Think of My Designs as your studio catalog with Blueprint, where you can build and manage unique designs combined with subject data from your jobs.

This is where you can design and manage various things such as:

Click on the My Designs tile on the homepage to get started:

The My Designs tab is split into two panels: Catalog View and Product Editor:

Use the Catalog View to navigate your catalog as well as create/select products.

Use the Product Editor to edit new or existing items in your catalog.

When creating items for your catalog, you can customize the item's attributes. Attributes set in the My Designs tab (specifically - but not limited to - Name, Display Image, and Price) will be used as "defaults" when the product is added to a price sheet. You can modify those defaults by editing the product on your price sheet.

Why you'd want a print product:

1. In My Designs, click on Add Product and select Print:

2. You can customize the following properties of your new print product, such as:

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Click Design in the top-right corner to access the print designer tool:

This tool will let you design a "template" for your print product that can combine external assets with subject data + images when ordered. Check out some of the short videos at the bottom of this article to learn more about designing templates.

Click on Design to start designing the product you've selected from your catalog.

The print designer is a photoshop-esque tool that can combine data from different sources into a single rendered image for a partnered lab to fulfill:

There are four different layers you can utilize when making your design. Starting from the top-most layer:

Click on the green plus button to add as many nodes to that layer as needed to create the perfect design. You can manipulate the node on the canvas in the middle to size and place it exactly as needed.

You can edit the attributes of each node on the right-side of the screen. Each type of node has a unique set of customizable attributes for you to make rich print designs.

Be sure to click the Sync button when you're finished creating your design to save your changes. The final product will automatically render as a single image sent out for fulfillment pulling in your dynamically set Subject Data when ordered.

Why you'd want a product:

1. In My Designs, click on Add Product and select Product:

2. You can customize a product's attributes just like you can with a print product:

There's no design or print rotation options for products because no image is used.

Why you'd want a proof sheet:

1. In My Designs, click on Add Product and select Proof Sheet:

2. You can customize a product's attributes just like you can with a print product:

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3. After setting a desired size and template setup, click Design in the top-right corner to build your proof sheet:

A proof sheet has unique access to the Image Grid layer. Along with your typical sizing and positioning tools, you'll see options to:

Why you'd want a collection:

1. In My Designs, click on Add Product and select Collection:

2. You can customize a product's attributes just like you can with a print product:

As your catalog expands, maintaining organization for your products and services is crucial for simplifying the process of creating price sheets. Establish categories, including nested ones, to streamline the use of your catalog and facilitate the construction of price sheets.

Use the + Add Category button to add a new category folder to your catalog:

You can also right-click to rename or delete categories:

Considerate planning on how to organize your catalog can go a long way in making price sheet building easier!

Options provide the opportunity to enhance and potentially upsell additional offerings associated with the specific product or image added to a customer's cart. You can generate Image, Product, and Order options.

Here are a few popular examples of how studios can use options:

To create an option, open the My Designs tab and click on the Options toggle:

Regardless of which kind of option you create, you'll need at least 1 option category before you can create an option.

In My Designs, click on Options > Image Options. You'll need to create a new category or open an existing one before you can create a new image option. Once inside a category, you can create a new image option:

There are 2 types of image options available:

Each image option type also has a setting for Download Original Image for Fulfillment:

This is useful for creating image options specific for Green Screen price sheets. When a customer orders a knocked-out PNG image, the original Green Screen JPG image is provided to the image servicer to complete the retouching. The retouched image is then knocked-out again - resulting in a higher quality image.

In My Designs, click on Options > Product Options. You'll need to create a new category or open an existing one before you can create a new product option. Once inside a category, you can create a new product option:

There are 3 types of product options available:

In My Designs, click on Options > Order Options. You'll need to create a new category or open an existing one before you can create a new order option. Once inside a category, you can create a new order option:

There are 2 types of image options available:

Background sets are a set of images to use as backgrounds for transparent PNG images in the online shop. Studios will break up backgrounds into different sets based on things like:

You can attach a custom name and price to a background set to help the customer differentiate the sets and potentially upcharge on fancier or location-specific designs.

To create a background set, open My Designs and click on Backgrounds. You'll need to create a new category or open an existing one before you can create a new background set. Once inside a category, you can create a new background set:

Click on Add Images to add new images to use as a potential background for orders. You can also drag-n-drop them directly into the app:

It's recommended that your background images:

Need background images? Try contacting your preferred lab for digital copies.

Here's a collection of common questions the ImageQuix Product Support Team sees frequently regarding using the tool. Have specific questions you're not seeing here?

Try chatting with us (using the chat in the bottom-right) or by scheduling time with a Product Support Specialist: https://calendly.com/iq-support/blueprint

Updating a print product's design that is already attached to a price sheet will cause all instances of that print product on your price sheets to update automatically to reflect any new changes. That said, changes to existing designs are limited if the design has already been added to a price sheet:

To get around this, you'll need to duplicate the print product first, then edit/update the copy. When finished, you'll need to update all applicable price sheets to make sure they're using the new, updated print template: