what's up guys so i'm excited today we
are going to deep dive into the update
that i'm sure most of you guys already
saw when you logged into your merch by
amazon account today so they are rolling
out a designer
a design tool
as a part of the create a design process
i don't know what to call it the create
tab in merged by amazon so we're going
to deep dive today into what this is how
it works etc also shout out to ronnie in
discord for sending me the
merch by amazon resource page for this
uh designer because i actually don't
even have access yet hopefully i'll have
access like maybe tomorrow but you know
i like to rush these videos out the day
of so we're gonna deep dive into the
resources on this thing and learn about
this together so let's get started
so i logged into merch by amazon and
this is the message i saw on the
dashboard it says we are introducing a
new design editor in the merch portal
this new design editor allows you to
upload a single artwork file to the drag
and drop area at the top of the create
page to add it to all product types
within each product type new tools have
been added to enable editing
capabilities including resizing
repositioning and adding background fill
colors to your design starting today we
are releasing the design editor on a
rolling basis and it can be accessed on
the create page once it's available for
your account so i think they're rolling
it out on a tier basis and i know
somebody in a higher tier than me who
shared this screenshot so this is what
it's going to look like when everybody
gets access to the new uh design what do
we call it the designer let's just call
it the designer
so now let's go and check out the uh
resources on this thing and i will link
to that in the description in case
anybody wants to kind of follow along or
read at your own pace so they're calling
this the new design editor general
guideline for the best experience your
artwork should be png format
trimmed of all uh extraneous blank or
transparent pixels so that would
actually make your design show bigger
which kind of backs my theory that
bigger is better with these designs
as large as possible dimensions of 4 500
pixels or more will give you the most
flexibility so look at that it sounds
like now it's flexible uh similar to you
know printful if you upload a design you
have a little bit more red bubble too
you know you can uh adjust them
zoom in zoom out etc
uh must be less than 25 megabytes in
size uh rgb color eight bits uh channel
all right so words to know and artwork
dimensions are the width and height we
probably skipped the words to no
honestly because this is kind of just
definitions that i think most of us are
familiar with um maybe we'll actually
read the last one here safe zone is
where you should place the most
important parts of your design design
content outside of the safe zone is
still printed but might be cut off or
obscured by seams cut lines or camera
holes
camera holes what
in the new design editor the safe zone
is shown as a rectangle with a red
dashed border
okay so there's a bunch of words to know
most of them are just related to
designing and uh i don't think we're
gonna change probably change our design
process uh just because there's a new
editor out that allows us to resize our
designs when you upload to merge amazon
all right next page saving your artwork
the new design editor allows you to
upload artwork with any dimension
greater than 485 by 485 which is pop
sockets
to use on every product artwork will
automatically scale to fit and center
each product when you create artwork
start with a large width and height so
i'm planning on keeping my stuff similar
to 40 like i'm probably not going to
change anything 4500 by 5400 i'm still
planning on using that unless there's a
reason not to
the design editor will allow you to
shrink artwork but not make it bigger we
recommend starting with a height
width of at least 4 500 pixels but you
might want to go a bit larger to allow
more flexibility
save or export the file as a png in rgb
color mode when you save artwork files
in your design software we recommend
removing all extra blank or transparent
pixels trimming your file to the edges
of your design trimming allows the merch
design's editor centering tools to work
as expected then if you want to resize
your artwork or reposition it to the
pocket or
collar area you can do that using tools
right on the portal for each product
independently so that's pretty cool that
you'll be able to resize and move stuff
around and it'll automatically kind of
place the design in an optimal way
this is one of the big things i don't
want to hijack this video but like when
i'm uploading hat designs to printful i
always recommend like trim all the extra
space
um doing basically what it recommends
here because then it will automatically
kind of place your design properly and
consistently on all the products and
then also you don't have to pay for
multiple digitizations because the you
know layout is consistent
so similar approach for selling like
embroidery on printful is what i was
really trying to say
okay and at the bottom here you can
actually see they have the left center
and right examples it looks like on the
left hand side uh it's uploading the
artwork similar to how we do it now and
did it in the past which is even if your
actual design itself your design element
is only 3500 by 3500 pixels
you would still upload the 4 500 by 5400
um png and i think what they're saying
now is recommending against doing that
so then in the center it says the pixels
are trimmed out
the artwork dimension
is now 3500 by 3 500 pixels
okay so that would be the equivalent of
just like doing a control a control x
new paste save uh and just uploading the
element itself and on the right
it says that the artwork dimension is
resized to 30 to 3550 by 4500 pixels so
i think what it's saying is like if you
are to like
transform the left one
by removing the extra space to the
center and then you upload the center
one their designer will expand it to
meet the maximum either width or height
so that's what basically happened there
on the right example
that's my understanding anyways
all right uploading your artwork upload
your artwork at the top of the create
page by dragging a file into the global
uploader or clicking browse for a file
on your computer your artwork will be
placed on all products centered within
the printable area and safe zone if
you're happy with the default artwork
placement all you need to do is add the
product details before you publish
even though you'll see your artwork
applied to all products we only publish
to products and marketplaces that have
been selected in the select products
screen
if you want to adjust the size and
positioning of your artwork on each
product click the edit details button to
use the new design tools you can also
add a back image on apparel products by
clicking on the back button of the
product view on full bleed products
you'll have to you'll have the option to
add a background color to your design so
that would be like phone cases uh pop
sockets tote bags
artwork positioning on apparel products
gray dashed rectangles show the
printable area you can make your artwork
larger than the printable area but it
will be cut off
on the full bleed products the printable
area is the entire surface of the
product keeping your artwork within the
safe zone dashed red rectangle will will
guarantee that nothing important is cut
off or obscured by seams cut lines or
camera holes i still don't know what
camera holes are somebody let me know in
the comments below
since artwork can be placed on the
entire surface
we show you a simplified design area for
these products
if your design is a pattern we suggest
enlarging it to cover the printable area
including outside of the safe zone hmm
interesting it's still going to cut it
off i guess so it's not like you're
gonna start doing all-over prints on
merch by amazon but
maybe this is like one step closer to
all over prints being available who
knows
to envision how your artwork translated
from the simplified canvas to the
physical product click the preview
button above the design details the the
design tools
okay interesting
editing tools use the product design
editor to accelerate the publishing
process and fine-tune your artwork for
each product
so look at this one right here it's
using the pop socket example it kind of
looks like merch resize if you guys are
familiar with that free tool merch
resize.com basically looks like they um
are like integrating it with
merch by amazon you know so that instead
of us having to like manually resize and
re-upload the various you know versions
of a design
that they're just going to do it for us
and give us the ability to add in that
background color on the fly as we go
so you can see here you know they have
the design view the preview uh you can
increase or reduce the scale so i guess
you can zoom in zoom out
um or is that
no it's actually scaling up and down the
design itself so it's not a zoom in or
zoom out function it's actually like
going to make the artwork bigger or
smaller
you can center vertically horizontally
you can reset everything you can add a
background color you can remove a
background and you can remove your
artwork all together so cool
here you have the color picker that's
kind of self-explanatory so we know how
to use color pickers looks like you can
add your hex code as well or the rgb
color codes
uh product specific artwork merch's
product templates previously required
specific artwork for each product type
you can still use these templates to
preview what your artwork will look like
on specific products but you're no
longer required to export or upload
specific sizes
if you have a design created for a
specific product you can still use it by
overriding the global artwork and
replacing it for a product so it's
similar to redbubble how you can do that
to do this edit details for that product
click the red x icon next to the design
and you can upload your artwork so if
you want to manually like kind of
optimize your artwork for various
product types that are non-standard like
i'm assuming if it's the standard
dimensions 4 500 by 5400 which are no
longer standard dimensions i guess um
but you know in theory if you wanted to
manually adjust for you know a hoodie or
a pop socket or whatever and not just
use the auto generated ones
that you can still do
that
all right guys and i guess that's it for
this uh tutorial if you will we were
learning together again i'll link to the
resource in the description and as you
guys get this feature rolled out let me
know how you're liking it you can join
the facebook community by the way it's a
great place to kind of discuss uh how
you feel about this stuff also as i wrap
the video up did just want to remind you
guys that if you want to learn how i
went from tier 10 to tier 200 000
everything every little detail step by
step
check out my merch by amazon course link
in the description thank you guys for
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