I've been making half a dozen carousel pins on Pinterest per day recently - largely becasue they get far more impressions than 'ordinary' pins.
For people new to Zazzle, it's not obvious to them just how easy it is to personalize designs that have template texts / images. So what I've been doing recently is to include a screenshot of the opened-up personalize pane on the product page.
The key, though, is to make sure it has a large enough pixel dimension (min of around 1000px square-ish). So the trick is getting a screenshot at those dimensions. Here's an example of one I've just used in a carousel pin:
So, how to get the screenshot at this sort of size?
You need to do this in Firefox because the Chrome (and Chromium-based browsers like Edge, Vivaldi, Brave and so on) cut off the right hand side.
Get to the product page, open up the Personalize pane and then use (Windows:) <ctrl>+ (Mac:) <command>+ a few times to zoom in and make things very large. When you've done that use (Windows:) <ctrl><shift>S (Mac:) <command><shift>S to take a screenshot. Then choose the option to save the whole page. Finally, hit the download button you're given.
Then just crop the image to the right size in your favorite image editing program (I use Preview on my Mac where I also add the speech bubbles). Depending on the number of template texts / images you might have crop to an aspect ratio that's not quite what you want but you'll be able to adjust things when you've added it to your carousel.
Here's the carousel pin I created with the above
(A quick way to get the product in-situs / views for products is to use a bookmarklet wot I made. Read more here and get it for yourself)
You need to keep clicking the arrow button overlaid on the image to see the rest of the images in the carousel:
Who can say - maybe they'll get round to making it more prominent sometime. I'm not holding my breath, lol!
Mark's link goes to the Pinterest UK site
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/616922848974973514/
which as I discovered last night is a whole separate sign-in account from the US site and if not signed in it doesn't show you the other images. As we all know, lots of sites show you different things depending on whether you are signed-in or not.
Need to use the US site link instead, then you'll get the arrows on the pin to view the other images in the carousel.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/616922848974973514/
I mean, that's assuming you have a US account. Basically, you won't see the carousel option if you're not signed in to your Pinterest account, and you can't use your existing credentials to sign-in to a different foreign Pinterest domain.
I couldn't figure out last night why when I clicked on Mark's pin link I was not signed in to Pinterest. I am never signed out there. When I tried to sign in it wouldn't let me, kept saying no such account name existed. That's when I realized it was the UK pinterest. Took the UK out of his url to go to the US Pinterest and was already signed-in as usual and could then see the arrows and the other images. So I learned last night that
1) your Pinterest sign-in credentials are only good for the domain you created them on and
2) if you're not signed-in, you won't see Pinterest the same way
When I hover over Mark's pin using the UK url I get this, because I am not signed in and can't sign into that domain
But switching the URL to the regular US domain one I get this when I hover over it, because I am signed-in on this one:
That's strange, @ColsCreations - if I use the .com Pinterest address, it automatically redirects me to the .co.uk domain whether I'm signed in or not (because it detects I'm in the UK). I assumed that the same would happen in reverse - showing the danger of assumptions, lol!
Huh. It's definitely not auto-redirecting me to the regular .com site from your UK pin. I just looked over the Settings menu in Pinterest and don't see anything for opting in or out of auto-redirecting.
I just went to PInterest, the regular .com site, where I am signed in to my account. I left it open in one tab. Then I clicked Mark's link from another tab, and no difference, still takes me to the actual link URL which is the .co.UK site, it's not auto-redirecting me to the US .com site.
And to reiterate, I can't sign in with my .com email & password, it says account does not exist. So the only way for me would be to either create a new account on the UK domain, or know enough to manually change the link URL to the regular .com one. Otherwise I am not going to see the pin (or Pinterest as a whole) in the expected way.
Only posting these replies as FYI for Mark and others that depending on the originating domain of the pin and the domain of the viewer's Pinterest account, results may not be as expected.
That's really creative @Lipnancy 😄
Use your browser's "zoom" feature to get a nice, big image for your Easy Personalization. You'll need Firefox's full page screenshot thingamajig as described in my opening post 😄
Have another go 🤗
