Ideas for getting the most out of templates and collections

Templates and collections handle different jobs. These are the ones they suit best, so you don't start from scratch.

With a template

• Birthdays and anniversaries: your best-selling design, with fields for the name and the age.
• Father's or Mother's Day: their photo inside a design that already works, redrawn in the design's style or kept as a photo.
• Pets: "upload a photo of your dog" and the dog appears inside the design.
• Groups and events: hen and stag parties, clubs or teams, with the group's name, the date or the shirt number. Everyone in the same T-shirt.
• Companies: the customer's logo inside a design for trade fairs, anniversaries or team events.

With a collection

• A brand's seasonal campaigns: Christmas, Halloween, summer or Father's Day, with the collection's line work, characters and signature. Use "core" and "closest".
• More catalogue for a character: "the collection's sheep surfing", "…at a concert". Name or describe it in the prompt.
• Brainstorming in a niche that already sells: "Surprise me" with four designs, a few times, and keep the best.
• Trying new styles: "outsider" draws designs from the collection's minority styles.
• Dark and light garments: run the same idea with "Background color preference" set to "black" and to "white".

A format for each product

• T-shirt: 1:1 or 3:4.
• Mug or banner: 16:9.
• Phone case or stories: 9:16.
• Art print: 4:3 or 3:4, depending on the orientation.

And if it's going on a garment, ask for the transparent background with "Remove background".

Step by step: both together

1. Generate new ideas with a collection and keep the best one.
2. In the Studio, click the T on that result: Template Trainer opens with that image as the starting design.
3. Ask for the fields you want (name, age, photo) and train the template.

The result is a new design, in your brand's style, that every customer can personalise.

More in generating with a collection and what makes a template work well.