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Re: Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case

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Post by ujjwalg »

cscotta wrote: post #8
forgotmypasswd wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a picture of a real case in someone's hand? I want to see what they actually look like, but all I see are shiny renderings. They look really good though.

Of course! Sorry for all the renders; they look nice, but it's good to see the real thing. Here are some of the cases coming off the line now: http://u.phoreo.com/pa.JPG And here is a hand shot (the original art was a bit messy; the printing is correct): http://u.phoreo.com/en.JPG

Do you have an affiliates program?

Re: Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case

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Post by cscotta »

phreanix wrote: post #18

I don't know if it's just me, but this page isn't loading: http://www.getuncommon.com/customize/product/13/

Hey Phreanix,

Do you have Javascript disabled, by chance? JS and Flash are required to display the product configurator.

I did some looking around, and I can't find another way that you might have arrived at this link (unless perhaps the JS did not initialize correctly).

If you still have trouble after ensuring that JS and Flash are both available, drop me an e-mail at scott@weareinstrument.com and we'll look into it right away.

Thanks!

- Scott

Re: Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case

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Post by czstrong »

This is awesome. Price is right too, in my opinion.

The biggest value to me is to be able to upload and use my own photo; I don't care too much for the existing art, not that there is anything wrong with your selection.

Uploading the photo was easy and resizing and centering is easy and intuitive.

Couple things, though: When I submit my uploaded pic for approval, it just spins indefinitely.

Also, when I was centering my custom picture on the phone, the picture filled the entire area of the phone, but not the entire "print area." I don't really get this. If the pic covers the whole case, how does this not cover the whole print area? It wasn't originally clear to me that the blue dotted square is the entire print area.

Re: Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case

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Post by louislouis »

cscotta wrote: post #8
forgotmypasswd wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a picture of a real case in someone's hand? I want to see what they actually look like, but all I see are shiny renderings. They look really good though.

Of course! Sorry for all the renders; they look nice, but it's good to see the real thing. Here are some of the cases coming off the line now: http://u.phoreo.com/pa.JPG And here is a hand shot (the original art was a bit messy; the printing is correct): http://u.phoreo.com/en.JPG

Cool, so they kinda snap onto the back. How thick are the cases?

Re: Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case

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Post by gurgeous »

I just ordered one. This is a great idea! I really like the flash tool that helps you place custom artwork on the case. The checkout process was very smooth as well.

That being said, there's a problem with the custom artwork process. The vast majority of my photos are landscape, and these simply don't fit well onto a case. I had to photoshop one of my photos to add some extra sky onto the top in order to graft it onto a case. Any landscape photo taken with the rule of thirds will have this problem.

This is compounded by the tool, which has a nasty looking warning if you fail to fill the entire print area with your photo. There's nothing in the FAQ about the "print area", and none of the photos show the front of the case, leaving me completely in the dark about how serious an issue this is.

Re: Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case

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Post by mattking »

gurgeous wrote: post #26

I just ordered one. This is a great idea! I really like the flash tool that helps you place custom artwork on the case. The checkout process was very smooth as well. That being said, there's a problem with the custom artwork process. The vast majority of my photos are landscape, and these simply don't fit well onto a case. I had to photoshop one of my photos to add some extra sky onto the top in order to graft it ont…

Obviously being an iPhone you expect to view it in a vertical orientation, however we do provide a way to rotate the image to landscape.

We're working on updating the FAQ about the bleed area. Basically since you're looking at the back of the case, it's hard to visualize the fact that the case wraps around the sides of the phone and has a slight lip around the front. The image printing process does cover that entire area. We wanted to make people aware that the image does in fact need to cover more area than is visible in the configurator. You do have the option to not cover the bleed, it will just end up being the white base color of the case.

Thanks for the feedback, it's much appreciated!

Re: Uncommon - Custom design your own iPhone case

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Post by Retric »

cscotta wrote: post #2

Matt King (op), myself, and the rest of our team at Instrument have been building out the site and backend infrastructure for this manufacturing process for the past five months. It's been one heck of a ride...we're web guys and don't exactly have a lot of experience in building factories or making, um, real physical objects. The frontend is powered by Interface ( http://www.getinterface.com ), with the backend order…

I really like the site, however, I would like to give this as a gift to someone and you don't seem to have a build in gift card interface. I know it's not that long till X-Mas, but it seems like a great tech gift for a reasonable price the only problem is the cool part is letting them pic the picture.
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