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• Selling Greeting Cards Through Stores
  by Jo O'Brien

  Recently the topic of selling greeting cards out in the real world has come up in the forums...

  Recently the topic of selling greeting cards out in the real world has come up in the forums Having sold greeting cards before through shops and at markets, my humble opinion and experience may be of interest. I’ve got a lot to say on this one so I’ll use headings :) / mren’s ‘somewhere in fitzroy’ Be a Business- Not Just an Artist / What I mean by this is consider yourself a business supplier and demonstrate a level of professionality. Yes it is great if you promote the artistic merits of your work but greeting cards are a very common product and so being organised with an ABN, professional looking invoices, online ordering facilities, fast turn around etc will put you ahead of the (always growing) pack. Like all good businesses, know your strengths and show them off. Provide Good Quality Products / It might sound obvious (I hope it does) but when people are starting out in business they tend to cut corners. In the greeting card business quality is a big deal. This is where RedBubble becomes a huge advantage because the quality of the card printing is so exceptional. Packaging is Important / Have you considered what your cards will look like after 20 or so customers have handled them? Some people like the ‘no plastic’ look and who am I to tell them otherwise. I always individually wrap my cards and make sure that if the packaging prevents the card being openned, that “Blank Card” is printed either on the individual packaging or nearby signage. If you put together gift packs, wrap them beautifully and make sure people know what images they are getting in the pack. / My little tip: leave one copy of each card unwrapped on display and when you check up with the store, see which ones are the grubbiest to identify the favourites Displaying your wares / The things people want to see are the images, the quality and the price. Where possible I use clear perspex stands that do not cover the front of the card. By leaving a few sample cards out of their packaging people can pick them up and feel them to check the quality. I also make sure each card has a visible price on it, on the back, on a removable sticker. Some hints would be not to have too many of a particular card out on display at once. Keep a box of ‘top up’ cards out of sight. If you have a series that belongs together, display them together and perhaps highlight them with different packaging or a small separate display rack. Cards should be displayed with the image facing the right way up where possible. Always put your name and contact details on your card stands- so often they ‘magically disappear.’ And if you are providing your own stands, try to ‘claim’ the space so that other people’s cards don’t get put in over the top of yours. This can be hard to police but for example, having “Cards by Artist ABC” on your stand makes it harder for the retailer to stick any old stuff in there. / ‘legs’ by itsactustus Get Your Pricing Right / Like all things business, a lot of small shops will heckle with you over money and prices. My advice to you? Know what price you want and stick to it. Think about it in perspective, in a typical shop, greeting cards will be close to the cheapest item in there. If the business can’t fork out $30 to try 10 cards then you don’t want to be doing business with them! But also think realistically about your prices. Most retailers will start saying ‘no thanks’ at about $3 a card so to make RedBubble cards (with a base price of up to $3) a financailly viable option you need to sell them as premium art cards worth that extra dollar or two. Considering the quality of them, I believe this is possible. Depending on where you sell them, you could get $4 to $8 or even more per card. It will depend on the clientelle for that particular store. / Common Mistake: Too many people give their cards different prices when in the eye of the customer they all look pretty much the same. If you want to have a premium range, make it obvious Profite Margins / I should add as a separate but related point, most stores will want to mark up by about 100% on greeting cards. Most people sell there cards for a set wholesale price and then let the store charge whatever they like. The only time in my opinion, you should intervene is if you seriously believe they have overpriced them to such a point that nthey are not affordable. But think about it before setting your price. If you ask for $4 per card, can the store onsell them for $7.95? How to actually get them into stores / Here’s an idea for you- send them a card! Of course a rigorous follow up would be required. I would ‘door to door’ with a small sample or my stuff and it worked really well. I also had a bit of a tactic. I’d show a selection of cards worth $20 total. Then when they fell in love with a couple I’d say. “How about you buy this $20 worth from me right now and you keep that one you like for yourself, I’ll replace it with this one” Then I’d pull some other random card out of my bag and add it to the pile. Worked 9 out of 10 times. The other thing I did was band together with a fellow card maker (she did printed ones, I did handmade) so that we could show a greater range and cut our door knocking time in half. Can I also suggest not interrupting businesses during busy periods such as weekends or lunch hours. That happens to me in the gallery all the time and it’s a real pain. Also, if you’re talking to staff and their phone rings or a customer comes in, invite them to deal with the more important thing first and come back to you. Rotate Your Stock / Basically, if it isn’t selling, get rid of it yourself before the store owner decides to get rid of you! I’m exaggerating but the point it still valid. People will stop looking if your display always looks the same so keep it chaging. Make a fuss. If you have a new range, stick a sign up saying “New Farm Yard Range On Sale Now.” And remember, what works well in one store may go really badly in another so if it’s not selling, try somewhere else rather then giving up and throwing the lot in the bin! Consignment / This is particularly just my opinion but I’m against consignment on cards. Especially if you give a choice of what is ordered. Seriously, cards cost so little compared to other things, if a store can’t find $50 somewhere to buy some outright, there is something suss about that right away. It might be good to offer consignment on your first batch which will encourage the store to stock your stuff but don’t get into a habit of it. I would drop off say 50 cards and get someone to sign a consignment form saying how many they were given. Then after a few weeks I would go back, count them up and invoice for however many were missing. Then I’d also give them the choice of buying the remaining ones, or me taking them back. Most would swap a few that they didn’t like and then buy up. Payments / Again I hope this sounds obvious but ask to be paid. So many people get lost in a world of politeness and assume that eventually someone will do the right thing, Most small businesses using MYOB or QuickBooks accounting software will automatically lodge your invoices to be paid within 30 days. Agree on your terms and then chase up late payments. No need to be mean or nasty but a follow up letter and then a follow up phone call is fair enough. Also, be flexible in how you can be paid. Some businesses do everything with a cheque (or for you Americans, a “check”), others will rely on Direct Debit. So know how the business wants to pay you and don’t make it hard for them! Promote your Cards / The beauty of RedBubble cards is they have the URL of your portfolio on the back which shows off all of your work. But also remember to promote your cards out in the real world. Recently I bought a bunch of RedBubble cards and gave them all to friends. The response was amazing. They all got online to find more! Next step for me is to buy a bunch of my own cards and find excuses to give them to people. webgrrl had this awesome idea too. The cards really do speak for themselves so get them into circulation. - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - So if anyone is still breathing after reading all that, I hope you found it useful! / I do tend to ramble when it comes to retail related things- it’s my passion in life. / ‘Tashom III’ by FireRabbit

• Giving Birth to Greeting Cards
  by RedBubble

  Another birthing story today – Greeting Cards. Like the mounted prints...

  Another birthing story today – Greeting Cards. Like the mounted prints – we start with a big box of Kodak Endura paper like this: As per usual, we fire the big ‘laser’ at it: After that it gets processed, It’s pretty dark inside the machine… You’re just going to have to use your imagination abit here – lots of rollers and developer: Next (one of my personal favorite machines) the 600 ft roll of paper goes into this cutting machine: Which spits out individual card prints at the other end, really really fast: Now we have a big stack of card prints: The next bit, is our trade secret, so no explinations – just a few pictures: / / / / And finally after a quick trip through the folder we get a finished card like this: To be honest I forgot to take a picture of the packing process, so you’re just going to have to imagine about a thousand cards being sleeved with B6 envelopes and sent out to bubblers all around the world – It should be no surprise we make way more of these than anything else. Update: By special request … Testing: / James

• Greeting Cards
  by thickblackoutline

  / Just wanted to share, my cards arrived today and I couldn’t be happier! The quality of …

  / Just wanted to share, my cards arrived today and I couldn’t be happier! The quality of them is beyond my expectations…. I knew they would be good… but these are stunning!! These ones are Alice’s Friend and More Everything! / I especially like the little thumbnail on the back….. most excited by that – that’s just me ;) / Dragon Chef and Oriental Coffee here / I urge everyone to get some cards… even of their own work, maybe some of mine ;) They would be fantastic framed also! Love The Bub’s stuff, as always! /

• Formatting Images For Greeting Cards
  by prbimages

  A few people have asked me about my method for reformatting images for greeting cards (see my previous journal entry...

  A few people have asked me about my method for reformatting images for greeting cards (see my previous journal entry), so here is an explanation of what I do. This is not the only approach, nor is it probably the best, but it seems to work OK for me. You need to be willing to do a bit of arithmetic (a calculator is useful!), and you need some image-editing software for resizing your image, and for adding borders (I use Photoshop). BACKGROUND INFORMATION In this old forum thread Justin French explains the basic details of card sizing. The main points we need to know are: Cards are C6 size, 114 mm by 162 mm (4.49 inches by 6.38 inches). Cards are printed at 200 dots-per-inch resolution. One inch is equal to 25.4 mm. A little bit, 1-2 mm, gets trimmed from three sides of the image when printed. The fourth side which is the “spine” of the card does not get trimmed. DESIGN PROCESS First, you need to decide how you want to “frame” your image on the card. This will vary depending on the shape and content of your original image, and what kind of effect you are looking for. As an example, for this photo I decided on a centered framing with a thin white line around the photo and then a thicker black border extending to the edge of the card: For this photo, the image is centered horizontally but is higher than center vertically, and it has a black outline then a wide white border: The borders can, of course, be any colour you like, they can be thick or thin or patterned or whatever, the only thing to remember is that a small amount will get trimmed when printing, so don’t put anything important too close to the edges of your final design. THE DETAILS My aim is to produce an image that is exactly the right size for a card when printed at 200 dots-per-inch (DPI). I find it easiest to work in pixels, so let’s restate the card size in pixels: 114 mm is 4.49 inches which is 898 pixels (at 200 pixels-per-inch). 162 mm is 6.38 inches which is 1276 pixels (at 200 pixels-per-inch). So we want our image to be arranged appropriately within a “box” sized 898 by 1276 pixels. If we take Justin French’s post at face value, we would then add an extra 1-2 mm (13-25 pixels) around three edges, with the expectation that this extra portion will be trimmed during printing. However, I have found that doing so does not quite work as expected – it tends to produce an image which is just slightly off-center. Instead, I have found that it works better to arrange the image within a box sized 910 pixels by 1276 pixels, and then to add 12 pixels to the short dimension and 24 pixels to each side in the long dimension. The final image will end up being 922 pixels by 1324 pixels. This sounds complicated in words, so here is a diagram: In the diagram above, I have resized the image to an appropriate small size, added a thin border, then added white space to each side and to top and bottom so that the overall size is 910 pixels by 1276 pixels. Then finally I have added another 24 pixels of white space to the top and bottom, and 12 pixels to the right hand side. (I’m saying “white space” but it could well be “black space” or any other colour, of course.) I have found that a good size for a thin border is three pixels, and a good offset from the edge of the card is 100 pixels (which is half an inch, or 12.7 mm). Of course, you can use different numbers if you like in order to achieve a different end result. AN EXAMPLE To make this a bit clearer (I hope) here’s what I did with Tulip Glow: This starts off as a square image, and I want it centered horizontally on the card. I decide on a three-pixel thin black border, and I want it offset from the edges of the card by 100 pixels on the left and right, so thats 2×3 + 2×100 = 206 total pixels of border. The target card width is 910 pixels, so my image must be resized to 910 – 206 = 704 pixels wide. Using Photoshop, I go to Image -> Image Size and set 704 pixels as the width, making sure that “Constrain Proportions” is ticked. I click “OK”. My core image is now the right size, 704 pixels square. Next, I add a three-pixel black border by going to Image -> Canvas Size, tick the “Relative” box, and enter “6 pixels” into the Width and Height boxes. Make sure the “Anchor” is set to the center so that the six extra pixels are added equally on all sides, giving a three-pixel border. Set the “Canvas extension color” to Black and click “OK”. The thin border is done, and our image is now 710 pixels square. OK, next we want to extend the canvas out to the edges of the card, using White this time. Again, go to Image -> Canvas Size and enter 200 into the Width box. This will add 100 pixels of white on both the left and right sides. Set the “Canvas extension color” to White and click “OK”. The total width of the image is now 910 pixels, as desired. Now we want to add more white to the top and bottom, but this time we want more white at the bottom than at the top, to give a pleasing balanced design to the card. Our image is currently 710 pixels in height, but our target height is 1276 pixels. So we have to add 1276 – 710 = 566 pixels. We might choose to add, say, 200 pixels to the top and 366 pixels to the bottom. We do this by using Image -> Canvas Size twice more. First, put 200 pixels in the Height box, and set the “Anchor” to the bottom square to force the newly added pixels to appear on top of the image. Then repeat, putting 366 pixels in the Height box and setting the “Anchor” to the top square, forcing the new pixels to appear at the bottom of the image. We now have our nicely formatted card image … sized at 910 pixels by 1276 pixels. To finish off, we need to add a little bit more to the top, bottom, and right sides, which will mostly be trimmed off during printing. So, using Image -> Canvas Size twice more, add 24 white pixels to the top and bottom, and 12 pixels to the right, and it’s all done! Get the card printed, and everything should be nicely centered and professional-looking. DISCLAIMER There is one thing that Justin mentions in his forum post that I linked to at the beginning of this Journal, and that is that RedBubble could, at any time, decide to change the way the cards are printed. If they do that, then of course it is possible that the way the cards are sized and trimmed will be different, and these instructions may no longer work well. Anyway, I hope this is understandable and helps in some way, Yours, prbimages.

• RedBubble Update - Greeting Cards !
  by RedBubble

  Cards Cards Cards / The big news this week is the launch of Greeting Cards – Nearly any image can be sold as a greeting card on RedBubbl…

  Cards Cards Cards / The big news this week is the launch of Greeting Cards – Nearly any image can be sold as a greeting card on RedBubble, any file of about 1Mpix or larger ! The product itself is beautiful, photographically printed, bonded with high grade paper and folded. Here’s what it looks like – Just click the card icon at the top. / / Please make your work avaliable as cards – RedBubble is all about artists choice, you need to tick the box to sell cards. / / / Updates to the Watermarks / So we pushed these out a few weeks ago and had a heap of feedback from confused buyers, not sure if the watermark would be on the final product. / / In response we’ve changed the way we are doing this. There isn’t a water mark on the smaller image so buyers can see it clean, on the larger image we are still displaying the watermark – we’ve tried to make it subtle and explain it a little better while still protecting your images.

• 'Santa Claus Christmas Card' 3rd in Prize Challenges!! group
  by Christine Till @ CT-Graphics

  Santa Claus Christmas Card made third in the Wina aCard Hamper with your best christmas image! challenge...

  Santa Claus Christmas Card made third in the Wina aCard Hamper with your best christmas image! challenge of the Prize Challenges!! group Santa Claus Christmas Card Thanks to all who voted for my Christmas Card and Thanks to the group hosts for their great support. Congratulations to MarekM who won the challenge with ‘Tale’, all the other artists who scored and to everyone who participated.

• The Patchwork group featured 'The Cat - A Purrrfect Carnivore'
  by Christine Till @ CT-Graphics

  The Cat – A Purrrfect Carnivore !http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/backingcolor:white/product:greeting-card/view:preview/1491121…

  The Cat – A Purrrfect Carnivore was featured in the The Patchwork group I’m very excited!!! / Thank you so much to this group and its hosts for their time and work and all their encouraging support.

• 'Charming Cheb' featured in ImageWriting group
  by Christine Till @ CT-Graphics

  Yesterday the Group ImageWriting featured my image Charming Cheb. Thank you to the gr…

  Yesterday the Group ImageWriting featured my image Charming Cheb. Thank you to the group and its hosts for choosing my work. Please visit the group and participate. It’s fun! / /

• Two features... Thanks so much, Karon and Sharon!!!!!!!!!!!!
  by Gili Orr

  “Shana Tova! שנה טובה” was featured in the group Dimensions / !http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/backingcolor:white/product:greet…

  “Shana Tova! שנה טובה” was featured in the group Dimensions / —-— “Desert giant cow…” was featured in the group AMERICAS ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free – Expressions of Artists /

• 'Bygone Time Sheriff' 2nd in "Speak to Me" Challenge
  by Christine Till @ CT-Graphics

  Bygone Time Sheriff was voted 2nd in the “Speak to Me” Challenge and “The Waist Up group Portraiture Prize #2 challenge...

  Bygone Time Sheriff was voted 2nd in the “Speak to Me” Challenge and “The Waist Up group Portraiture Prize #2 challenge” initiated by the THE WAIST UP – Portraiture Photography group / Santa Claus Christmas Card Thanks to all who voted for my portrait and Thanks to the group hosts for their effort. Congratulations to Eyal Nahmias who won the challenge with ‘Aymara Man’, all the other artists who scored and to everyone who participated.

• Writers selling stuff?
  by Xavier Russo

  As a little experiment, I uploaded an image versio…

  As a little experiment, I uploaded an image version of my Ode to Nothing poem and bought it on white and black greeting cards. Worked quite well. This might be a way for writers on RedBubble to participate in selling Simply create a greeting card related to your writing: maybe an image, quote, or (if short enough) the whole written work. Then readers who like your writing can buy the card – you get paid and they get a little momento. As another example, kseriphyn has a logo for her story The Callings . If this was available as a greeting card, readers could show their appreciation for the story by buying one. All you need is some way of creating an image file. This is possible even if you don’t have a fancy graphics program (for the poem above, I just used Powerpoint and saved the file as a jpeg) It’s not a perfect solution but it can be done right now. What do you think? I’d love to hear from both writers and readers

• Autumn Vase First place in 'Something for which you are thankful' challenge
  by Christine Till @ CT-Graphics

  A huge Thank You to all who voted for my entry Autumn Vase / !http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/border:noborder/product:mounted-p…

  A huge Thank You to all who voted for my entry Autumn Vase / Winning 1st prize in Something for which you are thankful is a great success and honor to me. Thanks again – and congratulations to everyone else who participated. / Please also take a look at all the photos of the other participating artists.

• Christmas Card Promotional Offer
  by Karin Taylor

  NEW Christmas Cards / Promotional Offer – Pack of 6 cards $21.60 / Send someone special one of these hand made wishes of hope!! / Let me …

  NEW Christmas Cards / Promotional Offer – Pack of 6 cards $21.60 / Send someone special one of these hand made wishes of hope!! / Let me know if you’d like me to personalise a card for you, I’ll be happy to… / —-—-—-—-—-—— / A Christmas Wish A star to light your way / A tree to help you breathe / A heart to help you live by Karin Taylor / —-—-—-—-—-—-——- / / The other day i began creating a new little range of Christmas Cards, in response to a challenge by Coppertrees and her Little Tree which she created in response to a poem about a little tree, there was a challenge to create something related to the poem, and I came up with the Christmas cards you’ve probably already seen I came up with the idea or concept…that tiny things are just as important as big things…. a tiny heart gifts as much life as a huge heart / a tiny tree gives us air to breathe / a tiny star provides light to guide us….. I drew each one of these symbols by hand, and painted them using pastels, coloured pencils, and marker pen….then i joined them altogether in photoshop to create a special Christmas wish, and added the poem under It matters not that things are small, or have small beginnings, they are still worthwhile, as worthwhile as the big things, and as it says in the song / from little things big things grow This is where the words on the front of the card stem from….. / I’ve kept the price lower for these cards, they are $3.60 each rather than the usual $4.95. I wanted to keep them affordable for multiple purchases. A pack of 6 cards would be $21.60 It’s also a nice Christmas message to put up for decoration around your home as a laminted print or poster on the wall, during the season of goodwill and thanksgiving.

• SALES!!!!
  by Karin Taylor

  I had a lovely morning, when I woke to find I’d sold 5 cards to my friend Karen Cook who ph…

  I had a lovely morning, when I woke to find I’d sold 5 cards to my friend Karen Cook who photographs the most consistently exquisite flower studies I’ve ever seen in my life….....You have got to see her stuff….please visit Karen’s bubble, you will be moved….ssssoooooo lovely they are! Thank you so much Karen, I am sooooooo grateful and happy today!!! Here are the cards x 5 that Karen chose from my portfolio today! / Sadako’s Wish / This is a special one, with a story attached about Sadako…please read about her if you haven’t already heard about her before, Mui-Ling another friend here on the bubble actually makes exquisite origami miniatures, and was influenced in Grade 5 when she heard the story of Sadako also…...Sadako’s Wish is from my / Mi & Yuu / I once saw an image of a little asian boy standing in one of these tubs using a stick as an oar, apparently children travel and catch fish and ducks this way. mi & Yuu is from my / Fuschia / Fuschia is fun!!! and from my / Asian Spice / Asian Spice is sweet! and from my / Fishing Mates / Fishing Mates is a little different, using muted tones, it was one of the best fun times making a painting…I used a colour chart from a Dulux Paint Guide to choose my colours….i cut up all the little squares and put them in a clear box and pull out colours to help me choose a palette, i love doing this…....Fishing Mates is also from my

• please WATCHLIST me @ my new gallery called migaloomagic
  by Karin Taylor

  please watchlist me migaloomagic please watchlist me!! MY NEW RED BUBBLE GALLERY SHOP I…

  please watchlist me migaloomagic please watchlist me!! MY NEW RED BUBBLE GALLERY SHOP IS CALLED MIGALOOMAGIC….please don’t forget to WATCHLIST me over THERE / I’ve been busy with a new concept…. / I wanted to bring parents something special to help them connect with their children… / I am busy creating a series of digital wall art, especially for children…for their bedrooms. My new gallery on Red Bubble is called migaloomagic / So far, i only have one piece of art there….but I am excited to show you anyway!! This is a gallery which I hope will provide gifts for children, for their bedrooms, for their birthdays…...I hope that it will bring parents closer to their children by helping them remember to tell their children stories, you know – the old fashioned kind of stories….the ones you just make up on the spot….. When the kids say….’tell us a story mum/dad/aunty/uncle/guardian/carer” i hope that you as a parent will gain an inspirational thought or two, from glancing up on the wall and seeing these whales or some other little idea from my artwork…to help you along :D Hugs to all, / Karin :D

• Replacing low-res files
  by RedBubble

  Since we introduced auto-detection of file size, some of you will have found that not all your artwork can be sold. Though this may be fr…

  Since we introduced auto-detection of file size, some of you will have found that not all your artwork can be sold. Though this may be frustrating, we feel it is important for both artists + customers, since it ensures all images for sale can be turned into high quality prints. If your images aren’t high enough resolution to be sold, you can now replace existing images with bigger versions. Plus, you won’t lose any comments! Just go to MyBubble, and view the work in your Portfolio. Also, we will soon be introducing smaller products (e.g. art postcards, and greeting cards). These will have a lower file size requirement. So hang in there!

• FEATURES!!
  by Rosalie Dale IPA

  How encouraging it is to find your work on Featured pages!!!! Over the past couple of weeks I’ve found / Music...

  How encouraging it is to find your work on Featured pages!!!! Over the past couple of weeks I’ve found / Music featured in Inspiring Greeting Cards / Catching the LIght in Light and Reflection / Spring Fever in Live Love Dream / Safari in National Parks of the World It always makes my day to have some validation from our ‘leaders’ and encouragement from other members. THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!

• Do you want to sell your art?....Then read this
  by kim Davitt

  Hello everyone .................twrphotography .......................... / came up w…

  Hello everyone .................twrphotography .......................... / came up with the idea and asked me to help start a group to help artists sell their art work here on redbubble…........... We love redbubble for the community but also hope to sell a few things as well do many others on redbubble and we hope this is a way for us all to acheive this. Please take a few minutes of your time to go view and join Wishing you many sales —-—-—-—-BUYER R US —-—-—-——

• Shining Star in Bits and Pieces
  by Janis Zroback

  *I am thrilled to announce, that I have been chosen the Shining Star in the Bits and Pieces group forum this week…this reward is given …

  I am thrilled to announce, that I have been chosen the Shining Star in the Bits and Pieces group forum this week…this reward is given to an artist or writer that, according to the group moderators.. “simply excels and deserves special recognition”. / / Fires of September I am also happy to say that the following paintings chosen as features today. / / The Summer Knows All Things Orange / Mutsu Carnival.. second feature.. Acrylic Paintings What a lovely day!!! Thanks again to all the group moderators…

• Sales Notification from RedBubble (#74322)‏
  by jegustavsen

  Thank you so very much to whoever purchased the card “Remember”. It is was such / a nice surprise to see a sale notification in my email….

  Thank you so very much to whoever purchased the card “Remember”. It is was such / a nice surprise to see a sale notification in my email. I appreciate your support.

• Images Reformatted For Greeting Cards
  by prbimages

  I’ve recently been playing around with different formatting methods in order to optimize my images for greeting cards, and I think I’ve f…

  I’ve recently been playing around with different formatting methods in order to optimize my images for greeting cards, and I think I’ve finally got them how I want them. I will be adding several to my public portfolio later today. So first, let me apologize in advance for releasing a whole bunch of images which you’ve already seen! And second, I would be interested in any feedback you might have regarding the newly formatted images. Why am I doing this? Because the fixed aspect ratio of the RedBubble greeting cards does not work well with all images. RedBubble’s other print products automatically “adjust” to the size of your work, but the greeting cards are a fixed size, and so it is not uncommon for images to be cropped or to appear with bands of blank space on either side. Cropping can produce a poor result if an important part of the image is near the edge, and furthermore, since the cropping is not uniformly done on all sides, it can result in a centralized image appearing slightly off-centre when printed. Banding is less of a problem, and in some cases banded images can look quite OK, but still they look a little less than professional in my opinion. For example, here’s a case where the cropping really destroys the image (click on the card preview to see the original work): This next one is less obviously a problem, but to my eye the loss of the table edge in the bottom right corner seriously detracts from the original image (again, click on the preview to see the original): Here’s an example where the cropping makes the image look slightly off-centre: (It is also worth noting that the card previews do not show exactly how your image is going to look when printed, there is usually a slight difference between the preview and the reality.) Here’s an example of banding, which occurs when an image is significantly elongated in one direction or the other. The banding effect does not always look bad, but it often looks somewhat unprofessional to my eyes: Now, here are some photos of a few of my reformatted images which I’ve ordered as greeting cards as part of my testing. The first five photos show an original work printed as a greeting card on the left, and a reformatted version on the right: And here are a couple of reformatted works that simply do not look good in their original form (so I don’t have an unformatted version to show): I will be releasing my reformatted versions for public view later today, and I expect that this will “clog up” up the activity monitors of those who have watchlisted me. Sorry in advance for this, but I hope you can bear with me while I get this out of the way. Best regards, prbimages :-)

• Sale of a card!!!!
  by Glenna Walker

  Thank you to whoever bought a card of “Am I In Trouble Again?” What a huge surprise this is to me – that’s my little Champ on that card….

  Thank you to whoever bought a card of “Am I In Trouble Again?” What a huge surprise this is to me – that’s my little Champ on that card. You have made my whole weekend, whoever you are, thanks so very much: Am I Trouble Again XOXOXO, / Glenna

• Take a Cat Nap Little Angels to restore the Yin & Yang
  by Karin Taylor

  You must think I’ve gone mad with the above title eh….nope…..i just sold 3 cards with those titles and stuck them all together to for…

  You must think I’ve gone mad with the above title eh….nope…..i just sold 3 cards with those titles and stuck them all together to form a wierd phrase lol: / / Cat Nap / Little Angels / Yin & Yang Thank you to the one who bought them today, i hope you will enjoy these three!!

• Sold a Card!!!!!!!
  by Glenna Walker

  I am so happy to announce I sold a card of “Tripp Chillin” to Trudi. She was very kind to buy the card for her young nephew’s upcoming b…

  I am so happy to announce I sold a card of “Tripp Chillin” to Trudi. She was very kind to buy the card for her young nephew’s upcoming birthday. Tripp Chillin’ Thank you once again Trudi, for purchasing the card, I am so greatful! Glenna