Managing Images

[Geobop]

Can anyone point me to an article that explains how to manage images on Zazzle? I've published about a hundred images and will be publishing hundreds more, so I have many questions.

1. I see the "delete" option at the bottom of the My Images page, so that's self-explanatory. But what happens if I delete an image that I previously assigned to a particular product? Will that product still display with that image, or will the product simply disappear?

2. Is it possible to search for images by file name (e.g. horse.jpg)?

3. If I have an image named horse.jpg, and I alter the image on my computer and upload the revised image, will the image in Zazzle also be updated - or will it simply rename the revised image (e.g. horse-copy.jpg)?

4. Can I organize images into folders? Subfolders? Is that what an "album" is? Can my customers see those folders as well? I'd like to make it easy for people exploring my designs to find the image they're looking for.

5. Can I somehow organize images between stores as well? So if someone wants to design something associated with Store A, they won't have to wade through images associated with Store B.

Thanks!

[Sara_H · Accepted solution]

@Geobop  working my way down your list of questions

1. If you delete an image that's on a product - it still stays on the published product and the product will stay published as long as you want it to

2. Yes, you can search by image name in the top search box in your images. I'd leave off .jpg search term.

3. Once an image is uploaded - it won't be automagically updated if you upload a revised image. I suggest you rename your image before upload eg Horse Revised

4. Yes, the 'albums' are subfolders that you can copy your images to for ease of access. If you delete an image out of your album, it won't auto delete the image from your images. You'd have to do that separately

5. The images are on your member account and all your stores have access to that pool. You can create albums for each store and place your related images in them. Customers have no access to your images unless you put them on products.

Hope that makes sense

[Geobop]

Thanks for all the tips.

Regarding the last one, I thought I read somewhere that customers could customize designs by swapping images with other images you've uploaded. However, it sounds like I was wrong.

So let's say I display ten different "name plate" images on my website, advising people that they can choose their favorite on Zazzle. Are you saying I would actually have to create ten different products using each image to make them available?

And if someone opened an image using NamePlate1.jpg, would then then be able to replace it with NamePlate2.jpg?

I suppose one way to do it would the to create a product featuring all then images, advising customers to delete all but the one they want.

Thanks.

[Sara_H]

Customers can replace your image with their own image if you set your image as a template. They cannot replace your image with another one of your images unless you have created a product with that other image on.

You would have to create individual products with individual images., they would not be able to replace NamePlate1.jpg with NamePlate2.jpg from your images directly.

You could I suppose add all 10 images to a nameplate - create all of them as templates then ask the customer to delete the ones they don't want from the templates but the first image would be shown in as product image in the marketplace and you would be missing out on those customers that prefer the ones that are underneath it.

Happy to have helped.