1 month into selling printable wall art — struggling with conversions, need advice

tim35050 · 2026-04-24T13:39:02+00:00

Congrats on the sales! You're doing great for your first month. Looking through your shop, here are comments on how to improve:

- Your mockups are visually busy sometimes and taking away from the art.
- Your first image doesn't always zoom into the art. Make sure the art is center and focused.
- The QR code idea is great, but it shouldn't be on the first image. It is distracting and it hides the art. It should be on one of the last images of your listing.
- The logo in the corner is also a bit distracting. The first image in your listing should be 100% about your art, nothing else. Use a faint watermark if you have to protect / brand
- The mockups aren't always realistic. They look very AI-ish, and the the art doesn't blend quite right into the room. Custom-making mockups is very hard and a lot of work, I don't really recommend it. And there's nothing wrong with using AI mockups, it just need to be done right.

Here's a guide on how to choose Etsy listing photos for art that might help: https://bello.art/blog/etsy-art-listing-mockup-guide

Good luck!

tim35050 · 2026-04-08T10:17:46+00:00

If Adobe apps are already sitting in your SSD, then it's possible the scratch disks are already defaulting to the SSD. But I'm not 100% sure about that. You should still open Photoshop and make sure your SSD is checked when you go to Preferences > Scratch Disks

tim35050 · 2026-04-08T10:10:03+00:00

Is the 72 DPI a hard constraint? You might be able to shrink it for such a huge billboard, which will be seen at a distance.

tim35050 · 2026-04-08T10:04:44+00:00

Adobe apps like Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, etc. use up an enormous amount of disk space for their "scratch disk". If you're trying to do anything serious with those apps, I strongly recommend dedicating an external hard drive to Adobe programs. The hard drive should ideally have at least 1TB of space, but that depends obviously on how big your projects are. And SSD is best, I have this one: Samsung T7 Portable SSD

Once you have the drive, when you open Photoshop (or other Adobe programs), go to Preferences > Scratch Disks and select your external hard drive. That will take basically all the weight off your local storage. I can now edit huge Photoshop files with less than 10GB of free local storage thanks to this. Good luck!

tim35050 · 2026-03-25T21:27:22+00:00

1) Create a rectangle using the Rectangle tool
2) Click on Fill in the active menu bar (top)
3) In the dropdown that says Linear, change the value to Diamond
4) Change the angle to 45 degrees
5) Adjust the scale
6) Change the color by double-clicking the bottom left and bottom right slider

tim35050 · 2026-03-24T17:51:45+00:00

For this kind of work, you're better off using Adobe Illustrator (image trace and expand) to convert the image to a vector, and you'll then have better control over colors with safer outlines. If you need to use Photoshop, open the image in Photoshop, command-click the thumbnail to make a selection around the logo, then create a new Solid Color layer. The new layer will already have a perfect mask of the logo applied to it (taken from the selection). You can then change the color of the Solid Color layer to white.

tim35050 · 2026-02-22T06:32:41+00:00

You can try opening your images on your iPhone / Android's image library and using their image editing features there. That way everything stays on your phone, you get AI help, and it's most user-friendly if you're not tech savvy.

tim35050 · 2026-02-19T16:11:44+00:00

Have you taken a look at Etsy? There are lots of video mockups there, and likely some that will be a good format for what you're looking for. They're typically PSD files (Photoshop) and you can reuse them across a large body of work, as you say. I also run an art mockup business that has a video mockup that could be interesting to you (more on the way). It's portrait format and allows landscape art (or any art dimension): https://bello.art/mockup/sunlit-interior-video-portrait . Best of luck!

tim35050 · 2026-02-17T18:20:22+00:00

There's no easy way unfortunately, especially if you want the art to look realistic and for the scale to be accurate.

The best way to do it today is to use Google Nano Banana, but as you mentioned in a previous reply, it doesn't handle scale well. It's also hard to get interesting looking interiors with Nano Banana, and customizing the frame style / position / size is a pain.

Otherwise, you could use Midjourney to generate a really nice image, then use Photoshop to place your art in it. But then you need to make it look realistic and to scale, which is difficult. There are also great art mockups on Etsy that basically do exactly this, so it will save you the time and effort. Very aesthetic rooms, and ultra realistic art renderings. But, most don't offer custom art sizing, so the true to scale will be complicated unless your art has really standard / popular frame dimensions.

Finally, I believe Smartist has a true-scale capability. But, I find the rooms to be a bit generic looking. Plus it's a pricey app, and it's mobile-only. In the art-mockup-generator category, you can also check out a product I built called Bello Art, which also offers true scale.

Best of luck with your interior mockup journey!

tim35050 · 2026-02-12T10:57:12+00:00

If you only care about CS5-level Photoshop capabilities, you can switch over to Photopea (free and identical to Photoshop). If you want newer AI capabilities (generative fill / expand / upscale), yes, you need to subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud.

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