Choose a PSD template when you own the layered file
A Photoshop file carries work a designer already did: the warp curving a print around a mug, the shadow falling across a fold, the mask trimming artwork to a frame, the blend mode letting fabric texture through. All of it renders as authored, so realism is a property of the file rather than something you tune request by request. Preparing a PSD is where that work gets done. The file also gives you the widest set of things to change per render. One template covers the artwork in any of its design areas, the wording on a live text layer, a colour overlay and adjustments on a design area, group outlines, and the export format and pixel size. That is what makes a single PSD enough for a colour range, or for names printed across hundreds of personalised items.Choose a photo mockup when a photograph is all you have
Plenty of products never came with a layered file. A photo mockup turns one product photograph into a template you keep and render onto for as long as you want it. Send the photograph as a URL or as base64 and the printable areas come back prepared. If you already know where artwork belongs, send your own convex four point areas with the same call, up to eight of them, and they are used exactly as given. A render then names up to eight targets. A print area places artwork inside a bounded zone such as a chest panel or a poster face, and a product surface prints across the whole item, which is how an all over print is done. Drawing a print area does not take the surface away, so one photograph carries both. Print areas and surfaces reads the two lists field by field.Side by side
The credit weight of each operation differs, and the current numbers are on
pricing.
If you would rather not build the template
Our team can prepare templates for your catalogue. Write to support with the product and an image showing where the print goes, and the mockup comes back ready to render against.Learn more
Photo mockups
One photograph, from the create call to a finished render.
Render a PSD
One template, from upload to a batch of images.