Sharon Perrett

I keep coming across beautiful images and cards that I would love to buy but I am put off of some that have words or borders because when I check them in the preview the borders are uneven or the wording is cut off. It is due to the small crop that Red Bubble does when printing them out. I am also reluctant to buy cards of images that are not the right size and you end up with them looking lost in card format. I am guilty of this myself and have been going through my large gallery and amending them.

I have therefore rounded up what I hope will help us get them right.

Knowledge Base: cropping and borders
We want your images to look amazing for your customer, and how you intended. The products have been designed to make your images look their best without the needing to add borders on your image files. The production of some products will require a small crop of 1-2mm but this is mostly unnoticeable. When making a purchase, the previews that you see on RedBubble should accurately reflect how the image will be positioned and cropped so use these as a guide

For cards aspect ratio matters which is about 3:2

• Here are the resolution thresholds for each of our products:
  • Greeting Cards: 1300×900 pixels (1 megapixel)
  • Matted Prints: 1800×1260 pixels (2.5 megapixels)
  • Laminated, Mounted and Framed Prints and Stretched Canvas:
    o 2400×1600 pixels (4 megapixels) for the small print
    o 3240×2160 pixels (7 megapixels) for the medium print
    o 3840×2560 pixels (10 megapixels) for the large print
  • Posters:
    o 2500×3500 pixels for the smallest print
    o 3500×5000 pixels for the medium print
    o 5000×7100 pixels for the large print
  • Calendar images: 2182×1906 pixels for the months and 2371×2875 pixels for the cover
  • Clothing: exactly 2400×3200 pixels (and the file must be a PNG).

Notes

Please do not manually change the pixel dimensions of your image. We use the number of pixels in an image to determine which sizes are appropriate – if you change the pixel dimensions you will trick our quality control software – but the products will come out looking blocky and horribly pixelated.If your image size or format is not right, this might restrict you from selling some products. We automatically determine which products your file can be used to create, so that we only ship products that both you and we can be proud of. Images above 60Mb, or 10,000×10,000 pixels in size, cannot be accepted on the site due to the unreasonable load they place on our servers. If you’re uploading files larger than 20MB they should probably be compressed or scaled down a bit — we don’t print billboards yet!

File Format
We accept JPEG or PNG files (we don’t accept TIFF or PDF files).

Colour Profile
We prefer the sRGB colour space (our printers are calibrated to sRGB).

All of the above tips were found around Red Bubble

I hope this helps, I thought thast having the info in one place would be helpful as I had to search around for it all

If you do need to amend an image, no need to delete and upload afresh, just amend your image with your software and upload new version under the original in

my bubble….......
art….......
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using the change this image function under edit

PLEASE check out this link too