What does enhanced by Zazzle mean Stamp

[kashmier]

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?

[Sara_H]

@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.

[Barbara]

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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.

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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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[PAZP]

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? 

[Sara_H]

@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

[PAZP]

Oh, okay. Now I get it. Thank you. 

[CrazyMermaid]

Thank you so much for your explanation. I missed this whole thing. Was there an announcement? 

[SJoy]

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.

[Sea-Change]

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.

[Sara_H]

@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.

[Sea-Change]

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.

[jophb]

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.

[Sea-Change]

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.