Fine Art Discussions

Abbie Shores

THIS IS FOUND NORMALLY UNDER THE HELP TAB AT THE TOP OF THE MAIN DISCUSSIONS PAGE

RULES AND HELP

FORUM RULES
HOW TO DO THINGS HERE AT FAA, or FAA TUTORIALS (Temporarily opens in a new window at my own site)
Contacting Fine Art America For Support
Please free to ask for help here 'Post a New Topic' if you cannot find it in the Tutorial section :) Please use SEARCH DISCUSSIONS before asking questions in the forum. Most everything you need to know has been asked before and answered.
ALWAYS use a descriptive term in the subject area so that others, who do use the search, will find your post easily when they have the same problem.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright Infringement - please use http://fineartamerica.com/contactus.html
Protect Artist Rights Association (copyright group)
Copyright Schizophrenia Discussion in the threads

GROUPS

Creating and Caring For A Group
Official Suggestions List - Groups
Group and Contest Administrators
Group Adoptions (If you have a group but do not want to run it any longer)

VISITORS People visiting your images a LOT

Romeo
China
Guangzhou
and several others not mentioned here are search bots. We NEED them please read this, What is a bot? Or Search bot?

YOUR SUGGESTIONS (If you have suggestions for the site)

Official Suggestion List
Official Suggestions List - Groups

FUN and EDUCATION

WHAT IS threads - Index A series of threads explaining different genres
How to Debate
How To Critique Someones Work
How to ASK for a critique

Here is some reading for you :) Hope it helps answer any and all questions you may have about marketing, sales quality etc.

MARKETING AND SALES

Tagging, or Keywords and Descriptions
Evaluating Your Own Work To Sell – By Mike Savad
Marketing Yourself
Marketing Your Work
Innovative Marketing for Artists - Challenge!
Niche Marketing?
How Do I Launch A Local Art Show??
PRESS RELEASES what are they and how to use them
YOUR Print Quality - Please Read
One of the newsletters with some good info on

PRICING

Mark-ups/royalties

PHOTOGRAPHY

YOUR Print Quality - Please Read
How to Photograph Your Art
How to photograph your Artwork at Home
How I Photograph Art...
Let’s Talk Photography
Photographing paintings
Rich's Tutorial On Copying Artwork
Tips & Tricks for advanced painting photography

Vivian ANDERSON

Yes, thanks Abbie, but.......they don't appear in FAQ as an answer to people who ask there............it's no good me having the link, it's got to appear on the faq list, pleeeease, thank you so much.............

Abbie Shores

I have given you these links numerous times lol

http://1stangel.co.uk/fineartamerica/2011/11/08/how-do-i-put-an-image-from-my-computer-in-a-post/

or

http://1stangel.co.uk/fineartamerica/2011/10/07/how-do-i-put-one-of-my-images-from-my-galleries-into-the-discussions-or-on-another-page/

Vivian ANDERSON

Can someone point out to me here, where exactly is the tutorial for uploading an image into forum?? I'm asked so often, and think a link here would help and/or a tutorial I can copy / send to those who email me endlessly trying to find out HOW ..........

How To Upload Your Image into Forum::::::::??

That info is nowhere in Need Help/ Start Here, to my knowledge

Rich Scillath

I was just wondering bc I forgot and can't find anything but do we need a model release signed for photos to be sold. For example like for street shots and stuff like that. Thanx!

Abbie Shores

I missed these...

Glenna Yes.... mainly a bot
Jaxine How do I put one of my images from my galleries into the discussions or on another page? or How do I put an image from my computer in a post?
Natalie report to Tech support http://fineartamerica.com/contactus.html
Ricardo That our system did not have the actual town name where they came from

Ricardo Almeida

This morning I had a visit from "Somewhere, PA".


What does it mean?

Natalie Sweetabow

Beth,

First of all, thanks for all the work you do to make FAA run.

Second, how do you report artists who blatantly abuse keywords? A painting of prostitutes is showing up when I search for cats and kittens--and no cat or kitten is in sight in this artwork. upon closer inspection, this guy has horses, dogs, ocean, birds, etc. in his keywords and they are irrelevant to the image.

Thanks in advance.

JAXINE Cummins

Beth, how do i post a picture on the discusion page?

Glenna McRae

Beth, I have read the information on Bots and realize that they are important but I still have a concern about Beijing, China coming into my site so often. Gangzhou is on the list But is Beijing a Bot??? Hope I am posting this into the right discussion!!! Thank you!

Abbie Shores

We do not sell notecards I am afraid, but the greeting cards are not added to it at present. That may be done shortly :)

Marjorie Stone

I was wondering how you can contact someone to find out how to have greeting cards/note cards added to your selling in the iFrame Widget.

Bob Galka

Help ;O)
One of my contest members removed his images from his gallery... Forgot that they were in a contest. He put them back but they don't show up in the contest. And his image is currently first place. Is there a way I can fix this myself? It is currently in the voting stage.

http://fineartamerica.com/contests/photoart-challenge-number-3--anything-goes.html?tab=overview

Thanks for any help with this... just in case you can help here are the 2 images that need to be added back to the contest...

Andee Photography

Bump

Abbie Shores

http://www.prismacolor.com/products/colored-pencils/colorless-blender

Mike Morales

does anyone know of anything i can use to refill my prismacolor colorless blender? im a starving student with a project due soon! please help.

Glenna McRae

Hi Beth,
I want to thank you for the information on bots and Gangzhou, China!!! I really appreciate it!!!!

Shane B

No worries. Got it
Thanks

Shane B

Hi there. How do I post my art on a discussion?
Thanks muchly

Joan Davis

Thank you so much! Made the change and am all set!

Abbie Shores

Yes,

Please go to your FACEBOOK fan page the app is on now and EDIT PAGE
Click UPDATE INFO and go to APPS (left hand menu)
Delete FINEARTAMERICA App

Come to FINEARTAMERICA and BEHIND THE SCENES | FACEBOOK APPLICATION
Make sure your left hand side is enabled (profile) then the right (left MUST be enabled to keep the right working properly.

You should be all set again but, if you have no images showing, let me know

If you do not want the personal page to update, do NOT disable it but, instead, go to default settings and untick it there

Hope this helps


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Joan Davis

Is there a way to cancel it from this page http://www.facebook.com/Flatlandsfoto and add it to this page http://www.facebook.com/FlatlandsfotoArt instead?

Thanks again for your time!

Abbie Shores

Unfortunately only one page may be linked from one account


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See My FAA Tutorials CLICK HERE

Joan Davis

Hi There! I am another new member w a question. So far no luck finding the answer. I would like to use my Facebook pages to promote my art as well as my group members. Currently my FAA is linked to my sports photography page http://www.facebook.com/Flatlandsfoto. My shop is also linked to that page. I started a new "Art" Facebook page (so my sports photography clients dont get overwhelmed) and would love to link my FAA page and shop to that. Is there any way to do that? My new page is http://www.facebook.com/FlatlandsfotoArt. Any advice is appreciated!!

Thanks bunches!

Abbie Shores

Phyllis, you have a sticky Paster

what i do is copy twice

works every time

Wes and Dotty Weber

Great information/1

TerryAnne Groehler

Beth how does one embed an email addy????

Abbie Shores

Yes, brand new put up this weekend :)

Stuart Bracewell

Oooh. So it is. Is that a new tab? Not noticed it before....

Abbie Shores

Thank you Stuart!

You can now find this post permanently situated on the Main Discussions page under the top link Sticky Discussions :)

Stuart Bracewell

Seeing as I've just looked up this thread to use, it only seems fair to give it a bump...so...BUMP!

Abbie Shores

Aw Calvin, you are very welcome. Hope it has helped :)

Calvin McFarlane

Beth, what a wonderful thing you have done here especially for the "newbie" to the site like me. Very much appreciated. THANK YOU.

Abbie Shores

Firefox - Top of browser > Bookmarks > bookmark this page
Internet Explorer - Top of browser > Favourites > Favourite this page
Chrome - Top of browser, left hand side of site address > Star > Click and Bookmark page

Darrell Storts

I have never book marked a page. HOW DO YOU DO IT?

Stuart Bracewell

Bump!

A very useful page!

Abbie Shores

It is updated, it will show soon.,.. its just your cache not showing it on your computer

Abbie Shores

Glad it all helped Hollie ;)

Hollie Ward

I was able to upload a new headshot but only the large logo was updated, not the small logo. Any suggestions?

Hollie Ward

Thanks for the info re: uploading a headshot!

Patricia Cleasby

I found a number of fineart emails in my spam folder today - and some from people I've talked with before. As I normally just delete that folder every day or two, I cannot go back and check it. It just so happenned today my sister sent something and I finally found it there. If anyone emailed to me and didn't get a response, I apologize. I'll try to fix it.

Abbie Shores

HEADSHOT IMAGE WONT CHANGE

Yes, it is your cache on your computer.

Here are a couple of quick methods for seeing it imediately...

1. Go off the page and empty your browser cache. When you go back you should see it.
2. Hit F5 a couple of times. You should see it.
3. Right click on the image and View Image, refresh that page, hit your back button and hit refresh. You will definitely now see it.

:)

(Have added this to the Images menu above :) )

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Patricia Cleasby

Hi Beth,

Do you know if anyone else has had this problem loading headshots: I delete the current image, no problem there. I can upload the correct photo, everything seems fine, I hit Okay... and the Old Photo appears again! I have gone in and out of the website to make sure I am properly deleting the old photo, but when I upload a different photo, the old one comes back!

Abbie Shores

Thanks Evelyn :)

Evelyn Patrick

Bumping up to top of page

Abbie Shores

:) Glad it is doing its job

Dindin Coscolluela

Hi Beth,

Thanks for the help. Whenever I get lost at FAA, I always refer to your FAQ.

Good day and Happy Painting always :) Dindin

Abbie Shores

email accounts at fineartamerica.com and they will cancel it. Make sure you let them know what you want cancelled.
If you want to close your account at FAA totally, even the free one, email the same address (subject: account cancellation) and they will take everything off for you.

This is on the actual site FAQ page at http://fineartamerica.com/frequentlyaskedquestions.html which is for all the gallery stuff

Christie Arms

What about about like how to cancel POD if not interesting in 30 day trial?

Abbie Shores

You are very welcome, lady of the MOST excellent name :)

Beth Clark-McDonal

Hi Beth!
I've been a member of FAA about a year now and am just discovering some of these great discussions! I'm a slow and distracted learner.. Thanks for this discussion! It has some invaluable information that I will continue to refer to. Having a great need to get my art out in the world, (like us all), this really helps me see FAA as a great tool, in multiple ways, to make that happen. Thanks for posting such an infomative and helpful FAQ's1

Helen Wong

It's very helpful and practical. The bookmark also is convenient. Thanks for your smart idea, Beth.

Greg Coffelt

Hi Lissa, just wondering if you could explain that all again....I don't get it.