A few site tweaks
Hello hello,
Yesterday we released a new RedBubble … there were three main public changes (and the usual behind the scenes work). We’ve introduced a new larger size canvas (20 by 30 inches). I love canvas prints … and as far as I’m concerned bigger is better! The base price of the Extra Large Canvas is AUD 135, USD 128.25; GBP 60.75 (VAT exc); EUR 87.75 (VAT exc); CAD 128.25.
We’ve added some more functionality to the bulk edit feature. Now you can bulk: Change your mark up, change product options, publish, delete and de-publish
We’ve also done some work on how we display t-shirts on the website … so they look closer to the physical result. Below is an example (it’s a black on black design by the talented nofrillsart). The first shirt is the old way we displayed shirts – note that it’s very hard to see the black printing. We’ve fixed this so that what is displayed is much closer to the printed t-shirt people receive. Kudos to John for this work.
Ciao,
P.S. Before I forget, a quick request. We’re finding that a few folks are mistakenly using the ‘writing’ area of the site in the place of the ‘journal’. Here’s what we say about the journal:
Your Journal is a great place to communicate with your fans and the people who are interested in your work. People who are watching you will be notified each time you update your Journal.
While writing is designed for creative writing … poems, short stores et cetera. Please let’s try to keep the writing section of the site for creative writing so that the creative writing is not swamped with our journal posts.


riverotter
great, thanks!
MuscularTeeth
aah nice work on the black tee thingy, makes a huge difference.
Rosalie Dale IPA
I recognise that design – is it the RB uniform?!!!!
Nice tweaks … keep up the good work.
Rebecca Bryson
Kewl!! thanks for the heads up!!
H M Bascom
Awesome updates!
Adi Nugroho
great info
thank you :)
Janis Zroback
Thank you for the changes to bulk edit….I look forward to the promised changes to Bmails and over view page…
John Robb
Many thanks for the bulk artwork changes – you read my mind. :-)
oddoutlet
cool thanks for the updates in making this site better everyday. You guys are great-as you already know : )
DrinkMeAlice
Great work Peter and all the elves at RB Central. T
his is such an fabulous site (even though it is terribly addictive)!!
Kind regards
Rosie
Spikerama
That’s great. I’ve always wondered how close the screen images are to the actual printing.
Fantastic work guys.
Thanks
Eduardo Gómez ...
really great for changing the markups instantly with bulk
Donna Adamski
Awesome….Great job! :)
Ghelly
Great!, btw, I love the tee, and every single detail that helps improve the site is more than welcome.
*-))
Cathie Tranent
Thanks from me too!!
TrippyCat
Good work ..much thanks
Mel Brackstone
Yay team!
Juilee Pryor
good one team bubble …. just love that shirt as well….
Martin Pot
Yay for the larger canvas sizes!
(BTW, the faq entry about product sizes needs to be updated to reflect the larger canvas sizes)
EmeraldSun
Great Deal
—-Bea :D))
Roydon Johnson
It just gets better and better way too go Guys and Girls
Alison Johnston
Nice upgrades :-)
Nancy Stafford
way to go it gets better all the time
DrawingDown
Perfect as usual Red bubble, great to have the new canvas size is 5000×7100 pixels around the size you need for these prints??
Crowmanic
This is a BIG plus and clap to RB… FINALLY ... bulk manage, as in DELETE… love it. Thanks guys, now I can get motivated to clean-up my little piece of RB … cheers.
Phoenix-Appeal
Great upgrades, and a HUGE thank you for the PS, Peter.
xx
Marilyn Harris
Thanks to you guys!! Much appreciated!! :o)
Kitsmumma
Great news on the larger size canvases, that’s excellent. Good job RB!
Damian
Thanks Peter for pointing out to the site the role of the writing tab!
Lyn Higgs
great work, hip hip ; D
artist4peace
Thank you very much!
The Last Look
Well done with regard to pointing out what the writing section should be used for.
Far to many people are using it for their ‘wooooooo, Ive been featured’ communications.
Whether people will take notice is a different thing.
ChainmailChick
I’m adding my thanks to pointing out the diff between journal and writing! =)
Wendy Slee
Wonderful !
You guys are doing such great things for us all….well done!
and glad you mentioned about the journal vs writing thing….that has truly become an annoyance over time…... hopefully people will take note and now get it right…..
Barbara Glatzeder
Great going! Very pleased with all of this – as always!
Adam de la Mare
Nice one RB… Black is the new Black ;o)
tkrosevear
thanks Peter, as always you all ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
genevievem
cool re the new canvas sizes, would it be possible to do something bigger maybe 90×120cm?
Colleen Battis...
awesome revamps, thank you :)
now we just need kids and baby sizes for the T’s !!!
I love RedBubble, thanks for all the hard work :)
Tom Godfrey
thanks the hard-working team.
David Meacham
Cool – T shirt looks good
WatscapePhoto
Thanks RB. This is a terrific site already but it keeps getting better and better.
valzart
Woot!wonderful work sweetheART dancin’ shoes ON lol! ;} happy hippy hugglez
Mariska
i love you all, thanks for the hard work!!
lallymac
Sounds like great changes all round!
burningark
always welcome good sense changes like these
Christopher E...
cool deal..and that explains all the 503 errors i was getting yesterday and last night, i felt i was being haunted by them again..great upgrades
Keith Richardson
For along time I have tried to work out if there was any difference between Journal & Writing. I searched and searched the RedBubble site, to no avail… Have you put this explanation into the spots that one reaches when deciding to do some prose stuff? Cheers, Keith.
Phil Thomson IPA
You guys never cease to amaze me, always progressing and improving and forging ahead !!
rebelgirl
Thanks for the info and the hard work :)
David Cumming
Extra large canvas? Yeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!
If there was a wholesale price for bulk order available to members and kids/baby sizes on the clothes I’d be in nirvana.
Keep up the sterling work.
linsads
Brill tweaks
—thanx guys xxLainie Cann
Thanks 4 the tweaks & all your hard work!
& Yes, I agree that kids/ baby t-shirt sizes would be great!
KazM
Ta 4 updates
butchart
Thanks for the “writers guide” ...very much apprecaited…... i hope fellow bubblers read it and follow your suggestion….......b
Jan Landers
thank you, as always, for all your time & energy in making this space better and better!!!
Katagram
ROCK ON..you just keep making Red Bubble more lovable and usable ! ! Thank you for this site. !!
Soni
Thanks
D R Moore
Excellent updates all around great work to all behind the bubble
Craig Forhan
Thank you guys!
FungusFace
Thanks duder. I am new to this site but this is one of the greatest things that i have ever found on the internet. Thank you so much for giving every artist this opportunity.
Jen Cannella
Excellent…Thank you!!
Bizin
Thanks for great updates!
daftnation
finally black and black together
Owen Jones
nice one!
jenseyes
Nice tweaks Peter….....I’m guilty of the writing section will fix.
imageofpix4u
Super! I’d almost give you the Tee Shirt off my back for that achievement. :)
bubblehex08
I simply add a warm Thank you for the good work!
Sam Dantone
artsale
Nice work but i can only upload small prints because my camera is only 6 megapixels which only produces 2400 pixels and i dont want to mess with pixels as you advice not to—i would need to have a 20 pix camera -very expensive!! plus to upload such massive photos and i dont fancy waiting that long !! i wounder if anyone had ideas mybe compress PNG !
artsale
Lotacats
Kewl on the black. Black on black can look so neat…nice to have it display such.
Lela Bouse-McC...
NICE to hear about the larger canvas sizes! Have you considered making the image ‘wrap’ around the frame? I’ve had some printed like that and really prefer it to the solid white sides. Thanks for the consideration and all your work!
Ginny Schmidt
Thanks for the large canvas. As far as improved t-shirt image, white still needs a little tweaking, as it disappears completely into the white background of the screen.
ANewKindOfWater
Thanks for updates, esp. resolving the dark image on black tshirt problem…re: journal vs writing: for all the confusion, consider changing the bucket from “journal” to “blog,” which is what I have been using mine for. Even below in the footer, you have a link for redbubble’s “journal (blog)”.
Ilene Clayton
Great job, guys!
OscarEA
it’s all greek to me.
Jay Morgan
The site looks great colors are very sharp wonderful work .
Heather Rivet...
fantastic work…great job..you all rock
velveteagle
Getting better each day…
Thomas Pettit
T-shirt Colors
Does anyone else have the problem of the swatches in preview are not close to the actual color of the shirt once delivered? How hard would it be to scan an actual fabric swatch to get a more proximate color than to put palette generated colors? ( I know, I know all about monitor gammas and calibrations, etc.,etc.,... but most anything would be more on target than the current swatches, especially the darkest ones that almost appear to be the same color.)
Zazzle.com uses live model shots for their previews
Bulk Editing
Will Red Bubble ever implement ‘click & drag’ re-ordering?
Zazzle.com also has that & it’s heaven compared to the re-ordering here in RB!
There are a lot of things I like better about RB, but I feel these are legitimate suggestions that would benefit RB tremendously. Nonetheless, if this invokes another flaming from RB, feel free! I like mine well done.
Thomas Pettit
...Pictures Speak Louder Than Words…
PICTURES + WORDS SPEAK LOUDER
THIS…
...EQUALS
THIS???
JAMES GIBBS
CHECK OUT J&M’S STUFF AT babyhead1955,MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND OUR ARMED FORCES “THIS DAY”AND EVERY DAY! JIMMY
Linda Callaghan
great always good to have a tweak now and then :-)
Ginny Schmidt
Has anybody mentioned having a t-shirt design DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY as a result of this display tweak? My previously perfectly visible “Get A Life” black and white design now looks exactly like the before picture above, and remains blank regardless of what color t-shirt I try to view it on. Granted it never drew lots of views and I will take it down if I have to, but it would be nice to know what went wrong there so I can avoid the problem in future.
brunofan
would you have to pay for it?
blamo
The changes make it much better and good to see a 30×20 Canvas introduced
Thankyou boffins
ARTMEMaryDAVIS
Thanks Mary Davis
coppertrees
Many thanks
shannan12
i thinks youve done a great job
SMOKEYDOGSOCKS1
YEA, WELL YOUR TWEAKS HAVE KNOCKED ME OFF THE BUBBLE AND I CAN’T GET BACK INTO MY BUBBLESITE. WHENEVER I TRY TO GET ON MY SITE, THE RESPONSE SAYS THAT MY SCREEN NAME AND PASSWORD ARE INVALID. I HAD TO CREATED ANOTHER ACCOUNT TO GET THIS FAR. I’VE BEEN A MEMBER SINCE OCT 2007 AND I’VE NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH GETTING INTO THE BUBBLE, UNTIL NOW. I DID IT THE SAME WAY I’VE ALWAYS DONE IT. I DOUBLE CLICK MY MOUSE TO BRING UP MY SCREEN NAME AND MY PASSWORD AUTOMATICALLY FILLS IN THE APPROPRIATE SPACE, I HIT THE ENTER KEY AND I GET THE MESSAGE THAT MY INFORMATION ISN’T RIGHT. WHAT THE FU#% IS GOING ON? WHY CAN’T I SIGN ON? MY SCREEN NAME IS SMOKEYDOGSOCKS, I’VE GOT LOTS OF WORK ON THE BUBBLE THAT I CAN’T GET TO. I WOULD RATHER QUIT THE SITE ALL TOGETHER THAN TRY AND PUT IN ANOTHER 450 SOME ODD IMAGES AND WRITINGS AND JOURNALS. WHY CAN’T I SIGN ON? FIND THE PROBLEM AND FIX THE DAMN THING. IF YOU MADE THE CHANGES YESTERDAY, THAT IS WHEN MY TROUBLE STARTED. FIX IT, FIX IT, FIX IT. I’M ONE PISSED OFF BUBBLER RIGHT NOW. BOB :(
Kathryn Potempski
I can View you loud and clear smokey, have you tried again?
Kathryn Potempski
Wonderful about the canvas,just an idea have you thought of three or four smaller matt print sizes the quality has been top rate I purchase about 5 a month for exhibitions but have been limited to one size and two colours I think we would sell more Matt prints if they where smaller as the prices are affordable.
Vanessa Pike-R...
Great changes. I particularly like the redbubble email with images but I noticed my activity report didn’t include comments, favourites or features.
As to the problem of members using the writing section for journaling – Is it possible to put a link to the write a journal entry in the quick links for ‘my redbubble’?
Quick Links:
Perhaps add * journal something
There have been a few times when I have clicked on write something and then remembered that I had to go back and click the journal tab.
Seth Weaver
Great job RB on keeping the Bubble bouncing along!
Dennis Begnoch...
Great news for all of us thanks for the hard work. Dennis psart
Robert Jenner
Great work… thanks
Rob J :)
Stephen Vecchi...
Good idea but for us photographers why not produce 20×30 laminates, 20×30 framed prints and larger than the existing 8×12 matted prints? I can’t understand why larger matted prints are not offered as options…you are losing a lot of money by not offering them.
KcranmerArt
Ooops sorry RB…I’m one of the ones that accidentally been using writing instead of journal…was away for a while and completely forgot…i have a couple of important things under writing that I wish not to delete…but in the future I promise to make sure everything is under journal. ;D
Sandra Heath
It’s great that you offering larger canvases but how about smaller ones as well? Lots of images come in ‘sets’ that would be effective in a smaller size.
LumenLux
As a very new member, I was already wishing for a larger print size offering. The 20×30 canvas sounds great – but I do not see it available for my small portfolio of photos. Can you please point me to it?
Thanks, looking forward to great times and hopefully sales on RedBubble
Geoff Carpenter
How long have I got to wait until you have sorted your tweaks? I can log in ok, but then each time that I try to go to my bubble, I get the message that there is an error at your end. This is very frustrating as I have work that I need to upload. What is going on???