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Portfolio thumbnails ruined my print sales at a local show
Set up at the Fall River craft fair last month with crisp 4000px prints but tiny 200px thumbnails on my tablet, and nobody stopped because they couldn't tell what the art was from across the table. Has anyone else switched to larger previews and seen a real jump in engagement?
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blake_kelly1922h ago
...and honestly that tracks with something bigger I've noticed everywhere lately. People don't read, they skim. They don't look, they glance. At grocery stores, at traffic lights, even on their phones, everyone's making split second calls based on the tiniest bit of info. You gave them a blurry hint of what you made and expected them to fill in the gaps, but nobody has the patience for that anymore. It's like the attention span for art got shorter while the resolution got higher. Once I started showing bigger previews at my stuff, people actually stopped and leaned in, and that's when the conversation started. Your work deserves at least a chance to be seen before someone walks past it.
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