given me a good place to start. Thanks so much for sharing!☺️
Your videos are awesome and very helpful in setting up my Etsy shop. Going to scour your videos to get answers for the rest of my questions. Particularly drawing tablets. On another note, could I interest you in dating my son? LOL! Thank you for your videos!
Thank you so much for the donation Melinda, I will shout you out as a donator in my next tutorial! In a different life I'd entertain your son 😀 but I'm very happily married. You're too kind!
Watching the video now Brittany. This is great. Thanks for sharing. I’m wondering if you ever get worried about people buying the digital copy and then trying to resell? Something I have worried about and has made me hesitant about selling digital copies. Thanks!!
I worry about this a lot. I wonder if there is a way to metatag the file with some sort of identifier? I have no idea. At the end of the day people are out there that would do that and they suck but I figure when the time comes I'll try my best to figure it out. I have actually heard of large businesses stealing art from small artists and unfortunately the lawsuits get no where. It's a sticky area. So to answer your question. Yes I worry. A lot. But I don't want that to stop me from sharing my art with people :) so I'll just go with the flow for now. Thanks for watching!
@@astoldbybrittany4342 thanks so much for the thoughtful response. As I expected there is of course a risk no matter what you do. I appreciate though that it shouldnt let it stop me. 💯🙌
Thanks Brittany, I like your videos. Could you tell me how I lower the weight of the folder I made in Google Drive? Etsy does not support more than 20 megabytes. I downloaded the folder from Drive and it downloaded in a very heavy zipped folder. How do I lower the weight so that Etsy admits it to me. I would really appreciate your advice. Thank you very much and happy day.
Hi Patricia, you shouldn't need to download the google drive folder contents. You can keep it there, and then share the link of that folder to the customers who purchase. That way they can bypass Etsy and download straight from the Google Drive folder. Hope that helps.
Thank you so much for taking the time to put these videos together. I appreciate everything that goes into creating these. Question: Please confirm that you exported the edited image as a .jpg in 300 dpi and then copy and paste this edited image into the various templates? Just want to be sure at what point in the process you change the extension and the 600 dpi from the original scanned image. :)
My files are RGB which are the default settings in GIMP. I have no idea what my settings are for the latter question - I just use whatever the default for GIMP is!
Hi this was a great and informative video. I have just one question. What do you do if cropping your image ruins it? Do you zoom out the image size slightly and increase the white space/border?
I would eliminate that aspect ratio from my offering. You get to use your creative liberty there, if you feel an aspect ratio doesn't flatter your art don't use it and only use the ones that do! Hope that helps.
Thanks so much for this great information! Appreciate you sharing- I have some digital artwork that is large in size but only about 96 dpi. If I upload the artwork in Gimp, Gimp will export it at 300 dpi as a JPG- Will this work as far as quality, or do you think quality is somehow compromised in this process? Thanks again!
That is correct! It won’t look any different on the screen at 96 vs 300. The difference in resolution will be seen in the final print. You could always order test prints in both and compare!
Subscribed! This was incredibly straightforward and helpful. I'm just starting out and want to sell better quality prints of my paintings on Etsy, and this vid hits all the size, crop, GIMP info I need to do that. Will absolutely check out your other vids. Big thanks :)
Hi Brittany. Thank you so much for this video. I'm stuck on getting my image the same size as the layer. I was successfully able to cut off the edges (the checkerboard showed up), rotated it and cropped it. When I clicked on crop to content, it left a lot of blank space around my image. Is there a manual way I can adjust the layer size so it's the same size as the image? Thank you so much!
Inspired by your generosity, thank you so much for sharing all of your hard earned knowledge and skills! My new scanner says 4800x4800 dpi resolution, I haven't tried it out yet. You mentioned 300 and 600 dpi in the video. Still a little confused by the different ways of describing resolution. Will my new scanner work for high quality large prints like 24x36? Many many thanks!!!
Yep you have plenty of scanning capacity to make large prints!! Try it out and order a test prints if you're unsure! That's why I did and ended up selling it to a friend so no money was even wasted testing it out. Thanks for the love
Epson Perfection scanners are, in my opinion, the top scanners available. I had one I purchased in 2002, and I scanned thousands of photos, slides, art, etc. The only reason I don't use it now is because a couple of years ago I must have rolled my chair over the cord and cut it, and I need to find a replacement cord. That's almost 20 years of use.
Hi,thank you for explaining sizing, it was a nightmare! Also i would like to ask you about GIMP, i was using it for few photos and made ratios but it works for one or two photos and than start bugging, when i open new file and select 2:3 ratio the blank page that supposed to white doesnt load fully, sometimes is half sometimes just one part and it looks half white and half transparent layer and when i tryt to open picture as layer it doesnt load at all.do you have idea what is going on or how to fix it? or maybe i should use some other program, but just learned GIMP and got comfortable with it and its bugging :( Thank you
Good info. Thanks. Seems your process could be improved by using an AI image upscaler tool. Will give your scans better quality than regular Gimp or photoshop enlarging, since the ai upscaler actually adds pixels as needed when upscaling. Some upscaler tools available online. Some available to run on local computer, but ai upscaling can a pretty intense process, so alot of regular personal computers wont be able to handle.
Thank you so much - I really love your videos but I have a question. I scan my art (its textile based) and I find the pathway tool really hard to use to cut off the ragged edges - but if i try and crop the image then I can't resize to canvas after I've cropped it - is this why you use the pathway tool instead? Could I crop my image before uploading to gimp or would it affect the pixels (I'm so confused :)
Hi! I was trying to scroll through the comments to see if this question was asked but - first! Thank YOU for putting this together! Truly helpful. So my question is how do you price your digital art?
Thank you for the very informative video. One question: how do you handle your copyright? I think it would be impossible to avoid that someone buy your listing just with the intention of copying it. What are your thoughts on that?
You'll have to do something called "stitching". You'll basically scan the image in segments and stitch them together in photoshop / gimp. I can do a video on this in the future :)
You are amazing and you have such talent and are a great teacher. Thanks. I just finished your video on designing my workflow for creating my digital art and your video really un-confused the whole sizing and ration business. I'm starting my GIMP work today. I am an ai digital artist and just opened my Etsy store for ai digital travel posters and nature scenes.
NOW, this video is exactly what my daughter was looking for. She is a watercolor artist and wants to turn her pieces into digital format. She lives way up in BC Canada and just got her scanner. I will share your link with her. She'll be excited to find your video. Also, thanks for your honesty in your "Long Hauler" video. I appreciate your sharing. You helped me to keep staying protected and careful since I'm a senior with some health issues. Blessings to you and again, thanks for helping me with my Etsy side hustle in my retirement.👍😀
Wow, I've seen a trend of people doing ai digital art that's so interesting! You should make a tutorial video on that, I'd be interested 😉
Yes please send this over to your daughter, tell her to leave me a comment if she has any questions. And appreciate you watching my long covid video - the ones who care about the forgotten are so appreciated. Thank you
Best wishes
I am so glad I found your channel. Your videos are some of the best I have come across when looking for this kind of information. Well explained and I love how you add everything other youtubers leave out. very appreciated that you dont charge for all this I feel like I've taken a college course honestly
I love this comment so much, thank you for the love!!
O my God, I am so grateful i found your profile and videos. You are a treasure and thank you so much ❤
Wow, thank you!
Ahhhh... just what I have been looking for....! Thank you again Brittany.
No problem Tamera!
I find it easier if you have you photo or art clean before placing into the scanner and the scanner bed to be clean to save retouch.
Hi Brittany, This is very helpful. I subscribed! I am just not clear as to why to left a white border around all your prints? Can you please clarify? thx, Rachel : )
I cant thank you enough for breaking down these file sizing method and explaining everything about the dpi and resolution. I do have one big question though, How to make a 150 dpi image to 300 dpi image ?
So that we can improve the quality of the image.
Please please please help with this query ....
in GIMP, go "Image", "Scale Image", then you can change both they Y and X resolution to 300 instead of 150. BUT don't forget, this will mean the final size of your image will be half as small when you go to print it.
I’m so glad I found your channel! Love all the info and am currently watching! I do have a question, though. I have art on stretched canvas and some are bigger than a scanner could read (apart from commercial, maybe?). I heard another artist used their iPhone 13 to take a photo and go from there. Do you have any advice or experience with this?
Aww thanks for the love! Glad you’re here. Hmmm. If it were me I wouldn’t take a picture of such a large piece I feel like at that size it’s be hard to capture every detail and all the texture of the brush strokes (my fav). But there is a method called “stitching” where you take several scans at different positions on the Art and then in photoshop “stitch” them all together. I’ve been thinking of making a tutorial on that bc I have large art I need to do that with.
This video was so helpful and charming.
I didn't know it was so complicated to sell art on Etsy. Are there other websites that I can submit my digital files for that they handle all this detail and sell reproductions of my art and they take a percentage of the sale, they also take care of the print on demand and include that in the price. I think you know what I am getting at. I say all this because I can't understand how to do all the detail that you taught in this video. Besides being a talented water color artist you are also very smart to understand and remember how to do all this detail. I hope I can fine an easier way to sell reproductions of my artwork. I am a photoshop user and in Photoshop, it is easier to format my images with a frame (which is similar to making a bleed in graphic design for cropping). I could more easy do your white frame in Photoshop. I agree it is rough to pay each month for Adobe products. Let me know if you know of websites that make it easier to take my digital files (how ever they need them) and on their sight on their website sell my art for me. I truly didn't know it was that difficult to sell art on Etsy. WOW!
Thank you so much for this video!
Glad it was helpful!
Hey Brittany, First, thank you so much for being so detailed in your teaching. I have found this so informative. I have a couple of questions. First, I usually paint fairly small so when I scan my painting can I scan it at a higher DPI to be able to scale it as large as I want? For instance, can I take a 5x7 size painting and scale it at 900 dpi so I can make it 3 times larger? Second question - Since you give a shared link to your files are you concerned that the person getting into the files will remove them? How do you prevent them from wiping the file out so that when the next person uses the link they don’t find an empty file? I am still trying to figure all of this out. I am sure these are naive questions - LOL
how do you indicate to customers that your borders are within the image dimensions, not outside of the image dimensions?
In the description of my listing I'll put "Files have 1/2 inch white border included in dimensions for easy framing"
Super video!
Hi, just a question, also thank you for the awesome videos :) … do you paint these pieces yourself then upload? I’m just curious if I can sell this type of thing with things that I didn’t originally create?
You’re amazing thank you
Hi there! Thank you so much for the excellent information and for taking the time to teach us exactly what to do. I just have a question please. I am drawing art in Procreate, however, I cannot scale that big (due to my IPad settings) in inches at 300 dpi. But I can create in pixels at 600 dpi. What size do you recommend creating art in Procreate to be able to scale in size? I understand everything else that you’re sharing, I just would like to know what is the best size in Procreate to scale up the art as you have shown in your video. Any response would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your time! 😊
Honest I would just recommend limiting your size offerings to what you can do with Procreate! That would still give you around 15 or so offerings!
If you still want to have the large poster size offerings though, you could scale up your 600 DPI image 2x to get to an image that's twice as large at 300DPI.
@@astoldbybrittany4342 Thank you! I understand. Much appreciated. 😊
Hi Brittany - thank you so much - this is very informative and super helpful!
Question - I also paint in watercolor and I have noticed that when most people upload their scanned/digitized art I am not seeing their signature on their art, which surprises me. I may have missed yours since it was a detailed painting (very lovely, by the way!). Do you try to include a digitized signature, especially if it gets cut off in the sizing of the different ratio files? Also, do you watermark your thumbnails to prevent theft?
Thanks so much!
Aw thanks so much! I love that painting too. Great question: I like to leave signatures for actual physical prints (if I ever get selling my art in physical form... never done it bc it scares me 😅). But noe you've got me wondering if I should leave it on the digital too 🤔.
Oh and also: I don't watermark my images. I know that's controversial but I just hate the way it distracts from the image so yea.. I'm risking people stealing it. I try not to think about it 🥴
@@astoldbybrittany4342 Thanks for replying. I am trying to make sure my signature is on the art I'm currently scanning. Just because someone frames your art print (not an original), doesn't mean you shouldn't still get credit for it!! :) You deserve it! 🙂
I have watched like 5 videos and still lost on the resize to sell various ratios and sizes thing . I sell digital AI art and I can’t crop it off or half the image will be gone . Seems only ratio that doesn’t cut off is 1:1 or 20x20 . Any tips are appreciated. I’m using Photoshop to resize and Lightroom to Upscale or Enhance for now . If there is a more user friendly way let me know
Thank You
I have a question, 25:54 do you have to make white borders? and if you do what’s the reason for it?
you don't have to - it's meant to be dedicated space for framing so you don't cut off any of your art when it's framed
How do you submit a image on a glass frame making it look like it's framed
Affinity Suite is pretty inexpensive as well. And has most advanced features of Photoshop.
I'll look into this, thank you!
So my original art is usually in 16X20 size oil paint and I want to digitize them by taking a photo since the scanner is not large enough (also I have to wait a week or so for them to dry) would that work?
is 300 dpi considered the same as 300 ppi ?
How to make an image 300 dpi resolution or where can I download images of that resolution? Thank you soooo much!
you can use GIMP to change the resolution. Go to Image, Print Size, then change the resolution sliders to 300
@@astoldbybrittany4342 Thank you so much. I have one more issue. The original images (2:3, 3:4, 4:5, 11:14 and A1 collectively) of one listing are of around 135 MB. How to upload them on Etsy? I have completed just 3 listing and it sizes 650 MB? What to do?🙂
The audio is so strange feels like I have cotton in my ears
5+ wasted minutes.....more confusing than when I started....
Oh my goodness. This is very thorough, but I’m going to have to watch multiple times to understand it. Thanks for giving such detail.
Thank you so much for this video! Your work is so lovely and your explanations are wonderful. It's also an amazing tutorial on Gimp, so major bonus. I might be getting in my head about this, but on your images that are sized with a 1/2 inch border, are they technically 1/2" over the size listed? So for the 8 x 10 size- is it 8.5" x 10.5"? Thanks!
thank you so much for the love! You're too kind. and NO you're not too much in your head because I wondered the same thing when I started. I include the 1/2 inch border in the overall dimensions. so the size listed will still be the same :)
Omg thank youuuuuu!!!! I literally just spent $50 to scan TWO of my artworks. Looks like I should invest in an at home scanner and put this into practice.
all my pics got around 96 dpi????? O.o
I'll just convert them online from 96dpi to 300dpi, the resolution stays the same as I realized. I guess I'm fine right... Just a lot of work to do to convert all these pics one by one...
It is a lot of work, I'm so sorry!
How I find out if my artwork can be printed at those sizes? Did you contact a printshop?
These are very standard sizes and I'd be surprised if most mainstream printers couldn't print at these sizes. Browse the websites of places like Shutterfly, Office Depot, Kinkos to see!
I'm looking at a comment I posted here, 6, mo. ago - one thing about the internet, if one is serious about his or her study or new business venture, THE INTERNET IS WHERE TO GO, SPECIFICALLY, RUclips!
Nice video. I think it would be easier to re-scan the artwork without hair and lint, rather than retouch it digitally, especially if the image has a textured background. Also if you need to square up the image use the top guides that you pull down from the top ruler as a guide.
These tips have been so helpful. I’ve been thinking ab selling my art for years just didn’t know where to start. Thanks for taking that fear away so I can take the next step. I’m sure your kindness will come back 10x 💜
I had the same thoughts! So happy to hear you feel confident to take the next steps. And I sure hope that karma comes back around for me, that'd be great! :)
I have been loving your videos and I’m treating them like the Bible as I’m learning to use gimp LOL. I have recently become quite confused though as I’m seeing conflicting information with others online. Around 23 minutes in your video, you talk about how much you can increase the size by scaling up and reducing from 600 to 300 DPI. My question is - if you have a certain number of pixels that make up your picture, wouldn’t the pixel number stay exactly the same regardless of enlarging (as in, we can’t create more pixels)?
If originally the DPI is 600, changing it to 300 would simply cause the height and width to both double which would mean the same number of pixels would simply spread twice as far causing the height and width of the image to be twice as high, and twice as wide?
I think in your example, you are not only changing the DPI to 300, but also doubling the pixel amount…Potentially creating a much larger image than is you should? Would that be stretching the pixels out to a resolution of less than 300 DPI??
Kind of like ‘double dipping’??
This is just me being confused and trying to understand. If this is wrong, would you mind explaining so I can understand?
Thank you so much. I’ve learnt so much from you and have saved so much money by not having to use Photoshop!
I’ve also opened up an Etsy store Thanks to you!
I enjoyed your video. Have you ever taken digital prints of your work to turn originals into prints? How do you use a digital camera in your world? Most of of my work is big original oils that I want to make into prints. Can you help with that?
That was so helpful. Thank you. So complicated but I have downloaded gimp and I will be revisiting your video for my first edit. Assuming this would be the same for a photo of art?
Also I was wondering after you have done all this work to put an ad on Etsy, do "they" still take a percentage of your sales? If not how does Etsy make money from your ads? Thank you. I hope you have the time to answer my questions.
How do you keep folks who purchase the URL from sharing it with other people. Is there a way to make it a one-use only URL?
I don't have a way, I just turn a blind eye and hope for the best. Not smart.
@@astoldbybrittany4342 I wish you the best!
Hi there, quick question. My art is already 300dpi and should i still use 200% when scaling?
thank you so much.
Are the final images in RGB or in CMYK? For me this part is overwhelming, I don't want to sell something that will not look the same when someone else is printing it out at home.
Well done but way too complicated for me! (I just want to paint!)
I have a dummy question what kind of computer do I need? Apple?
Thank you Brittany! I’ve spent the entirety of today watching, rewatching and following your tutorials. I have a question about this one piece I did on a small square canvas. I followed all your directions and when I got to the doubling the size of the piece (in Gimp) to the 300dpi/ppi then did the math to find the dimensions of the actual physical print it came to 23.5” x 24”. Basically a square - which doesn’t really fit into any of the aspect ratios…. How would I list that on my Etsy? Just different square sizes with 24x24 being the biggest? I’m confused now 😬😂🙇🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Yes that's exactly right! I'd advertise that it's a square piece of art designed to be printed at 24" x 24" and any smaller square size.
@@astoldbybrittany4342 thank you so much!!
Thank you so much for the demo, Brittney! It is very life saving!!!❤❤❤❤🤞🤞🤞🤞
Is it recommended that we sign our work? Although I know it does but.. do you recommend it?
This is the most helpful scanning & digitizing video I have seen. I love how thorough you are in explaining it. Keep up the good work and thank you so much!
Good to hear it was thorough! that was my goal :)
Thanks for watching!
Why not go for selling physical print via print on demand???
where is the other video about resize and aspect ratio in more detail? please. Thank you a great deal
You pack so much value into your videos, thank you!! And this art piece is gorgeous
Thank you Allison! I try my best to put things I always had trouble finding information on.
And I love that piece too, one of my favorites I've ever done. Gotta figure out where to hang her.
Hi Brittany, what type of paper do you recommend to get your prints on please?
The true real and knowledgeable steps to begin my wall art shop. I applaud you and thank you! You have helped me to move forward with confidence and excitement. Thank you so much for filling in the blanks for me.
This was so helpful. Thank you so much! 😍
Love, love, love what you are teaching! This stuff is GOLD! Thank you so very much!
So glad!
Thank you very much! I was in such a confused state and your videos made it all go away! ^.^ Huge relief. By the way, are you afraid of people stealing your art ant reselling it? I'm about to open my printables shop and am considering of at least putting a little signature somewhere? Not that it would help much, but it kinda feels a bit vulnerable to put it out there to download without anything on it.
I was worried a bit at first but not anymore. I have faith people will do the right thing. I know there's many that won't, but I won't give away too much of my peace worrying about it at this point in my art journey. thanks for watching!
💜 thank you for your time!! you have made learning this process a breeze! I appreciate your channel! It is amazing
Glad it was helpful!
I'm an artist, mostly watercolors but I dabble in other media as well. I have been wanting to create digital files, for not only digital downloads but POD prints as well. I watched your other video on scaling and that led me here. This is the video I have been searching for!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
And yes, I have subbed.
woohoo!!! so glad you found this when you needed it.
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much. This video is the most informative and thorough one ive seen on this subject matter. ❤
Hello, Brittany, thanks for your help, I have a question, do I always have to put the files in Google Drive? or is it not necessary? thank you for your time!
I only utilize Google Drive if the art files are really large because Etsy doesn't allow large files (up to a certain size I can't recall at the moment)
Thank you very much Brittany!, it's very much appreciated. You're able to explain in a very clear and practical way. Hope your're having a great day. PS: Your painting is amazing!
You're so very welcome Luis, thanks for watching!! and I'm happy to hear you like my painting :)
You have no idea how helpful this video has been! I'm just starting the process of digizting my art in hopes of selling and have been overwhelmed with all the different videos I have found. Quick question, are you saving your finished files in RGB or CMYK? I've heard that you should save each ratio in both for different printer settings? Have you found this to be true?
Thanks for the love! Glad it’s been helpful. Ummm…. Gonna be honest I know next to nothing about RGB vs CMYK so I’ll do some research and get back to you! My files right now are rgb which is the gimp, default.
Hey, I'm a graphic designer and hopefully able to tell you something about CMYK vs. RGB. Please consider English is not my native language... CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and the key colour black. These are the colours used by your printer to get the coloured print in the end. The concept works based on the printing grids and subtractive colour mixing (really interesting and worth the research). This CMYK colour space is more limited than the digital light based RGB world (additive colour mixing), used by your computer. Therefore you should always convert or use CMYK for files that shall be printed in the future. Because if a colour (e.g. electric green) is not represented in the CMYK world you can react and change the percentages of used cyan or yellow to get a somewhat similar colour. Hope this helps and offers some keywords to expand the research area. :)
Do you save your art in RGB or CMYK? Did you ever have a problem with that with customers?
Someone else has asked me this so I am currently researching because I don't know enough about this topic! Stay tuned
I like how you look in them glasses 😊
Wow. This was a very thorough and helpful video. I have art that's over 20 years old that I'm finally ready to sell online. This video has given me a good place to start. Thanks so much for sharing!☺️
I love this. Saved❤❤❤
What's the benefit of having the white border on the image? Just to give the customer tolerance for adding it to a frame?
Yes that's correct.
Your videos are awesome and very helpful in setting up my Etsy shop. Going to scour your videos to get answers for the rest of my questions. Particularly drawing tablets. On another note, could I interest you in dating my son? LOL! Thank you for your videos!
Thank you so much for the donation Melinda, I will shout you out as a donator in my next tutorial!
In a different life I'd entertain your son 😀 but I'm very happily married. You're too kind!
Watching the video now Brittany. This is great. Thanks for sharing. I’m wondering if you ever get worried about people buying the digital copy and then trying to resell? Something I have worried about and has made me hesitant about selling digital copies. Thanks!!
I worry about this a lot. I wonder if there is a way to metatag the file with some sort of identifier? I have no idea.
At the end of the day people are out there that would do that and they suck but I figure when the time comes I'll try my best to figure it out. I have actually heard of large businesses stealing art from small artists and unfortunately the lawsuits get no where. It's a sticky area.
So to answer your question. Yes I worry. A lot. But I don't want that to stop me from sharing my art with people :) so I'll just go with the flow for now.
Thanks for watching!
@@astoldbybrittany4342 thanks so much for the thoughtful response. As I expected there is of course a risk no matter what you do. I appreciate though that it shouldnt let it stop me. 💯🙌
This is the most detailed video I have seen on this subject. Thank you very much.
The art piece is amazing, and I am very grateful for your explanation of editing, resizing, and so on of the files:)
Happy to help Hanna! Thanks for the love. I love this piece too. :)
I was never aware that anything needed to be scanned; I'm working in Canva....why would I need to scan anything?
This tutorial is specifically tailored for original paintings / artwork
Thank you so much! Your content is great and your help and knowledge are invaluable!
Thanks Brittany, I like your videos. Could you tell me how I lower the weight of the folder I made in Google Drive? Etsy does not support more than 20 megabytes. I downloaded the folder from Drive and it downloaded in a very heavy zipped folder. How do I lower the weight so that Etsy admits it to me. I would really appreciate your advice. Thank you very much and happy day.
Hi Patricia, you shouldn't need to download the google drive folder contents. You can keep it there, and then share the link of that folder to the customers who purchase. That way they can bypass Etsy and download straight from the Google Drive folder. Hope that helps.
Thank you so much for taking the time to put these videos together. I appreciate everything that goes into creating these. Question: Please confirm that you exported the edited image as a .jpg in 300 dpi and then copy and paste this edited image into the various templates? Just want to be sure at what point in the process you change the extension and the 600 dpi from the original scanned image. :)
Thank you so much for this video!
Hi are you exporting in CMYK or RGB? Is it 6bit or 16bit ?
My files are RGB which are the default settings in GIMP. I have no idea what my settings are for the latter question - I just use whatever the default for GIMP is!
Do you set the mode to CMYK rather than RGB in Gimp for printing purposes?
I use RGB with no issues!
thank you for so , SO many helpful (so helpful) details on your workflow.
Are there issues with copyright infringement?...And how to remedy?!
Use reference photos from Unsplash and you should be fine
Very nice video and thank you for the detail. I have a question, I should do digital wall arts in PDF or jpg? Which one is better?
I would opt for JPG! I couldn't tell you why but I've done a ton of test prints and they look beautiful via JPG so I'll keep using it for now.
Hi this was a great and informative video. I have just one question. What do you do if cropping your image ruins it? Do you zoom out the image size slightly and increase the white space/border?
I would eliminate that aspect ratio from my offering. You get to use your creative liberty there, if you feel an aspect ratio doesn't flatter your art don't use it and only use the ones that do! Hope that helps.
Thanks so much for this great information! Appreciate you sharing- I have some digital artwork that is large in size but only about 96 dpi. If I upload the artwork in Gimp, Gimp will export it at 300 dpi as a JPG- Will this work as far as quality, or do you think quality is somehow compromised in this process? Thanks again!
That is correct! It won’t look any different on the screen at 96 vs 300. The difference in resolution will be seen in the final print. You could always order test prints in both and compare!
You are very kind and generous person. Thank you for taking the time to explain everything.
of course! thanks for watching.
Subscribed! This was incredibly straightforward and helpful. I'm just starting out and want to sell better quality prints of my paintings on Etsy, and this vid hits all the size, crop, GIMP info I need to do that. Will absolutely check out your other vids. Big thanks :)
Hi Brittany. Thank you so much for this video. I'm stuck on getting my image the same size as the layer. I was successfully able to cut off the edges (the checkerboard showed up), rotated it and cropped it. When I clicked on crop to content, it left a lot of blank space around my image. Is there a manual way I can adjust the layer size so it's the same size as the image? Thank you so much!
YOU ARE AMAZING! Thank you so much for this tutorial. I am all set up ready to follow step by step with my own art. I AM SO EXCITED!
Thanks again!
Inspired by your generosity, thank you so much for sharing all of your hard earned knowledge and skills! My new scanner says 4800x4800 dpi resolution, I haven't tried it out yet. You mentioned 300 and 600 dpi in the video. Still a little confused by the different ways of describing resolution. Will my new scanner work for high quality large prints like 24x36? Many many thanks!!!
Yep you have plenty of scanning capacity to make large prints!! Try it out and order a test prints if you're unsure! That's why I did and ended up selling it to a friend so no money was even wasted testing it out. Thanks for the love
Great idea! Thank you!
Epson Perfection scanners are, in my opinion, the top scanners available. I had one I purchased in 2002, and I scanned thousands of photos, slides, art, etc. The only reason I don't use it now is because a couple of years ago I must have rolled my chair over the cord and cut it, and I need to find a replacement cord. That's almost 20 years of use.
Wow that's awesome to hear! I hope to get a good life out of mine
Hi,thank you for explaining sizing, it was a nightmare! Also i would like to ask you about GIMP, i was using it for few photos and made ratios but it works for one or two photos and than start bugging, when i open new file and select 2:3 ratio the blank page that supposed to white doesnt load fully, sometimes is half sometimes just one part and it looks half white and half transparent layer and when i tryt to open picture as layer it doesnt load at all.do you have idea what is going on or how to fix it? or maybe i should use some other program, but just learned GIMP and got comfortable with it and its bugging :(
Thank you
I'm so sorry I can't help if I can't see what's going on! Maybe send a screenshot to my email?
@@astoldbybrittany4342 its all good, i reinstall it again and it was working so i finished the one i needed. Thank you!
Good info. Thanks. Seems your process could be improved by using an AI image upscaler tool. Will give your scans better quality than regular Gimp or photoshop enlarging, since the ai upscaler actually adds pixels as needed when upscaling. Some upscaler tools available online. Some available to run on local computer, but ai upscaling can a pretty intense process, so alot of regular personal computers wont be able to handle.
Thank you so much - I really love your videos but I have a question. I scan my art (its textile based) and I find the pathway tool really hard to use to cut off the ragged edges - but if i try and crop the image then I can't resize to canvas after I've cropped it - is this why you use the pathway tool instead? Could I crop my image before uploading to gimp or would it affect the pixels (I'm so confused :)
what a great video!
Hi! I was trying to scroll through the comments to see if this question was asked but - first! Thank YOU for putting this together! Truly helpful. So my question is how do you price your digital art?
Thank you for the very informative video. One question: how do you handle your copyright? I think it would be impossible to avoid that someone buy your listing just with the intention of copying it. What are your thoughts on that?
I turn a blind eye and try not to worry about it and hope that people won't be shitty :/
@@astoldbybrittany4342 thank you for your answer, all the best for you 👍🏼
Out of all the videos I have watched. You are the best. You are easy to understand. Thank you so much!!!
Wow, thank you!
Thank you for sharing your helpful information. You just gained a subscriber!
Could you explain what if my art if bigger than the scanner and can’t be scanned in full in one shot? thanks!
You'll have to do something called "stitching". You'll basically scan the image in segments and stitch them together in photoshop / gimp. I can do a video on this in the future :)
@@astoldbybrittany4342 Yes please do, should be really helpful! Thank you sooo much!
Thank you so much. Very helpful, informative and well explained.