From inside the design tool, click Help, then Guidelines. Then you'll see the link to click to download the guide file as .PDF. Note that the guide file is only for the layer you're on so you have to do it for each layer you want a gf for.
Lots of products on Zazzle have this, some don't. Of the ones that do have it, some are more useful then others.
When I have tried using Adobe Design to Print all the way to Publish (and I just tried again now to see if anything has changed) , the result in the Design Tool is one flattened image. It doesn't matter if I choose "object layer upload" or "flattened image upload" - I just get a flattened image named "Group #x.png". If I remove the individual layers from the group in Photoshop before Publishing to Z, the 'object layer upload' option is grayed-out, all I can choose is the flattened image upload option and I again just get a single flattened image with a long string of numbers & letters as the layer name in the Design Tool.
I don't know if this is how it's supposed to work or if there is something wrong with me or my computer, but because I can't get anything besides a flattened image (that I can't even choose a name for) out of it, I've never used it to publish anything. I've used it once or twice for its ability to test/preview a design right in Photoshop before manually saving & uploading all the individual parts to it but that's it. I would love to know how you all are using it.
I couldn't find a Help section but after looking around more this morning found that after you hit Publish, then there's a "click here for more info" link that downloads a "Getting Started" .pdf guide.
Having to to have each individual image I might want to use stored in its own folder sounded like an organizational nightmare and not something I would be willing to do. But I see now you are talking about Layer Groups in Photoshop, NOT folders on your computer. So whew! that's totally workable. It just means that each Group in PS is flattened into its own composite .png layer in the Design Tool so any element you want to be its own editable layer in the Design Tool after upload needs to be the only thing in its Group in Photoshop. And importantly, it's the Group name, not the image name inside it, that ends up as the name on Zazzle. So if you've got say "SquareTransTulip300XL.png" but name its Group just "Tulip", on Zazzle's end the layer/image is just "Tulip.png". That's actually really handy as you can give your images more user-friendly names for customers who might enter the Design Tool without actually having to rename them on your end. (Carets are only needed if you want that Group to be be treated as template object.)
The drawback I see is that - when designing via the Design Tool, we can have say BackgroundPatternA.png in our image gallery and use that one image over and over on multiple designs/products. But if you're designing via ADTP instead, everything is uploaded as a new image so you could end up with dozens of copies of the same image (that you've given different names to) cluttering up your My Images. That could get real messy real quick. I'd have to make a habit of going into My Images after publishing to delete all the images I know I already have a "master copy" of in my gallery.
Anyhows, thank you for cluing me in to how this actually works, I can see myself using this quite a bit now. 🙂
Oh, and one question if you will: When designing via the Design Tool, we get the little yellow warning symbol if we make an image larger than would print well. Is there any such warning within ADTP or do we just have to wing it?
Yeah, that's the only way I'd used it before too- for the guidelines and previews to help me see I made my images the right proportions for the design area. Then I'd manually upload the parts and re-create the design using the Design Tool. But now that I understand how to publish without things being flattened into one single image, and that I can choose the name that appears in the Design Tool, I'm all on board for ADTP now 😉
From inside the design tool, click Help, then Guidelines. Then you'll see the link to click to download the guide file as .PDF. Note that the guide file is only for the layer you're on so you have to do it for each layer you want a gf for.
Lots of products on Zazzle have this, some don't. Of the ones that do have it, some are more useful then others.
