How to create Digital Wall Art for Etsy | MY SECRET WORKFLOW explained! | Sizing, Resolution, GIMP 

You're the only creator that has explained the sizing SO WELL! Thank you so so so much

Hi Brittany, I just wanted to clear up the DPI and PPI for you. The DPI refers to the actual printer resolution. So 300 dots per inch means the printer used 300 dots in one inch from left to right then drops down one line and repeats whether it drops on the right and returns left or resets on the left and then starts the next line. The dots do not have a standard size and you can get somewhat different results from printers starting from the old dot matrix printers to the newest printers whether they are laser or ink jet. Pixels per inch refer to digital quality only and should not be interchangeably with DPI. Think of it this way, PPi is like a camera lens, less PPI the more out of focus it becomes, i.e. the more pixelated it is. The more in focus it is the sharper and more detail you get, i.e. the higher the PPI the more detail and sharper the image is. The image will be the same size on your computer monitor, it does not get any larger or smaller only sharper or more pixelated. The less PPI the worse the picture, the more PPI the better the picture. Hope this helps. :) Great video and you certainly helped me with it. Thanks. :)

I’ve made myself a script that automates the whole process - just 1 click and my 1 large file is resized proportionally from the middle centre to 6 different sizes and saved with the filenames including their sizes. I was getting sick of spending so much time doing this 1 size at a time. If you can learn about scripts and use them for repetitive tasks, your productivity will improve once you have a suitable script, and you can focus on enjoying the art creation process more.

I honestly cannot thank you enough for this amazingly broken-down video. I almost gave up and hit 'the wall' with my Etsy shop and creating digital prints until I watched this video. So so amazing what you've done for the Etsy seller community so thank you. I listed my first artwork today after wrapping my head around it all. (I thought it would take me much longer so deeply, thankyou).

This was just perfect!!! I have been confused for months about sizing and you just explained everything in the easiest way possible!!! Loved it

OMG this video taught me so much, things I never even knew you should look into before making art to sell. I thought when you select a size to make that is the size you have to print, I heard about pixels, but never thought it would play a factor in my art postings. Also, having the ratio files for the customer to choose from is better than giving them a select few sizes to choose from. I definitely learned a lot from this video, you are right that people would charge to learn all this but from your struggles as a beginner at one time you know what it's like to not know or understand what you are trying to learn and cannot find that help because you have to pay to learn and to pay to learn is a little crazy... Therefore, I Thank you for your time and greatly appreciate it.

Ahaha such a chaotic video but you explained all of it brilliantly 🥰 Just starting to take my etsy seriously so this is great to know, thank you for taking the time to go in depth into everything

Thank you so much for this clear, easy-to-follow video! I've been working on opening a digital art store on Etsy for a few months. I had hit a wall of overthinking things (ESPECIALLY sizing), and you helped me knock it down. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

So helpful! Big thank you, Brittany! I also love how you make the video in so relaxed way, no polished phrases, just go with the flow ❤

You are amazing, Brittany! Thank you so much for your clear explanation and demonstrations on the topic of sizing digital wall art. I had a cloud over my head on this topic. I feel truly enlightened on sizing now. I will go back and review it just to make sure I understood all the information you gave. I suggest this as a must-watch video for clarity on this subject🌺

This is exactly what I have been looking for; thank you so much for making it available and free to everyone struggling to wrap their heads around this information. The first thing you need to choose before creating digital art is what canvas size to work on, so despite having the program for making art ready to use on my device and the ideas already in my head, I have felt unable to begin the process, which has been so discouraging. Your explanation covered everything I was unsure of or had more questions about, and now I can finally start this process with confidence! I feel officially unstuck, and for that, you have my sincere and abundant gratitude!

AWESOME Brittany!! Thank you SO much for sharing what you have learned to take the legwork out of the process for the rest of us! Great job!

Yeah, wow. You are awesome. I've been looking for the logistics of the sizing/creating the actual digital art files, and you NAILED this. I paid for a course and didn't even get half the information you covered here. I am so grateful for you, and your genuine demeanor has gotten you a new subscriber! ❤️

Hands down best explanation of sizing! I was struggling so badly with this to the point of almost giving up but you made things so much easier, THANK YOU so much!!!

This is gold! Thank you Brittany for helping me over this hurdle.

this was an absolutely incredible walk-through. as a tech savvy artist, this was the perfect blend of ‘in to the weeds’ and beginner language for anybody starting out in the realm of digital art selling. thank you, thank you so much! also, i absolutely love your artwork ❤

You are so good hearted to share this with us. I have never subscribed after only watching one video of someone's channel but your generosity and ability to explain this changed that. SUBSCRIBED!!!

This is very good content and exactly what I needed to find out as I'm just now getting started with putting art online. Thank you Brittany for your generosity, and I found your content style of delivery very refreshing. Everyone has their own style, but I felt relaxed listening because it wasn't a hundred rapid cuts of super fast talking which seems to be the YT standard approach. Thanks again, this was extremely helpful. Comment below compliments your "genuine demeanor" and I second that!

I appreciate how you explain such a hard topic (to someone who is new to this) in a way that helps me truly understand the ratios, file sizes, pixels, etc... by breaking down the properties of each file. Thank you so much for truly helping and not charging for this information. Starting a shop is overwhelming and your kindness to help guide us is amazing and so appreciated, thank you!!

This is amazing! Thank you for such an indepth take on it. I’m planning on starting my first etsy shop with printable art and this video is so helpful. Also, I love the fact that you admit to not know everything and are not affraid to use google. I rarely find tutorial people who are so relatable and not overwhelming. This really helps me feel like I can do it too. Thank you for being awesome ❤️

Thank you so much for this! It is so helpful. Beautiful, compelling and meaningful stuff btw in your art. On this journey and just beginning so this is so soooo helpful.

Hi Brittany, I just started out on Etsy and your tutorial really helped me get on the right trajectory. Thanks a million and keep on being a pathfinder.

Oh my god I actually love you. Thank you so much this was the most helpful video about digital wall art creation I've come across. Most of the other videos don't tell people that their art should be a certain amount of pixels per inch and I wonder how many have gotten bad reviews because of that. Thank you again!!!

EXCELLENT TUTORIAL! Thank you, Brittany! Keep on shining!! You now have a fan forever!!

EDIT 7/13: PLEASE do not contact me with questions on Etsy. I'd love to help you, but Etsy measures seller's performance based on how quickly we respond to direct messages. Please leave that space for customers and leave your questions for me here on RU-vid and I'll address them to the best of my ability. Thank you! Hi everyone!! Sorry for some occasional audio issues, don't know what that's about. I just wanted to say you don't HAVE to use the 5 files/sizing options I use. You can use whatever sizing options you like! But the rules I explain in the video will still apply for whatever sizing you pick 🙏

Thank you so much!!!! Yo are my heroine! I’m just starting to create my art and researching about it. I am truly grateful to you for content.

Hey Brittany, thank you so much for taking the time to make this really helpful and informative video. Trying to understand the technical aspects of sizing print files can be really confusing when trying to create them if you have never done it before. Your video was exactly what I was looking for, you answered all the questions that I had bouncing around in my head about how to create these print files properly, so thank you so much your excellent video is really appreciated. I've just subscribed.

Wonderful, the best sizing and resolution tutorial I have seen! Love your real conversational tone, succinct and to the point.. "The black screen of doom" had me LOOOOLLLL , it's so true haha, thank you! X

I’m just getting started with offering digital art on my website along with canvas prints and this tutorial is so well done. Thank you for doing this

THANK YOU! For taking away one of my procrastination excuses 😆 Been spending way too much time on researching this because I also prefer a simple and logic workflow 😅 awesome and simple explanation 🙌

You are the ONLY one that has explained this and in such a straightforward manner. Thank you so much. Now I'm going to check out your other videos.

Thank you very much I felt like i was stumbling around in the dark until I came across this video. The world needs more people like you 😀

Thank you so much Brittany. You are honestly very very good in explaining everything here. Thank you so much. Really appreciate all your genuine care and effort. I have subscribed and liked this awesome video :)

This video was super helpful and I actually was using GIMP a while ago for editing other personal photos, but getting into Etsy now, so I am exciting to apply your methods. 😊

This is truly life changing! I cant tell you how confused I've become with all the resizing etc... You've lifted the veil and now I understand. Forever grateful - Julie ❤

I am so grateful for you. Doing the godess' work. I hope the help you've provided so many of us is visited on you 3 fold 💚

Omg thank you so much for making this video and taking your time explain all this! I was so lost and confused about it, but I believe I have some understandings of it. However might have to rewatch this again. Also so pleased you mention about landscape, since I want to make art in landscape as well. Anyway freaking great video! ^-^

I’m subscribed! :) I’ve seen so many videos and thought I needed to design each size I wanted to offer individually. That felt so overwhelming and discouraging. I use Canva, the free account, which doesn’t offer the resize feature. I’m so glad to see from your video that only one design per ratio can be created and it still gives a client plenty of options to choose from. Thank you for sharing this!

This is amazing. You have no idea how overwhelmed I have been feeling with every single little task I need to do to set up an Etsy shop, and you literally helped spring board me forward with figuring out these printing sizes. The only thing left for me is to figure out how to do good mockup photos and thumbnails and I may actually have a product I can sell on the platform! Thank you so much! :)

Out of all the videos I have watched, this has been the best in terms of explaining size! I have been so lost and confused and left with more questions and you cleared that up within the first 10 minutes. Thank you!!

This is such a good tutorial!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH for being real!!!

Excellent tutorial! And I absolutely love GIMP. It gets more powerful all the time, too. So glad to see it get the attention it deserves (and goodness knows the price is right!).

So, finding someone on youtube that you resonate with, and "speak each other's language", essentially, is equivalent to finding a math teacher who explains complex math in the way you understand it. That's my roundabout way of saying thank you Brittany lol. I understood every moment of this video and appreciate you so much for taking the time out of your day to present it so clearly. Sending an abundance of prosperous and loving energy your way, my friend!!

Hi Brittany, Thank you for making this video, very clear explanation and very informative.I’m thinking to start my own Digital business online and don’t know how to start.While watching your tutorials I have an ideas make this things possible.Thank you very much.

Game Changer!!! I thought I was doing it right, but I was not. I'm glad I didn't get too deep into my shop thank you.

This was extraordinarily helpful!! I am just starting out and you explained it exactly how I needed to hear it. Thank you so much!

Very succinct! I've been using GIMP for a long while but you've taught me some important skills! Thanks so much, Brittany.

A1 is the second-largest format in the A paper size series. A0 refers to the full-size paper that is used for printing. In the past, we used A0 paper for printing, and then cut it into smaller sizes. A1 is created by folding A0 paper once, and each subsequent A format is obtained by halving the previous size, down to A6, and occasionally A8 or smaller, although I haven't seen paper cut that small. However, Yes. There are larger paper sizes available, as well as paper on rolls, which is a separate topic for discussion. EDIT done. (I went ahead and made some edits to that confusing text. I hope my changes have made it easier to understand now)

Hi there Brittany.I really appreciate you doing this! I really want to be like you guys that make passive income from online digital products but there is a lot to learn like Keyword research, good photos, etc.I really hope you can touch on those in the future and once again thanks for taking the time to do this because you didn't have to.

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I feel confident in moving forward now because of your your simplistic style in explaining the sizing of the art. You are my hero!

im so glad i landed on this, i already started an etsy page. and I'm freaking out. i did things backwards, i got laid off jan 4, sick with that lung monster thing going around for three weeks, and during that time ive been missing my sister as she has passed away due to an accident. I made art inspired by her.. i cannot get hired anywhere so ive been pushed to try and start this... and I'm in over my head. ive used corel paint shop pro. i think its like adobe paintshop.. I'm just glad i landed here. and now i have to go watch again with note and pen. I so appreciate you making this video.

Here to say how incredibly helpful this was! I wanted to offer these sizes when I first launched my shop a few months ago but couldn't figure out how it all worked but your breakdown was so simple and easy to follow! I work in Canva which doesn't go up to the 24x36in pixels but I figured out a way to get that same quality via downloading the 24x36in size to their PDF Print option then converting that to a 300dpi JPG. I'll be doing a complete rehaul of my digital listings (nursery/kids' room niche) to hopefully attract more buyers with the 20+ sizes benefit. :) THANK YOU! PS - Love your designs, just purchased and downloaded one for my little reading nook. :) will be sure to leave a comment, too!

Just a nerdy side note if it helps : Jpg is a smaller file size and is more compressed ( on smaller images of 72 dpi - which is usually any phone photo is at, you tend to see square shape artifacts) Png is a larger file size and uses "lossless" compression i.e a higher quality and a cheaper version for a tga or tiff files ( formats used by printing studios) People usually use png if there is transparency (a.k.a Alpha) - e.g. for logos or graphics for t-shirts. The choice of jpg or png is in the eye of the artist when working at 300dpi and if customers are happy, then nothing to worry about. I would personally go for pngs for that extra quality assurance peace of mind, but for something like this you probably won't notice a difference at 300 dpi. Also when zipping up files like these jpgs would result in a smaller file size and stores may have a limit so its usually the better choice in that respect for 300 dpi. Plus use jpgs on store images as they will load faster than others because of the compression.

Out of all the videos I've been watching, I've found this the most helpful, so I am checking out some of the other videos. I appreciate your candor. Thank you.

thank you thank you thank you!!! You are the only creator I came across who explained this so well and clearly and straight to the point.

Awesome! This was very helpful and made the baffling file sizing much easier to understand…you’re a great teacher. Thanks for sharing this.🙏🏻💜

Thank you so much. The only video I've come across explaining this so well. I must've used the right keywords this time when searching and so glad for it. Much appreciated!

One of the most helpful videos I have ever come across. Subscribed - keep up the awesome work!

Amazing can't thank you enough I have now learned a bit about Gimp and followed what you did and it worked. Thanks so much

You are so kind and generous. You made that easy. Thanks a lot Brittany

THANK YOU BRITTANY. Great video it has really helped me to understand sizing and ratios I can now move forward with a clear understanding. I look forward to future videos........ AWESOME...

THANK YOU!!! 🙏🙏 YOU ARE BEYOND AMAZING! 💜💜💜 I was struggeling so much trying to figure all this out, i nearly gave up. Sooo so grateful to you!! Much love and many blessings! 🙏💜

I love your simplicity in explaining the process.

I just found your channel and I’m so glad I did!! I’ve been trying to figure this stuff out for at least a few months now and I came across your videos and they are so explanatory and you’re so generous in sharing all your knowledge! Thank you so much this has helped me so much ❤

This is a great video!!! I have been trying to resize my art for months and was always left super disappointed when it came out blurry! A new stage in my art career has begun!! The age of clarity.

Brittany, I cannot express how I am grateful for what you are teaching ❤❤❤❤❤

Thanks so much for explaining these little details. I've been searching all over online for this for a while now. I really admire how knowledgeable you are about this stuff. 🙂

WOW. you just made me tear up; i am not exaggerating when i say this is the best christmas gift. all this which you described is why i have never put up anything on my digital site other than greeting cards. why is that? because i'm using canva and have a deathly fear of producing blurry art due to their px limitations. and my forays into GIMP for this exact purpose were painful because i do not know photoshop and don't have time to learn. i am eternally grateful to the youtube algorithms that placed your video in front of me. i use GIMP only superficially because even with GIMP user forum help, youtube help, the larger internet searches, I STILL barely know what i'm doing in that awesome free app. your video is an absolute godsend. i am now working on my first downloadable wall art and am doing so confidently. thank you. i am a new sub.

Brittany, thank you for the video! I've been wanting to add digital art in my Etsy shop and have been putting it off not knowing where to go with sizing and the ratios. I have watched a couple other videos and you by far made it easier to understand!!! Thank you!!!

O my goodness, you understood the assignment! What a awesome job! Thanks Brittany!

Thank you so much for being so generous Brittany! Best wishes.

Thank you Brittany I loved you video. So helpful and very natural. Thanks again and can't wait to see your other tutorials. I am just starting out so need all the help I can get!

This video is pure gold! Thank you so much! I honestly want to hug you right now. My brain was about to explode trying to figure all of that out.

Yes it was very really helpful! And you are one of the most authentic / legit tutorials I've watched unlike others requiring for money.

You are amazing!! I was very intimidated with print sizes. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! You’re golden and changing lives ❤

This is the best tuto ever. Thank you so much for sharing this.

Great video. Love to see you working through the explanations, very relatable! Thank you!

Love ur the the only one I have seen so far sharing this information for free

Thank you so much for sharing this!! As someone just starting out with my Etsy art shop this is extremely helpful! So appreciated ❤

Thank you for this!!! You delivered on the things that I was sooooooooooooo confused about. :)

Thank you I been struggling in understanding this sizing malarkey, you have explained it so well I will be heading over to gimp and having a go now 😊

I'm a total newbie, but your tutorial gave me hope that I can do it! Thank you so much.

I'm just starting out with digital wall art and I felt really lost until I found your video. Thanks for explaining the sizes so well!

I'm just starting my journey into creating and this was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!! As a beginner I felt file sizes to be so overwhelming. You explained everything so well. Can’t thank you enough

Hi Brittany, thank you so much for this video. Really really helped me a lot in my research for my etsy shop. You explained everything so well. Kudos !!

that was very helpful.. much more than the videos with 100ks views... I don't understand why genuine and good content like this doesn't have as many likes as it deserves...

Seriously, a big thank you! You saved me! I was starting to go a little nuts getting things to 300dpi with my ratios! You’re amazing!

thanks alot, really apreciate it. helped me to understand the this whole concept about the frame sizing. Keep up the good work you are helping the world out there. 🙂

Thank you! its great to finally have someone explain it all in easy terms.

Hey, Brittany, just starting out, so thank you so very much for doing this. So well done and explained. Thank you.

You are very kind to give us your Knowledge and Information freely. Keep up the great work your channel will grow. You're doing great.

I really appreciate you taking the time to explain your methodology so well. Very helpful. Thank you.

This was the most helpful explanation of the ratio requirements I have found! Thank you so much!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for explaining ratio!! I was really struggling!

Absolutely loved it! This is what I was looking for!

Heyaa Brittany! Thank you for making this video. I appreciate it! 😀 I hope you make a couple more videos regarding Etsy. Thank you so much and God bless!

This is precisely what I needed to create my digital art to sell. I can't thank you enough. Thank you...

I’ve been searching for this explanation for some time. Thank you for sharing. Very helpful!

Thank you sharing this information, your humble and authentic presentation makes it very easy to follow and absorb. You are a great teacher!