Overview

The Product Designer adds a full-screen design editor to your calculator. Customers open it from a styled button on the product page, work on a dedicated artboard, and save proof and production files before add to cart.

This is separate from Personalization (Step 4), which shows a live preview overlay on the product gallery image as customers fill out calculator options. Personalization is ideal when selections should appear on a product photo in place. Product Designer is ideal when customers need a design workspace — multi-layer layouts, print-ready exports, cut-lines, and re-editable canvas JSON.

Both can coexist on one calculator for different option flows, but they solve different jobs.

Two editor modes

• Designer mode — A complete product designer. Customers add text, clipart, shapes, images, and layers on a configurable artboard whose size, background, and cut-line are driven by calculator options and canvas bindings. Optional Front / Back surfaces let customers design both sides of a product in one session.
• Image Edit (file-edit mode) — A focused editor for uploaded photos. Customers crop, filter, finetune, draw annotations, and adjust selection styles. Opens from a Product Designer button linked to a file upload option, or from Edit beside an uploaded file.

Both modes share the same full-screen shell — only the enabled features and right-panel behavior differ.

Image Edit capabilities

When linked to a file upload, Image Edit supports (each feature must be enabled in Step 5):

• Crop — aspect presets and orientation; framing via Image framing in Step 5 gear settings (Drag selection moves the crop window over the photo; Drag image pans the upload inside the frame)
• Finetune — per-image sliders (brightness, contrast, blur, HSL) on the selected image
• Filter — preset color/look styles on the selected image (distinct from Finetune sliders)
• Frames — borders, drop shadows, and shape-clip masks
• Draw — pointer, freehand, arrows, lines, callouts, eraser, redact/blur
• Text, Clipart, Shapes, and Layers on the upload
• Change background — swap the base photo or set a solid color backdrop; overlays stay in place (requires Layers)
• Remove background (optional) — AI cutout on a selected image when enabled in Step 5 gear settings
• Selection inspectors in the right panel for the active element
• Done in the top-right to save back to the upload

When to use it

How it works

1. Add a Product Designer option in Step 2 — Options & Pricing.
2. The option renders as a styled button. Clicking it opens the full-screen editor.
3. The customer designs, then clicks Save Design (Designer) or Done (Image Edit).
4. Proof, print-ready, cut-line, and canvas JSON files are generated per your Step 5 output settings.
5. A single visible cart property — Design Files — links to an HTML summary page with downloads and production details.

Two button slots per calculator

You can have up to two Product Designer buttons per calculator:

• One linked to a file upload (Image Edit) — upload a photo, then click Edit to refine it.
• One standalone (Designer) — design from scratch on the artboard.

The add-option UI prevents adding more than two.

Where everything lives

• Step 2 (Options & Pricing) — Add and position Product Designer button(s).
• Step 4 (Personalization) — Optional live preview overlay on the product gallery (separate from Product Designer).
• Step 5 (Designer) — Configure features, tools, editor profile, bindings, buttons, outputs, fonts, clipart, and translations. This step appears once you add at least one Product Designer option.
• Optional Features (Step 3) → Languages — Translate built-in editor strings and your Step 5 button labels. See Product Designer Translations.
• Step 5 → Clipart / Text features — Upload shop clipart and fonts. See Managing clipart and fonts.

Examples

• Sign shop — Use Personalization on a wall-sign product photo for quick text overlay previews, and Product Designer for customers who need full bleed, cut-line SVG, and layered clipart on a sized artboard.
• Photo lab — One Image Edit button linked to "Upload Your Photo" for crop, Finetune, and Filter; no Designer button needed unless you also sell designed templates.

Related Docs

• Personalization Overview
• Set up the Product Designer option
• Configure the editor in Step 5
• Designer features (left sidebar)
• Canvas tools and guides
• Customer access and layout (editor profiles)
• Designer right panel
• Product Designer Translations
• Bind calculator options to canvas properties
• Wallpaper and product image bindings
• Managing clipart and fonts
• How customers use the editor
• Image Edit mode
• Preview scenes, effects, and clear stickers
• Cut lines and die-cut export
• Print quality and production output