Sundry Works Help · Images

Web-sized copies of a painting's photo

Export web-sized copies of the painting's photo.

What it's for

The Images tab exports the open painting's photo at a range of web-friendly sizes - 1600, 1200, 1080, 800, 600 and 400 on the long side - ready to upload to your site or a shop. Files come out as JPEGs named with the painting's title and size (e.g. enchantress-of-numbers-1200.jpg). 1600 is the size the catalogue itself holds, so it is a full-quality copy of the stored photo; 1080 is there because Instagram keeps a photo at its own resolution up to 1080 pixels wide and sizes anything wider down to 1080, so exporting at 1080 means your picture is only resized once. Beside the sizes is a guide that draws each one as an outline at your painting's shape, with an email newsletter, an Instagram post and a laptop screen marked on the same scale - tick a size and its outline lights up, or click an outline to tick it.

The source image

By default it uses the painting's catalogue image, which is held at 1600px. That covers every size the tab offers. If you want something larger - say for a print shop that needs the full scan - drop in a bigger JPEG or PNG using the "Use a bigger file instead" button.

Choosing sizes

Tick the sizes you want from the checklist. Any size larger than the source is greyed out so you never upscale. Press "Just this" next to any single size to download that one on its own, or press the main button to download all the ticked sizes as a zip.

Quality and sharpening

• JPEG quality - a slider from 60 to 95. Higher means bigger files but better detail. 85 is a good default.
• Sharpen after resizing - on by default. The app steps each image down by halves rather than dropping it straight to the target size, which preserves fine watercolour detail. The sharpen pass afterwards restores the crispness that any resize costs.

Watermark

Toggle "Add a watermark to exports" to overlay a visible mark on every image you export. Four styles are available:

• Diagonal text - your brand line (e.g. WISTFULWORLD.ART) repeated at an angle across the entire image, set in bold in the Sans from Brand type on the Business tab. The hardest to crop out.
• Logo tiled - your logo repeated in a grid across the image. You can adjust the logo size and spacing between tiles.
• Logo - a single copy of your logo placed in the centre, bottom-right, or bottom-left corner.
• Lines - parallel diagonal lines across the surface.

The opacity slider controls how visible the watermark is - 35% is a good balance between protection and viewing. Your watermark settings are saved so you only have to configure them once. Logo-based styles need a logo uploaded on the Business tab. If none is uploaded, they fall back to diagonal text automatically.

These same controls are on the Post tab, under the two arrangements that are the painting on its own, and they drive this same setting. Move the watermark there and it has moved here; change it here and it has changed there. It is one mark, so there is only ever one answer to what your watermark looks like.

The two ticks are separate, though, because they are separate questions. "Add a watermark to exports" above marks the files you download from this tab. "Mark this painting" on the Post tab marks that post. Turning one on does not turn the other on.

AI protection

Glaze is a free tool from the University of Chicago that adds invisible perturbations to your images, making it harder for AI models to learn your style. It runs as a separate app - export your images here, then run them through Glaze before posting online. A link to download Glaze appears in the watermark section.

This tab doesn't store anything except your watermark settings - sizes are made when you ask for them and disappear when you leave. The catalogue image is always there as long as the painting has a photo.

The rest of the Help

Start here

• Getting started with Sundry Works - What Sundry Works does and how the tabs fit together.
• Using Sundry Works on your phone - Setting up the phone, whether or not there is a computer as well.

Your catalogue

• What's due and what's unfinished - The first tab: what's coming up, what's still to do, what's unfinished.
• Cataloguing your paintings - Your catalog - add paintings and open the one you're working on.
• Reviewing everything one painting makes - Everything the open painting makes, on one page, with the one decision each needs.
• How to price a painting consistently - Work out a consistent price for the open painting.
• Tracking what sold and who bought it - What sold, who took it home, and what it brought in.
• Printing show labels and a portfolio - More than one at a time: a whole show's labels, or a portfolio to send.

Making things from a painting

• Writing a story for a painting - Generate a written story for the painting and keep the best one.
• Making a printed card for a painting - Lay out the printed card for the painting.
• How to make a certificate of authenticity - A painting's two printed documents: its certificate, and the label for its back.
• Web-sized copies of a painting's photo - Export web-sized copies of the painting's photo.
• Branded posts of your paintings - Branded static posts for Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook.
• Making a reel of a painting - Build the vertical reel frame and video for social media.
• Designing an artist's business card - The card you hand out, laid out down to the last millimetre.

Running the business

• Setting up your artist brand - Set up once: your identity, brand assets, colours, and AI key.
• An address book for galleries and collectors - A simple address book for galleries, collectors, suppliers, and more.
• Checklists for shows and studio jobs - Reusable checklists for shows, errands, and anything you repeat.
• A calendar for shows and deadlines - Shows, deadlines, and events, with a countdown to each one.
• All your post comments in one list - What people said on your posts, from every platform, in one list.

Connections and setup

• Posting to Instagram and Facebook - Connect your accounts so you can post directly from Sundry Works.
• Posting your paintings to Threads - A second Meta connection, separate from Instagram and Facebook.
• Posting your paintings to Bluesky - The easiest connection of the four - a handle and an app password.
• Scheduling posts to go out later - Line a post up now and let it go out later, with the computer off.
• Configuring Sundry Works - Where everything plugs in: your social accounts, your website, your AI service, and where the catalogue lives.