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I'm still confused about safe areas and guidelines. Some products have a HUGE area around what I assume to be the safe area. Like 80% of the design space is bleed? If I set the image to Fill the entire square which is now dark grey is filled. The green dotted area is marking the safe area and I am assuming the area that shows the outline of the product is the boundary of what will be shown in the final product? So what is the dark grey are for? Is it basically garbage and making it more difficult to fit a design properly? And what is the lighter grey area for? I basically need to know 2 things when creating something (should be simple): - what is the safe area, which will always be printed - what is the outer boundary, which shows what will NOT be printed (basically this is what the design tool should not show at all. This boundary needs to make sure no areas are left without print (creating ugly white stripes for instance). In business cards it is also a drama, most of what should be the design area seems to be "bleed/garbage". Why is there even an area that seems to be outside of the bleed? I am going by what I see in the product preview now. If it looks OK there, I am assuming the customer does not get a flawed product. But maybe that is not always the case, as there is oftentimes a huge discrepancy between the design tool and the final product view? Thank you for your insights!
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Is anyone else experiencing this? I'm on Windows 11 in Chrome and even simply selecting layers takes about 10 seconds. Adding a drop shadow may succeed in about 50% of the time. If not, I have to get out of the design tool and start afresh. I still don't know to what extent Windows 11 is creating these problems, but I would imagine that Zazzle would be able to handle that by now? Problems started with the A/B test crap and switching OS (about a month later) certainly did not help. Thank you for your feedback!
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I know that this is a long shot but... Does anyone use Pantone Connect (a plug in for Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop to access all past and present Pantone Color Books) in their Zazzle design workflow? Yes I am aware of the fact that Zazzle has stated that they have existing colour charts. I have used said colour charts to create CYMK colour palettes in Illustrator for my Zazzle designs. What I am confused about is how to use Pantone Connect within Illustrator to create CYMK colour palettes that can be uploaded to Zazzle and used on Zazzle products. What colour books with in Pantone Connect should one use to create palettes for Zazzle products. Finally I am also aware of the fact that Zazzle strictly forbids the usage of the Pantone name which is trademarked and is the intellectual property of Pantone in any product titles and descriptions. The reason I ask is because I pay almost $100.00 annually for the Pantone Connect extension and I am NOT even sure if I can even use it in my workflow. Sorry if this seems like a trite question. I have searched exhaustively on this topic and have nothing to go on. Thanks in advance for any input or suggestions. ATTN: PenguinPower - I saw a post where you mentioned using Pantone Uncoated books in your design workflow. Do you still use Pantone colors in your designs? Just curious.
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I'm finding mixed informatio about sales tax. Do I have to remit sales tax payments to all the various entities or does Zazzle do that for me?
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I submitted two Zippo designs on the evening of 11/8. Yesterday 11/11 they moved out of "Under Review" to just appearing as a regular saved design, they did not go into the Revise & Resubmit tab. I also didn't receive any email with the reason they weren't approved which I'm told you usually get. I'm assuming they didn't get approved but no email and them not moving to the Revise & Resubmit tab does have me wondering if it's just a "glitch". If you had a Zippo rejected, what happened? Did you get an email with the reason, and did it go to the Revise & Resubmit tab or just back to being a regular saved design?
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Hi! It would be awesome to read what everyone has to say about this question: "Do you think creating collections is a game changer on Zazzle?" Every opinion and experience counts. Thanks!
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10 days ago, I deleted every product and images too. I'm still selling products. I deliberately chose to close at the end of October so that all funds I had accumulated would clear and my final pay out would be in December. Could someone at Zazzle tell me how this is so?
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I got this message in spam this am. It's fake, right? If so I'll block it. 😬
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How can I de-clutter my 'all image' library? (a) how can I MOVE (not copy) images to albums? (b) How can I arange images by frequency of use? (not most recent) 'Recent' pushes 'Frequent' to the 2nd page. (c) Can images be deleted from the main menu (all images), after copying to an album?
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Whenever I post a link, it's just a link, never an image. Is there a trick to have the product image show up instead of just a link?
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So I am new to Zazzle and in the last 7 weeks i have created 100 products ...mostly christmas cards, wrapping paper, tissue paper, stickers , name tags and gift bags I know I am too late for the Christmas market but this has been a steep learning curve and I look to build a store and re-edit for next Christmas My designs are fine but where my products may have fallen down is in 2 areas but I have 3 questions if I may 1. I found the zazzle editor painful, slow and almost impossible to get correct if aligning repeat text and repeat photo templates . I did upload images as overlays and even used gold cirlces to put photos in for repeatives design wrapping paper . But the zazzle tools realigns my uploaded backgrounds even when i use the 'suggested sizes' and the lines it gives as guides do not always work correctly . I for instnace created gold cirlces to place photos in but when I would come out of the editor even after usign the lines the photos were never completely lined up correctly in the gold circle and if i zoomed in on the editor it was hard to judged as i pulled photos to their location. ...This has caused me such stress and a lack of confidence on the quality I my wrapping paper ...How do other do this or maybe they dont ? Why are therre no size or position points on the editing board and why does the alignment feature work so poorly. I had also same problem when trying to align ribbon motifs on the zazzle board. I am talking about realigning templates here both text and photos in the one design. My desings I create in a external editor. The editor is one of the reasosn to make me want to not continue with Zazzle. I am currently assessing my options 2. I was unaware of the issue of what looks good on my desk top does not necessarily look good on pintrest on someone's phone. I have alot of woodland designs but the greesn have totally washed out my designs on the phone. How do you desing for colour to cover both bases ? Its a pity as some of my designs are nice on my laptop but dreadful on my phone 3. Finally what to do about error or issues with published work. Should one delete a product after it has been published and begin again or hide it or what ? There are some of my producst I could improve for next Christmas but what si the best approach ? If I want to have a better store next christmas and in my hurry this year I may have had some minor mistakes or chosen poor fonts or colour backgrounds, etc ...what is the best appraoch so by next year my strore is professional looking and I havent wasted my time with my current work Any pointers would be gratefully received
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Hi everybody I have a question many stores look so beautiful and professionally designed how did you do that, did someone done that for you? I don’t know how to make it beautiful and professional. Would really appreciate your help. Thank you for any help you can give.
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I am about to panic because when I searched 18lb tissue paper it says it is not found. I know that they have changed the sizes but if can't create on 18lb that will hurt the decoupage creators drastically. What are they thinking? Please tell me they are not discontinuing the 18lb. thank you Rena
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Okay, I saw that it is semi-gloss. I just made postcards a few days ago. I never choose semi-gloss. I always choose the first option that comes up which is matte. Does it automatically change to semi-gloss without us knowing? Now, I have to re-do all those postcards. What is going on?
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Other than size and fabric, zippered or not, what upcharges could there be on a throw pillow that is $7.61? I dont see anything that matches that number ?
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