While all text templates are set to “Allow Editing on Product Page”, they are not displayed on product page (after clicking Done). Is that intentional or a glitch? if the latter, please fix it. Thank you.
(not sure how to share a product in the making but I guess you can look into my Saved Designs and see; new foil cards are in the top row)
ETA: only flat foil invitations (256228287159873464) seem to be affected, a flat foil holiday card displays templates properly.
It seems working for me on invitations:
But it does seem like there are quite a few “issues” with this new product. I’m also puzzled that there hasn’t been an official new product announcement. I’m sorta wondering if they’re not really supposed to be public yet. Seems like there are a lot of kinks still being worked out.
My text isn’t appearing as foil, just white like what I did it in. Am I doing something wrong?
Edit to say I figured it out.
Hi all,
I created a test card and all of the templates I set at working as intended.
@WittyBetty I cannot see any issue with your cards in your saved designs either. Can you pass on an example with a screenshot please?
@Cat if you can specify some of the issue you have noticed, our team would appreciate the feedback.
What did you do @dizzydebbie I was having the same issue.
Is this what you are looking for https://community.zazzle.com/t5/creator-news/new-product-launch-foil-plus-print-cards/ba-p/11858
@WittyBetty wrote:
ETA: only flat foil invitations (256228287159873464) seem to be affected, a flat foil holiday card displays templates properly.
The product that you’re linking to above appears to be from the Zazzle Templates store, which does not show template fields until the product is published. I would use the links below:
https://www.zazzle.com/pd/spp/pt-zazzle_foilinvitation
https://www.zazzle.com/pd/spp/pt-zazzle_foilflatholidaycard
You can find these links in the news article here: https://community.zazzle.com/t5/creator-news/new-product-launch-foil-plus-print-cards/ba-p/11858
@Mark I think most of the issues have been noted elsewhere, but I’ll mention them here too.
There is no information on the size or paper in the right hand column where the rest of the product specifications are. This may be because at the moment there’s only one choice, but since customers pretty much NEVER read the “about this product” blurb, it would be helpful if that info was where it usually is. Also, even in the “about this product” blurb, there’s no info on the weight/thickness of the paper which is usually a big concern for customers.
The previews look terrible if you choose the silver foil option - especially on a dark background, and especially if you’re using anything other than thick fonts or big block images. I think it’s because the rendering has a black line around the edge of the foil area so it disappears on dark backgrounds, and just looks black on light ones. I know there are challenges getting “silver” to look good on all backgrounds, but I don’t think it works in its current state. It seems to work much better for the gold and rose gold foil colors.
Elegant Gold Foil Lace on Black Classy Wedding Foil Invitation
by ZingerBug
Elegant Pink Rose with Rose Gold Bridal Shower Foil Invitation
by ZingerBug
I’m guessing these are the frames of the video or something? Well, anyway, if you want to see what I mean about the video not having the desired effect, click through to the above product. It just gets brighter and darker so you can’t see the normal text and doesn’t present the product in a very good light, IMO.
Also, if you leave the preview set to the video, your marketplace thumbnail shows the above frames, and not the video, at least that’s how it looks inside of collections:
I’ve had some trouble designing where I couldn’t get both the foil and front layer to have the same orientation. Here’s an example: https://www.zazzle.com/z/aft0dy0f. I can’t get the front layer to go vertical no matter what I do. Anyhow, I gave up and started over and the problem fixed itself, but it seems like the orientation on the front and foil layers should be locked together so if you change one you change both.
It would be really helpful if there was some way to see both the front and foil layers together in design view. It’s a real challenge to get things to line up correctly. I end up creating elements in the front layer and then cutting and pasting them to the foil layer - which works - unless or until you have to move something and then you’re in trouble. Not sure of the best way to handle it, but ideally there would be some way to group or lock together elements from separate layers so you could move them together without messing everything up. That’s probably a big ask, but even a more flexible grid (one where we could get tighter lines) would be helpful, or some sort of way to specify the placement of an object numerically so we can be sure things are lined up correctly.
I think that’s about it. I don’t mean to be a complainer, I’m really excited about this new product line and having great fun playing with it!
Thank you Scott, that is very helpful.
I didn’t notice there was a foil layer that you are suppose to design on, for the foil effect. I was just designing solely on the front side of the invitation not the foil layer. Dizzy here!
Coming here to say - Yes we need MUCH BETTER views of the foil. they look terrible really - and 3 tiny video views topp the examples .. and they are all exactly the same, TINY just with different backgrounds.. who cares about the background? - the customer needs to see the product.. BIGGER, Better and MUCH More Clear.. esp as someone mentioned, the silver - looks horrid. Looking at these examples, I’d be surprised if any at all sold - and there is a min of 10 which is fine but without being able to better see the foil … a great idea but deployed terribly - 
May i ask how can we insert foil sayings on top of a normal image that is not in foil? Can some one help?
