Thinking of putting my renders on Facebook
Dkgoose
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Ok, so first off, aside from here I've never really uploaded my renders anywhere else aside from Artzone which was through Daz3D. I'd always put them on my phone and show people that way or on rare occasion I'd print one out. My question is should I just stick with a theme as to what I upload, or just go all out and post what can be posted? Some renders are just to try out a product, some get completed other just don't have a background just a character. Any tips on what I should upload? Thanks in advance for any replies.
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I upload to facebook so my friends can see what I have made.
I prefer any place other than facebook. Don't use it, don't care for it. I know users have their issues with devianrt art, but I have none and find it easy to navigate, unlike tumblr and pinterest
I post my tamer stuff to facebook. I don't put anything on Facebook my 90 year old grandma can't see. Images get shared and downloaded etc.
The problem with Facebook is that it compresses images; if you post on FB, you will get lower image quality.
That's the main reason I want to, some of my friends i don't see anymore loved seeing my pics so I want them to see, I'm just not sure how some others will react to the images, and I feel some of them don't understand 3D Art.
I upload on FB once in awhile to share with friends. A few things to keep in mind:
1. Only upload what you don't mind being "stolen" by others. If that bothers you, then don't post it. Unfortunately people troll FB and grab images.
2. I only upload a lo rez version with my signature. Never anything I have rendered for print etc...
3. Decide when you post if you want it to be viewed by friends or the public and be sure to set that appropriately.
If you keep that in mind then FB can be a fun way to share if that's where you hang out. :)
I'm going through and putting my logo on all my images, just decreasing the opacity so it doesn't ruin the image, and my Facebook is already set for just friends and family too see and I plan on even limiting who can see it on my list, I could look into deviant art I suppose too.
I will do the lower quality images, that makes sense, thank you guys for the input
I am generally not on FB very often. However, most of my family is so I have an account just to keep up with everyone. I tend to upload those images I like the best, not everything, just family and friends can see what I'm doing. Once in a great while, they even comment that they like something. My art is very low priority to them, I think. I'm not sure they miss it if I stopped uploading it. I do tend to upload more to Deviant Art than to FB.
I'm adding my logo now to my images and saving them at quality 3 for jpg in Photoshop, I tried one but they looked aweful lol
100% this. Even doing the High Resolution upload with albums won't stop FB from compressing your images... I first noticed it years ago when I uploaded some photos from a Boston trip and the sky was banded like crazy. Didn't think too much of it until I uploaded a render a few months ago and the skin tones were all messed up.
The best way is to do direct links to other photo album services, unfortunately.
I won't put anything on FB as they tend to 'own' what youput there. I opened up a Photobucket account to use. You can make stuff private and only share it with passwords if you want to go that far. I was thinking of DeviantArt but I don't really have that much, and certainly am no where near the intense quality of what I've seen there. I'd feel like a total scrub disgracing that place with my renders...
Instagram. Make the account private. People can't steal what they can't get to. Instagram is owned by Facebook btw. And all your followers do not see your posts on Facebook, there's been quite a bru-ha-ha about that. With Instagram, if you have a private account, you know your followers can get to your account at any time. You simply tell your family and friends your user name and they request to follow, you approve, done.
I have mine on Deviant Art and I do post on Facebook. Might have to look into Instagram though.
I upload here, facebook, deviant art, renderosity, runtime dna, elfwood maybe some others can't remember right now. Facebook and here get the tamer stuff oh runtime does too though you can upload revealing stuff haven't myself don't share everything on runtime only some selet ones. Rendo picked chose select ones too think uploaded some more adult themed some nudity/revealing ones there. deviant gets pretty much everything including uncensored. elfwood is fantasy, sci fi and comic themed which is my main themes but only have few renders there. on all these sites you can create subfolders for different themes if you want. deviant has a water mark option for your uploads kinda ruins the image and if you share on any of the groups there a lot don't like that so alternative is create a signiture and place it on an area of your render where it wont ruin the image but in a spot where it overlaps a part of the image that someone can't paint or crop out without wrecking the image I sometimes make it as part of the image like a tattoo or carving I've shared a few of my favorites others have done with my facebook friends and like to promote other artists and show them off try and get them fans following them
On deviantart people may have more educated art knowledge and will comment on details often from the perspective of someone who also creates.
On facebook people with many different backgrounds will judge your images compared to what they have seen in their lifes.
From that perspective posting on facebook is a good way to keep in touch with a broader "reality".
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Btw with very little effort you can link facebook and instagram accounts and even add youtube, pinterest and deviantart app tabs on your facebook page so viewers are redirected to your other pages...
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And even that can be tricky. One of my colleagues was completely stunned I could see the private photos she posted while we don't even are friends on FB. I checked her privacy settings with her and we couldn't find anything wrong with these.
I only post on DA and rarely on Flickr.
FTR, There is a (if not more) Daz facebook group...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dazstudioartists/ ;
also: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dazcreative/ ; which is for DSC magazine.
So I uploaded 3 pictures to see how they take, and selected who could see them so I'm hoping the privacy features actually work on Facebook, thanks for all the input, the quality is definitely bad although it does look good on an iPhone so not sure if that's good or bad lol
This is very true. The site you post to will generally determine the type of feedback you receive on each work.
I find Twitter to be an excellent generalist platform to obtain feedback, mainly because a) they have a lax ruleset regarding posted content and b) the outreach is huge despite the lack of direct social contacts. However, I don't use it myself since Twitter takes a lot of time and effort to manage, from what a lot of my friends tell me.
I'm just learning, so I'm not really worried about anybody "stealing" my stuff yet. When I truly do something worth while, other than testing light and texture set ups then I'll worry about it, but for now letting my friends know that I actually do something creative now and then is fun, I mean that's what FB is about after all, not just a place to post stupid memes and ill-thought out political beliefs and world-views.
I don't care if people steal my art. I'm not selling it, so whatever.
oh I like the funny, fun, cute interesting memes but I am with you nelsonsmith on the negative aspects of fb hate, anger, political extra type stuff I just wanna escape from all that and have fun we get bombarded with that negative crap too much. I would like to be able to do stuff with my renders such as t shirts and stuff eventually yes but at same time if someone sees and likes my stuff and shares it I'm ok with it and consider it an honor is if someone thinks it's good enough to show it off and it's free advertising for me and creates a fan base for me so long as they don't claim to have done it themselves. Before this and well still doing it I've done photo manipulations some simple faceswaps some various bodyparts creating characters and scenes or movie posters had few people ask me to do it too and even my daz renders done few for friends or friends of friends either doing cut paste face swap or when got decent face pic and when it works for me using headshop9 and creating them in a daz render
Oh I love funny memes, but a weird thing begins to happen around election times, and you start seeing memes with completely erroneous information popping up and people spread these things around without any fact checking whatsoever. They just share the ignorance.
true true but then nowdays that's the thing about a lot of stuff shared from the internet now days most of which have hate anger fear bind them replacing those fake virus warnings andchain letter ones. I just like to have fun have a laugh look at cool artwork and forget about things everyone takes things toooo seriously now days and doom gloomy which I'm glad to see in the galleries here I've never seen any political or social commentry or hate fear anger relaters renders here and hope never do which is a good thing about the rules and restrictions here as there will always be someone who goes just a little to far. facebook has really gotten slack there Also with restrictions it allows a bit more creativity and variety of what renders we share on different sites and even allowed to be able to do variations of a one image spread out over differnt sites like magazines/comics extra nowdays have multible alternative covers
there's a few artists I've followed that post renders here, facebook, deviant art and other sites that spread out what they create and some have alternative versions of a same render