﻿Let’s explore all the features and resources available in the Design
Maker so that you can easily design your first all-over print product.
I’ll design a pair of yoga shorts to showcase how the Design Maker works
and what you can do with it. Each design placement can be created
separately to give you full creative control over your product. You can access each placement
by clicking on the tabs up here. On the left is a toolbar where you can
choose and upload design elements, text, color fill, and access product design layers.
You can choose from many patterns and photos by browsing through Quick Designs
or Premium Image collection. As an example, let’s pick this black-and-white pattern.
It automatically takes up the whole printing area, but you can change the scale,
crop it, position it, and repeat this image in a pattern, just like I’m
doing now. You can copy this design to other placements or design them individually.
To copy a design, click Layers. Here, each design element is in a separate layer.
If you want to copy your design to other placements,
click on the three dots on a specific layer, click Duplicate to, and choose the option you want.
If you have several layers, you can drag them to change which ones
are closer to the front of the design. To fill the background of the whole garment
with one click, you can also click Fill and choose a color, pattern, graphic, or
Premium Image. It means that all of the print placements will have the same background.
Now, let’s take a look at the Clipart section. It has design elements sorted by different topics.
Like with Quick Designs, you can transform, position, crop,
and create a pattern out of a clipart of your choice.
To check your product’s appearance, click Mockup view icon. You can still return to
the design view and switch things up by clicking the Design view icon.
If you want to create the design on another app, such as Photoshop, create your design
with a design template as a base. You can download product templates from
the product page by scrolling down, clicking on the File Guidelines tab,
and then downloading templates for each placement to which you want to add your designs.
Ensure your design files are saved in PNG or JPEG format with at least 150 DPI in the sRGB
color profile. Once you’ve created your design, upload each file by
clicking the Upload button. Before you start designing your
first all-over print product, you should keep a few things in mind.
These are the most common mistakes people make when designing an all-over print product.
You should create and upload designs that fully cover the entire print area. For example,
if you upload artwork that doesn’t reach the sides of the print area,
all of this will just be bare fabric on the finished product.
For this example, let’s say that you’re designing an all-over print
t-shirt in all available sizes and want this clipart to be visible on the t-shirt.
The safe print area matches the largest shirt size for that t-shirt model. For this shirt,
it’ll be 2XL. When someone orders a small size of your shirt, the size S shirt overlay is put on top
of the actual print file, then proportionally scaled up and positioned to fit the 2XL design
file. Everything that doesn’t cover the small-sized overlay is cut off.
It might be tempting to create designs that wrap around the entire garment. Our AOP products are
hand-sewn from multiple fabric panels, so even if a design looks good while you’re
putting it together in the Design Maker, we can’t guarantee that the finished product will look
the way you expected when it’s fulfilled. That is all! I hope you’ll enjoy designing your
first all-over-print product with Printful. Check out our YouTube channel if you want even more
content on designing products, building an online business, and hearing tips and tricks from other
sellers like yourself. Bye!