Catalog: Product Designer

Catalog: Product Designer

Overview

The Product Designer is an interactive design tool featuring 'drag and drop' functionality. It serves to allow design content to be 'created' and applied to products without the use of dedicated artwork packages.  

A design can comprise of image and/or text objects, which are positioned and applied against a selected Blank Product. Once created, Product Designs can then be saved as a Virtual Product. Platform users have access to any Virtual Products that they create / own.



How to use Product Designer

Blank Products

By default, Blank Products are shown as a thumbnail image, with the name appearing on mouse-over. 
Only Blank Products associated with your user account and permissions are available to be designed.
If you have access to multiple Blank product categories, they are available in the selection process. 
A search box is available to find specific Blank Products by name. 



Blank Products can be added to 'Favourites' by clicking the heart icon. This automatically adds any favourite products into a 'Favourites' category for future use.


Selecting a Blank Product loads it into the Designer. Any additional areas / sides can be selected to apply designs to a specific location. 
Additional Blank Product properties such as Colour and Size (if available) can be selected to design against a specific variation. This can be changed later when saving the Product Design.


My Products

My Products stores and displays all previously saved Product Designs associated with your user account.

Selecting a Product Design loads it into the Designer where it can be edited.
If you have created multiple Product Design Categories, they are available in the selection process.
By default, each Product Design is shown as a thumbnail image. 

A search box is available to find specific Products Designs by name. 


Product Designs can be added to 'Favourites' by clicking the heart icon. This automatically adds any favourited products into a 'Favourites' category for future use.


Artwork

Artwork allows you to add image files to be included in your design.

By default, any Galleries and associated image files that exist under your user account are available to design with.

New Artwork images can be uploaded to the existing Galleries, or a new Gallery can be created by clicking 'Create New' and adding a Gallery name.


This adds the new Gallery folder, which can be opened and popuated by following the Upload Image instructions.


Galleries containing Artwork images display them as thumbnails. A search box is available to find specific Artwork by name. 

Selecting an Artwork image adds it the design, where it can then be interactively positioned, scaled or rotated within the defined Print Area of the Blank Product.
Multiple Artwork images can be added to the designer. By default they will overlap, but each can be positioned / scaled independantly of one another. 

Artwork images can be added to 'Favourites' by clicking the heart icon. This automatically adds any favourited images into a 'Favourites' Gallery for future use.


Text

Text allows you to insert interactive text objects into your design.

To add a Text object, you must select a font from either the Standard or Uploaded font folders.
  1. Standard: This is the Public list of several hundred fonts available to all users. A search box is available to find a specific font by name.
  1. Uploaded: Custom fonts can be uploaded in TTF or OTF format. Any uploaded fonts are stored for future use.

Selecting a font adds a Text object to the designer, where it can then be interactively positioned or rotated within the defined Print Area of the Blank Product.
Multiple Text objects can be added to the designer. By default they will overlap, but each can be positioned / scaled independantly of one another. 

Fonts can be added to 'Favourites' by clicking the heart icon. This automatically adds any favourited font into a 'Favourites' folder for future use.

How to Save a Product Design

Once a design is complete, it can be saved using the 'Save' button in the top right of the interface;

This will open the Store Info menu, where specific options can be selected and saved / applied to the Virtual Product that will be created as a result of the operation.

Info



Colors

Select which colours that the created design should be applied to. This allows specific garment colours to be targeted with a specific design, or all.



Pricing


Upon Save, the Product Design will be saved as a new Virtual Product within the specific Category folder. This is then searchable within Product Manager.