When setting up your site, you will reach a point where you need to upload your products and make them available for purchase. Below, you will find instructions on how to create products that are fulfilled through our Automated Fulfillment system and are sent directly to your fulfillment vendor when ordered from your website.
Since these products will be automatically sent to the vendor for printing, it's essential to ensure that high-resolution images of sufficient quality are used to create amazing print reproductions.
Image Formats and Requirements for Bay Photo Labs
Supported formats are JPG, TIF, and PNG. (JPG is recommended)
Files should be under 100 Megabytes in size
Files should be under 200 Megapixels in resolution
8-bit RGB files only
Embedded color space should be either sRGB or Adobe RGB
Image Formats and Requirements for Graphik Dimensions
Supported formats are JPG, PNG and TIF.
Files should be under 100 Megabytes in size
Files should be under 200 Megapixels in resolution
8-bit RGB files only
Embedded color space should be either sRGB or Adobe RGB
Image Formats and Requirements for PrintPartner
Print Partner is a Vendor from Ontario, Canada, and for connected Art Storefronts sites they support printing of images down to 72DPI. For information about printable size limits for their different media types (which is separate from the printable size ranges generated by the platform) you can refer to the product information on their site here: https://www.printpartner.ca/
Supported formats are JPG, TIF, PDF and PSD
Files should be under 100 Megabytes in size
Files should be under 200 Megapixels in resolution
8-bit RGB files only
Embedded color space should be Adobe RGB.
If you are going to be photographing your art on your own, please read our blog on How To Photograph Your Artwork for Reproductions. Here, we lay our specific recommendations on equipment for photographing artwork, as well as a checklist for the basic process using lights and either a 24MP DSLR or a smartphone.
If you only have phone images, ideally, you'd have your paintings photographed professionally. If that is not an option, Topaz Gigapixel AI is an amazing software that will help you with clearing up and enlarging your image's resolution. As a member of Art Storefronts, you have a discount of 15% with the ASFMEMBER15 code. Topaz Gigapixel can be found HERE>>
Once you have your files ready, please follow the instructions below in a preferred format in order to create your Automatically Fulfilled products, and display them on your website.
How to: Display the Image on your website
Art Print Store and Standard Store pages are designed to be Standalone background pages that are not shown directly on your website. They are warehouses of your website where you will store your products and high resolution images.
To present your products, you'll want to use Product Gallery pages instead. Displaying products from your Store page to your Product Gallery is rather simple, and can be done by following these steps:
1. Still in the Warehouse, scroll down until you see your products. There is a a section that reads Display Selected On Your Website.
2. Please select the product you want to display then click on Go just below Display Selected On Your Website.
3. A pop-up will show displaying your Galleries
4. Next to each gallery, there are links that
Quick Edit - This will pop up a small window that will allow you to change your gallery's name
Edit - This will open a new tab on your browser where you can edit the gallery properties
View - This will open a new window on your browser showing your gallery as seen on your live site
5. Please select the Galleries that you'd like to display on then click on Update.
Your images will now appear on your live website.
Uploading a folder of images
One quick way to upload images in bulk into your store, and display them on your live website is to upload an entire folder of images.
NOTE: We do not recommend uploading multiple folders at a time. Please only upload one folder of images at a time into your art print store.
Once you have your folder ready, please follow the instructions below in order to create your Automatically Fulfilled products, and display them on your website.
Video Guide:
Walkthrough:
Log in to your Art Storefronts Site Manager and click on the Art Print Store you want to upload images into. Usually they are located in the Stand Alone Pages section. Today, we will be working in the Art Print Store titled Warehouse - Open Edition Prints.
You’ll be taken to a new page where you will need to make sure you are on the tab labeled Products. This is where you’ll see the option to Drag and Drop your Folder.
Once you’ve made sure you’re on the tab labeled Products, you’ll need to locate the Drag & Drop area. This will allow you to drag and drop from your computer and upload an entire folder of images into your Art Print Store.
After the images are finished uploading, you will see this new folder added to your Art Print Store. Click on this new Folder name to see all the images from the folder on your computer.
Automatically, a new Product Gallery of Specific Products has been created on your website. Make sure to click on the Page tab, and you will find this new product gallery nested under your homepage
All the uploaded images will already be displayed in this new Product Gallery:
This new Product Gallery will also automatically be displayed on the Homepage:
What do I do next?
Since you got all your images uploaded, now's the time to start working on your media types! Figure out which mediums you want to offer and those that you don't want to offer. For more information, check out our video, How To: Enable and Disable Mediums in an Art Print Store