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Abbie Shores

1 Year Ago

2023 Suggestions Thread January

Post kindly
Suggestions only.
''DO NOT'' Post your suggestion in the form of a Demand or I can't pass it on

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Do not post site bugs or glitches here.

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Limit ''ONE'' Suggestion per person per Month.. No discussions.

This site will not give out email addresses to any members of clients that buys art as that would be a breach of information.

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Abbie
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Abbie Shores
Site Manager, Fine Art America | Pixels.com

January suggestions responses

If i know the answer immediately I'll add it here

Expressions By Stephanie - I've asked Sean for this
Karen Silvestri - we wont get this. It's more links for people to click and will chase buyers off. They don't like lots of clicks
Shana - have asked Sean for this
Donna Mibus - I'm sure Sean said no to watermark changes. It already says watermarks won't appear on images.
Rafael Salazar - I've asked our photographer, Drew, if he'll take to Sean about this.
HH Photography of Florida - unfortunately this is a party of compressing the images into thumbnails. I'll ask Sean but I'm pretty sure we can't change that
MG - I'll ask Sean how often they're sent out. It could be not often due to spam worries.
David Choate - So many people have asked for this, I'll ask Sean if he has any plans
Douglas Brown - yes, I'll try and get that implemented somewhere.
Mike Savad - already asked Sean about this but not had a response yet. I'll get on to him again
Jon Woodhams - asking Sean about this
Renata Natale - asking Sean about this
Shelia Hunt - no, for the reason that other sites image isn't as secure as this one is. We also cut a border around each small pop-up. Even if they stitched them together they won't get the full image. People can remove watermarks now very easily.
Deborah Benoit - THANK YOU
Glenn McCarthy - I'll keep hassling him
Jennifer - something i can do! And will

Everyone else... Sean will see your suggestions when he sees the thread which I'm passing on now. I've just responded to the first ones asked that i think he may implement at some point, or definitely won't

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Bill Swartwout

1 Year Ago

Please make it possible to block or hide forum members. Thank you.

 

Can we have social media links in our Pixels "About Me" section the way we do on FAA?

 

Shoal Hollingsworth

1 Year Ago

Can we add an Instagram 'button"?

 

Karen Silvestri

1 Year Ago

Can we create sub folder within one folder?

 

Douglas Brown

1 Year Ago

Our Art Printed on Umbrellas please.

 

Shana Rowe Jackson

1 Year Ago

I would like to have the option to be able to make an image private without having to put it in a password protected gallery. Just like a switch on the page where you edit that allows you to make that image private for the time being. I think that would help when trying to make edits to certain image listings etc.

 

Donna Mibus

1 Year Ago

Oh how I would LOVE for the existing watermark to be edited in two ways. First, make it more effective by either enlarging it or moving it from its hiding place in the corner, and second, make it say "This Watermark Will Not Appear on Your Product". Then nobody can possibly fear the watermark is going to be printed on their product (which I assume is the reason they can deter sales, cause some people don't understand that it won't be on the actual product)

 

Rafael Salazar

1 Year Ago

New Mockups for the Products especially the Art Prints - Thank You, Abbie - Sean
If our products look amazing We all sell More - Win Win.

 

Could you please work on getting the thumbnails and products to show the actual, true colors of the main, full sized profile image? As it is now, there’s a dull, gray cast on all of the products and thumbs and not the bright, fresh colors as uploaded. There are also issues with certain colors like yellow that don’t show the true colors on products and thumbs. Can this be fixed? Thanks.

 

M G Whittingham

1 Year Ago

On January 1st, FAA sent out an email advertising recent uploads from artists that people had purchased from in the past.

I got a full-priced sale out of that email.

I wish FAA would make those emails a more regular occurance!

Also, my sense is those emails are more valuable to FAA than many of the other emails that FAA sends out.

 

Western Exposure

1 Year Ago

Could we please get a Mastodon Button for the "About" page?

 

David Choate

1 Year Ago

It would be wonderful if a more efficient, quicker and easier way could be found to move individual and groups of images around the pages of our image galleries -- incorporating a click and drag function, if at all possible/

I, for one, spend a lot of time reorganizing the images on my pages and it is very tedious to do so under the current set-up. For someone who has participated in several FAA Challenges, I often don't want my submitted images to stay on the first page for any length of time -- keeping the first few pages of my gallery filled with some of my very best work.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

 

Dear FAA team, it's great to have your watermark in the corner of a preview, it's better than no watermark. Still I find lots of my images being stolen and used on websites with your watermark or with it cropped or cloned out and it does little to protect my copyright.

It would be amazing if you could offer an option to add a custom watermark to the center of the preview by letting contributors select that option. It could be in addition to your watermark in the corner or instead of it. Make an input field for the copyright text or use the contributor's name. That would be very thoughtful of you.

Thanks for your consideration. You are the best.

 

Douglas Brown

1 Year Ago

I noticed whilst taking a look at FAAs licensing options and i like what i see, but there is no link back on any single image page. If by chance/luck i get an interested party looking to license my artwork etc, I’d like to see a link back down by the Instagram/Page link area offering a License this Artwork.

For Your/Anyone’s Information when considering licensing.

The standard license allows artwork to be printed on products, but does not allow printing on Wall Art.

The Rights Managed Does not allow Printing on products or wall art.

Maybe the above could allow more options.

 

Mike Savad

1 Year Ago

I'd like you to block all AI scrapers from the sites we have here. I think there is a metatag NoAI or something, there are probably other things as well that can be done, like figuring out which bots are the scrapers, or just whitelisting the ones we usually want, like from searches.

I hate the thought that we are selling against our own work, i've seen quite a bit of work on their database.


----Mike Savad

 

Jon Woodhams

1 Year Ago

For groups, it would help the admins if we could hover our computer mouse over the thumbnail of a submitted image and see a popup of the whole work, at the same size it appears when you click on it. (It would disappear once the mouse was moved off from it.) That way, we don't need to click on all of the submissions to see them before accepting or rejecting them.

Thanks.

 

David Manlove

1 Year Ago

Not to discourage anyone from becoming a new member, but should there be steps in the sign-up process requiring they read the FAQ, or take some kind of survey that "vets" them before allowing a membership application to become active? Similar to how some groups have a pre-test (not sure of the correct terminology)

Or does FAA already have something like that in place? I don't remember.

This would be to cut down on all of the "newbie" threads popping up in the forum? Usually asking the same questions and getting the same cut and paste answers? (and to discourage spammers too)

I understand one can just scroll by those threads if they don't want to bother with them.

And of course, kudos to those who do answer them. It just seems so tedious and repetitive.

JMO



 

Toby McGuire

1 Year Ago

Would love the option to have new uploaded images go to the bottom of collections rather than the top. Most of the time I want to maintain the order of my images so after adding lots of images there is the addition work of having to reorder all of the affected categories.

 

I would like the ability to have a better or more custom watermark it very easy to crop out the watermarks here. Plus I have a few images where the watermarks do not show up because it is white so it blend in with the background. I also like the idea of new images going to the bottom instead of the top.


*Mike I have read that the programs for AI are programed to kick out any images with water marks when they scrap images. It might be worth it to water mark your images if you don't already.

 

Lucio Cicuto

1 Year Ago

When entering to "Discussions" I have to scroll through many threads that have been around for months and even years that "I" don't particularly care for. For example, I am not "currently" interested in any "A.I." discussions or the "Acronym" discussion.

My suggestion would be to move some critical discussions (Sticky) up to the top as reminders for new/old users.

Then add a button so that I can set a thread to "Hide". There is already a button called "Follow Discussion" with option "Yes/No". This could be a good spot to include the "Hide" option.

NOTE: There is the "Follow this discussion" which is added to the "Watched" Tab. However this is ONLY available if I submit comments and then I would need to scan two lists!

This would allow discussions to become more relevant to what my interests are.

 

Renata Natale

1 Year Ago

the ability to have more than 1 photo in a blog post

 

Shelia Hunt

1 Year Ago

Do away with the Zoom button that zooms in 100% on a small section of the photo. I know we can turn this off, but when Visitors click this, they think they are getting a larger preview of the photo! I would like to see the Zoom feature used to see a FULL SCREEN view of the image with the FAA watermark or our watermark repeated all over the image (similar to another POD site)... This rocks. :)

 

Deborah Benoit

1 Year Ago

I really do not have a request Abbie everyone else did that. I just want to thank you! Have a great 2023 everyone and sell lots of art and photography!!

 

Shelli Fitzpatrick

1 Year Ago

I would like to suggest a save draft function for posting artwork.

This has happened to me several times this month and again just now, where I am posting artwork, the phone rings or the pets need out so I am distracted for a few minutes. I come back and think I am finishing my post when I try to adjust the views or submit it it kicks me off the site and I have to start all over again.

if we had a save draft feature it would be the most amazing thing! Then we could always pick back up where we left off.


I hope I explained this in a way that makes sense. Thanks for considering! apologies if someone already suggested it... I didn't read through the whole thread.

 

I would like to suggest that a mechanism be put in place that suspends artists from participation on Contests if they are found to be flagrant violators of the contest rules.

 

L A Feldstein

1 Year Ago

Messages on greeting cards:

I just made a collection of my art that had Haiku's. I want to suggest to a buyer that the Haiku could be copied and inserted into a greeting card. On the main description the Haiku shows up nicely; but on the greeting card option for Design Details it shows up as part of the description and not as a separate 3-line poem and so looks really messy.

Can the description on greeting cards be made identical to the main description?

 

Rebecca Herranen

1 Year Ago

It would be nice to have the ability to add maybe one more image to show our work in a scale and room style to match the image.

 

Angie Tirado

1 Year Ago

This one I have suggested before, hope it's ok to request placemats again. Using earth-friendly materials like hemp or bamboo, or recycled materials if the desire is to use polyesters. In circles, squares and rectangles formats.

Thank you for giving me the chance to offer my input.

 

Would like to have the same side options for the 5/8 canvas prints as for the 1.5.

 

Please improve the packaging of puzzles. It can be done without plastic : a paper bag for the pieces inside the box or stickers to seal the box.

I saw a few bad reviews about this (including a very bad on one puzzle I sold) and here is another one today :
"Bought as a present. Great pic, good quality, but would prefer either a sealed box or puzzle in a bag. Seems like a regift if no seal. even just a little sticker on two sides to keep it closed."

 

Sharon Williams Eng

1 Year Ago

Like David, I would like to have a "shuffle" type button to just randomize the arrangement of images.

 

Pamela Patch

1 Year Ago


I would like "private collections" to be more private which would include hiding thumbnails of the images in the private gallery.

 

Jennifer White

1 Year Ago

Is there anyway to leave the past "sold" threads open? I try to post them in order but I wait a few days before posting next one and I'm always running a month behind. Would be nice the past month threads were open at least another month so we can share them.

 

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