Natalie Tyler

While we patiently wait for new t-shirt previews (discussed, in pipeline, jostling for position with lots of other things) I thought I’d show people how to post a detail in your description field so that your designs have a little more impact when someone clicks on them. If you’re not sure what I mean, take a look at these works from rubyred, scott robinson and onetonshadow. Detailed thumbnails allow your viewers to see all that glorious detail and hard work you’ve put into your designs.





Just for info: The previews on RedBubble are deliberately adjusted to look as close to the t-shirt print quality as possible. The appearance of the colours on a back lit screen will be different to how they will appear when printed on fabric so the previews try to take this into consideration. This is so your customers won’t be disappointed when they get your tees and the colours don’t ‘pop’ as much as they do on a backlit screen. You can read all about it here. So keep in mind that when you post your detail image it will be slightly brighter than the design on the tee.

Step One: Create a detail image

Once you’ve created your tee and saved the file as a png, switch to ‘view actual size’ or equivalent. Crop the image to show the area of detail you want to focus on and save as a new file in jpg format. You can do this with more than one area but keep in mind that your viewer will have to scroll down to see multiple images. One or two will probably do the trick.

Step Two: Host your image somewhere

You’ll need to link to the image url in order to post the detail in your description so this means you need to upload it somewhere online in order to create the link. I use my RedBubble art tab but make sure to keep the work hidden when I upload it. Then I just bump it down to the bottom using the arrow keys so it’s out of the way. Other people use websites like flickr or photobucket.

Step Three: Linking to your image

Once you’ve hosted your image somewhere, you’ll need to create your link. As with all image links on RB, you need to use the image url which has a .jpg on the end. If you right click on the image (Mac users need to press ctrl and click), you’ll either see ‘copy image url’ or ‘copy link location’, depending on what browser you’re using. PC users may have to right click, select properties and look for it there.

Then you paste the link into your description field in between two exclamation marks like this (but without the space) ...

! http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/size:large/view:main/4033442-2-untitled.jpg!

That’s it. Let us know if you have any questions!