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• Content Guidelines
  by RedBubble

  Recently we have had to contemplate what is acceptable art on RedBubble from a social perspective. The first point to make is that we are…

  Recently we have had to contemplate what is acceptable art on RedBubble from a social perspective. The first point to make is that we are not the government. Our governments and courts are there to protect freedom of expression. At RedBubble we believe they should do so vigorously. This does not mean RedBubble needs to be the home for all expression. We can defend the ideal while still having a narrower editorial focus at RedBubble. We have never allowed pornography, for example. So, what is acceptable? Two particular works have bought this issue into focus. They are: We have asked a wide cross section of the RedBubble community about these works and more generally about RedBubble’s content guidelines. On balance, and after much debate, we have decided on guidelines that will result in the removal of these works. Of particular concern to us is the conjunction of violent imagery with a national symbol held in reverence by many. The net result is not a political statement but a statement that demeans an entire nation. Such a statement is inflammatory and does not further rational discussion. The general statement is that we will not allow works that have malicious use of stereotypes intended to attack or demean a particular gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, or nationality. It is possible to make genuine political or social points without stepping over this line. We don’t expect this policy to be welcomed by everybody. RedBubble supports free speech and everyone’s right to express unpopular views (or even popular views). But we also need to foster an environment where the debate can be rationally held without connotations of violence or the inciting of hate. We will leave these works up for the next little while so that the full community can be informed about the issue. You can find a full explanation of our content guidelines here.

• TUTORIAL: Adding Buttons To Your Profile Page
  by Patricia Montgomery

  *I recently had several requests for instructions on how to add buttons like the ones in my profile...

  I recently had several requests for instructions on how to add buttons like the ones in my profile. Rather than send individual bubblemail messages, I’m posting it in my journal in case someone else would like to add buttons to their RB profile. BUTTON INSTRUCTIONS Tip: print out this page and put it beside the computer before you start. You can make your own buttons or you can use a site called ButtonGenerator. If you decide to use this site and not to pay for a membership, you will need to add a link back to the site. I made all of mine 125X26 to give you some idea of the size of the ones on my page. This size allowed 3 buttons side-by-side. Make all your buttons and then save them in a folder on your computer. Then you will need to upload each button to your RB image gallery and use the “Hide” feature so that no one sees them but you. Once you have them uploaded you will need to right-click on each one to get the url address html code in the properties box. Example: http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ularge/view:main/1407403-1-autumn-button.jpg Then go to “Edit Your Profile” to copy the image html code AND the tag html code – it will look like this (without the spaces): ! http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ularge/view:main/1407403-1-autumn-button.jpg ! : http://www.redbubble.com/people/patmonty/art/everything/tags/autumn [REMEMBER NO SPACES. I had to add spaces so you could see the html code. If I had not added spaces, the button would have appeared in the journal instead of the code.] The last word in the html code is the “tag” word. In the example above it is autumn. You will need to put one space between each set of button html code. If you have a lot of buttons the language is long and wraps around forever. But with one space between each button html code, the buttons will sit next to other and then wrap to the next line. Now you will need to add the tag word to each of your images that will correspond to the buttons. Happy Button Making! OTHER TUTORIALS BY PATRICIA Making Links How to make a calendar Add photos to your profile description Add Examples (card, laminated, matted, etc.) to your profile Downsizing those example images on your profile page

• Skyscapes Group
  by Cathleen Tarawhiti

  Kia ora, this group is for skyscapes *art that is predominantly sky, as opposed to land or se…

  Kia ora, this group is for skyscapes art that is predominantly sky, as opposed to land or sea. Majestic cloud-filled skys or stormy nights. Sunrises and sunsets. Art where the focus is the sky, not a building, smokestack or anything else unless there’s a fabulous sky behind it (and plain bright blue is not fabulous). / / Guidelines / / - up to two image uploads per day / - maximum of eight images per member for this group / - any questions, just ask. / / You can switch them around as you add to your portfolio. Directions - To join the group – go to ‘groups’ – click on ‘skyscapes’ – click on ‘join this group’. / - To add an image – go to edit your image, scroll down to ‘skyscapes’ (this is new), tick the box and save. You’re in – welcome!

• Group Guidelines
  by RedBubble

  There really are only three: 1) only add work which is directly relevant to each group / 2) don’t add too much work to any group in any…

  There really are only three: 1) only add work which is directly relevant to each group / 2) don’t add too much work to any group in any given day. One or two works per day per group maximum / 3) don’t get upset if the moderators remove your work from a group. See 1 above. Remember all the moderators are volunteers who are doing all of us a service so play nice with them or don’t play. Rule 2 is designed to benefit both the groups and the artist. For the groups it allows them to grow with diversity. For the artist their work is much more likely to be discovered/noticed if it is trickled in.

• Fabulous Flowers - Group Guidelines
  by Rhana Griffin

  Welcome to the Fabulous Flowers group! This is a group for anyone from photographers to traditional artists to digital creators who fi…

  Welcome to the Fabulous Flowers group! This is a group for anyone from photographers to traditional artists to digital creators who find beauty in the shape, form and colour of one of natures greatest gifts – the flower. Please upload a maximum of two shots a day only Please only post a total of ten photos per member only – feel free to add and delete works as you capture more fabulous images! Please have fun and enjoy yourselves If you have any questions please post a comment here. I’ve taken this from the Community page Group Guidelines There really are only three: 1) only add work which is directly relevant to each group 2) don’t add too much work to any group in any given day. 3) don’t get upset if the moderators remove your work from a group. See 1 above. Remember all the moderators are volunteers who are doing all of us a service so play nice with them or don’t play. Rule 2 is designed to benefit both the groups and the artist. For the groups it allows them to grow with diversity. For the artist their work is much more likely to be discovered/noticed if it is trickled in.

• Photography 101 - Group Guidelines
  by Craig Goldsmith

  Here are some simple guidelines on using the Photography 101 Group. 1. Play nice, in other words respect one another we are here to le…

  Here are some simple guidelines on using the Photography 101 Group. 1. Play nice, in other words respect one another we are here to learn and share, not to fight. 2. Please submit a maximum of three images a day to this group. 3. If you do submit an image please provide a description surrounding the image, how it was taken, why or the settings used (see here for a good example) group. 4. If you are looking for a critique on how to improve your photo please make that clear, placing a request in the Photo Help Desk is the best way to gain helpful feedback. (These guidelines will be updated as the group grows and we learn what works and doesn’t work, feel free to make suggestions it your community so help shape it).

• Guidelines for the short story group, Spherical Scriptings
  by Damian

  Welcome to Spherical Scriptings, a group dedicated to short stories. *What can you a…

  Welcome to Spherical Scriptings, a group dedicated to short stories. What can you add? / More groups will come in the future, so can you save your flash fiction, non-fiction/essays, multi-part stories, memoirs, novellas (hehe) for their future groups. Poetry already has its own dedicated group here What is the point? / This group is a home for short stories and their creators. Take us on a journey – explore dark depths, or leave us laughing in delight. All genres of fiction welcome. Participate! Write! Throw out a challenge; ask for advice. How do you generate ideas? What’s the best tip you’ve received? Constructive Criticism / Different readers will spot things you’ve missed. Do you want to know about it? If you would like helpful suggestions, clearly say so, or you probably won’t get any. / If you spot something and would like to make a suggestion, remember the ‘play nice’ rule. Instructions to add an item to a group Go into your ‘mybubble’ section. click ‘writing’ Find the piece you want to add, and hit ‘edit’ Now, right down the bottom will be tick boxes for the groups you’re in, click the group you want to add it to Save changes, and you’re done!

• TUTORIAL: How to make a calendar
  by Patricia Montgomery

  This tutorial is mainly for the bubblers that are new to navigating the RB site. The calendars are quite easy to create. The most i…

  This tutorial is mainly for the bubblers that are new to navigating the RB site. The calendars are quite easy to create. The most important thing to remember is that all images must meet the following requirements. Even one pixel below these numbers and it won’t work. 2182 by 1906 pixels for the main pages / 3271 by 2874 pixels for the cover page -Click on “my bubble” -Click on “calendars” (in the 2nd row of menu items) -Click on “Add a new calendar” (right-hand side of screen) -Add a title and description (optional, but recommended) -Add your cover image (When you click on the little down arrow, it will bring up a list of titles of all the images in your gallery, even the ones that may be “hidden” or “not for sale”.) -Then just start adding images, one for each of the twelve months. If you aren’t quite finished but want to save it, use the “Hide” feature at the bottom of the page. Then you can make changes without anyone seeing it. When you are ready to publish, then change to “Allow Anyone to View This Work”. I hope this is helpful. If you run into problems or still have questions, please don’t hesitate to let me know. Have a blessed day! / Patricia OTHER TUTORIALS BY PATRICIA Add Buttons To Your Profile Page Making Links Adding Examples (Card, Laminated, Matted, etc) To Your Profile Add photos to your profile description How to downsize example photos on your profile page

• General Guidelines Sci Fi - Multi Genre
  by Tom Godfrey

  a…....Artwork should be the original work of the artist and where stock photos or illustrations of others have been used, as part of th…

  a…....Artwork should be the original work of the artist and where stock photos or illustrations of others have been used, as part of the final image, permission should have been sought, granted and acknowledged in the text area next to the artwork submitted. / b….... Artwork will be removed if it doesn’t fit in with the the Sci Fi theme / c. ..... Artwork should be suitable for “All ages” viewing. / d….... Only submit your best work. / e…... Criticism should be positive and constructive. / f…... “Play nice” and have fun

• Oh No, you got rejected from the Digital Interface Group! Don't despair!
  by lightsmith

  Ok, so you submitted a piece of work to the Digital Interface group but it got rejected. 1. Do not despair. / 2. Do not feel hurt. / 3…

  Ok, so you submitted a piece of work to the Digital Interface group but it got rejected. 1. Do not despair. / 2. Do not feel hurt. / 3. Read the Rules and the chances are you’ll see the reason for the rejection. Especially note: In this group we do not reject because we don’t like your art. / We do not reject because you are not using a particular piece of software. The most common reason for rejection is that there is no creation information specified in the description, or it just says “sharpened in photoshop” etc. Read the guidelines or check out the descriptions of artwork in this group that has NOT been rejected. Sometimes we will reject is images are too similar, or if you submit too many at once. If in doubt, please feel free to email the Group Leaders and we will do our best to help.

• GUIDELINES for black and white photography group
  by Imogene Munday

  members, please read

• Practising the Dark Arts Guidelines
  by kathleen

  Occult, religion, fantasy, magic and mythology. A celebration of the importance of darkness in all aspects of art and creativity. / ...

  Occult, religion, fantasy, magic and mythology. A celebration of the importance of darkness in all aspects of art and creativity. For lovers of the supernatural, ethereal, metaphysical and psychological. The mystical and the fantastical… occult, religion, secrets and suspect… myth, legend, fantasy and fright… Not a place for the skeptic. This is a place to share your theories on everything that exists without fear of retribution or being burnt at the stake. Open to all genres and mediums, visual and written. Don’t take it lightly, mawwwahawwwaaawwwwaaa… ahem Please only add 1 or 2 pieces per day (that can be up to 2 pieces for each medium, i.e. you can add a maximum of 6 pieces per day 2 visual art works, 2 written works and/or 2 tshirts). kathleen Practising the Dark Arts no unnecessary nudity (by my call sorry) and no seriously psychopathic stuff / if it’s too disturbing for me you can argue with me why it should be re-posted… / thems the rules. promo /

• Unpublished is ...
  by craig scutt

  Some writers have expressed concern that publishing work on Red Bubble …

  Some writers have expressed concern that publishing work on Red Bubble will deem their stories ineligible for submission to competitions or publications elsewhere. As far as hard copy lit. mags are concerned I don’t believe publishing online without editorial selection (i.e. on Red Bubble) counts as having been published. As far as competitions go, Irina Dunn from the NSW Writers’ Centre kindly informed me that with regards to competitions she has organised, such as The Coves Historical Writing Competition 2007, ”’published’ means in book or magazine form and not on the internet.” I hope that gives everyone the green light to get their work on here for some invaluable feedback!

• On Competition and T-Shirt Designs
  by YourHumbleNarrator

  It is my belief that the t-shirt aspect of RedBubble has not yet reached its potential. What t-shirt designers must remember is that h…

  It is my belief that the t-shirt aspect of RedBubble has not yet reached its potential. What t-shirt designers must remember is that here they are competing with a superior aesthetic quality in wall art. The photography and visual art which produces wall art is of a far superior quality aesthetic value than t-shirt designs. High resolution prints can be easily achieved by said artists, while t-shirt designs will always be of a lesser quality because of the material they are printed onto. Thus, trying to make t-shirt designs compete with the wall-art side of RedBubble in aesthetic value is too daunting a task to be overly successful. A picture produced for aesthetic quality is one which draws-in viewers because they simply ‘look good’ to them. It is here that there is a severe disadvantage in aesthetically pleasing pictures – their message, if any, goes totally unnoticed. People looking at pictures want only to be pleased, and so the people producing pictures choose only to produce pictures to please. This appears to be the basis of the wall art side of RedBubble. This is also where t-shirt designs should be utilising a strong advantage. Humans, although wanting to be pleased by beauty, also have brains – therefore they also wish to think. It is this wish for thought that will, eventually, see t-shirt designs being able to compete on a level with wall art in RedBubble. T-shirt designs must appeal to the thought and intelligence of people – filling the gap left by wall art – and propose, above all, a message. This message is achieved by an alienation effect. The alienation effect is where a viewer is forced to be distant from the aesthetics of the design, and instead looks upon the message being presented – thus filling the aforementioned thought void. A t-shirt design must, therefore, not aim to be above all aesthetically pleasing, but to propose a message. Simple pictures and wording, with little minor detail, and still some rough-edges will force any viewer not to look at a t-shirt design for it’s beauty. However, if the aforementioned aspects of designing are used to propose a message, a viewer will think about said message. If the message is strong enough, then the t-shirt design will be popular. T-shirts have the advantage of being a revolutionary tool. Anyone wanting to get out a message will sooner sport a t-shirt with the message than put a print on their wall, because more people would see the t-shirt, and thus the message. While wall art is used for personal satisfaction, a t-shirt design may be used to communicate a whole chain of thought; to propagate a message. It is in this way that t-shirt designs will become more popular, as more people appreciate the message they get out, and thus more people will want to get out said messages. I so conclude that t-shirt designs must not aim to trump wall art for aesthetic value, but instead alienate a viewer in order to present a message or thought. If t-shirt designers are to produce designs to be popular on the level that wall art is, then they should follow the guide of this journal entry, and so create a specific culture of thought and intelligence to surround the t-shirts of RedBubble.

• Infrared Photography Group - Guidelines
  by lightsmith

• Seascape Guidelines
  by Mel Brackstone

  For the artist their work is much more likely to be discovered/noticed if it is trickled in.

• Guidelines To Waterfall Group
  by Jeff Burns

  Rules and Guidelines to Waterfalls Group Hello all and welcome to the Waterfalls group. This is a group created to hopefully gain k…

• GROUP GUIDELINES - the unknown species
  by Derivatix

  Why is it that guidelines just are not observed? Today I removed a shirt so I could put up another in the group of Best T-Shirts, only ON…

  Why is it that guidelines just are not observed? Today I removed a shirt so I could put up another in the group of Best T-Shirts, only ONE WORK PER MEMBER. Tonight I see that there are new members that have put up plentiful of their works. I am a group owner myself and as a group member I find it important that the guidelines are read and OBSERVED, that’s what makes a member a MEMBER.. Sure, sometimes it’s not easy. But groups that are called “Best” of something have the guidelines in their name already. So what’s so difficult about it? The Alphabet? I shake my head and hope for better times… Greets / Deri

• 10 guidelines for developing life!
  by adgray

  Remember to breathe! Stop and look at the sky, stars, sunrise, sunset, the flowers and the trees and your children laughing!

  Prompted by a spat of people I know having children and as I have 5 and am step mum/mom to 3 and adopted mother to everyones friends [Known as “Mumma Red” and “Mumma Rang” lol] they always ask me for help and advise so I wrote it down! I do have a bit of expertise to go with my experience / - 3 years education degree [admittedly still to be completed but passed not failed!], 20 years Scout Leadership, 2 years adult trainer, 4 years child care certified and mother for 25years. Ok it’s still a work in progress but it’s a beginning / anyone want to add to these I would most welcome helpful suggestions NB raising children can only be seen as the most valuable and important vocation in life for without the next generation what is all the rest for?

• Rules & Guidelines suggestions
  by DLKeur

  Here is what I hazily mapped out when I emailed RB. Anyone want to contribute ideas here so we can get this iced down enough to launch? ...

  Here is what I hazily mapped out when I emailed RB. Anyone want to contribute ideas here so we can get this iced down enough to launch? Each artist may upload one signature piece of artwork/tshirt art/writing per promotion. By adding the work to the proper galleries, they are agreeing that their may be proliferated around the net to advertise RedBubble, themselves, and all other artists in the group and on RedBubble. A signature work is a work which you consider best represents you and your work. It is one which you would, now and in the future, freely and proudly claim as a work representative of you and body of artistic creations. Scripts and codes produced by this group fall under the GNU licensing or open source for use by the RedBubble community for promotional purposes of RedBubble and its artists.

• The Artistic Nude Guidelines
  by Jennie Rosenbaum

  I wanted to write a specific post on what we are looking for in this group and what isn’t really appropriate. as it says in the descripti…

  I wanted to write a specific post on what we are looking for in this group and what isn’t really appropriate. as it says in the description, this is more about artistry rather than titillation or pornography. RedBubble has some well established guidelines on this subject but I would like to clarify them so that there is minimal confusion. The guidelines state: “No pornography or sexually explicit material is permissible. We understand that nudity is legitimate area for artistic expression but no images that could be construed as pornographic and no images that display genitalia.“ / This means that a small amount of pubic hair and mound are fine, labia are contentious and any depictions of the vulva will be bounced. I recommend staying away from really obvious open legged poses. With men, an erect penis is too much as well and I think it is safe to say penetration is right out! I would appreciate no more than three works added per day from any one artist in order to give everyone a well mixed group. I know there is a lot of controversy about censorship at the moment. these guidelines were worked out in advance to stick with RedBubble’s own guidelines. I am not running down more explicit nudes – in fact I’m a fan of quite a few explicit works. however, in this situation we are trying to present nudes that will appeal to a greater audience, rather than create contention. I’d like to make this a discussion area in the forums because everyone has a different view on what nude art should cover.. or uncover.

• Group Guidelines for Panorama Group Members
  by David Iori

  Hi and welcome to the Panorama Group Please read and follow the guidelines bellow. A group dedicated to panoramic photographic im…

  Hi and welcome to the Panorama Group Please read and follow the guidelines bellow. A group dedicated to panoramic photographic images – perhaps the most challenging, but rewarding of all photographs to take. The key criteria of this group should be that the image should attempt to reproduce the world as the human eye naturally sees it. The human field of view is close to 180 degrees. 1. Panoramas submitted should be within a ratio of 1:3 to 1:5 which is One (1) picture high and by three (3) pictures wide minimum that’s 1:3 format 2. NO BOARDERS WILL BE ACCEPTED 3. Only PHOTOGRAPHS will be accepted 4. Only ONE upload a day 5. Please only upload your very BEST photos – we would like to ensure and continue a high standard of work in this group 6. Upload work that complies with the Redbubble Guidelines 7. Any questions or suggestions – Bubblemail me.

• UPDATED 'Drawn to Cotton' guidelines
  by tambatoys

  Here are the guidelines. / Basically the work for this group is- DRAWING for T-shirts. Your OWN Drawings ie scanned or done in illus…

  Here are the guidelines. / Basically the work for this group is- DRAWING for T-shirts. Your OWN Drawings ie scanned or done in illustrator with the pen tool etc NO PHOTOS of yours or anybodies ‘made into drawings’ by filters etc / NO FOUND images/or your photos made into collages etc. / NO TEXT ONLY Please remove any work that you may have mis-loaded into this group. / (not that they are bad just not for this group:) I am not trying to be elitist :) just keeping a theme. cheers / tambatoys

• Film Photography Group
  by Jared Poole

  I’d just like to add a few little things which I feel we should all abide by: 1. The obvious ‘no digital’ rule… Images which have …

  I’d just like to add a few little things which I feel we should all abide by: 1. The obvious ‘no digital’ rule… Images which have been scanned from the original film/print and digitally corrected (contrast/brightness/etc, but nothing more) are acceptable. Also make sure you comply with RedBubble’s rules and guidelines. It would also be appreciated if the subject of journal entries focused on film in one form or another. 2. No limit on artworks uploaded. 3. Please try and keep it friendly... Constructive criticism is encouraged, but it is recommended this be done through Bubblemail. If anyone disagrees with these, or I have rejected a film piece which you can prove (in any way possible) is genuine, feel free to contact me, either via Bubblemail or comment here. Remember this is a group which is for both showing off your own work and helping others improve… Hopefully we’ll all get a little better. Thanks, Jared