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Humorous Artist’s T-shirt. Show others what your made of. Also makes great exhibition wear for your opening. / . / Black print on white/colours available in folio! / . / Or there is a card version available here… / . /
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The internet has merged our minds/meeting wonderful new friends/sharing secrets never imagined/respecting space…...........but enjoying the closeness. Then again sometimes it is best to keep one’s distance! “Dying to get close to you”.............just words of a song I am listening to at the moment Dedicated to all on REDBUBBLE ….please enjoy My Signature! My Signature:Melbourne
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How To Sell Shirts (Hints and Tips)
by DieselLawsHi everyone, I am by no means an expert, but I do have some great, simple tips and hints that can help get you noticed and on your wa…
Hi everyone, I am by no means an expert, but I do have some great, simple tips and hints that can help get you noticed and on your way to selling your shirts. These may have been covered on the forums, but I wanted to streamline it a bit and put it all in one tight package. First, I recommend that you get familiar with copying images and links on Redbubble.com by reading the information on the forums to get a basic idea of it all. Take note of these ideas, and if you have any success since reading this article, drop the thumbnail of your of your sold shirt here with an embedded link to that shirt so we can congratulate you! —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— So here we go, starting with the most obvious thing first - 1. ONLY POST THE BEST DESIGNS IN YOUR PROFILE / I can’t stress this enough, if your design is not as good as it could be, it will bring down your entire portfolio – so go through your portfolio and be harsh in culling anything that doesn’t receive much attention or look as good as the rest. It is much better to have 5 amazing pieces than 30 half decent ones! 2.SHOWING A HIGHER QUALITY PREVIEW IN THE SIDE BAR / You may be aware that you can show a larger preview of your work in the right hand side bar, but this can often be the low quality image that we copy directly off the website. I would recommend for those tech-savvy people, to use a high quality preview file, showing the whole image or using only a zoomed in section of your image. This will give your customers a much better understanding of the quality they will get from the lines/detail of your work. You will notice on most of my works, like this / one, I have included a higher quality preview image in the right hand side bar, in this case it even has a custom watermark – ooh snazzy! There is a simple way to do this – first, after you have uploaded your shirt, go back into the program you used to make the design. Open that design and make it smaller – Width 500px and save it as a jpg. You can make it much larger than this, but I find it to be the best size. Then, upload the jpg to a website like Flickr, Facebook, Myspace or anywhere you can upload a picture. Then copy the link for where that picture is saved – _this can usually be done by right clicking on the image, going to Properties and copying the entire Address (URL). Once you have that link copied, Edit your recently uploaded shirt, and in the description box, after your words, put in an exclamation mark , followed by the link, http://example.com/image.jpg and then follow that with another exclamation point. Redbubble.com uses the exclamation marks as brackets to display images, much like the inverted commas are used to display someone speaking. 3. USING LINKED THUMBNAILS AROUND REDBUBBLE / Example: / Linked Thumbnails are a visual tease, advertising your work. Displayed in the right place they can be very effective. I would recommend going that one step further and displaying your best designs on your home page, shirt previews and in the forums (when appropriate). This is a great example of using linked thumbnails to display your other work – Here , and if you click through to his home page you will see rudeboyskunk has displayed his best work again, in linked thumbnail form. It is actually quite simple to display linked thumbnails around your site. First, go to your home page (by clicking on your name at the top right of the page). In the Clothing section, click on the View All Clothing link. This will display all your clothing works in thumbnail format. For this example (I’m using Internet Explorer), right click on the thumbnail you want to use. Go to Properties and copy the full Address (URL). It is best to open up Notepad, or Microsoft Word and paste the link into there. / Then, under the thumbnail you just clicked on, right click on the Name of the thumbnail, go to Properties and copy the full Address (URL). Paste this under the thumbnail link in Notepad or Microsoft Word. You should have something like this - / http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/clothing/bodycolor:black/cropped/ / size:small/style:mens/view:main/151516 EXAMPLE SHIRT.jpg (IMAGE LINK) http://www.redbubble.com/people/diesellaws/clothing/1572613 EXAMPLE SHIRT (PAGE LINK) Now all you need is to put them together (the end result will look something like this): !IMAGE LINK!:PAGE LINK Then next thing to do is copy that whole lot of text and paste it into your profile section, description, emails and forums. Do the same thing for every thumbnail you want to display. It may be a bit time consuming, but it looks professional and if and you are willing to put in the effort, it will pay off. 4. REPLYING TO COMMENTS/LEAVING COMMENTS/THANKING PEOPLE / No matter how many things are taking up your time in this busy world, there is never an excuse for not replying to, commenting on and Watchlist-ing another artist. This simple (but often forgotten) gesture will start discussions, and more often than not, increase the views of your work. Every now and then, I head to the Clothing page and view the recent works – then I pick out a few I like and comment them, and in most cases, favourite them. If their portfolio is really good, I will even add the artist to my Watchlist. When someone leaves a comment on your work, make a point to reply back to them straight away, thanking them for their comment. They have taken the time to go through the mass of submissions, to end up on your work and gone even further to leave you a comment! You should always thank them for that! Also, if you like an artist, send them a Bubblemail. It takes two seconds to do and it is great for getting tips and building a friendship. When I first started on RB I was really impressed with thickblackoutline , so, I sent her a Bubblemail (and added her to my Watchlist. It wasn’t long before I received some very useful tips and inspiration, and we are now in the process of co-hosting a group. If an artist inspires you, or you have a question, do not be afraid to ask! You never know what kind of tips they will pass on and, they may even like your work! 5. PROMOTING ON OTHER WEBSITES / I’m sure you are all aware of how advertising on other websites can increase sales. But most of you aren’t aware that the best advertising is right in front of you! Most people have a Facebook, Myspace and or Bebo etc. On Facebook, you can post pictures of your artwork in your Photos section – and put a link to the shirt in the description! This will get sent to all your friends on their homepage letting them know that you have just uploaded a new picture – think of how many friends may be interested to know you have just uploaded a Darth Vader Rocks” T-shirt!. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—— I really hope these tips help you and I would love to know how you went since implementing some of these hints. If you like, you can send me a Bubblemail! Good luck, Diesel Laws http://www.redbubble.com/people/DieselLaws / http://thinkingdiesel.com —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / LINK TO THIS PAGE – http://www.redbubble.com/people/diesellaws/journal/1574934-how-to-sell-shirts-hints-and-tips / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-
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One of my first picture taken over the week-end with the 1Ds Mark III. The dynamic range of this camera is simply unbelievable…
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Green leaves … of variety shapes & sizes … adds life to a tree! I’ve always thought of capturing the delicate network of tiny leaf veins …. finally its done! :)
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Two trains race each other to Richmond Station on a chilly Winter’s evening in Melbourne, Australia. HDR done in Photomatix, the 3 trains were all added from seperate photos of the same spot in Photoshop which is pretty new to me. Was then converted to a Sepia Tone in Adobe Lightroom. Click here for my other images of Melbourne
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This was a great day. / I had collected a lot of information and proceeded to sign a treaty with my mind allowing me access to the resources of the wasps. / Wasps do all the maintenance and construction work in my mind and they can be called on to deal with any nasty threats that encroach on my beloved machine. They’re a powerful workforce and I had been granted the use of them, after submitting my designs for careful scrutineering. / First we had to build a giant deck so we weren’t working where the problems were. Then a big Science and Technology building went up. Its the one with the flag showing a microscope. (I had a microscope when I was a kid.) / All that was needed then was someplace for the wasps to go on break, a few admin buildings and a giant dredger with which to haul up bits of mind. These could then be processed and healed in the S&T wing and put back. / Things are well underway here and the success of the project was off the scale I had set for it. Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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If only the tube was this quiet on my way to work! / / / / / / / Add dave7j to your watchlist »
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This one’s straight out of the sketchbook so its a bit rough and there are drawings on drawings. I really wanted to show it off though. I believe its conceptual virtue will see it through. / Here’s the idea: / I first got limited access to my subconscious leading from an agreement with my mind that it’d let me in to try to fix it. We were having a few problems my mind and I. / What it didn’t tell me was I wouldn’t be allowed to remember very much of what I’d seen there. There was no arguing, I was very lucky to get the access I did. Any time I’d dream or have lucid waking half dreams I could go there. My anonymous handler gave me a computer in a nice enough room to work in and I asked to be left alone. / After a while I used some other bits and pieces to construct a device that could project an image of what I could see on the workstation onto the wall. It still needed to be patched into the main securtity network to make it “live,” I never had any problems there though and I’m still not sure how I got away with it. I reckon I was the beneficiary of the good nature of some member of the security staff who saw what I was trying to do and disregarded his or her orders for the greater good. / I hid a large sheet of paper on my person on the way in one night and was able to draw over the projection and secrete the paper and have my escape with the precious data which I was then able to make into art. This then is one of the places I get my art from. / My mind wasn’t too impressed when it found I’d been at the restricted media but but I told it to remember who was in charge and to shut up or I’d stick a pencil in it. Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. Closeup /
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You really do just have to *GET OUT THERE*
by KitsmummaI was contacted this week by the owner of a local Gallery who, after a brief discussion regarding my work, I had invited to view some of …
I was contacted this week by the owner of a local Gallery who, after a brief discussion regarding my work, I had invited to view some of the works I currently have on exhibit at the local Library. They would like to purchase my book, my cards and my calendars to sell in the Gallery (I guess they’ll be like the lollies at the checkout in the supermarket, you know, the smaller, cheaper type purchases, the impulse buys!) and have commissioned me to create some cards for the Gallery too….................... I’m a tad EXCITED!!! You’ve got to get out there and talk to people.
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Canon 1Ds MkIII – 100mm macro
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Whose Watching You?
by Gracey“If YOU are one of the people I am watching (on my watchlist) PLEASE check this promotional page on my website to see if you are liste…
If YOU are one of the people I am watching (on my watchlist) PLEASE check this promotional page on my website to see if you are listed. Check the images and the links, and the spelling of your name to be sure they are correct. If you are on the page and don’t want to be, please bubble mail me and I’ll take you off. If you want to change the image on the page to another, please bubblemail me with the link to the image you want used. If you want your real name to appear along with your nic, also bubblemail me. If my name appears in your “whose watching you list” and you DON’T show up on my page, please let me know. It’s easy to miss someone when you’re dealing with constant additions. Although my personal opinion is that “no right click” scripts are fairly useless in the way of protection, I have added it to the page for those that think it’s helpful. Anything else…please leave a comment :)
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This is totally digital. No photography involved.
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Because this is about Photoshop, I did all the heavy work in Photoshop CS2. Story link here . I won’t try to explain step by step because it would take me a while to find the proper words. Let’s say this thing is at 3000×3000 with some ridiculous level of detail to make sure every link and sphere was well-placed. I used the basic tools of Photoshop, no strange things: “the only limit is your imagination”. I know, cliché. Lines+polygon tool and a lot of sense of geometric disorder/psychosis. Took me hours to arrange those lines and circles in the three distinctive patterns, plus I cloned the original design twice and arranged it with the distort options to give a sense of “deep” or 3D. That’s it. Hope you like this insane Genesis!
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Redbubble is Hiring - System/Network Administrator
by RedBubbleThis is for the tech-heads out there, or those who know one. We are currently looking for a personable unix systems administrator with…
This is for the tech-heads out there, or those who know one. We are currently looking for a personable unix systems administrator with experienced with scalable web applications, storage and networking to manage all aspects of our production, staging, and development environments. Our hosted application is built using Ruby, Rails, Apache, MySQL, OS X Server, XServe, XRAID, and XSAN hosted in world class data center. Working in our Mac based Melbourne office, culture is casual. Send us your CV if you’re interested, pass this onto suitable folks if you know them. To apply email jobs@redbubble.com with your CV.
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Feature #4
by LjMaxxI wanted to share with my wonderful, friendly network here on R.B. that… My image… “Red Skies at Night” (aka… Just like Matthews…
I wanted to share with my wonderful, friendly network here on R.B. that… My image… “Red Skies at Night” (aka… Just like Matthews) is featured on the Home page of the Spring & Summer in the North-East USA” group today.. I am very Thankful to Caren Schwartz for choosing this as one of the featured images shown.. This is my 3rd feature in various groups plus “Flowers from my Date” was featured on the R.B. Home page in late June 08’ A special Thanks today to my friend Thomas Josiah for helping me learn how to make & add Tee shirts to my portfoilio as of recent.. Soon to be submitted… ThAnKs ThOmAs! Might want to stop by his gallery to see all of his amazing Tee’s… Anyway.. I am grateful to all of you who were kind enough to show me your support and take the time to visit my gallery here.. :) LJM
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Are you on FACEBOOK ?
by Michael J ArmijoYep, I just cancelled my MYSPACE account, realizing it’s not as GREAT as FACEBOOK. For those of you hip enough…please join me there:...
Yep, I just cancelled my MYSPACE account, realizing it’s not as GREAT as FACEBOOK. For those of you hip enough…please join me there: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=613400719 It’s great for writing MOVIE reviews and BOOK reviews (my favorite part of it) besides keeping tabs with cool friends.
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Promoting new designs/series
by webgrrlOK, this weekend ive been making an attempt to look into how i can promote my designs/arts further once i’ve got them ready and online. ...
OK, this weekend ive been making an attempt to look into how i can promote my designs/arts further once i’ve got them ready and online. I realise that i could design something SUPER but getting the word out there, and letting people (the world!) know is another challenge.. Whilst RB is doing a great job with promoting mine and others arts out there – i know i need to target certain areas (communities) differently. As im not that great with written promotions, i tend to utilize more of my graphic skills, in getting peoples attention (plus the fact, i do hang around more in ‘visual/image’ places/communities) First project i thought i would try was to do a small showcase/preview of one design – showing the different type of products available with that design, the SunGoddess for example. Next, i have the aim of creating a ‘window shop’ to show the collection – which i have in two different places ; RedBubble (RB) and Cafepress (CP). My target audience is of course for people who arent familiar with these places – so its something that i can post in places (communities) that im active in (and have established a presence) like MySpace, Tribe, various forums, my own sites, Flickr, Zaadz, Stumbleupon, Blinklist, Digg, + lots more! Once again utilizing Web 2.0 to its fullest when possible.. Here’s what i did to get the link and info start spreading into the web world After making the graphic (above) i uploaded it into my one of my own site PHOTOARTGRAPHY.NET I made a seperate section in the gallery so that i can keep adding different showcase images for diff designs that i want to feature -and i named the area : iCREATESHOP. When visitors reach there – they will be presented with a small selection of whats available and with links to take them directly to the design on both sites RB & CP. / I’ve made a point to try and not double up on designs – and if you look, you will see that the SunGoddess on RB and CP have a slight variation. I just seem to think its nicer to do it this way – cuz it gives people genuine variety. I also make a point to try and keep the prices around the same. Once that was done, i posted the image also to my Flickr and from there, i utilized their ‘Blog This’ and posted it to my Webgrrl.Biz (wordpress) blog. So just by doing that and adding some description text to the image.. now those keywords, links and all associated will be fluttering around in the WWW next few days.. :) I will be posting the same info to other sites im member of and hopefully someone will discover my bit of art.. that they otherwise wouldnt have found.. We wait and see ;) I also made a banner – so i can add it to my collection and exchanges / / and i ended up liking the ‘icreateshop’ so much, that i went and bought the domain name too :P im hopeless! LoL
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Don't be stingy, Don't be Lazy, Help YOURSELF!!
by frozenfaPeople can be either selfish or they practice too much self humility.. i think confidence is necessary to survive. One must learn how to …
People can be either selfish or they practice too much self humility.. i think confidence is necessary to survive. One must learn how to be be thick-skinned sometimes and think like a businessman once in awhile.. we can’t just rely on mere word of mouth or just 1 website to promote our art. that’s just an excuse to be lazy. So unless we wanna die like all the great artists of the past, poor and acknowledged only after we die, we should do something for ourselves already!! Do some networking. Make more friends. Get more contacts. Know more suppliers/printers/artists. Start a joint exhibition. Print some namecards. Form a group in great and “in” networking places such as Facebook and Myspace or something. The internet is a GREAT place for advertising, and self promotion. If you’re internet smart, you can even promote yourselves without coming out with much money! Places such as Facebook, Myspace, and even blogs are in fact great for networking. in fact, i’m going to start doing some promoting of all my fav artworks in RB in my blog soon. And having read the entries at the forum started by Karin i am now starting to think of starting a blog meant for those of them who’d be interested in promoting themselves. And also form a facebook group, or ask RB for permission to touch up their application there. Then i wanna see how much we can all gather to invest, and from there, i think we can work out on a advertising plan of some sort, i hope. seriously, when it comes to spending money, people blanched at the thought of spending $10 and they expect to earn hundreds and thousands for free.. sigh.. there’s no free lunch in this world people.. you gotta work for it, just like you work for your art! ok… hmm.. i sound very different from the usual bubbly me~ well, if you don’t already know, i am not 24/7 bubbly and hyper. i don’t have an inner monster to humor people. i get very cheesed off when in contact with anyone who’re lazy or irresponsible or makes lame excuses to support themselves. This is why i am no longer working in any company.
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Making a Profit Because of Redbubble
by Stephen MitchellDo I really need to say this? We can profit from our art on Redbubble. I get the feeling people are not understanding this concept. ...
Do I really need to say this? We can profit from our art on Redbubble. I get the feeling people are not understanding this concept. Redbubble is merely and only our personal art gallery. It’s not a static destination where you stop and stare, but a dynamic gallery of photographs forever showing art that best represents what we’d like the general public to purchase. From Cards through to Framed wall-hangings, our work is available to purchase online. Redbubble provides a slick website that is so easy for choosing frames/laminates/cards/t_shirts/etc, purchasing the product and easy-delivery system. They make it amazingly easy to be a small-business owner. Or at least make a small to moderate amount of play-money on the side. I encourage all Artists to use Redbubble to get started, but don’t let it stop you in your tracks. It staggers me how many people are sitting behind their computers with tapping fingers saying, “OK, Now they can see me, they will come here any moment now to purchase my art!” “No they won’t!! You have to find the customers yourself. Redbubble enables you to purchase your own work … and then on-sell it. / My Redbubble Business In August 2007 I purchased thirty cards via Redbubble. I gave five as gifts to very close friends, simply blank cards without messages, but with a simple note … do what you like with this. / Some people kept them, others used them within minutes to send off as Birthday cards. Most asked where I got them from and can they have more? The remaining cards sold within 24hours of arrival from Redbubble! Then I emailed those people, other friends and family, showing them my RB gallery. I have repeat customers because of this initial free promotion. We order $150 worth of cards and other stuff each fortnight, either in pre-orders or for stock. I have a box of about 120 card-ographs in stock at anytime. My lovely wife keeps a very intricate and statistical ledger of all cards in stock, those sold and those on order. Clients choose from the gallery (telling me which ones they like via email, with the name of the artwork, the style they’d like it presented _card, laminate, etc and how many of each_), we order and receive, then we take it to the customer. About a two-week turn-around time. I’ve also purchased a dozen 12”x8” of the ‘prettier’ of our photographs on each of our galleries, which are easily viewed in an A3-portfolio. These are used to determine the appropriate frame and matte colour when clients choose them. Now that Christmas is gone, I can reveal that White Gums II was picked off my gallery by a work-friend’s mother here in Adelaide, I had it framed locally, and it now sits pride of place in their lounge room! I’m very proud of that!! From the corporate world through to the suburban billiards room, everyone wants a suitable image to hang on the wall. Because I have clients who prefer not to purchase online, I’ve made it my responsibility to acquire the final product and deliver it to their offices and homes. And this system works beautifully. (More about this in the next four weeks…) 12”x8” printing from TEDS , Rundle Mall, Adelaide City. To parody and plagerise a famous quote: “Give someone a fish and they eat for a day, give them a camera with with a zoom lens, and they can shoot the most beautiful carp every day of the week!“
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Karin Taylor on Facebook!!
by frozenfaHi Everyone!! / Just wanna intro everyone to Karin’s page in Facebook!! Yep! Please check …
Hi Everyone!! / Just wanna intro everyone to Karin’s page in Facebook!! Yep! Please check out this link: / If you’re a fan of hers or love her wonderful works, and have a facebook account, please do join in, k! =D Thank you so much!! Hope you like the page, Karin!! will continue updating the photo gallery~ =D
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