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Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

HightonRidley — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:16:49 GMT

This is another totally free bookmarklet I've written. It's great for promoting your own or other people's products on Pinterest with images that really show off the product and it's a doddle to use!

You use it when you're on a product page and it lets you choose which two views / in-situs to use for your pin. When you've chosen them it gives you a combined image to download ready for your pin.

It's so quick and easy and creates such great looking pins, I think you're about to start a new love affair!

Get the bookmarklet for your toolbar and see the tutorial here:
https://niftytoolz.com/other-nifty-tools/bookmarklet-for-2-image-pinterest-pins-using-zazzle-product-views

Here's a couple of screenshots to give you an idea of how easy it is to use and how good a pin can look using it:

choosing the views / in-situs

pin made with the combined image

I hope you like it - and, remember, it always uses your referral id in affiliate links (Promoter Program links are always clean, ie without referral id / tracking code)

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

Jadendreamer13 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:45:26 GMT

Nice!

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

HightonRidley — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:48:52 GMT

Glad you like it, @Jadendreamer13 😀

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

WHS_Designs — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:16:15 GMT

awesome! thanks, Mark!

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

HightonRidley — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:20:48 GMT

You're welcome, @WHS_Designs - spread the word!

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

angelafuller729 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:50:30 GMT

I'm impressed! I regularly use Canva to create pins, but this was super easy and fast! Here's my Pin https://www.pinterest.com/pin/549157748326679193/

Thanks 😎 Definitely will share

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

HightonRidley — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:11:01 GMT

I do like that, it looks fab, @angelafuller729 😄

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

ColsCreations — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 03:14:28 GMT

Nice. I like to build my own collage images for Pins but this is super handy for when you want more than the basic automatic share pin image but aren't up to the time it takes to build one from scratch. This is a great inbetween option. Thankyou. 👍

Oh, here's my pin example
pinterest.com/pin/421719952620012490/

and also, you can use this for posting, too:
community.zazzle.com/t5/show-me/show-your-wrapping-paper-here

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

LynnRose — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 08:14:30 GMT

Hi,

I have just tried out this bookmarklet.

Thanks a lot, very easy to use.

Appreciate your time coming up with this idea to help us all!

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

HightonRidley — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 10:57:32 GMT

I'm gad you like it, @LynnRose 😊

Maybe you'd like to show us a pin you made with it?

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

HightonRidley — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 11:08:09 GMT

Nice pin, @ColsCreations 😎

As you're so quick and creative with things like this, here's a suggestion (challenge?)

Choose one of your collections
Make a 2view for each of 5 products
Make a carousel pin using them
Link to the collection in the pin

Finally, let's see the result!

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

LynnRose — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:24:13 GMT

Here is one 🙂

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/330310953931753496/

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

HightonRidley — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 14:02:06 GMT

That works really well - lovely design 😃

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

LynnRose — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 15:58:06 GMT

Thank you 🙂

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

ColsCreations — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 17:29:49 GMT

Challenge accepted. 😉

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

HightonRidley — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 19:37:50 GMT

As the Two-view has proved so popular, I've now prepared a Three-view version. You get to choose which image goes on top and which at bottom left and right. Here's an image I created with it:

Three-view works well, don't you think?

The image is 1000x1500, perfect aspect ratio for Pinterest pins.

I've still to write the tutorial and make the bookmarklet available. Donations to my coffee jar will speed up the process 😇

If you're so inclined, make your donation, however small, at the bottom of the page:
https://niftytoolz.com/other-nifty-tools/bookmarklet-for-2-image-pinterest-pins-using-zazzle-product-views

Thank You! 🤗

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

ColsCreations — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 22:46:59 GMT

You get to choose which image goes on top and which at bottom left and right.

Terrific! I was wishing I could choose which image went on top & bottom for the two-view one.

Also an FYI:
I answered my own question today - Mark's Bookmarklets (I'm calling them NiftyMarklets LOL) don't have to be directly on your bookmark toolbar to work. To save space on the bar, you can put them all in one folder with a short name and then just show that one folder on the bar. They still work and bonus, you can name them whatever you want to help remind yourself which one does what.

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

HightonRidley — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:07:30 GMT

That's a great tip, @ColsCreations - thank you! 💐

When I've got the 3View bookmarklet tutorial done, I'll update the 2View bookmarklet to allow you to choose which view goes on top and which one on the bottom.

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

ColsCreations — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 06:20:53 GMT

OK, here it is
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/421719952620021250/

And holy cow, that was a lot of work for one pin. Except it's really 5 pins in one. There was a learning curve here for me so next one will go quicker but what I learned about carousel pins is this:

1) You can use a max of 5 images. Each image needs to be the same proportions as determined by the first one you add. If they're not, you get the option to crop them. In this case, the first image I added was my own "cover" which I made last year and was much wider & shorter than your 2Views. So when I added those next, it wanted me to crop them to the proportions of my cover I added first. That obviously wasn't going to work so I re-made my cover in the same size as the 2Views.

2) Each image is treated as basically its own pin - you can use a different title, description and link for each one. You can check the box to use the same for all of them but I didn't. I used the same title to keep it consistent as a group, but added different descriptions and links for each one. For the first "cover" image I linked to my own website in hopes that that keeps the "credit" for the pin with me/my claimed domain and not Zazzle.com. Then for the rest I linked to the product pages on Zazzle. This was all a lot of copying & pasting, especially for making the links with proper referral ID & custom tracking code. I probably spent as much time on Pinterest building the pin as I did in Photoshop preparing the images to use. Hard to say as I didn't do this all in one sitting, it was a little bit here and there inbetween doing other things today.

I don't do much pinning because I generally don't have the time to do it well so all of these handy tools you come out with to speed up the process are much appreciated.

Re: Two-view Pinterest pin image generator - right from the product page

ColsCreations — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 07:38:50 GMT

Added note: just checked the pin from the Pinterest app on my Android phone and it shows the description I used for the first image for all of them. 😞 Looks like you need to be viewing Pinterest from a browser and not the app to see the different descriptions.

ETA: going to Pinterest from my phone's browser (Firefox) instead of using the app, the carousel pin doesn't work. it's just the cover image and its description, not even a clue that there is supposed to be more to it. But I guess it would be rare for people to be using Pinterest from their phone and not be using the app.