Image size on product creation

[MaXius]

Hi everyone,
Apologies in advance incase this has already been answered, but I searched and couldn't find anything.

I uploaded my first image, and created my first product. Cool.

I then created a heap more images, and ended up with 68 products. It all looked good.

Then I started fiddling, and noticed that even though the image I uploaded was a PNG file, 13.5inch x 16.5inch x 200dpi, in the "Modify Product Design" menu the 'Est Height" was 12 inch.

I then clicked autofit, and lo and behold it went to the size it should have been in the first place. 16.5 inch high.

This is going to be a pain in the ass if I have to do this for every new product I create.

I read on one of these posts that if you want your design featured on the front page, it's best in a square format with a transparent background, so I tried a couple of those - 13.5 x 13.5 inch.

Trying to position this on a shirt was even more fun. You don't have a bounding box so you can see where the edge of your image is, and there's no coordinates, so I have a piece of paper - "Basic T-Shirt, Vertical align Center, Click UP 3 times".

How does everyone else manage with this thing?

cheers
MaXius

[Raw Tees]

Hi MaXius!

The default image sizing is a feature, not a bug I'm afraid. Please see this post (http://forums.printfection.com/showthread.php?t=1195&highlight=image+size) for an explanation from Casey.

I haven't seen where you should have "square" products in order to get featured...but that post would be incorrect. I have products which are featured, and they are not square. No need to create extra images just for that purpose.

Also, the storebuilder in its current form should be good to give you "general" placement on the shirt, but you needn't worry too much about the exact measurements. In this thread (http://forums.printfection.com/showthread.php?t=1357&page=2&pp=15&highlight=placement), Casey explains that the image placement on the shirt gets "tweaked" some at production time to ensure best placement on the shirt, so as long as your product images are placed in the proximity of where you want them to go, they'll be fine. ALSO...once the new storebuilder arrives later this year, it should take care of many of your concerns!