Turn photo uploads into print products people love creating
The best photo print experiences take users from camera roll to finished product effortlessly.
Trusted by 100+ industry leaders
Integrating IMG.LY’s editor meant we didn’t have to build or maintain a complex editing layer ourselves. That kept our team focused on our core AI ad engine and saved us countless development hours — while still giving our customers the ability to polish and customize creatives at scale.
Hikari Senju
CEO, Omneky
With IMG.LY we built a central creative portal that now powers over 140 dealer campaigns across multiple automotive brands. Before this, asset creation was slow and inconsistent.
Martin Röhr
Product Owner, Digitas
By embedding IMG.LY’s editor we were able to hit key RFP requirements and deliver a template-based creative experience that now serves 1,000+ customers. It helped us win more deals and exceed enterprise expectations without needing to hire dedicated design teams.
Rob Driscoll
Director of PM, Optimizely
Since integrating IMG.LY’s editor, we now deliver 30,000+ ad creatives per month, dramatically shorten time-to-launch, and help our clients cut design spend by up to $10,000 per month.
Logan Welbaum
Founder, Plai
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, SwissPost
From a developer’s perspective, the most powerful feature of the photo editor is the integration process. It was completely flawless, quick, and easy to integrate.
Stefano Fornari
CTO, Funambol
We compared IMG.LY SDK with other solutions and found that it would be the best fit for us since it provides all the features that are crucial for our use case.
Carem Pereira
SCRUM Manager, HP
Built for the way people actually create photo products
Keep the entire experience in one place
Users upload photos, edit images, personalise layouts, and preview their order without leaving your platform or opening another tool.
Start with layouts that already look good
Templates help users begin with confidence. Instead of arranging everything from scratch, they focus on adding their own photos and personal touches.
Make photo books feel effortless
Automatically organise and place photos into layouts so users spend less time arranging pages and more time reliving memories.
Key capabilities
For your users
How to integrate the photo print editor
Four steps from a customer uploading a photo to a print-ready file.
Embed the editor
CE.SDK provides the editor base. Configure it for the canvas types, crop ratios, and tools that match your product range, and customize whatever does not fit out of the box.
Open Theming Demo
Templates per product type
Design any number of photo product templates with placeholder zones and editing constraints configured per product type, books, postcards, canvases, prints. Users start with a polished layout that fits the product instead of a blank page.
Open Placeholder Demo
Auto-fit photos into product layouts
Pass a photo collection to the layout API and arrange images across pages and grids automatically. Portrait and landscape orientation, zone sizing, and per-product layout rules are handled by the engine, so users open a pre-populated product ready to refine.
Open Layouts Demo
Validate before export
Design validation flags resolution, bleed, and layout issues in the editor as customers work. Rules are configured per product type, so issues surface before files reach print.
Open Validation Demo
One creative experience across every device and product
People start projects on one device and finish them on another. They might create a photo book on desktop, review it on mobile, then place the order later. IMG.LY keeps the editing experience consistent across platforms and across every photo print product you support.
Identical rendering everywhere
Photo edits, layouts, and print rules produce the same output on web, iOS, Android, and server. What customers see on screen is what gets sent to print.
Pick up where you left off, on any device
Customers can start a photo book on desktop and finish it on mobile without losing edits, layout choices, or photo placements between sessions.
Server-side generation for high-volume orders
Generate personalised photo products in batches programmatically via the Node.js renderer, useful for schools, events, and corporate gifting workflows that can’t run through a manual editor session.
How PostBuddy Launched Personalized Direct Mail for E-Commerce Without Building a Custom Editor
4×
difference in A/B-tested campaign performance
3
Nordic markets reached (DK, SE, NO)
0
custom editor maintenance — embedded SDK instead
PostBuddy is a Denmark-based startup modernizing direct mail marketing — enabling e-commerce brands to create, personalize, and automate postcard campaigns integrated with their online workflows.
It’s hard to imagine we could have launched PostBuddy without a design editor SDK. Customers want an integrated experience, and we needed to channel our limited resources into our core mission, not a custom editor.
PostBuddy
Challenge
PostBuddy needed an embedded design editor that lets non-technical e-commerce users create print-ready postcards with personalization and variable data — without burning early-stage engineering on a custom editor.
Solution
Integrated CE.SDK to deliver an in-app design experience with mail merge, custom branding, and template guidance for streamlined postcard creation.
- 4× performance gap between A/B-tested designs proved design variation matters.
- Expanded reach into Sweden and Norway on top of the Danish home market.
- Engineering stayed focused on PostBuddy’s core direct-mail automation.
Why photo print teams trust IMG.LY
Built for non-designer creators
Photo print customers are not designers. They are people sending birthday cards, ordering wedding albums, or printing family photos. Guided templates, simple editing, no design-tool overhead.
Flexibility across every photo product
Books, postcards, canvases, calendars, prints. The same engine handles every format, with per-product templates, editing controls, and validation rules.
Print correctness without manual preflight
Resolution checks, layout validation, and export specs run automatically inside the editor, preventing reprints and refunds at the point of order, not after.
One integration, every platform
Web, iOS, Android, macOS, and server. One SDK, consistent rendering, one set of templates and rules maintained across every surface your photo print product runs on.
More from IMG.LY
People come back to photo print platforms that make creation feel easy
IMG.LY helps you build a photo print experience users enjoy from first upload to final order. Keep photo editing, layouts, personalisation, and print preparation inside your platform with one creative engine across web and mobile.
Photo Prints FAQs
Yes - cropping, brightness and contrast adjustments, filters, effects, and background removal are all available inside the editor. Users can work with their own photos from upload to final design without needing a separate image editing tool. The feature set exposed is fully configurable per product type.
The SDK supports programmatic image arrangement - you can sort photos by date, fill layout templates automatically, and handle portrait and landscape orientation mixing server-side via the Node.js renderer. Users open an editor session with their photos already arranged, rather than starting from an empty book.
Resolution validation runs inside the editor against configurable DPI thresholds per product type. Users are alerted when an image doesn't meet the minimum resolution for the product they're creating - before they place the order, while there's still time to upload a better file.
Yes - the toolbar, editing tools, and template behaviour are all configurable per use case. A photo book editor can expose page management and multi-image layout tools; a postcard editor can surface a simpler set of options. The underlying engine is the same; the experience adapts to the product.
The editor operates client-side, so a permanent internet connection is not required for it to run. Once the device reconnects, updates are applied and export tracking is communicated. For fully offline environments, contact the sales team to discuss offline licensing options.
The SDK runs on web (React, Angular, Vue, Next.js, Svelte), iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, macOS, and Electron. The same engine and template system applies across all of them - no separate implementation per platform.
Yes. IMG.LY's solutions team provides different levels of support based on your licence type. Contact the team to discuss your specific photo print workflow and product range.