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I managed to totally fail at the very beginning of my new collection Hive Coverscapes on NFTShowroom. I knew it would happen and, honestly, I'm glad it happened early. It happened on the first two mints  (One of which is now my cover image on Hive, the other of which I put on my discord banner).  I named the collection "Hive Coverscapes".  I was going to title the pieces in the singular form, I made the first one "Hive Coverscape #0001", which was my plan.  In my haste to mint the second NFT, I named it "Hive Coverscapes #0002", in the plural form.  What?!?!?! (tears hair out)

Really I am ok with it, I used to be a perfectionist, but these days I have learned to accept the things that I cannot change.

More hilarious than the first mistake, is the second. I had chosen the size of my images from information on Hive's recommendation of 2048x512 pixels as the optimal size for covers. I made all of the layers for my collection in those dimensions. What I didn't realize is that the sandboxed generator that I use for my collection has been resizing them to a dimension of 1920x480 pixels. But I only realized this after the first 2 mints. Argh!!! Really!!! This is why we can't have nice things hahahaha. And @juliakponsford told me at least a billion times to double-check that everything is right before minting. I promise that I tried!!! 

Question:

So what do you think?  Do I go with my original dimensions, or should I go with 1920x480? If I go with the 2048x512 the first two images will always be different from the rest of the collection because they are what they are now. If I go with the 1920x480 they still work but they get scaled up to fit the platform's dimensions.  Let me know what you think in the comments.

I delisted the first two from the market because I wanted to work these issues out before I mint more or sell any because I really want to make a good collection. Some positives are, that I get the opportunity to ask you for your opinion, and your opinion would definitely have an impact on the direction that I choose to go, and I get to have this content that people who spell correctly the first time didn't get. Ha! 

I know it will be ok.  I actually haven't sold an NFT that I created on Hive yet.  I'm not letting anyone down or hurting anybody so I will pick a line and drive through. Perfecting design is hard, if you don't expect to make mistakes along the way then you shouldn't expect to grow. Nobody starts perfectly.

NFTShowroom doesn't get the attention it deserves. Of course, it is crypto winter, who could miss that, but it's very telling about peoples' motivations. Art should be about expression first, and decoration, about introspection, it should be about connection and a great many more things before it becomes about money. Maybe it's not the money and people are just busy. Or exhausted.  Those are good reasons. There are lots of good reasons and I definitely know that. But it would be a real shame if artists gave up because they felt rejected, defeated, and overlooked. It's very easy to list things at a price nobody is willing to pay, it's hard to decide to reduce the price. My personal solution is to just do my creations in secret. I also spend time shopping for NFTs from other artists, that speak to me artistically. NFT's will last forever and my advice if you are starting out creating them to keep a laser focus on the assignment. And for the love of all things good; Triple check that you got the details right.

Included at the top of this post is the image for "Hive Coverscape #0003" unless I change my mind.  If I can decide on the solution to my image size I will mint it and gift it to @dynamicgreentk in return for gifting me some Hive native NFTs that I really like. 

Thanks for taking the time to read my post. Hope you have a nice day!