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How do you design pieces like that, this is a tablecloth? I designed small flowers and it looks like the flowers will be gigantic.
Your thoughts? Your advice and help please would be greatly appreciated. Or should I just give up on designing tablecloth? If I make the flowers tiny it won’t be attractive at all.
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I think it’s because tablecloths use big pieces of fabric. You just have to decrease the size of your pattern tile, and your flowers will look smaller.
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You have to reduce the ‘tile size’ in the ‘Effects’ section. The tile size is shown in inches so you basically have to guestimate how big one repetition of your original flower pattern would look if it’s, for example, 6 inches square. Once you reduce the size you can look at that corner in situ image again to see if it looks right. It’s not ideal, I know, but that’s the only way I know of to figure it out. I’d be happy to hear if other designers have other solutions.
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Take a look please how tablecloth look now with flowers much much smaller and they are still large in the end result. Should I make them even smaller? A tiny flower? But how the customer will see it or like it? Or should I just add the end result in the mock up of this product? What’s your suggestion?
Result now, not done yet designing just testing the end result.
I wanted the flowers to be much smaller in the end result and this is what I still have.
Thank you @Baylee and @Fantabuloustef for your help, much appreciated.
Update. This is the final product I couldn’t see the design itself with the very tiny flowers. So I am going with this and choosing Zazzle mockup as my product presentation. I tried with very tiny flowers it didn’t look attractive at all
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@Baylee I cannot use desktop design tool, I am designing on my iPhone sigh. I don’t have computer at all.
Wow, $124.00 for a tablecloth? There is no way that I’d spend that much for a tablecloth.
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Yes, you have to make them even smaller. Giving the customer an accurate idea of how it will look in real life is definitely a problem with designing tablecloths on Zazzle. I try to make decent cover images that show the pattern better but that’s hard to do too. How you can manage to do any of this on an iphone is incredible…lol.
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Tablecloths at largest size for example are 16 inches x 9 feet in real life. That has to be represented by mere inches to view the whole design canvas on screen. So everything will look tiny in the Design view. Same with any large product, wrapping paper rolls comes most to mind, we have to remember what we see on screen represents a much larger canvas. This is why we need a ruler inside the Designer that shows real-life measurements. With a choice of centimeters or inches because I would cry if they gave us this feature and it was just in centimeters 😜
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@Baylee I don’t know myself I am designing nowdays without the desktop tool and in a way I stopped missing it as I sure can’t use the new one. I am seeing great changes on mobile tool now and that makes me happy and I am hoping for it to become as sufficient as the desktop which is not any longer meant for mobile. I had computer a while ago, my son borrowed it to me but it’s gone long time ago. Thank you for the compliment
. In regards to flowers I could barely see them ha ha that’s why I had to stop at this size. I know mockups are tough for tablecloth especially when the downloaded mockup from Zazzle is small so it can’t be really used as is I find. I use tablecloth size and then it gets close to what it is, I hope that helps, I used it with another tablecloth, looked good and attractive, I was pleased. Doesn’t mean somebody bought it yet though ha ha.
@Jadendreamer13 I know, prices eh? I won’t be able to afford it either probably unless I had a good income and really like it.
@Fantabuloustef That’s what it was, that’s the solution. Thank you 
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Maybe you could create a mock-up with the whole table covered, respecting the scale, so that it will be the first picture seen by your customers and not the one with the whole piece with very tiny flowers ?
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@ColsCreations I don’t know anything about that at all, you guys all probably advanced in new desktop tool and know what you are talking about but I didn’t learn it at all, it’s not designed for mobile I was told. I moved on and now don’t know much about desktop design tool, don’t use it that’s why. Crazy, eh? 
That’s how desktop tool looks for me so I gave up 
@Fantabuloustef I for now used Zazzle mockup as the front page of the product instead of it being the last, that’s what I figured I will do. My take is not all products can be presented the best in a mockup we can create and often the ones Zazzle made are the closest in regards to the size and the design colours. Truly that’s what I noticed when I payed attention, not the correct presentation of the product size and colours so I go with Zazzle mockup in that case, but I love my own very much since they are prettier 
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I kind of like the large flowers better.
I’m not a buyer, so my opinion doesn’t count.
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