There are little blue stamps appearing in the corner of items that I resized or something and it says ‘enhanced by zazzle’ what is that all about? Are we going to be charged for using these?
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@kashmier “enhanced by zazzle” is new thing where the Design Tool automagically (with the help of ai) resizes your image that could do with being a bit larger for the product you are putting it on.
It creates an upscaled copy of your original artwork and places that on the product instead (and a copy in your image folder - it does give it a new name usually lots of numbers) and the little star in the left hand corner.
If you do have any with the little star - press the i (bottom right corner) and rename them so you’ll be able to search for them in the future.
It’s Zazzle’s best interest that the artwork fits the product and is at the optimum size for printing and the Design Tool can now do that for you. Fantastic!
They normally announce new Design Tool features on a Friday so we have the weekend to break them lol though I’ve not read anywhere about this new feature yet
It would be nice to know if we are going to be charged a fee for upscaling our artwork.
I really hope not.
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Thank you so much for your explanation. I missed this whole thing. Was there an announcement?
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@Sara_H wrote:
It would be nice to know if we are going to be charged a fee for upscaling our artwork.
I really hope not.
I’m wondering why it’s even being done since we can do it ourselves, or is there more to it than just upsizing and maybe shifting.
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I noticed this as well. I personally do not like it and prefer to keep full control of my images. Plus it adds a duplicate that I don’t want in my images. I hope this feature has an off switch.
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I just went looking and didn’t find any, yet. If it makes a new one does it remove the cover photo that we made for the original?
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Given various limitations of AI, I’m not comfortable with an algorithm that replaces files that I designed, unless I get to approve them first. If it creates two copies, that will create a mess and extra work, e.g., new covers, broken social media promotion links to fix, etc. Please, Zazzle, give us more information so we can understand what’s going to happen with this “feature.”
At the very least, please give us the option to opt out, if it does indeed create a new copy of or replace our files. We might have specific reasons for sizing an element a certain way, and the AI program might not understand the context.
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@PAZP it’s only kicks in when you put artwork that is too small on a new product that you are creating - it doesn’t mess with products you have already published for sale (as far as I know) so it wouldn’t replace cover photos either
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@Sea-Change It creates a copy of the artwork in your images not the product. This is for new products that you are creating - not already published products. No new covers/no repairing social media promotion links needed.
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Oh, okay. Now I get it. Thank you.
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Great, thanks for the clarification! I haven’t seen the feature yet, so maybe there’s an A/B or graduated rollout or I just haven’t encountered any of my affected artwork.
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It does give you the approval. A new window pops up and shows you the original and the replacement to which you can choose which one. I’ve only had it pop up on items I tried to make bigger than they could. It was actually fairly accurate, it only removed some detail to the watercolor I did it with. And considering the original item would have been 4" tall on a 18 x 24" sign that it needed to be full size on, it was a benefit to me.
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That’s good that you can choose which image to include, i can see where it might be helpful for larger products, e.g., signs, tapestries, rugs, as long as the original has enough clarity to handle resizing. I hope Zazzle will post more info soon, but I appreciate the clarification here.
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I ran across this new feature today in the design tool. It did ask if I wanted the feature, called “enhancement”. It did not do it without my permission. It then created a new image, labeled with many numbers, in my media editor along with my original. The new image is also identified by a little blue circle with stars in it at the upper left of the image. I can delete the new image if I want to, just like my other images in the media editor. So the process seems noninvasive: you can take it or leave it. It does not harm anything. Try it in a new product and you’ll see.
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Actually just sold the item that this tool appeared on for the first time for me. So I’m thankful for this feature!
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That’s great - thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for the information!
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Does anyone know if the “enhanced images” are bitmaps or vectors?
There are a lot of features in the Design Tool that we “can do ourselves,” but Zazzle’s trying to make it as versatile as possible so that we can do almost everything right in the design tool.
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It’s not like Zazzle does it automatically. They ask you if you want an enhanced version when your artwork is too small for the product. If you don’t, no problem.