Can I change the background on a card without creating a second version of it?

[klsantillo]

I'm new to Zazzle design tool. I originally created my invitations in Photoshop, and posted them to Etsy. Since they all had colored backgrounds and I didn't want to recreate them, I hid the text and downloaded the background with graphic designs on them and then uploaded those blanks to Zazzle and added the text back. It was working well until I realized someone might want to use a different paper color option, like ivory, craft, or silver paper. So, I think I need to change all of those designs. Here is my question - If I edit my design to remove the old background and add a new transparent background, is there a way to make the change so I don't have two copies and have to delete the first one which has already been shared everywhere? I'm assuming the URLs are different for each copy, and I hate to delete the first one and have someone hit a dead end when they click a shared link. Any suggestions how I can make the corrections but not lose possible sales? TIA!

[idraw]

From what you explained, here is my take.
Using the "new" image name2,(rename it so it is different from the existing image w/bg) ,image name2 is the one with transparent background, upload it to your image folder, then set that same image name2 on a product, add text template if you want,  then, here's the difference, when creating the new (no bg) product, make sure you change the name of the new image/product to image name2, change the tags, and change the description. Post the "new" image name2 product for sale.
Leave the "old" image/product1 as is for sale.
The difference being that there are 2 image/products, ie t-shirt1 with bg already exists, t-shirt2 with no bg and new tags,descriptions is what you are creating.
*Just using image name1 and image name2 as examples, change image name2 to your actual new image CARD title.

[ColsCreations]

The short answer is no. We can't edit existing designs.

I would make your new transparent background the same size as the old one, then go into edit design and use "replace image" to change out the old background image for the new one. Publish with some change in the title so that you can immediately identify it as the updated product. Set the originals with the older background to direct-only. This means any links out there to them will still work. Change the description on those originals to include something like "there is an updated version of this available". Then make sure that old & new are next to each other in a Collection so they show together in the "other products in this collection" scroll on the product page. If you set the originals to Hidden or delete them, user's will get an OOPS! this product doesn't exist page on any links out there to them. There's no way around that. If the products have never sold I would bite the bullet and just delete them after publishing the new versions. If they have sold, I would wait until you start seeing sales on the newer versions and then set the older ones to Hidden. You don't want to delete things that have a sales history.

Also, if your new trans background is the same except for the background color and the file name is really close and you haven't changed anything else in the design, there's a chance the trans version will automatically get grouped with the solid-color versions in which case you could just leave the originals be. But Hidden items don't get grouped and I am pretty sure but not certain that DO items don't either, so I'd make the new versions and then just give things time to see if they get grouped or not and then slowly move the origs from DO to Hidden to deleting (unless they have sold before).