Using Tags on redbubble

Using tags on Redbubble
There are many reasons for using tags

1. Creating links to make it easier for your visitors to find what they want
2. Knowing what images are in what group
3. Help your visitors find what they want faster.
   

For keeping track of what images are in what group, I've found that the easiest way to do this is by Tagging the image with the group name. Then making a bookmark for easy access to Group lists, This method will also show new images as long as you add the tag when you enter the image to a group.
To add tags to images Click your "art" button or "Here" , Then next to the image click "edit", The tag box is below the Description box.
Tag Example: All images that I've submitted to the Group "Animal Kingdom" , I've added the following tag "animal_kingdom"
Search Example:The following will work for all users as long as you put your username, and tag in the places indicated in red- http://www.redbubble.com/people/yourusername/art/everything/tags/tagname
Once you get the results Bookmark it, Now the next time you try to remember what images you have in a group or have I reached the group limit you can click the bookmark and see what images are in that group and how many.
Bonus: Using the links from above to organize your images for visitors, Link an Image or text with the Links you created above (if your not sure how to do this See this post "How to customize Redbubble")
Linked text Example: "Landscapes":http://www.redbubble.com/people/yourusername/art/everything/tags/tagname
Linked image Example: !www.imageishere.jpg!:http://www.redbubble.com/people/yourusername/art/everything/tags/tagname

You can click the link below, It will open in redbubble it won't give you any results but then you can then change the username in the address bar click "go" or just hit enter bookmark the result for future tag making .
http://www.redbubble.com/people/yourusername/art/everything/tags/tagname

How to tag your journals / writings
The above method does not work for my journls or writings
Example:I have a few How-to's in the "How to Redbubble" group and I've tagged them with"htrb" So if i create a tag like above it would be
http://www.redbubble.com/people/envelope150/art/everything/tags/htrb
unfortunately the results give me a blank page (click the link above if you don't believe me)
Here is how we can get the results we need (want).
See Here http://www.redbubble.com/search/envelope150%20htrb/journals
If you have a lot of writings it might be a good idea to tag these for many reasons.

• Fist and most important tag all your work with your username
  

1. Keeping track of what groups they are in
2. Easy reference for other bubble members
3. sorting by topic
4. and many more....

I will try and explain the easiest way to do this and hopefully make it as painless as possible.
I will explain how I created the above results for my How to journals

Step 1. Tag the journal I'm using "htrb"
Step2. Make a link to the list of journals with this tag

To do this we will need to use the search box
Enter your username and tag "click Search" I'm going to enter envelope150 htrb

Step 4. When you get to the results page copy the address from the address bar or bookmark it.
If your tags are fresh give it a little time for redbubble servers to catch up(up to 10-min)
Now you can use the address to make links to your journals for easy reference or group tracking.
I high lighted my username and tag below in red, When copying the results you will have the %20 where the space is suppose to be.

• http://www.redbubble.com/search/envelope150%20htrb/
• "Click Here to see the results if you like"

Using the method above to create links for your images adds the ability to use more than one tag
Example: If I want to make a link to my osprey(bird) images I would use the search box and enter envelope150 bird osprey click "search" and I get this
http://www.redbubble.com/search/envelope150%20birds%20osprey only my images that include the 3 tags will show up
This method would be good for the Flower Lovers to separate their Flowers images not only by type of flower but color as well. Using tags like username flowers roses red and then searching those tags to make a link to their "My Red Roses Collection".
Hope this tutorial helps in getting you started in fully customizing or just organizing your bubble profile.
Happy Bubbling
Dan

Slideshow in your redbubble profile/bubblesite

Adding a slide show to redbubble
Ok not really a slide show but it is very close, It's an animated gif image.
You can see it on "My Bubblesite"
Doing this will require you to have software that can make an animated gif image.
And of coarse I know of a free software program that can be used and this tutorial will explain how to do this using this free software.

The free software is called

unfreeze and you can "Get it here"

Once downloaded and installed on your

computer we are ready to go.

The first step is to get the images you want to include in your slide show, I am going to use my redbubble images set in frames for my bubblesite homepage.

• Sign-in to your redbubble account
• Click "My Bubble"
• then "Art"
• find the image you want to include and click the "show public view"

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• Now click the "buy/preview" button
• Select the product format you want to use Card, Laminated print, etc..
• Then save the image to your computer.

Internet Explorer users "Right Click" the image and select "Save Picture As"
Firefox users "Right Click" and select "Save image as"

And choose a location on your PC where you can find it easily.

You can use as many images as you want, but remember you want them to visit your gallery so keep the number of images to a minimum.

I'm going to use 8 images for now.
You can re size your images if you like the Unfreeze software will resize your images to fit in a 375 pixels(high) X 360 pixels(wide) box but the software will not center the image. For those that want their images centered in the box, Use your photo software to edit the images
The software program (unfreeze) that I recommended above requires the images to be in gif format. Doing this in your photo software may be different than mine. But I will open the image in my photo software "Paint.net" and then click the "Save as" option and change the format (type) to gif ( Graphics Interchange Format).They will be saved in the same folder that I put the ones I downloaded from the bubble.

Once the images are in the gif format. We are ready to create the animated gif (slideshow)

• Open the folder where your gif images are located
• Start "unfreeze" a small window will appear

• Drag your images into the white window
  
• Then set the delay on the right, I used 90, Make sure the "Loop animation" box is checked
  
• Now click the "Make Animated Gif" button
• Give it a name and Click "Save"
• If you want it to change slower add the same image two times or three or even more if you like.

The image that I created here was made using three copies of the same image,delay set to 90
Example: drag and drop "image1.gif",then do it again drag and drop "image1.gif "

Now the image can be uploaded to a web site, since Redbubble does not support this file type. You can use "Dropbox" which is a free file store, share, sync software "Get it Here" it allows you to have 2 gig of file storage for free. Plus when I change the slide show gif I just created dropbox will take care of the rest.

So changing my slide show is as easy as making a new one and saving it using the same location and name on my pc as the one I'm using now.

Insert the new image on your bubblesite or profile
Use the image location (web address,web url) with a ! before and after the image location
For more on Linking images etc. see this post "How to Customize Redbubble"
And your done.
This can also be used to promote your Calendars
( I used 6 cover images, 4 of each month, 6 back images delay set to 60 )


Happy Bubbling
Dan