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Hi there everyone, hoping a few of the more seasoned AA artists can give me some direction with this. After years of saying I wanted to try getting a table at Toronto's Anime North convention (hopefully) next year, starting out by selling chibi art. But I have a few questions:

1. How do you go about making prints/bookmarks and postcards of your art? Like I know if you want a decent looking print, you need something with a resolution of at least 300dpi. What I want to know, in terms of photoshop what size(in pixels) would my canvas need to be? Or would that be determined when the art is going to be printed?

2. Pricing! Is there like a standard price for different sized prints? Or is that more related to how much time the artist worked on the piece, the cost to make the print, all that sort of thing?

3. Buttons! Are those good sellers?

Thank you so much for your time! I'm pretty sure these are silly questions, but we all start somewhere, right?

Thank you very much, that definitely gives me a starting point.

For the print shops, you can bring them a usb drive but if it's a large order or they're busy they'll usually ask you to leave the order with them over night. In that case, I usually just leave them a CD (or dvd) with all the burned files on it and I usually write down a list for them before hand of what of each file I need. I usually order the 8x10 prints on glossy and 4x6 are pretty cheap if you go to walmart or walgreens and get them in bulk. Oh and I usually have my files in a high quality jpg (8x10 size at 300 dpi) of each file, but png or another high quality format would probably work to (just call and ask the place what formats they accept). I wouldn't recommend psd files, especially as they're often large with multiple layers.

As for what kind of places are cheaper... it's very hard to say. I've found reasonable prices in my local area, and I think I found office depot cheaper than staples. A place like Kinkos, however, would be much more expensive. It doesn't hurt to scout out online though to see what places are cheaper. I'm just leery since they're no way I can check over the results and refuse any I don't like. They'd probably be nicer quality though if the site was intended for art prints. I found one place online which I'm not sure I saved and it had slightly cheaper rates. It's up to you if the difference is worth it. You'd have to make sure to do it early enough ahead.