How to size printable digital wall art to sell on Etsy using Illustrator
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ธ.ค. 2022
- How to size printable wall art using Illustrator to sell on Etsy. You can use the same principles in this video for Photoshop as well as other design programs when sizing your artwork for digital wall art to sell on Etsy.
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I’ll show you my workflow and share with you the Illustrator files in the link below for you to use, all free ;) There’s no right or wrong way of doing this! I am sharing this information with you because I spent a VERY long time researching and experimenting different ways and came up with an efficient way that works for me and brings me the 5 star reviews we all want! Hope this saves you time! :)
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I cannot thank you enough for how explanatory and easy this video was! I've been trying to find a tutorial on how to resize images and start selling my digital artwork on Etsy and this was super helpful. Thank you so much❤
That makes me so happy to hear! Thank you for the comment and good luck creating artwork 🖼 🙌
Thank you for this video! I've been thinking about selling digital art on etsy for a long time but had been putting it off because I thought figuring out sizing would be a huge pain! This video is exactly what I needed!
So happy to hear that! Good luck with creating the artwork!
I have been looking for a video like this in months!!!! I have followed other examples but this one is by far the best option there is for my Etsy printables! Easy and fast; just what I wanted, I even learned some things on Illustrator! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TEMPLATES TOO 😍😍😍
Thank you so much for your comment 😄 and good luck with your printables!
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Thank you for sharing so valuable content! 💕
I’m glad to hear it was helpful 😄
Thank you! I have been looking for a tutorial like this that actually shows the whole process of how to create the various sizes needed for selling digital art. Thank-You!!
You’re welcome, good luck with the artwork 🖼
Thanks so much! Really simple and easy to follow. ❤
Glad to hear that! 🙌
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Thank you for your lovely comment! Good luck with the artwork 🖼
So helpful, thanks a lot!
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really useful video, thanks
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Glad to hear it was helpful! Haha yes the drain finally got fixed 🤦♀️
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@@HeyViviLondon Olivia puedes ayudarme tengo un problema en illustrator??
@@karimamazon859 Hey if you can summarise your issue in a comment here I’ll do my best to answer
@@HeyViviLondon I did all the steps, but when I export the images, this window pops up:
The file cloud not be written due to an error
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Hello Vivi!
Thank you so much for a helpful tutorial! I do have a question. Would I only need to make the 5 sizes that are outlined in pink, and then the customer would just print which ever ratio they needed to get a specific size?
Hello! Yes that’s the idea. You can decide which sizes you want to include, I just used those ones for reference since they’re popular options on Etsy. Hope that helps.
Hey I've been using this for a while and thank you for showing it to us! I just want to know is there any way to automate the process of the adobe illustrator size rearrangements so I don't have to do it manually everytime? I'm thinkig of a template where I just put the artwork image and it's aumaticaly fitting the artboard.
Hi, awesome great to hear. Yes there are Adobe “short cuts” you can create where at a click of a button it transforms the artwork into different ratios. I never use these because they end up distorting the artwork. There are also AI tools that will create all the templates at a click of a button but again they usually end up distorting the artwork so I don’t use these either.
I have been looking for this information,thank you. a couple of questions please, why do you use an "art board",I am not familiar with that? You don't send just the print on a transparent back ground? I had a couple of other questions but now i forgot them,LOL I need to go back and watch again. thank you for sharing .
An “art board” is basically like a canvas for you to create your art on. You should include a background color so that the file is ready for printing. I would only include a transparent background if you want to give your customer the flexibility to customise the background color. Hope that helps!
Thanks so much for the video. It makes a lot more sense than others I watched. Will the five art templates be uploaded as a zip so I can then use the other 4 file uploads for the size guide templates? And customers will be able to get any size from the zip?
Glad it was helpful! Not sure I understood your question but you'll see there is a illustrator file with the canvas sizes for you to use if you would like to. Customers will only be able to download the file sizes you choose to upload. Hope that helps!
@@HeyViviLondon sorry. The way I word my questions are bleh lol. I’m very new to all this and noticed that Etsy only allows 5 file uploads for digital listings. If I wanted to ensure costumers get each size in the template, would I download each artwork separately? Or would I upload the entire file as one when exporting? Because I’d also like to use your size guide templates to help costumers. I’m not sure if it’ll go in as a file or as a photo in the listing
@@rayeilmanning8350 Oh I see what you mean now! You can upload as many files as you like if you upload a zip file which is what i usually do. If the zip file size is too large you could upload as many as 5 zips. If the files are still too large you can always store your artwork in google drive and send customers the link to download it. hope that halps.
@@HeyViviLondon got it! Thanks so much for helping us newbies out.
@@rayeilmanning8350 you’re very welcome! Good luck with the art 🖼
Thanks a lot I was looking for something like this, this was perfect I was just wondering if something like this could be done in photoshop? I usually use illustrator but I've made a poster in photoshop and I'm realizing I probably should have started with the biggest size, I started with 18 x 24, would I have to create another with 24 x 36 for example?
Hello, if you use photoshop to create the artwork then i would stick with that program for creating the different artboards. You can set up the document with different size artboards in photoshop as well. If you do import them into illustrator just made sure you check that you haven’t lost any resolution bc sometimes that can happen when you import artwork into different programs.
When using photoshop, I tend to create the artwork in the biggest size I need, and then size down to avoid loss of quality however it really depends on the type of artwork. Hope that helps!
@@HeyViviLondon hi thank you for your response, I forgot to update this comment but I had seen another video explaining this, thanks a lot though!
So helpful, thanks a ton 😁 By the way is there anyway I can automate this? Because I have 30 images which I need to resize in bulk?
Thanks again!
You’re welcome! Oh that’s a really great question. There are keyboard shortcuts you can set up with illustrator that will speed up the process. I’m not too familiar with them right now though so I would search for another TH-camr to learn more about them. I also imagine there will be some AI features coming soon to help with the process ☺️
@@HeyViviLondon Thank you for your swift response. I did see a TH-cam video which uses action to automate but it was in photoshop. Nevertheless, thanks for helping and you earned a new subscriber! ✨
@@PrafulDhabekar awesome thank you! I have a friend who uses a lot of shortcuts in illustrator so if she shows me how to do it I will make a video about it.. it’s actually really good to automate things early on so I will put this on my to do list!
@@HeyViviLondon Sweet! Looking forward to that video 🤩
I know all my print sizes I just need to know if it's a digital download print that's full color (all the way to the edges) should it be the actual print size or do I make it with the white border already around it as my final print file?
That would depend on the printing company’s specifications. Since I have no control over which printer my customers will use I don’t include a white boarder unless it’s part of the design. They can always check this with the print company.
Hello, I would like to ask if customers will not have white-edged(boarders) after printing, if my images takes all page size. Because when i print from 50x70 to a4 around all image there is white boarder some people say that there should be some resizing done?
Hello, you will need to investigate your printer settings, perhaps it’s not printing at 100%
for etsy digital art prints, if you create art that looks great at all ratios without cropping out anything significant, can you technically, just upload one large file (like 12000x12000) instead of providing so many different sized files? Could the customer (or the customer's print-service) just get this one file and scale down to any size they need ? Or is there a downside to that?
Yes you get to decide the size/format you offer. There are certain expectations Etsy customers have with digital art files however that doesn’t mean you can’t do something different.
Hi! Thank you so much for the extremely helpful video! I have a question, I followed all of your instructions and wanted to test out printing one of my prints. I get an error message from walgreens that my file type is not supported. I saved it exactly as you said to. It says that they typically support all JPEGS. Mine is a JPEG yet it's saying it's not supported to print. Have you ever had this issue? Thanks in advance!
Hi, I haven't come across this issue however every print company will have their own specifications so I would contact the support team and ask them to tell you why your JPEG isn't compatible. Perhaps the file size is too large or is corrupted.. It's really annoying working with printers :( I hope you find the solution!
I am having the same issue. Have you found a solution?
How do the aspect ratios work with a landscape photo? If I’m choosing to do a landscape, do I just flip the height and width in illustrator? Idk what I’m missing here, lol 😆
Yes you can just flip the ratios. You can use any ratio you like, I’m just sharing some very commonly used ones.
Ah, ok. So is it still appropriate to call a photo that is technically landscape view an 18x24 - 3:4 ratio?
@@lisareiger9080 I’m not working with landscapes atm so I’m not entirely sure. If those are the correct measurements I don’t see why not? I would check out some other shops that have artwork in the format you’re using and see what they write, that will probably clear up any confusion there.
Thank you 😊
@@lisareiger9080 you’re welcome, good luck with the prints ☺️
What is the orginial size of the image you are using that you drop into these templates? thanks
I used the largest canvas size from the template. Then I scale down the image for the smaller canvases. (That way I never need to scale up the image.) hope that helps
@@HeyViviLondon So if your largest is 24 in by 36 in, your image size to "begin" with is 7200px by 10800px then you're scaling down, is that what you're saying? my orginial image size is 8000px so i would need to scale my image up to a higher px before using it? thank you
Hi, This is very useful and easy to follow content . However, I seem to have a problem. Although I have created 5 different artboards in 5 different sizes, the jpg export comes in different sizes than the sizes I created them. Do you have any idea why that could be?Thank you so much
Hello! Oh that sounds really strange, are you using the same steps to export your art boards or are you exporting in a different way? Are they slightly cropped or are they completely different sizes?
If you “export as” and tick “use artboards” option this should export them the size of the artboards. I can’t think of any other reasons why they would export a different size 🙈
@@HeyViviLondon Hey ! I'm exporting the same way and they are of the same sizes. I recently tried from art boards to files in the export section and now I am able to get jpg files of the sizes I entered . Maybe it's be bec I'm using the 2021 version of PS?
It seems ok this way though.Thanks a million for the reply!
@@eeserrr ok great to hear you got the right sizes. All these programs have so many intricacies which can make exporting a bit of nightmare sometimes 😅
@@eeserrr awesome, glad to hear it!
What if what I sell are all in square shape (1x1) ?
You can see what dimensions your competitors are using on Etsy to help you understand what size you can use
Damn, I just posted my first digital print & I legit took like 2 days cause I was preparing files in ALL the individual sizes instead of just the 5 biggest ones for each ratio 😂 (I'm not laughing, I'm crying)
It’s great practice 😄
last one your put the wrong measurement when making the art-board in illustrator , please check
Are you referring measurements I mention in the video, or in the download file?
Thanks you so much, really helpful !
You’re welcome, good luck with the designs
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