Guides
Guides to sizing, photographing and selling art
Choosing a size, printing it, photographing it, and showing buyers how big it is, with sizes shown on real walls.
Wall art size guide
How big art should be above a sofa, a bed or a fireplace, how high to hang it, and what small, medium and large mean in inches and centimetres. With the same painting shown at three real sizes.
Art print sizes and ratios
Every standard art print size in inches, centimetres and pixels, grouped by ratio: 2:3, 3:4, 4:5, 11×14, 5:7, square and A sizes, plus the ready-made frame sizes they fit.
Art print sizes for Etsy
Which five files to upload to an Etsy digital print listing so buyers can print most standard sizes, the pixels each one needs, and the listing photos that show buyers how big the print is.
Showing artwork in a room
Four ways to show a painting or print on a real wall: photographing it at home, a staged shoot, a mockup template, or placing it in a room photo at true scale. What each costs, how long it takes, and when to use it.
Photographing paintings to sell online
How to photograph a painting for a shop, a gallery site or a marketplace: light, camera position, colour, cropping, and the set of photos a listing needs, ending with the in-room shot buyers look for.
Showing art at scale
Why buyers misjudge the size of art online, and five ways to show it: dimensions in both units, a scale reference, the work above furniture, the same room at several sizes, and a person beside it.
Art above a sofa
The painting size for every common sofa width, how high to hang it, one large work or a group, with the same painting shown above a real sofa at three sizes.
Best wall art mockup generators
Six wall art mockup tools compared on free plans, prices, room counts, true-to-scale placement, sets of works, watermarks, video and AI: Situ.art, ArtPlacer, Smartist, Canvy, Bello and Placeit, with what each is best for.
Best website builders for artists
Eleven website builders for artists compared on price, free plans, setting up, showing work in a room, details with each work, domains, selling, phone editing and AI crawlers: Situ.art, Squarespace, Wix, Format, Pixpa, FASO, Artspan, Artwork Archive, Adobe Portfolio, Cargo and Carrd.
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