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How to Submit STICKERS! (first posted in my IMVU Blog 11 21 05, amended)

Okay, 1st Voyage into IMVU product making... STICKERS! After futzing around I figured it out and here's how to do it. What you'll need, an image, an image editing program, and 100 credits

1: Make an image.

Yeah seems obvious but actually most stickers around here seem to be just ripped off from the web and are not actually made by the seller... *sighs* so much for artistic copyright. On that note, if you do insist on using someone else's work then it should be marked as public domain, free to use for personal AND business. If it is not labeled as such anywhere on the page, guess what, you cannot legally use it and should seek permission from the artist. Same goes for all those copyrighted characters out there, TV characters, comic, anime, and all the rest, their likenesses are ALL copyrighted. Oh and this also goes for photographs too. In short, if it aint yours don't use it unless it specifically states you can. Yeah Yeah, I know everybody does it, don't make me go into the bridge speech... if your friends jumped off a bridge...

Why should you care? Well, Do you like IMVU? Do you want it to stay around? If you do, don't invite the copyright ax to come crashing down on them with tons of copyright lawsuits, and once this world takes off into the public eye, it will.

LOL okay okay off of the soapbox, continuing on...

You will need to make two sizes of your sticker, the final size and the catalog size. (unless the final size is the same as catalog size)

Make the sticker image in a photo editing program and size it to how you wish it to appear as the final sticker, currently there is no size limit that it can be, but in respect to all the folks who will have to download it as they visit pages, keep the file size reasonable.

Once you’re happy with your final image save it as a PNG, GIF, or JPG. Save it to a location on your computer that you can easily find later.

Now make your catalog icon image by resizing your final image to a size of 100 x 80 pixels. If it is animated also make sure it is not over 50kb in size. You might have to simplify the animation for the catalog image, this will not affect the final product.

Save the catalog icon version to the same place as a PNG, GIF or JPG with a similar name to make it easer to find. (something like mysticker and mysticker_icon) 50 char max

2: Submitting your sticker.

Remember, you must own your name and regester on the develpers page before you can submit a product to IMVU.

Here's the hidden part. Go to the IMVU website, catalog, stickers. Open any sticker as if you were going to buy it. Now below the sticker and just above the reviews you'll see a product number and a Make Sticker link, Click Make Sticker.

Walla, the hidden make a sticker page!

 

Pick the location the sticker will appear in the catalog.

Name your product. (24 char max) Don't be too creative here, remember to use words people will use the search function with. You don't want to name it something so unique no one will find it.

Add your product description. Yes, you can use HTML code here so you can add better pictures if you have an image hosing account.

Rate your product. The general consensus seems to be it you can see parts or it uses profanity it's mature but also use your better judgment here. Repeated offences of putting adult products in the general catalog will get your developer status revoked.

Name your price.

The Product price is the SUM of the Breakeven price AND your profit.

If I leave it at 150 I will not earn any credits on sales.
If I make it less than 150 whatever amount less than 150 it is will be deducted from my account on each sale.

So decide on how much you want to profit, add it to the Breakeven price, and put that sum in the Product price box.

IMVU will then add on a 10% fee, so your products catalog price will be 10% greater than your product price. If you want to know what that will be multiply you product price by 1.1

Breakeven + Your Profit = Product Price
Product Price x 1.1 = Catalog Price

Browse your computer for your catalog icon image. You did save it where you can find it, right?

Browse for your sticker image.

Choose whether you sticker will be visible when you upload or not. I uncheck the box so I can test it on my page first so I know I uploaded the right files and they look the way I want before I make it visible to sell. Once I test and know it works I only then make it visible.

Click Submit and it will upload your files from your computer to IMVU.

Now you're selling!

Unlike products, you will not get a copy of your sticker when you submit. If you want one to test you will have to buy it.

When you buy your own sticker, for yourself or as a gift, you will be paying the breakeven price + the IMVU 10 percent product markup.

When logged in your sticker page will show you a tally of your sales for that product.

Clicking Edit sticker will take you back to the upload page if you need to make any changes to location, descriptions, files, or pricing.

Use the green button to make it visible in the catalog and the red to hide.

Once you are selling a new window will be available on your homepage, My Bestsellers. You can use it as a shortcut to get to your products page. You can also get to your products page from the Developers page. It's hidden a bit in the text of the right hand column.

Happy Stickering!!!