[liquidkrep]

This client sells shirts and other stuff, one of which are stickers. He wants something that will allow his customers to customize there own stickers from different options ( color, size, etc.). He also wants a live preview of what the customer is doing, so they can see it before ordering it. I have no idea where to go from here, any suggestions would be grateful. Thanks in advance.

[SMILEdotCROSS]

simple way

you could use forms, e.g.:

color: (•) red ( ) green ( ) blue

etc,

more interactive way

you could do it in flash, and your possibilities would be endless

[Snowshiro]

The obvious choice would be Flash.

If Flash isn't your thing, but you're a handy programmer, look into GD (widely used dynamic image creation library) which would also produce the results you want; although you'd probably only want to use it to generate the final image.

Not being an expert on Flash myself, I'm not sure whether it has the capability to export an image file. The advantage of using GD would be that technically as long as the design isn't too complex, you could use the same code to generate an image which would be used to print the sticker itself.

[Deevo]

one of the companies I used to work for made a website in a similar fashion for shoes, it has a bit of flash that lets you customize shoes www(dot)handcraftedshoes(dot)co(dot)uk/custom.html

[R1gM]

what your client is asking for though is kinda complex although not overly complex but more so than a simple product view....make sure he ain't \asking for it for a small fee because he is a cheap bastard.

[brendan hart]

If your using standard images and changing certain things of them then i would suggest flash, it wouldnt be to hard, but changing the images(text/background)of the stickers and changing there color i wouldnt be to confident about. But I am not the greatest flash programmer.

Maybe you could have a lil side bar with tiny thumbnails on the side(with different instance names to the main screen one) once u click it, it removes the current MovieClip from the stage and imports the other one onto the stage with the same instance name, but different linkage names. then you could just have RGB toggle buttons to change the colors etc.

Im not sure whether that would work, but i currently have a project like that in my multimedia class similar to that.(random falling objects that i can change between and change colors)

some one tell me whether its doable coz i dont want to waiste my time, though i think i have it working pretty well in my head.