Create Print-Ready Designs with CreativeEditor SDK

Empower Your Users to Create Print-Ready Designs

Give users the power to personalize print products, utilize Variable Data Printing, create stunning photo prints, and craft captivating marketing materials.

Seamlessly integrate intuitive editing features across web, mobile, and print kiosks for a cohesive user experience.

Print Innovation Made Easy

Challenge

Inability to offer personalized products or providing users with very limited customization choices.

Solution

Powerful Design Editor Enabling Creation of Easily Customizable Templates.

Empower your users to unleash their creativity. Our template-based editor creates a perfect environment for scaling personalization of a variety of print products. Create templates to jump-start your users' designs and define constraints to simplify the creation process.

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Challenge

Users need to rely on 3rd party tools to scale asset creation and generate print variations.

Solution

Enabling Variable Data Printing and Automated Asset Generation.

Tap into the world of Variable Data Printing and automatically generate designs at scale. Our templates support text variables that enable mass personalization of print products such as postcards, brochures, or flyers.

Our SDK ensures consistency and saves valuable time while ensuring each design is print-ready.

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Challenge

Designing for print is hard and it’s easy to make mistakes resulting in false prints.

Solution

Automatic Design Validation on the Client.

Save time and resources while providing your users with high-quality prints.

Configurable bleed margins, page clippings, and spot colors ensure a smooth print production process.

Automatic design validation flags errors such as elements extending beyond the bleed line, helping your customers generate high quality, print-ready designs with minimal risk.

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Challenge

Insufficient or inaccurate product preview, causing mismatched expectations, leaving customers unsatisfied.

Solution

Mockup Editor that Offers Real-Time Product Design Preview.

Boost conversions, enhance product presentation, and empower your clients to make informed choices, reducing the risk of dissatisfaction.

Our mockup editor offers a real-time design preview, ensuring a crystal-clear visualization of how the creation will materialize on the final product, including 3D preview.

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Challenge

Lack of mobile compatibility, limiting customer accessibility and usability on phones or tablets.

Solution

Truly Cross-Platform Design Editor.

Bring seamless editing experience across all platforms. Our creative engine is portable to any platform, transcending the limitations of building individual SDKs for web, Android, iOS and so on.

This eliminates an entire class of errors plaguing web-to-print applications and ensures consistent quality across all platforms.

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Challenge

Complex, confusing, or unintuitive user interface deterring customers from using the software effectively.

Solution

Fully Customizable UI that Perfectly Matches Your Use Case and Brand.

With our SDK, you can create a custom UI matching your brand, as well as integrate only those functionalities that are needed. With a quick and easy implementation process, you can go to market with a perfectly fitting solution in a fraction of time.

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Challenge

Lack of compatibility with other systems.

Solution

Extensibility through Plugins

Our SDK is designed for extension. Our flexible Plugin API allows you to implement custom editor functionality such as background removal or vectorizing.

That means you can readily respond to user feedback and new requirements without depending on our roadmap.

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Web2Print Designer

Elevate your Web2Print application with best-in-class Design Editor.

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Variable Data Printing

Enable mass-personalization in your design & print workflows.

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Photo Prints

Provide seamless design experience and inspire users with easily personalized templates.

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Print Personalization

Streamline personalization for your print products.

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Collage Designer

Build a customizable collage editor, design any number of layout templates and deploy on any platform.

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Poster Designer

Build a fully custom poster designer on any platform with our modern design editor SDK.

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Photo Book Designer

Easily build any photo book UI & use case, create templates and layouts to jumpstart your customers’ designs.

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Greeting Card Designer

Whether anniversary cards, thank you cards or wedding invitations, build for any use case, deploy on any platform.

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Apparel Designer

Whether t-shirts, hoodies or caps, build for any use case, deploy on any platform.

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What Our Clients Say About Us

IMG.LY’s solution engineers did a deep dive on our business case and helped us implement a custom print kiosk UI.

André Albrecht

Digital Solution Manager

Brother

Our customers create over a million personalized postcards each year choosing from over hundreds of templates with IMG.LY’s SDK. It’s the only solution that allows us to build our own specialized, on-brand UI that integrates seamlessly with our platform.

Jeanine Zaalberg

Product Manager

Swiss Post

Our app has photo-editing at the very core of its experience and the editor has been invaluable in making that vision happen. There are no other tools on the market up to the quality of PE.SDK.

Toby Green

Lead Developer

Elbi

FAQs

What is the difference between creative automation and variable data printing?

Creative automation refers to the general process of programmatically creating or editing designs, all aspects of a design are subject to change whether colors, fonts or element position. In addition a data source can be used to update dynamic elements of the design.
Variable data printing refers specifically to using data to create variations of a specific design template. The designs thus created are then further processed in a down-stream printing workflow producing physical prints.

What products & materials can I personalize with the SDK?

Thanks to a fully customizable UI, you can easily use our editor for personalization of paper prints, such as postcards, greeting cards, wedding invitations, and packaging; apparel (t-shirts, tote bags, caps, or shoes); and marketing materials - brochures, flyers, and catalogs.

Can we integrate our own assets (Sticker, Frames, Overlays)?

Yes, absolutely! Please refer to our documentation for more information on that topic.

Can I decide on which features to implement?

Yes, you have full control over which features you decide to use. You can configure the toolbar on mobile and on web you can interface with the API directly to build the exact feature you need.

Can I see what my design would look like on print?

Yes, CE.SDK has a live preview function that visualizes the final product, allowing you and your users to better manage expectations.

Which platforms/ frameworks are supported?

Our IMG.LY SDK is suitable for web and mobile (Android & iOS). Supported frameworks are React-Native, Flutter, Ionic, and Cordova for mobile and React, Angular, Svelte and Vue.js for web. For more information, please visit our Guides.

Can I import existing designs files into the SDK?

You can always import individual elements as PNG, JPG or SVG, we are currently working on importers for PDF and the most common design file formats.

Which export file formats for print do you support?

All CreativeEditor SDK scenes can be exported in PNG, JPEG, TGA, binary, and PDF. See the export guide in the documentation for more information on exporting scenes.

Can I enable/ disable a function by default?

Yes, you have full control over the Editor’s UI and functionality. You can also take full control over the editing process with smart templates, lockable designs and placeholders.

Do you offer integration support?

Yes, apart from accessing our complete CreativeEngine documentation you can also contact our support team. Our solutions team offer different levels of support based on your license type.
To explore your use case and potential solutions with us simply get in touch.

Which frameworks do you support for building custom UIs?

You can use any Javascript framework to implement a custom UI on top of our headless CreativeEngine API. You can find dedicated getting started guides for React, Vue, Angular and Svelte in our documentation.

Which server-side technologies do you support?

You can run the CreativeEngine in a Node.js environment and deploy it on any platform with Node.js support. See this guide on how to deploy on AWS for reference.

Can I try your Editors to see how it works?

Yes, we offer a free trial for all our products. You can get your free trial right now.

Can my users edit their photos using IMG.LY SDKs when they are offline?

As the editor works client-side, a permanent internet connection isn't necessary for the editor to run properly. Once the device reconnects, available updates can be installed and the export tracking will be communicated. However, if you require the SDK to work in a purely offline environment please contact our sales team to request an offline license.

Empower Your Users to Create Print-Ready Designs

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Print Innovation Made Easy

Everything you need

Key Capabilities

Editing

Transform

Filters

Adjustments

Effect & Blur

Element Snapping

Blend Modes & Grouping

Undo & Redo

Printing

Cutout Lines

CMYK/ Spot color support

Templating

Design Templates

Text Variables

Placeholders & Lockable Designs

Configurable Presets

Customizability

Build Custom UIs

Theming

Media Libraries

Toolbar Customization

Internationalization

Export Options

Why IMG.LY ?

Battle-tested

Scalable & Future-Proof

Customization

Cross-platform

More to discover

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Check Out Other Use Cases

Web2Print Designer

Variable Data Printing

Photo Prints

Print Personalization

Collage Designer

Poster Designer

Photo Book Designer

Greeting Card Designer

Apparel Designer

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FAQs

What is the difference between creative automation and variable data printing?

What products & materials can I personalize with the SDK?

Can we integrate our own assets (Sticker, Frames, Overlays)?

Can I decide on which features to implement?

Can I see what my design would look like on print?

Which platforms/ frameworks are supported?

Can I import existing designs files into the SDK?

Which export file formats for print do you support?

Can I enable/ disable a function by default?

Do you offer integration support?

Which frameworks do you support for building custom UIs?

Which server-side technologies do you support?

Can I try your Editors to see how it works?

Can my users edit their photos using IMG.LY SDKs when they are offline?