FAA - The Largest Art Site in the World?

[luissantos84]

Of the things an artist CAN control (who is not a blogger) on FAA, what are the critical value adds you must learn about how to interact with FAA in the best way possible? i.e. are there tricks within our control we should know or is it just upload, keyword and pray?

pretty much! sure you can promote it, I don't even know where to start, just to think of all the hard work I am tired already, believe I will have to wait for buyers from searches, have views everyday but not much luck, still have hope but won't dream too much, microstock is a lot more stable but its a different market as we know

[rimglow]

  Here's what I discovered. I've been on the site about three weeks. After two weeks, I could go to Google images and type in my name, and boom, there were about 10-15 FAA images linking back to my portfolio. So, that's pretty cool.

[stockastic]

With over 4 million items online, no 'curation', a weak keyword search and no controls on keyword spamming,  one's odds of making a sale through FAA's channels have to be microscopic.  Every time you log on you get to see a sample of recent sales, and it can be depressing; dogs, horses, docks, classic cars, celebrity portraits.  Most photos that sell are heavily overprocessed.   

I spent some time polishing and uploading 140 photos and so far, some nice 'bots have been coming by to say hello, and that's about it.   Maybe I can do something with this in the future but for how it's a hobby farm.

[stockmn]

A bit off topic but I just searched Pinterest with my name and a bunch of my images came up from Fine Art America.  A few had FAA watermarks but MANY large images did not.  The image without watermarks say they were pinned from FAA.  Not sure how these full page images of mine without watermarks came from FAA.  Maybe when you pin something from FAA there are times where a watermark is not applied?

As of right now I'm thinking that the chance for an occasional sale at FAA is not worth my work being made available like this.

[stockastic]

You have the option to add a watermark to your images on FAA.   I feel watermarks kill sales of 'art' and if you're trying to sell on FAA, you have to accept the risk.   But, I have doubts about this because the images are big and some people are going to grab them.

[ShadySue]

A bit off topic but I just searched Pinterest with my name and a bunch of my images came up from Fine Art America.  A few had FAA watermarks but MANY large images did not.  The image without watermarks say they were pinned from FAA.  Not sure how these full page images of mine without watermarks came from FAA.  Maybe when you pin something from FAA there are times where a watermark is not applied?

As of right now I'm thinking that the chance for an occasional sale at FAA is not worth my work being made available like this.

Do you have to be a member of pinterest to search the site now?

BTW, I just searched google on pinterest and my name, and have found my iStock pics almost certainly legitimately purchased, with pinit links right underneath. These are unwatermarked, obviously, and the size depends on the size on the site.

I don't think we can win against this pin thing.

[ShadySue]

I have my FAA pics watermarked by default. However, some of my more recent work I don't have on Alamy or iS so I left unwatermarked, as Art (as opposed to stock) is not generally watermarked and it looks amateurish on a 'fine art' site. Also if I find the pics 'in use', I'll know for a fact that they weren't legitimately purchased anywhere.
So I unticked 'watermark', but the default choice to have the watermark 'on' seems to over-ride the individual change.
Am I missing something?

[epantha]

Okay guys and gals, joined Friday night and spent hours over the weekend uploading 103 images, including some old digital paintings. Also scanned some pen and ink and graphite drawings and slides, and some original watercolors, but haven't uploaded the images for those yet (lot of cleaning up to do). Also have some stained glass ornaments I could try to sell, who knows? Seems like the site is right down my alley.

I like all the features available on the site and hope to research those when I have free time.
Here is a link to the galleries I have so far.

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/melinda-fawver.html?tab=artworkgalleries

[etienjones]

Okay guys and gals, joined Friday night and spent hours over the weekend uploading 103 images, including some old digital paintings. Also scanned some pen and ink and graphite drawings and slides, and some original watercolors, but haven't uploaded the images for those yet (lot of cleaning up to do). Also have some stained glass ornaments I could try to sell, who knows? Seems like the site is right down my alley.

I like all the features available on the site and hope to research those when I have free time.
Here is a link to the galleries I have so far.

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/melinda-fawver.html?tab=artworkgalleries

Nice seeing a few photos from Knoxville,  my brother went to U of T and my father grew up in Rogersville. 

[Smithore]

Do you think it's better to send the pictures in Srgb or adobe rgb, as the destination is printed support???

[etienjones]

Use sRGB color profile.  The fact is unless you are having prints made at a Speciality Printer with on site color proofing and pay high prices for a print, then large volume printers, whether inkjet prints or C-Prints (Fuji Frontier, Oc� Lightjet, or Durst Lambda), are set up for the �common man� who has no idea of color profiles.

I recently had a few Art Prints made through WhiteWall and for a test printed the same image twice, one using a jpeg/sRGB and one a Tiff converted to Kodak Endura Color profile which is the paper used for a Lightjet Print. Results:  Absolutly none that I could fine.  Both Prints were printed at 45x30 cm which was a 50% resized file coming from my 10 mp Nikon. Quality was excellent. At WhiteWall, it is stated that unless you convert a file to a Color Profile, then they assume the file has a sRGB Profile.

I would recommend WhiteWall for personal printing.

[stockastic]

Do you mean WhiteWall or White House?

[etienjones]

Do you mean WhiteWall or White House?

Based in Berlin, they have sites in many languages.  Here in the UK:

https://uk.classic.whitewall.com/?

White Wall, get it . . . .  "lets put something on that white wall", I guess.

They do all the printing for the Lumas Photo Galleries.

http://www.lumas.com

[Lizard]

Hm I signed up yesterday i uploaded some paintings i start doing recently.

So when do images show up after u push them , is there a review or something ?  I dont even see a pending folder o something and in uploads there is nothing also ?

Thanks

[Poncke]

You upload and thats it

[stockastic]

There's no review, no rejections, no restrictions.  But, no sales either :-)

[luissantos84]

There's no review, no rejections, no restrictions.  But, no sales either :-)

not very accurate, sure you and me a few other but the recent sold doesn't show that, many stock contributors (Elena, Sandra as a few examples) have many sales too

[ShadySue]

Funnily enough although I've only been there for a month, I've happened to notice three sales coming through from people posting earlier in this thread, and as people don't usually use the same name here as there, I could have missed plenty.

[luissantos84]

Funnily enough although I've only been there for a month, I've happened to notice three sales coming through from people posting earlier in this thread, and as people don't usually use the same name here as there, I could have missed plenty.

you got 3 sales?

[ShadySue]

Funnily enough although I've only been there for a month, I've happened to notice three sales coming through from people posting earlier in this thread, and as people don't usually use the same name here as there, I could have missed plenty.

you got 3 sales?

No, one single greetings card.
I happened to 'catch' sales from three OTHER people who posted earlier in this thread.

[Lizard]

You upload and thats it

Ok I uploaded 2 days ago , in upload page i named files, put  categories bla bla...

In my profile I see no images , I dont see pending folder or something , when do images usually start to show up in search or in gallery or in profile or anywhere ?

[ShadySue]

You upload and thats it

Ok I uploaded 2 days ago , in upload page i named files, put  categories bla bla...

In my profile I see no images , I dont see pending folder or something , when do images usually start to show up in search or in gallery or in profile or anywhere ?

They usually show up in your gallery instantly, but sometimes take a couple of days to become searchable. Sometimes my named (paid for) gallery lags behind if I upload to the general faa site and vice versa, but not by even an hour, and sometimes it's instant on both.

Added: while I was typing the above, a file was uploading. I just keyworded and described it and it's showing on my own name site and FAA. One that I uploaded early afternoon UK time (about ten hours ago) is searchable.

Added2: I wonder if it's slower on the free site (you don't say if you're still using the free uploads.) When I was on my first 25, it took a couple of days to be searchable, but they were still instantly visible.

[Lizard]

You upload and thats it

Ok I uploaded 2 days ago , in upload page i named files, put  categories bla bla...

In my profile I see no images , I dont see pending folder or something , when do images usually start to show up in search or in gallery or in profile or anywhere ?

They usually show up in your gallery instantly, but sometimes take a couple of days to become searchable. Sometimes my named (paid for) gallery lags behind if I upload to the general faa site and vice versa, but not by even an hour, and sometimes it's instant on both.

Thank you ,

Then I guess I have a problem , whatever I upload vanishes with no trace after i submit , and there is nothing in my portfolio

[ShadySue]

You upload and thats it

Ok I uploaded 2 days ago , in upload page i named files, put  categories bla bla...

In my profile I see no images , I dont see pending folder or something , when do images usually start to show up in search or in gallery or in profile or anywhere ?

They usually show up in your gallery instantly, but sometimes take a couple of days to become searchable. Sometimes my named (paid for) gallery lags behind if I upload to the general faa site and vice versa, but not by even an hour, and sometimes it's instant on both.

Thank you ,

Then I guess I have a problem , whatever I upload vanishes with no trace after i submit , and there is nothing in my portfolio

After you hit the big blue button, you should be taken to the file's home page, where you see the big thum of the image and the print options and cards down the right hand side. That's as soon as you hit the blue button at the bottom of the upload page.

[Lizard]

Hm I will try now to see what happends because i forgot what happend last time when uploading....