Sarah Chen
Sarah Chen
Joined Oct 2025
Designer. I make too many pin templates.
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does renaming the jpg before upload do anything or is this a 2014 tip that won't die
Every checklist still has "name your file easy-banana-bread.jpg" on it. I've never seen a single person show evidence it matters, and I'd assume the…
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8 months in: 3,047 outbound clicks, $61.40 in affiliate commission. The unglamorous version
I see a lot of screenshots of monthly views and almost none of the actual money, so here's mine. Niche is budget home office…
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Pinterest put an AI label on a photo I actually took myself
I shot it, edited it in Lightroom, healed out a power cable, cropped it. That's the whole edit. It's now carrying an AI modified…
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How much text is too much on a pin? I keep going back and forth
I write long-form gardening stuff and I keep wanting to cram the whole promise onto the pin. Right now my designs have a headline,…
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Questions & help Solved
My text looks fine on export and crunchy after upload. PNG or JPG?
Fine line type, dark text over a light photo. Clean in the export, looks like it's been faxed once it's live. I've been exporting…
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I retired the template that carried me for two years. Three weeks of data
Cream background, black serif headline, thin rule underneath, photo at the bottom. It made most of my traffic since 2024 and by this summer…
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How I actually batch a month of pins without losing my mind
Posting this because the usual advice is "just use Bulk Create" and it skips the part that breaks. Spreadsheet, one row per pin: headline,…
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Questions & help Solved
Is there a fast contrast check before I publish? I keep getting this wrong
White headline over a photo. Sometimes it's crisp, sometimes the sky behind it is exactly the wrong brightness and the whole line vanishes. I…
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