[Jamberry Tutorial] New NAS tutorial: Step-by-Step Instructions (Beginner)

**UPDATE 4/12/2015** Note that this does not cover the recent update. The basics are the same but getting a solid-colored block is not the same as outlined below. You find it under "objects", pick an ellipse/square, extend over the area, and choose the color.

Hello all! Your resident Jamberry independent consultant is here for an NAS tutorial! Yeah! I hope this helps you out...if not I am very open as to how I can improve upon this so that it will help you and others out in the future!

For those who are not familiar with NAS, it is Jamberry's Nail Art Studio. This is where you can create custom wraps for yourself for an added cost. Just like any other design interface, it takes a little bit to get used to, and I've made a picture tutorial for you so you can get started playing with it if you're dying to but don't really know where to start. I've also created a video if you want to see me do it instead of look at pictures:

Video:

If you don't want to watch it but want to see pictures instead, read on! This is for true beginners, so there are a TON of pictures.

**Note that there will be arrows in the photos below indicating where to click. The arrows do not actually appear on the site :) **

If you are looking for something specific, click on any of the seven topics below:

Where we start
Main Menu
Creating a solid-colored background
Rotating an image
Adding patterns
Applying design to nails
Previewing design & submission process

1) Where we start.  Go to the "Shop" Jamberry screen. It's basically your consultant's website with "/shop" at the end of the web address. My site is "myrop2nd2.jamberrynails.net/shop" as shown on the screen:

2) Go ahead and go to the left side of the menu and click on "Nail Art Studio":

3) You get to this screen. Go ahead and click on "Get Started"...

... where you will be prompted to enter your login information. If you are a new user, you will have to create a free account. 

4) Main Menu.

Call it your "Main Menu", if you will. Mine is filled with all the designs I've worked with, but yours will look blank if you haven't worked on anything. On the right side, click on "Create New Design" to start playing with it! Yay!:

5) Here is your design workspace. On the top menu you have "Objects" with royalty-free shapes you can add to your design, "Patterns" with common patterns that Jamberry has provided for you, "Text" to add text & "Uploads" for other images that you have on your computer. I won't be going into any of them in detail (save for a future post!) but let's get to designing something simple! Let's go and click on "Patterns":

6) Creating a solid-colored background. This is easy! After you've clicked on "Patterns" up top, you see all the available patterns that Jamberry provides. Click on the first one, which is that grayish solid block. This is how we will create a solid background of any color:

7) A default black rectangle will show up on your nail template. To change its color, simply click anywhere inside the black rectangle and a submenu will pop up:

8) Click on the solid color circle next to "Color".

Choose a basic color here:

9) If you would like more options or have a more specific color in mind, click "More" to get more options or you can also enter a hex color code in the white box indicated:

I will go ahead and just pick a random shade of red and click "Choose". My rectangle is now red.

10) The rectangle is small, so go ahead and grab one of the corner square handles to drag and resize. I want to make sure the rectangle is big enough to fit the nail to avoid a misprint so I purposely make it a lot larger. I then grab the rectangle and move it to the center.

11) Rotating an image. 

If you notice the extension up on the top, this is how you rotate the image. You can let your mouse hover over on top of the square handle slowly, and then the pointer arrow turns into a circling arrow that lets you know that you can rotate the image. You can then click and drag either clockwise or counterclockwise and rotate as desired. Although it doesn't really change anything with this example because it's a solid block of color, rotating can come in really handy with patterns and anything else that isn't uniform. If you don't see any square handles for resizing, you must click on the red rectangle to activate that layer. Anytime you click outside of it on the gray area, the square handles disappear.

You can practice rotating but in moving on, I just put it back to where it was so we can learn something new :). After you bring it back to its original "upright" position, click anywhere outside the red block so we can add things to it:

12) Adding patterns. Let's add another pattern on top of this colored block. Find the chevron pattern up top and click on it. You should see a default black/white chevron appear on the workspace:

13) Go ahead and find the square sizing handle in the corner like before. Click, drag, and resize the chevron so that it is big enough to cover the nail.

Move it to the center.

14) Save your work. 

15) Name your design, then click on the check mark next to it to confirm it.

16) Applying design to nails. 

Go to left side of your workspace where you see "Apply". Apply your design to one nail. Doesn't matter which one. The reason we want to go ahead and do this is to make sure the design is applied somewhere. If you do not have your current design on any nails and accidentally click on another nail size to work on something else, you will lose whatever you just did. Doesn't matter if you "saved" it, because if it is not currently applied on any of the nails, then it might be lost once you log out. At least this way, you have the design already on a nail and can always click back on it to change it later. 

17) Let's click on another blank nail and work on it. I click on "1B" which is basically the other biggest wrap. As you can see, the design disappears. But that's OK, because we had already "saved" our red chevron design by applying it to one of the nails :). If we wanted to go back to our red chevron pattern we don't have to redo it.

18) Let's practice applying a design to multiple nails. Click back on "1A" and you can see our red/black chevron come back up on our workspace.

19) Click on "Apply to Multiple": 

20) Let's apply the design to all the nails. Click on "Apply Design to All":

You should see the design go on all the nails as shown below:

21) Let's add a second design to some of the other nails. First let's get rid of the chevron and try something else. Click anywhere on the chevron to activate that layer and make the layer submenu appear. We will talk about layers at a later date so don't worry about this just yet.

22) Find the trash icon on the submenu and click it to delete the chevron layer. You should now be left with the red block we had before.

23) Now let's change the color of the block. Click anywhere on the block again to activate that layer's submenu. 

Then let's click on the colored circle and choose a different color. I'll randomly choose a dark yellow.

24) Let's add a pattern. I will choose to add some stripes. Go up top and click on the stripes. It should now appear on your workspace in a default white/black color.

25) You can change the color but I'll keep it the same. Go ahead and resize the stripes and center it on the nail after you've made sure the size is big enough.

26) We will then apply this design to some of the nails so we have a mixture of red chevron and yellow stripes. Go ahead and click on "Apply to Multiple" like we did before.

27) I click on the boxes where I want the stripes design to go on. Click on any boxes that you want.

28) When you are ready to see the stripes design on the nails you chose, click "Apply Design to Selected"...

...and you should see the yellow stripes go on the nails you chose:

29) If you haven't saved your work yet, even though it's saving it for you, I like to click on "Save" frequently to make sure it saved my work.

30) Previewing design & submission process. 

Once you are satisfied, preview your work.

Here is our design and what it will look like on the sheet. Remember to read the Terms & Conditions on the bottom.

Close-up of the abbreviated Terms & Conditions:

31) Right-click anywhere on the preview image and save your preview as a .png file for future use if the design is approved. You can also take a screenshot of this if that's easier for you. Don't be scared that it's a .png file. A .png file is actually a higher quality file than a .jpg, and you should be able to open it with most image editors.

32) After you save your file, check the box if you agree to the terms & then click "Submit for Approval".

33) Before submission is complete, Jamberry has a disclaimer that they are not responsible for the color being slightly off from what you see because depending on the screen that you have, your settings, etc., it's impossible for it to be exact. As long as you are OK with that, click "Submit My Design".

34) After you read your confirmation, click on "My Designs". You will be taken back to the main menu.

35) We see our design is "Pending" as it hasn't completed the review process. If your design is approved, it will be under "Approved" designs and if not, it'll be under "Declined".

36) If you want to purchase your approved design, you can hover your mouse over the design above and you get choices to view, preview, purchase or delete. If you choose to purchase, you'll be taken to the familiar Jamberry checkout process that you normally see when you place a regular catalog order. I won't screencap the ordering process here.

37) If you made a mistake or want to delete a design, hover over the design you want to delete, click on "Delete", and then it'll ask you to confirm it. Your design will then disappear from your "Pending Designs" list.

That's it for the basics! You made it! I hope this helps you in some way! Thanks for reading all the way through :). I may come up with a tutorial on how to use layers soon.

**Note that the opinions in this blog are solely my own and are not the responsibility of Jamberry Nails, LLC**