Photo gift service Personello has launched a simple but useful web service dubbed DAZZ that lets you preview a wide variety of goods with uploaded photos on them, completely automated and with both custom images and video clips.
It seems like a no-brainer for any personalized photo gift service provider to offer a similar functionality, but to the best of my knowledge DAZZ is currently the only one of its kind.
What you do is create an account on the DAZZ website and upload a photo that you’re considering printing on things like mugs, mousepads, t-shirts, teddybears, snowglobes, jigsaw puzzles etc. to give away as a gift. The startup’s ‘DAZZigners’ will then strip out the background and create a collection of so-called photostyles (e.g. Flowers, Heart, Sepia, Pop Art, etc.) centered around the main subject of the photo.
DAZZ subsequently lets you preview a bunch of items and also put together a video that shows a number of items in a sequence which should help make up your mind. For each type of item, you also get to see a separate animated video clip showing you the personalized gift in question in a relevant setting. (screenshots embedded below)
The biggest downside of DAZZ is that it takes several hours to get your photostyle previews ready, so it’s not the most ideal way to trigger impulsive purchases (although you are notified by e-mail once the previews are ready for your evaluation). Also, the video player inexplicably doesn’t offer a way to embed videos in your own website or blog so you can only play them when logged on to your account on DAZZ.com.
I think Personello, a startup based in Germany, was right to execute on this idea and offer a way for potential customers to visualize personalized photo gifts prior to purchase. Many people are not aware of the fact that photos can be printed on a slew of regular things, and this could open their eyes to the possibilities of giving away personalized gifts and significantly lower the threshold for them to actually start buying stuff.
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I love doing this kind of stuff and actually made some printings of my fav photos on my favorite mug.
It’s one of those, yeah its a good idea sort of sites, but can they really monetize it enough to make it worthwhile? Amazing its never been done before.
where is fucking sissy boy? still wiping dribble from his chin? he gonna regret leaving you tards in charge when you are putting shite like this out.
Why does it takes hours to come up with the trivial previews ??? only one server at home basement ?
Sounds like more douchebaggery?
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Is it bad that the first thing I noticed was that the screenshot was a windows bitmap file? (The slow gradual loading from the bottom gave it away.)
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Can’t folks do something like this on Cafe Press? There is a single image free level, does that take as long to load? They seem to have a lot of products to personalize. Just a thought.
Looks like somebody automated the trace tool pen in Illustrator/photoshop.
It’s a decent idea. Put out some interesting article. I am stuck here filling out USPTO forms today.
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Nice, but Fotki.com, Smugmug.com and many others offered that for many YEARS
my site has been doing that as well, haha.
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Yes, and you can upload pictures or graphics and see how they look on items for sale at Zazzle.com and CafePress.com and many others. It is a key component of their offering (how do you think they make those catalogs of stuff for sale?).
I love doing this kind of stuff and actually made some printings of my fav photos on my favorite mug.
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