Anitas Artypoos

[Gert van Santen]

The Dong schreef:
> Gert van Santen wrote:
>> So you can buy them as cards now - Excellent idea!
>> I am definitely going to order a couple :-)
> 
> That site is a bit picky, but still very cool.
> The images _must_ be within a certain size to qualify for use on 
> saleable items, I think between about 6 and 10 megapixels.
> 
> It's a shame I've lost the original scans of some of the ones that have 
> sold. I never did scan them above 600 dpi, usually 300dpi..
> (now doing 1200dpi on b/w ones)
> 
> It is possible to vectorise these images, smoothed edges and printable 
> at any scale unpixelated, but it is not easy to do so without the images 
> taking on a new form: that of perfect strokes, the artists hand removed, 
> so to speak. Scanning in mono does this already to a great extent by 
> removing any gradation of black naturally occurring, but that's actually 
> a plus. Some detail is also lost from the originals.
> 
> A lot of Redbubble is just people taking pictures of their feet or face.
> I guess some may agree it's art and buy into it ;)
> Whatever, it's still worth a sift through.

It's an interesting concept. I might try it as well. Just 
wondering how many people really buy stuff that's on the site...


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