The Button Blog - American Button Machines — Build-a-Button
What Type of File Format Should I Use For My Button?
What file type is best for printing? What file formats work best with BAB? What is the mysterious txt file Build-a-Button creates? All of your file format questions are answered here, in this video from ABM.
Build-a-Button 6.0 Video Overview
Curious what Build-a-Button 6.0 is really all about? Check it out in this introductory overview highlighting just some of the great features that await you!
How Can I Take Pictures of My Buttons For My Online Store? Button Making Questions Answered, Ask ABM
How can I take good pictures of my buttons for my online store? It can certainly be a bit of a challenge, thanks mainly to reflections. Just as you find the perfect angle to get rid of the reflection, you realize it makes the button look misshapen. Then, just when you think you have it perfected, you open up the photo to find your colors just don't really pop like they should. Maybe you need the flash? Well then you're right back to that reflection issue and the cycle continues. There is a much simpler option. You can quickly and easily achieve...
Button Making Questions Answered, Ask ABM - Printing Multiple Designs in Build-a-Button 6.0
Can you print multiple different designs on a single page from Build-a-Button? Absolutely! This week Team ABM is going to show you how to accomplish one of the most asked for functions in Build-a-Button to help save on your paper cost by maximizing the potential of every sheet. Build-a-Button has 2 options when it comes time to save that perfect design you just created. If you choose “Save to Edit”, it saves your design as a txt file that can be opened again later in BAB for editing like scaling to a different size, changing a color, etc. Then...
Ultra-Realistic Mockups from Build-a-Button 6.0 and ABM
In today's ecommerce focused environment button makers rely on the internet more than ever to help them sell their products and having quality pictures instantly available is an invaluable asset. Getting a great photo of that newly minted button can be both time consuming and wasteful when you have to print, press and setup each little color change to get customer approval but ABM has made it as easy as the click of your mouse with all new ultra-realistic mockups from Build-a-Button 6.0. In case you haven't already taken it for a spin, Build-a-Button 6.0 is a modern marvel of...