On Artybuzz we often refer to our photo prints as ‘Giclee Prints‘ or ‘Giclee Art Prints‘, but to avoid any confusion what are giclee prints exactly?

Well, with giclee printing (pronounced ‘Gee-Clay’, a french word), no screens are used during printing meaning there is no visible dot pattern. Giclee means ‘to spray’ or ‘to squirt’, just like an inkjet printer does. This is the printing method we use at Artybuzz to create all our fine art prints, canvases and posters, hence you will often see ‘Giclee Print’ dotted about the site in various paragraphs.

Giclee prints are also set apart from standard printing techniques because of the use of high quality materials that produce the fantastic art prints that can be found on Artybuzz. Our giclee art prints are made with the use of high quality inks, papers and canvases. This means that giclee prints will stay true in colour and remain in good quality for a very long time, up to 25 years in fact.

Hopefully that clears up that question of what are giclee prints, and also tells you a little bit more about how our production processes work to bring you all our high quality products.

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If you haven’t used StumbleUpon before then it may be of interest to you, both personally and when it comes to promoting your work on Artybuzz.

StumbleUpon.com is a website that allows you and others to discover and share great websites. You and others rate websites with a thumbs up if you like a website, and this information is used to help you discover websites that are likely to be of interest to you when you choose to ‘Stumble’. When you ‘Stumble’, you will be taken to a website that is likely to be of interest to you and your own personal tastes. StumbleUpon is  a great website for finding things that you like and are of interest to you but which you may not normally search for or find.

As well as these benefits of finding great new websites, StumbleUpon can also be used to promote your work on Artybuzz. If you use the ‘Share’ button in the top right of each page on the main Artybuzz website, you will be able to give Artybuzz.com a thumbs up rating, or give your own profile page and individual work pages thumbs up ratings. If you choose some tags or keywords to describe your work when you give the thumbs up, then this will help attract people to your page and to Artybuzz who may then go on to buy your work.

It’s a really great tool, because it matches people’s interests with relevent web pages and websites. If you stumble page on Artybuzz with a painting of yours for example, and use the tag ‘landscape watercolour’, people with an interest in landscape watercolours will find your work, meaning there is a great chance they will like it and potentially buy your work. We see people finding Artybuzz through stumbleupon all the time so it’s definitely worth seeing if it can help you for your own work pages and profile pages. Use the share button to try it out and see if the views of your work increase, let us know if it helps too…

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