WHAT YOU GET:
Show your card to thousands of people!
This blog has over 30,000 visitors, followers and subscribers monthly. It is a great opportunity to promote your art. Readers include card publishers, editors, designers, sales reps and retail stores.
-Kate
HOW TO SUBMIT
• Send card by email to GCDBlog@gmail.com (1 card per email message).
• Send .jpg or .png format
• Ideal resolution: minimum 72 dpi.
• Ideal size: Exactly 600 pixels wide (it will fill the whole blog screen without a slow download)
• Embed your contact info on the art (see example below).
You can put your info on the design or below the design. Just make sure it is part of the jpg image.-Kate
HOW TO SUBMIT
• Send card by email to GCDBlog@gmail.com (1 card per email message).
• Send .jpg or .png format
• Ideal resolution: minimum 72 dpi.
• Ideal size: Exactly 600 pixels wide (it will fill the whole blog screen without a slow download)
• Embed your contact info on the art (see example below).
• If your card has a white background, include a black border around the card (see example).
• If your card has inside text, you can add a second jpg file in your email, but please put a black border around card if background is white. Otherwise it will disappear into the background.
• Send holiday cards during the holiday season. For example: send Valentine cards in January and February and Christmas cards in November and December.
• Use email Subject Line: BLOG CARD SUBMISSION
For holiday cards use: BLOG CARD SUBMISSION: CHRISTMAS (or whatever holiday).
• Be prepared that I might comment on card designs for educational purposes. Just like a book review, I often say why I like something and may suggest ways to improve a design. I'm a reasonable person, so I won't post cards just to criticize them. My readers and artists often tell me they value my feedback because they learn tips on card design.
EXAMPLE
→ Include Contact Information
→ Make sure your contact info is easy to read if it is 3 inches wide.
8 comments:
Do you allow only one submission?
If you submit more than one, please put them in separate emails. Thx-K
Kate,
I'm new at this. I assume I need to have it protected/ copyright first? Before sending?
Thanks,
Kit Grady
I recommend copyrighting everything as a rule for anything. By embedding your name in the art (like above) will also help remind anyone who might be confused about who the art belongs to.
I was told that copyright subsists in all creative works. If you can prove ownership of the work and the date it was created why should formal copyright procedures be necessary? Love your site, by the way. :)
Gill Harrison
The Poor Man's Copyright.... the easiest way to confirm ownership would be to mail a hard copy to yourself through the U.S. Postal Service... File it away UNOPENED!!!.... should the case be you have to prove ownership, It can be opened in court. I have used this for my songs as well. Respectfully, Woody Jackson, Gainesboro Tennessee
Why does it have to be 300 dpi if you are posting it on your blog? Why can't it be 72 dpi?
Revelle,
Because when people give me low resolution it limits what I can do with it. If they give me a high one, it's easy to resize it without losing quality. Yes -- eventually it ends up 72, but if I start out with good ingredients I can make a better cupcake.
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