Sizing Tip For Shopkeepers
I’ve noticed a lot of complaints about site slowness since CafePress updated with their new look. One thing that has shopkeepers irritated is how long it takes to resize everything.
I’ll share a little trick for sizing that some of you may not have realized. I mocked up a cheerleading design using clip art and took a screenshot of it in my image basket. I posted a picture of it below. Take note of the area I have circled in red with the arrow pointing to it.
*whispers* Do you see it? The size is listed there. Pay attention to the sizes of your designs when you duplicate sections!
I keep a list near my computer of a variety of designs and their dimensions. If I upload a design that’s 3000 X 3000, but duplicate a section whose design is 1500 X 1500, I’ll have to resize every stinking product. Yuck!
But, if I pay attention to the size of the designs, I’ll duplicate a section whose design is close in size. So if I already have that cheerleading design on products in a section and I upload a design that’s close to 3000 X 3000, I duplicate the cheerleading section, replace the design, and use the bulk tool to rename and change the description. Bam! I’m done.
Zazzle doesn’t show the size of the images in the image basket, but Printfection does in inches. Perhaps the same technique will help there.
Does anyone else have any sizing tricks you’d like to share?
Barb
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Another thing that will help, (along the same lines) is look for an image similar to what you have. If you have a full bleed/no border image, try to find one like that. I have been pleasantly surprised when I put images on products that *poof* I don’t have to resize anything!
Thanks BarbD… yep… since CP is so slow (especially the image basket) every little short cut helps to save brain cells and sanity! I love it when I don’t have to resize…
I’ve even erased the section and tried duplicating a different one to see if the image fits it better instead of trying to tediously resize 100+ products…. I haz a serious hate for resizing….
I have a hidden section where I have different sets of products with images of different sizes. One set may be sized at 7.5, another at 3.5 and yet another at 2.0. When I add a new product, I simply import the set with the size I want to use and change the image. I do have to sometimes change a few things, but for the most part, everything is lined up just how I want it. It takes a while to get the sets made to begin with, but it’s a real time saver afterwards.
Thanks Jenn!
Yeah…. I used to use the same technique…. then they limited our sections to 500, so I started using this technique instead so that I can dump my hidden template section and all the product sets when I need to….
Of course, when I get to that point, I don’t guess I’ll need the product sets much longer because my shop will be full…. LOL
I never thought of duplicating the section and then replacing the name, design, and description! Genius! I was starting to get lazy and not even include buttons and etc because I didn’t want to resize them, so thanks for this tip!
I’ve sometimes imported products (that have already been sized to the way I like them) from another section into a new section and then just changed the image and descriptions. But if I’ve put designs on the backs of some it can be a pain to remember which ones I have to go change or remove the back image from so I don’t end up with one image on the front and a completely different one on the back! I didn’t know you could just duplicate whole sections. Where is the command to do that? Also is there a way to get rid of old product sets?