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| Customisable spring floral wrapping paper. Click or tap here to see it at Zazzle. |
Hello there, and hope all is well with you.
This week, I'm both keeping a promise I made last week, and showing you something new.
To keep the promise first, the floral wrapping paper/giftwrap you see above with its uses from presents to crafts and more in the photo collage above, is the first design to have come from all that watercolour work-in-progress last week.
If you love the new design just the way it is, you can find it here, as normal.
This time though, *you* can change it...
The stand out thing and new thing about the way I've designed this is that, if you want to, you can change it, right in the Zazzle editor.
So, if you'd rather have, for example, a more dramatic background...
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| Here's how the design might look with a blue-mauve background added... |
Or just a subtle pale grey one instead of white...
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| A potential pale grey background has been added in this mock-up... |
You can.
You can even alter the colour and effect of the pattern itself, turning it, for instance, into a greyscale, more monochrome design, if you want...
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| Colour is completely taken away here to show how the design might look in greyscale. |
How is all this possible?
All the magic can happen so easily because of the Zazzle site's amazingly flexible new design editor. I'm happy to record a full tutorial on this if you'd like. For now though, please know that the basic steps are:
1. Visit the product page.
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| The editing button on the product page... |
2. Click on the edit button (circled in green in the picture above).
3. For changing the background, you're working with the background layer...
3. For changing the background, you're working with the background layer...
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| A view of the editing screen showing how to find the background layer. |
4. And for changing the effects, you'll click the main image artboard, to bring up the effects menu (again, circled in green below). The effects tool then gives you all the ways in which you can change colour tones and effects.
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| Image showing the main artboard in the design screen, and the location of the effects button. |
5. Save your changes and checkout as normal.
It's long been a dream of mine to give you more ways in which you can customise my designs and make them your own. So this is, at last, at least a small way that I've been able to start achieving that. I hope you enjoy this, and that it's helpful.
Finally
Finally, a huge thank you for reading down this far, and to those who have re-subscribed after all the newsletter problems, a huge shoutout and thanks too. It means a lot.
As you can probably tell (eg a version of the original, more fun and upbeat logo and "look and feel" has been reinstated :-) ), changes are still afoot, and maybe for some time.
As you can probably tell (eg a version of the original, more fun and upbeat logo and "look and feel" has been reinstated :-) ), changes are still afoot, and maybe for some time.
But on the tech side (ie me and the Computer Man) are getting there. Thank you so much for bearing with it all.
Have a wonderful week, whatever you're up to.
More soon.
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