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!
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)
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Looks like you need to be viewing Pinterest from a browser and not the app to see the different descriptions.