I’m seeing some wedding invitations and save the date cards with real foil elements popping up in the MP - I assume that’s another by-invitation-only thing right now but I’m excited are Foil invitations are going to be open for all designers in the future?
You mean full-color cards with selective foil elements/spots, e.g. texts or symbols? This would put Zazzle’s cards on another level, especially for holidays and occasions. The addition of the year, if this goes live.
Thank you for the hint, I can’t wait for this to be available. Made this suggestion for years, this gives us designers a whole new experience, especially in holiday and occasion card creation. I’ve not considered the actual foil cards at all due to the lack of combining with a regular full-color design. When this goes live, it will make Zazzle cards truly precious. Wondering if they plan to add also an embossed variant in the future. Also wondering how they implement it. You have to define the area that has to hold the metal foil (to that has to be embossed) separately from the full-color background. This area is usually a black shape put at the correct position, like the one-color SVG elements. I hope they do it right without limiting us to texts or basic elements, and I also hope that texts can be defined as templates editable by customers. This would be awesome.
I guess the templates are now open for all because there’s now a blue “create your own from scratch” link when you scroll down to the product description.
This is really cool…and I love the way the design area is divided so you can easily choose which elements are to be done in foil. I’m curious though, I can’t seem to see a size anywhere on this product. I’m hoping we’ll be able to use various card sizes for the different pieces in a wedding suite. Maybe that’s yet to come, if I can just be a little patient…BUT I WANT them NOW!!..lol.
Yes I saw that too, no sizes. I assume it’s 5x7? I also can’t find this product in the department tree. I hope they didn’t open it by accident because I’m already working on a few designs
THANK YOU for the hint! Ran and tested it out, too, it’s awesome and well implemented. No sizes are given, I guess it’s a standard 5x7 size. Must test it out a little bit better. Will try to port one of my Christmas cards. Let’s also see if there are also folded variants. Thanks again, and btw, your card looks beautiful.
Pretty sure it’s a standard 5x7. The area for the foil must be divided, the foil is applied in a separate print process. But yes, I like how it’s implemented. Need to test I out well before saying more, but at first glance, it looks good.
The create your own option is working. The product shows up fine on the backend but shows up as multiple really small video thumbnails when added to collections
It’s because the foil is “cut” and put on an additional layer over the background during the production process. It’s not merged and printed together with the background, so semi-transparency such as anti-alias on transparent PNG contours won’t work.
You can also use vector elements/shapes created in Illustrator or Corel Draw! and saved as AI (Illustrator) or exported as PDF (any graphics software that offers pdf export) to get sharp contours.
I’m wondering which is the smallest font size that can be handled. I’ll do my real testing when the cards are expanded to greeting cards (not only invitations) and accessible regularly as blanks.