Are we suppose to make more cover photos and upload up to 10 cover photos, in the new media manager?
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Oh my! I just had the pop-up for this on a product page but was busy doing something else so didn’t check it out before it disappeared. Here’s the page I just found with all the details:
https://www.zazzle.com/creators/playbook/media+manager
So they’re now letting us encouraging us to make as many as ten of our own product preview images for each product. Wow!
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Arrrrrgggg…doing designers a solid by allowing us more ways to display our products. Please don’t do me anymore favors Zazzle. … you’re killing me with kindness! When am I actually going to have time to design? Possibly that’s the goal? There are too many new designs???
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now we need video! 🤣
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I doubt a plethora of mockups is good for all products, and I can’t imagine ten of them increasing sales. Too much of a good thing. I can see it for products that might have multiple uses or, as in clothing, might be nice showing various positions, but how many ways can you show a postcard, poster, doormat, etc. Flat products benefit by an attractive mockup, not multiple mockups.
My one fear is that, as they’ve done with our single mockups, Zazzle will prioritize designers who’ve pushed out multiples.
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Ten mockup photos added to the existing mockup photo lineup seems like overkill and unlikely to help. One or possibly two seems sufficient. Three in a pinch. But ok. I’ll continue making one and only do two when a situation calls for it. I do like the ability to add our own caption. I’ll have to monitor the MP to see if anybody takes them up on their 10 photo offer but I doubt it.
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What images do I upload? Are these new images going to be in the media section of our shop or are they going to be cover photos, added to the situ views?
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They are cover photos and so appear in your images folder after you upload them. I have now used it. It isn’t all that different from the way we were doing it up until today. It’s really just a way to upload 2-10 cover photos instead of just one and to add a caption. I will be shocked if anybody uploads 10 for any product and expect most products will have 1-3.
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Ok thanks.
Where did you find this Creators Playbook link? I looked in Creator News and Creator Information in the forum and Sell in the MP sidebar and couldn’t find it. It’s the sort of thing that ought to be in Creator News.
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I don’t see any information about it anywhere on Zazzle yet. Zazzle always seems to release something new first and then announce it later. I saw the media manager pop up, when I went to one of my product pages.
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We can go back and add captions to our existing cover photos now. I had to add the caption a couple of times, in order for it to show up under my cover photo.
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What, exactly, is the caption all about? For instance, if the product is a tote and you show the tote hanging on an arm, then on a counter and an arm digging into it, what would the caption say and why would it say it? Any ideas?
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On the initial pop-up on a product page I clicked “get started” and then on the next pop-out clicked “learn more about best practices”.
I’m really curious about the captions but don’t want to spend time making a bunch of fake mock-ups to try it. Do you mind sharing the product you did so we can see where/how the captions appear to customers?
Here I’ve used the caption to spell out the use-case (even though it’s obvious from the cover photo). Thanks for pointing out where you found the link. I was wondering if there was some sort of Creators FAQ section that I was missing.
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Feedback for Media Manager [Official Thread - General Discussion]
Media Manager [Store Management]
New Media Manager Cover Photos [Ask a Question] <– You Are Here
New Cover Media Manager and Download images Option [General Discussion]
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If you added a caption, it shows nowhere. I just now created a mockup, added a caption, and it shows nowhere. If it’s for the designer only, I’m fairly sure we’ll recognize the image.
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It shows when you click on the image to see it zoomed in.
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I see the caption under the situ view of the cover photo, when I click on the cover photo and zoom in.
It shows nowhere at all for me. Not zoomed in, not near the thumb, not even in outer space. Weird.
EDIT: I have to scroll the enlargement to see the caption, and I have a high-resolution monitor. Are customers going to scroll the enlargement?
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