Payment Processing for Offline Orders

HawaiiArt.com now offers artists an easy way to collect payments for commissions and custom projects. Artists can send an email to art@hawaiiart.com with the Title, Price, Customers Email, and Shipping Amount to collect, and we will generate an email with an instant Buy Now button (shown above). We can also email [...]

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Adobe Photoshop Express

Your pictures are everything when selling art online.  They are the primary conveyor of information to your customer about your art when then actual piece is 3000 miles away.  Adobe has just made great pictures easier with there FREE online photo-editing tool Photoshop Express.  There is simply no excuse to upload junk images of your [...]

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Commissions and Offline Orders

Many of our artists receive requests for commissions and artwork that is not listed on HawaiiArt.com. Like most galleries, we ask for a finders fee in these situations.
There are two ways to handle commissions and the sale of “offline items” that occur as a result of customers finding you via HawaiiArt.com. The easiest way and [...]

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How to use Options – A Step by Step Tutorial

The option section of the artwork editor controls the price, size, and shipping cost of an item. It can even allow you to offer framing options, different editions, and more. You can find the options section located in the gray area on the bottom of the page when editing an item, where it [...]

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The Best Free Online Photo Editor Ever!

Now if that doesn’t deserve a click (unless you have Photoshop) I don’t know what does. Snipshot makes it entirely easy to crop, enhance, and do other basic editing all for free right through your web browser. I love web-based stuff like this as there is nothing to download, and it is as [...]

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Add more images, Sell more art. Simple

The potential of the multi-view feature is amazing. Example 1 Example 2 Move your mouse over the little images below the main one to see the feature work. Shelly’s use of gallery shots in the display of her beautiful watercolors is sure to increase sales. Close-ups, framing, pictures [...]

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The best feature we have ever done

Today we are releasing a feature that is guaranteed to increase the sales of any item on our site. Now you can upload up to 5 images to show close ups, brush strokes, signatures, frames, and anything else that gives the customer a better physical sense of your art.
2D and 3D artists can dramatically [...]

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Safari Browsers do not like HawaiiArt.com?

I know all you Mac lovers out there like Safari but some of our artists report that it does not work well with the HawaiiArt.com artist control panel. We are testing on Safari machines but if you have not made the change to Firefox maybe now is the time. Either that, or just [...]

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HawaiiArt.com: For the not so tech savy artist.

Many artist worry that they wont be able to use HawaiiArt.com because the computer is a scary thing that is to be avoided at all costs. Here are the only technical skills you need to list with us:
1 – The ability to check your email every few days.
2 – Have digital pictures of your [...]

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How does HawaiiArt.com work?

If you are a new artist, this post is for you. It outlines the basic steps of how HawaiiArt.com functions. Please feel free to ask any question you may have by posting a comment.
1 – The artist logs in at http://www.hawaiiart.com/members and lists their work. Don’t worry about resizing images or [...]

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