How to Turn Your Art into Greeting Cards for More Sales
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video I walk you step by step through the process I use, to scan, color correct, clean up and create the files needed to take your art out of your studio and into the hands of your collectors by way of greeting cards. Below is the time-stamped markers that will take you to the individual steps if you know how to do some things already.
02:40 Scanning the Art
08:00 Merging 2 Scans into 1
11:08 Clean Up
14:00 Color Tweaks
14:52 Changing the Color Mode
17:36 Contrast Adjustment
20:21 Template Placement
30:03 Uploading Files and Ordering Cards
Vistaprint 5X7 folded greeting card page: www.vistaprint.com/holiday/ch...
My fine art website: www.SteveAtkinsonStudio.com - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Thank you so much , for teaching me a bit . I want to get my own artwork on postcards and stuff , so this will be viewed quite often 😊😀👍‼️‼️‼️‼️
This is wonderfully detailed and clear! Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Thank you for making a wonderful video with real time upload to Vista Print, this really helped me understand how to use the template and place my art. I really appreciate it!
Oh great, thanks for the follow up, and I look forward to seeing your lighting process.
Thanks Essie! It should be a pretty useful vid for lots of us artists!
Thank you Steve, for this very thorough walk through creating cards from our art! I've watched this several times and always find it so helpful!
It's great to hear that this one is helpful to you. I hope you're making some and that they are turning out great! Sincerely, thank you for watching, it makes the effort truly worthwhile.
Thank you! I have Ps Elements, but this very useful anyway. Wonderful well-paced for me explanation. Very appreciative.
Thank you! Very helpful.
Thank you for taking the mystery out of the process!
You're welcome Sally, glad it helped!
Thank you so much for the great video!! Wonderful and a detailed explanation! This is exactly what I needed. :-)
That's great to hear Leona... good luck to you and thanks for watching!
Awesome video! Thank you so much for sharing your secrets with us Steve. Great content and very professional presentation. Just subscribed to your channel because I know it is one I will be coming back to again and again.
Thank you for subscribing Jeanne! It makes me happy to know that videos like these are helping you further down your artistic path, because without sales, we can't keep producing. Happy painting!!
This was very helpful. Thank you!
You're welcome MI'chelle, I'm glad it helps!
Great video, Steve! Thanks!! You know... I had no idea that Photoshop had the Photomerge feature! Man! I’ve been scanning things in two pieces but using a taped-on yardstick to keep things in alignment for later, on-screen. Doh! So glad I watched this! Ha, ha!! Great info and instructions, all around.
Thanks Bro, glad I could help you into the wonderful world of Photoshop....grin! The yardstick is a good workaround if'n you don't have PS!! I gotta say, it was tough showing how to do this without using the shortcuts I'm used to using every day. It really made me have to stop and think where everything is nested, lol. Thanks for checking in!
Hi Steve... thanks for another great video. I've been considering Vista Print for some time now and thanks to your video I think I'll go and check them out.
Great Tutorial.
Thanks Bruce, I'm so glad you liked it!
Again Thanks for the info
You're welcome Mike, and thanks for watching!
Great info Steve! Your video hit perfectly at my lunchtime, LOL! Our stitching process for merging two scans is almost identical. Interesting to see how another pro artist does his promotional cards. I've only ever used Vista for business cards but may give them a try for this type thing also. Thanks for putting this useful video together.
Hi Steve! Thanks for sharing your lunchtime with me ;) Remember when merging scans required you to set one layer to difference and using transform, trying to make the overlap turn completely black, showing you that your lines matched up perfectly? HA! Glad that's gone never to return. So glad you found this useful. I have to say that I had added all kinds of tweaks once I merged the image, but it was waaaaay too complicated and had too much detail (and ultimately was unnecessary). So I went in and simplified.... and then simplified some more, lol! Thanks for the kind words and the comment. Vistaprint has been nothing but wonderful in their service, their color accuracy and the speed of completion. Moo too!
YES! And dealing with that slightly darker edge where the scan when off the platen and created a slight shadow. Frustrating. Do you like Moo? I've not tried them, I have a coupon to use them.
I use Moo exclusively for my business cards. You can order up to 50 (I think that's how many) different images on one side, as long as you keep the other side all the same! Awesome... and you can order square business cards, rounded corners on your cards, or the Luxe cards that are super thick and super premium! If you're into business cards, they can't be beat. So easy to customize and stand out from the crowd! Go get 'em!!!
This is a great tutorial!! Thank you so very much, Steve. I just sent mine to the printer, I hope they turn out as nice as yours. :)
That's great! Let us know how it goes 👏👏👏
@@SteveAtkinsonFineArt Hello Steve, I received my printed cards👏 they are just okay. Perhaps you have some suggestions for me to improve them next go around? The original was a photograph of a small abstract watercolor painting on a watercolor paper (it does have some texture to it). The printed card is much more blended, the edges of the colors are not sharp, could use a bit more saturation, and it lacks depth. I printed on a high quality smooth paper and probably should have selected the one with more texture. Lastly when i sent over my back the text imported as light gray not black though they looked black in the jpg. VP was happy to help me in fixing the back no problem. Wonderful customer service. Thank you again, I look forward to hearing from you and having another go at it. 😀
@@crowsnestarts1 Hi there. Sorry to hear your cards were less than stellar. Would you be open to emailing me your image and I can take a look at it. Also, if you can include a photo of the cards and how it looks, that'd help a lot. In your email, let me know just what the printed image lacks. It sounds like it could use a bit more dynamic range and saturation, is that right? Also include the back text that printed gray and not the black you were expecting. email me at atk1961@aol.com and I'll see what I can do for you, Steve
This video was so incredibly helpful. My biggest question is this: my cards sometimes have art on both side of the inside. How do I navigate that?
Would a photo of the work be the same quality as scanning?
Yes, depending on your camera's quality and if you use a tripod. Also, it's difficult to get an absolutely straight on photo of your artwork without getting a bit of glare on it. I've just found that for this kind of artwork, it's easier and I get better results with a scanner. If you don't have a scanner yourself, you may be able to take it to a friend or into a business that does art scanning like this for artists. It's what I do if my scanner decides it doesn't wanna work that day (it takes a sick day).