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Just before Xmas - Holidize My Logo

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I tried the two logo's I could find the quickest but both were bigger than 260x260px, which is astronomically small. Maybe up those limits to something like 800x600?

I gave up after three tries.

Why? did you have difficulties uploading your logo?

I did. 260x160 is absurdly small. I didn't have anything that small just lying around.

Still, I wanted to see what exactly the thing did. This being HN and all, I thought it was somehow an auto-holidizer, or something, and I was curious. So I launched photoshop, and crushed my logo down to the size of a darn pea.

Once I got in, I was a touch disappointed. On top of the already small logo restriction, you have clipart that's so small I can barely see it on my 1920x1080 monitor. All in all, too much work for a simple toy, in my opinion. A little more explanation of what it does on the landing page would have been welcome.

Also, what the hell, man?

>However, by uploading, submitting, or otherwise transmitting any Content via the Holidizemylogo Website you hereby grant to Conduit a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, right and license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, display, publish, perform, transmit and access your Content and the Customized Content, as applicable, for promotional and marketing purposes, at Conduit sole discretion, in any media formats and through any media channels during the term you use the Holidizemylogo Website and/or Services and for the twelve month period following the end of such term. You represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents and permissions to grant the foregoing licenses to Conduit. You agree to immediately notify Conduit, in writing, if, at any time during the term hereof, your license, right, consent and/or permissions to share Content are revised, revoked, or become limited in any way.

Now I'm sad I even played with the thing at all.

Don't be sad :)

We sure can add some more explanation on the landing page. Regarding the size, we wanted to make it easy when you upload it again to your site. Talking to this community helps understand that we can definitely make it bigger for sharing reasons or just to play around with.

Thanks for the feedback

Thanks for the tip. We wanted it to be the size logos usually are, when placed on the websites, so it'll be fairly easy to upload it when done. We might reconsider this size due to the fact that some just want to share their holidized logos on social channels and therefore need it bigger.

> We might reconsider this size due to the fact that some just want to share their holidized logos on social channels and therefore need it bigger.

Or anyone utilizing larger sizes for retina.

Got scared off by this in the T&Cs:

As between you and Conduit, you retain all rights in your Content. However, by uploading, submitting, or otherwise transmitting any Content via the Holidizemylogo Website you hereby grant to Conduit a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, right and license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, display, publish, perform, transmit and access your Content and the Customized Content, as applicable, for promotional and marketing purposes, at Conduit sole discretion, in any media formats and through any media channels during the term you use the Holidizemylogo Website and/or Services and for the twelve month period following the end of such term.

I obtained, scaled, and submitted the Google logo off the main search page. I wish them luck in using Google's logo in the way they describe.

You are a smarter man then I. I blithely uploaded a company logo to the thing.. curiosity got the better of me.

Should have read that insane TaC first.

Love the site, but I found the lack of the word Christmas a little weird. Not that I'm a Christian or anything, just that I don't identify with the term Holiday Season here in the UK.

As an American who lived in the UK for a number of years, I can attest that we Americans are much more wary in these post-politically correct age of using the word Christmas for the holidays than the Brits. For better or worse, I dunno.

The word 'holidize' seems to have been in use by marketroids for a while, see eg: http://design.inkzoo.com/how-to-holidize-your-logo-design-to...

...and you'll see from the examples there that it's not just Christmas - Halloween, Thanksgiving, whatever. In my day job I see this done a lot for product sales, there are logos/backgrounds queued up for some holiday or other most of the year.

Odd limits on file dimensions. I couldn't get past the validation since my laziness factor outweighed my curiosity factor :$

LOL! we added also a link to a resize platform (http://picresize.com/) if you try to upload a logo that is too big. maybe that can help?

Would be nice if it had some samples of what it did so i can be wow'd into trying it.

Good tip! in the meantime check out this blog post with examples. http://blog.conduit.com/2012/12/09/we-have-a-special-holiday...

Awesome! This is better than i expected & exactly why you need some demos, so people know. thanks! =)

Basically it just lets you drag little Christmassy type icons over top of your uploaded image. Kind of underwhelming, especially since the small dimension limits on uploaded files means you're basically going to obscure your entire logo with little pictures of gingerbread houses or whatever.

Needs more automagic and a possibility to give urls (instead of file upload).

Hey - you can get a URL instead of an image, if you click under the big green button "Get Logo", the "Get Image Link here" right under it. Let me know if it works.

this is great!

I was going to try it, but the T&C gives Conduit fairly broad marketing/promotional rights. And strangely, it only grants me license to the output for 12 months.

I'm not comfortable with that.

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