Comments on: Trick: Using Picnik to Spookify Your Emails http://blog.mailchimp.com/trick-using-picnik-to-spookify-your-emails/ MailChimp, email marketing, and monkeys! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Leigh Marblehttp://blog.mailchimp.com/trick-using-picnik-to-spookify-your-emails/#comment-5867 Leigh Marble Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:00:51 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/?p=5061#comment-5867 So the resizing is intentional?Doesn't seem like good user-interface practice to silently enforce the 600px suggested width, and not make it clear that the image will be resized.My 2 cents. So the resizing is intentional?

Doesn’t seem like good user-interface practice to silently enforce the 600px suggested width, and not make it clear that the image will be resized.

My 2 cents.

]]> By: Benhttp://blog.mailchimp.com/trick-using-picnik-to-spookify-your-emails/#comment-5862 Ben Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:43:52 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/?p=5061#comment-5862 Hi all, since our maximum template width is 600px, we do indeed perform a resize of all graphics that are imported back to MailChimp to be no more than 600px wide, to keep template-widths from breaking.If you're setting up a custom template width, you'll have to do what Leigh described above, and save the header to your computer, then edit in Picnik "externally." Hi all, since our maximum template width is 600px, we do indeed perform a resize of all graphics that are imported back to MailChimp to be no more than 600px wide, to keep template-widths from breaking.

If you’re setting up a custom template width, you’ll have to do what Leigh described above, and save the header to your computer, then edit in Picnik “externally.”

]]> By: Luke Heberthttp://blog.mailchimp.com/trick-using-picnik-to-spookify-your-emails/#comment-5850 Luke Hebert Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:47:34 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/?p=5061#comment-5850 Mine is doing this to. It must be something to do with the process of importing the image back into mail chimp. When it goes out to picnik its the correct size, picnik tell you it is the size of the original. It changes once you save it and return to mailchimp. Mine is doing this to. It must be something to do with the process of importing the image back into mail chimp. When it goes out to picnik its the correct size, picnik tell you it is the size of the original. It changes once you save it and return to mailchimp.

]]> By: Leigh Marblehttp://blog.mailchimp.com/trick-using-picnik-to-spookify-your-emails/#comment-5801 Leigh Marble Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:44:41 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/?p=5061#comment-5801 OK, great.To be clear, I wound up getting a 680px wide header for my campaign, but only by using Picnik "externally" (just editing the image on their site, saving it to my hard drive, then sending it to MailChimp myself). So, if you were to look at my most recent campaign, you wouldn't see direct evidence of this issue.cheers, Leigh OK, great.

To be clear, I wound up getting a 680px wide header for my campaign, but only by using Picnik “externally” (just editing the image on their site, saving it to my hard drive, then sending it to MailChimp myself). So, if you were to look at my most recent campaign, you wouldn’t see direct evidence of this issue.

cheers,
Leigh

]]> By: Benhttp://blog.mailchimp.com/trick-using-picnik-to-spookify-your-emails/#comment-5791 Ben Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:22:28 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/?p=5061#comment-5791 Hmm, that is odd. I'll ask someone to take a look at your campaign. Thanks! Hmm, that is odd. I’ll ask someone to take a look at your campaign. Thanks!

]]> By: Leigh Marblehttp://blog.mailchimp.com/trick-using-picnik-to-spookify-your-emails/#comment-5788 Leigh Marble Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:26:08 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/?p=5061#comment-5788 This is a cute idea, and I wanted to use it on one of my email campaigns. However, when the image is passed back from Picnik to Mailchimp, it is automatically resizing the width to 600 pixels.My image *was* 680 x 200 px, and it showed up correctly in Picnik when it was passed over for editing. However, when it was then passed back to Mailchimp, it was automatically resized to 600 x 176 pixels.I know you all recommend 600 pixels for the width of an email, but this seems more like a coding error somewhere.Thanks, Leigh This is a cute idea, and I wanted to use it on one of my email campaigns. However, when the image is passed back from Picnik to Mailchimp, it is automatically resizing the width to 600 pixels.

My image *was* 680 x 200 px, and it showed up correctly in Picnik when it was passed over for editing. However, when it was then passed back to Mailchimp, it was automatically resized to 600 x 176 pixels.

I know you all recommend 600 pixels for the width of an email, but this seems more like a coding error somewhere.

Thanks,
Leigh

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