How to Take and Edit Photos for Redbubble that ACTUALLY Sell (Step by Step Tutorial)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ส.ค. 2024
- I'm so excited to share how I take and edit my photos for Redbubble and other print sites (like Society6 & Teepublic) in this video today! I decided to explore my own neighbourhood to see if I could take any Redbubble worthy photos and I was pleasantly surprised with my results! I've never actually gone around my own city to find Redbubble content so this also opened my eyes that there's great content all around us. I'll be sharing my complete process from how I found the imagery in the photo, editing the photo (on two different apps) and resizing the image so it fits all Redbubble products perfectly. I hope you guys see that it really doesn't matter where you live, you really can turn anything into a Redbubble worthy photo! This video was so much fun to film so I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it :)
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@Alexandra Strambu Yes, your work should be uploaded to RB as RGB, but to ensure the colors are shown on a printed item how you envision them or how you made them, you should finish your design, then convert it to CMYK (change the sautration to your liking) and then convert it back to RGB. Then you can save them as a .PNG and upload it to RB. This is important because prints are done with the CMYK color profile, which has much less vibrant colors than sRGB does.
I'll try to do this because there are so many plants and other beautiful things that can be taken here in our area. And I don't know about resolution, thanks for mentioning it. I've learned a lot from you. Thank you for the tips ☺️☺️
Yeah why not! It makes for great pictures :) Thanks for watching! Goodluck!!
Alexandra you are amazing, thanks for the motivation, I started on Redbubble 4 days ago, I hope it will go well. 😊
Happy to help! :) Goodluck with your new shop!!
What's software you use mobile and computer.
@@Amigospeludos7 lightroom
@@AlexandraStrambu Don't use a phone to sell photos! Get yourself a real camera.
@@02tifftaylor Tell that to 70% of people uploading and selling photos from their cell phone. The cameras today are good enough for Redbubble and other platforms.
Love your all videos! Never seen a kind and genuine person like you on this TH-cam world, you're sharing all you've got, really appreciate it.
Your honesty and transprency got you the subs. You deserved it.
I almost gave up on POD business, but you literarily motivated me back on track!
Hi, I choose 6000 x 7500 but my image can't cover all Tshirt? So, this perfect one is 9000 x 9000? Thank you!
Great video. I had some doubts on this subject, but now everything has been clarified. Thank you so much again.
Amazing! Glad I could help, thanks for watching :)
9000x9000 pixels = 81 megapixels right? Most smartphones don't go that high. So when you are exporting to 9000x9000, is it stretching your photo out? Or am I not understanding something. Great video btw
You are genius girl. I have tons of photos that I took at my favorite conservatory here in Chicago and I just need to cull them and make the magic happen. I also didn't know the best resolution other than 300 dpi of course. Thanks for sharing.
(been looking through comments) 300dpi is for printing photographic print or even art prints usually, for editing and cropping and resizing I'd really recommend photoshop. You can get it with discounts, or cheaper packages on the site. Because you can increase the dpi, and save the quality on low res/smaller images in photoshop. (gimp is a good alternative too)
For shirts and stuff, the resolution does kinda matter, but increasing the dpi will make the image bigger but won't fix it if the image you took is blurry or out of focus. a large, 200dpi image is fine for shirts, and other merchandise! If you wannabe serious about taking photos and selling them on Redbubble, invest in a camera maybe, because the resolution you can get in cameras is 200-300dpi. and be larger than if you took it with a cellphone.
I'm a photographer btw.
Thank you so much for this video! It is sooo helpful. The fact that you even went outside to show how you take the pictures and what things might be good was awesome!
Alexandra, I have just watched your great video for the second time. You nailed it for me. I always feel like I am behind the curve ball (also have an Etsy shop) and this quick tutorial for my phone pics is already helping immeasurably! Thank you so much and keep tutoring!!
Okay, I gotta say it, she is legit the best redbubble related TH-camr I came across.
Hi
thanks for the inspiration
technical question only, blurring automatically when enlarging the image. Do you solve it somehow or it is unimportant during printing
Thanks
I do believe I have found a workaround to increase the size of my images using Canva for anyone that’s interested. You need Canva pro and a canvas size of 4,500x3,821 add the image of your choice then when downloading, change the size from 1x to 3x. This has worked for me and the quality looks fine. I would say that this should only be done a few images/pages at a time as it can take a few mins to save. I tried doing something similar in photoshop but it took too long.
I can't upscale it like that without losing quality! So, how do you do it? Since it's not like you've put that design in your store either so we can check the quality.
Your Redbubble are so great for starters like me. Please keep on going😊
Yay! Happy to help :)
Hi how is it going its my first month I have 78 designs 28 likes but no sales /:
@@urbbylin Heyy, it's not going that well. I got less designs than you and also not very much likes. I sold in total 3 products but the money i get from it now is very low. I don't know what i can do to make it better :(
@@raniboon935 ohh I’m sad to hear that maybe try better tags look for the best seller products tags and use them
@@urbbylin yea i don't know. I don't think my tags are that bad. My shop is: www.redbubble.com/people/ranibnn maybe you got tips when you have seen it?🤷♀️
oh this was very helpful sweetie, thank you for sharing this !! i take most of my photos so this was awesome to watch x
Yay! Happy it helped :) thanks for the support💕
This was so good. Thank you.
Love using Prisma app for some photos of mine on redbubble
I haven't heard of it! I'll need to try it out :)
Thanks from Nairobi!! God bless
Fyi the 200 to 300 dpi is necessary for photographic prints not for the products... mugs clothing etc... 72 dpi is more than adequate for products and clothing, and will keep the file size down. 9000 x 9000 @72 dpi will cover their largest product. You might want to look into the difference between resolution and DPI/PPI as it's very crucial to not misinform on this point. I'm sure the settings you used would have resulted in a file size at least 20mb. Otherwise nice video... I had dismissed red bubble before, not any more thanks to you.
For photographic prints 240 dpi is good and the resolution will be determined by your cameras megapixel - eg. 3000 x 4000 for a 12 megapixel camera, which is good for large prints @ 240 dpi. For red bubble's largest photographic print size you would need a 50mp camera.
Ok... I owe Alexandra and those who read my previous comment an apology, which is partially inaccurate.
1) The dpi/ppi makes no difference to the file size. 300 is good.
2) 9000 x 9000 is enough to cover the largest product offered.
Only for photographic print is dpi relevant, and the size you can print at that dpi is determined by the camera's resolution (unless you upsample) I'm really not sure if a 9000 x 9000 @ 300 dpi upload will affect the quality of the photographic prints on the site... probably not as no such print is offered at the size of a duvet cover.
In conclusion great job Alexandra!
@@PhillipCitizenJohnson but they are offered as prints on duvet covers.
People, one tip from a photographer.... I do massive landscape photos by combining multiple shots. If you can use manual settings, you can do this too.
is it good practice to increase image size to 2x or 3x larger? cause it will not increase the image quality only the size. and i think it will not look good on blanket and other big printed stuff. do you often use this methods to fit every product on redbubble ?
Hi there. Thank you so much!
I will start a new store on RB, I will follow your tips.
I have a few questions please:
1_ Do I have to lower the margins in the start?( Have you done that already back at the time?)
2_Do I have to choose a profound title, description of tags to my uploaded work?
3_ Which is more selling according to your experience. Greenery, sea or ocean, or flowers maybe? Cities and architecture??
Thanks again. Loving the content day by day!
btw, you are so cute
Great video thank you for sharing lots of great tips. I just started my shop and can’t wait to add more designs.
This is a great idea Alex. Thanks for sharing...Cheers !!!
Thanks for watching :)
that's not how you resize images, when you increase the resolution you're not improving the quality you're just pushing out the blurred pixels.
Hi, I’m wondering how I can make my images larger to fit a duvet cover, do you have any advice? Thanks
I’m trying to figure this out too. I have a few pics on RainOnFoot store that are great huge but a few are blurring that I thought were rad photos
@@stefwilliams44 You have to use a real camera. You should never try to sell photos you take with your phone. The resolution is too low.
@@poorinthepnw1340 You have to use a real camera. You should never try to sell photos you take with your phone. The resolution is too low.
You bring the resolution up in photoshop but it gets blurry by the time u are at blanket size
Hello Alexandra, How do you take a photo that can become a duvet or shower curtain? Seems Redbubble wants almost 8000x8000 pixels to make a good all over product. I don't want to just stretch the blur to make image larger. Thanks
Thank you so much for making this! Super helpful.
Lovely pictures! Thank you for sharing 🙌
Thank you! :) thanks for watching🤩
Hey! Alex I’ve just discovered your channel recently and I really love your content it’s super helpful and you simplify the work process and make it easier thank you so much 💐🦋 I have a question and I hope you will answer what about the copyright issues is it safe to edit the pictures on other apps like lr, pics art,....
Bugs, acorns, leaves, tree barks... there's a lot of stuff!
:)
so I can take pics with my phone and the quality would fine for redbubble!?
I have tons of shots in my phone! let me get to editing and uploading!
Yes! My redbubble pics are a mix of phone and DSLR pics and they both turn out great :) do it!!
@@AlexandraStrambu would you share which phone is it? Not every phone does good quality for prints I believe. I don't think photos from my phone would look good enough for sales.
Great video! Thanks for useful content ❤️
Thanks you! :) happy I can help :)
Great actionable tips. You make it look so easy too. 👍🏿😎
Hey, thanks for the valuable content you just shared !
I wonder how one can calibrate the contrast to not get washed out colors in the end product? As there is a difference between a monitor screen and a real print ?
Why nobody speaks about this
To answer, you would want to read up on how to use Levels graph in Lightroom or Photoshop (find tutorials on You Tube) so that the highlights are not overexposed or washed out. Regarding monitor screen, find one that is 100 percent sRGB and Dell has plenty around the 300 dollar range for 2560x1440 pixel resolution at 27 inch. You would also need a video card on your computer to keep the color accurate such as AMD Radeon or Nvideo, sometimes these are built in on the system in some cases. If you did not have a video card on your system you can still get by, but colors may not be as accurate with some slight variation in color and contrast.
@@adrianvanleeuwen you have my thanks .
One question? How do you get them big enough bec I take stuff with my phone and Amazon tablet but when I uploaded to redbubble they are to small for the items I dont have a laptop.?
You use a real camera and not a phone to take the photos.
Alex is my hero. I learned alot from you .thank you alex
Congrats on your channel monetize. way to go.. ! keep it up! :)
Thanks for the support!!☺️
omg! she looks really beautiful
Today I started journey on red bubble. Wish me luck
How is it going? I hope you’re getting regular sales
What color scheme should be the images that we upload should have? I mean whether CMYK or sRGB or RGB etc
Alexandra keep up the great work ! Your videos are awesome and so good explained ! I just find you on youtube and i am starting to do this aswell ! ( by the way are u from Romania ? )
I'm amazed that you just use a phone for your redbubble uploads. Do you use it for your sky pictures too? They are beautiful.
Thanks so much for all the info you share! I do have a question - I have several horizontal scenic pictures that look great on some items in a category, but not on others. For example, it looks great on a horizontal wall picture, but really stupid when they put it on a vertical format. It looks like if you enable it for a category you have to use all the items in that one. Is there a way out?
you can enable and disable whichever items you want
Hi Alexandra, thanks for this! Really useful. I see you do 9000 x 9000...and i just tried it, and it is great, but it doesn't seem to work so well for the postcards and greetings cards? The image does not cover the whole card. Or is there a way round that please?
I love to take pictures
Increasing the size and resolution in such a way is a very bad advice. You just add interpolated data which adds nothing to the quality, in contrary, it will decrease the overall quality.
Thank you, subbed!
What happened with the one you scaled on the phone? It didn’t look like it went well?
Like before see the content, is trust channel, good job alexandra❤
So this size is best for all images then?
Alexandra You are doing great👍
I've a problem I created redbubble account and posted 4 to 5 designs after that my account showing login error not valid please sort it out
What website you are using for your winning photo edit???
Kindly please reply!!!!!!!!!
Canva! :)
@@AlexandraStrambu Thanks a lot. It's really helpful. I watch your vid, it really inspires me!!! :)
How do u upload a image and make it bigger cause mine is small
At this size,. it is blurry . Does red bubble correct that?
you helped me a lot thank you very much
Lightroom app is good too for editing 😁
Thanks Alex im your fan from Philippines.
i've had a bit of success with some text based designs, but any of my photographs or patterns don't get seen at all. how do you get your photos in front of people on redbubble?
None of my patterns have sold either...
And I literally have over 100!
Hi, i am a amateur artist, i draw mostly portraits of famous people. My question is can i use them on redbubble? if yes then what kind of tags should I use? cause my photos were taked down twice( once was sophie turner other was joker aka joaquin phoenix).
Yes you can! I would recommend fanart related tags!
idk bro celebrity arts are kinda in the grey area between the allowed kind of designs and copyrighted/trademark stuff. personally i would avoid doing that
Not without their permission. You run risk of them being taken down.
With some artists that aren’t alive anymore you may find some images that have been listed as public domain.
I tried Audrey Hepburn thinking it would be safe to use since she was popular many decades ago, but that got taken down lol. If you are getting a decent income from redbubble I wouldn’t mess with that. Maybe try a separate account that you wouldn’t mind if it were banned?
You can not unless it is super old like in the public domain
Hi Alexandra, How do you deal with RGB vs CMYK? or are all your photos cmyk?
Random question but did you link paypal to your main bank account or did you create a 2nd bank account to link with paypal for extra safety?
Can someone please tell me the software she uses to resize the image?
If you have windows, you won't be able to do it. If you have a MAC, follow the steps in the video.
thank you
Should I be concerned about removing meta data from photograph before uploading to red bubble? Thanks
Is it safe to use celeb photos for the collages ?
thanks for your video, Alexandra ♥️♥️. I got a question, do I have to use a personal or business Paypal account for RB?
Very nice try... Thanks from India
I love your videos they give me a better understanding of Redbubble and I recently open up a shop in Redbubble so I would appreciate the support.🙂
Can I edit the pictures from the internet and work them on redbubble ???
u can use paint windows Resize option there free
I have allot of vacation photos from Disneyland, would those work as well on Redbubble?
Awesome video
Thanks!!
Hi Alexandra.
you think we can use the images from free stock
I'm not sure, personally I wouldn't recommend it.. I know some of this print on demand sites don't allow it, while others might with some adjustments, but I've never looked into it because I think original work is a better option
pexabay has some great images royalty free, iv used many on redbubble no problems, only problem is making sales so far lol
Do you have any suggestions on how to set your commissions? Like how high is too high?
I just looked at the price other popular artists were charging (and calculated how much of a commission they put) and did somewhere in between, and now I just occasionally increase it by 5-10% every so often. I can make a video about this and test out different commissions to see what's too high lol
A lot of mine have been bumped to 30%
More great tips excellent!!, thing is i feel i want to open a new redbubble store, can i open a new shop side by side with redbubble ? i know you can with T spring , iv a great camera on my phone and this is an excellent idea, but taking pics of nature and general scenary do i just creata brand new red bubble shop and what whould i name it niche wise? nature, everybody would be doing that after seeing this video lol, oh i use PLACEIT to creat my designs for tshirts on redbubble.
Thank you #TheAsthmaCures
would you upload a photo like this to a t shirt? I mean, would it look good once printed?
Very good idea.
9:18 of course :D
PLEASE CAN I EDIT THE PICTURE FROM THE INTERNET AND WORK FOR THEM ON REDBUBBLE
Do you mean editing a pic you find on internet and sell products with it on redbubble? If so, that's not right, you have to sell there images/artworks made by you
What nice neighborhood 🖤
Please tell me where I can sold sketch pictures which I draw.
Redbubble!
What type of items would you upload an image like this to?
What catogaray you selling dear? 🔥🌼❤
Wow, this is really a cool ideia, going around taking pictures. Really hope you can make some sales. Have you consior evendered having a blog as well? you could make money off youtube videos posting there, plus adsense or even afiliate marketing. Good luck!
Hello, I have a question, can I put the same designs in redbubble and TeaPublic?
Yes, I had the same question and pretty sure now answer is yes.But to be sure you can read their terms of service page.
thank you!!!
So is it okay for 250 dpi ?
I have started an acc in Redbubble. Have you ever promoted your art works?
Do you have any recommendation for promoting art works?
Alexandra you are amazing, thanks for the motivation.
Can paypal account be made after earning money? please kindly tell me. lots of thanks.
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how to turn your photo from iPhone to 7632x6480 dimension for a shower curtain?
How can I increase the traffic on my shop page
Try promoting on social media accounts or joining Fb groups
I can't figure out how to upload mobile pictures with a good resolution.All my pics uploaded like in half and i can't use them on redbubble cus they are too small.Any tips?
Image enlarger site
Can you sell the same photos on multiple sites, or can you only sell it on redbubble?
Yes you can! I do that :)
Alexandra Strambu okay great, thanks for responding :).
Does it really sell well on Redbubble??
Have you had problems with the photo pics printing huge ok?
Did I missed out about pricing or how you sld named a photograph or what are the categories etc things like that about selling photos? Not sure what the the real use of us followg u taking photos outdoor....🙄
You are so pretty