Creating your design can be hard, especially when you are not a designer. Luckily for you, we offer an easy Online Editor to make every printed product look like it is made by a professional designer. 

Our user-friendly Online Editor can be used for almost all our products, from Business Cards to Flyers, from Roll-up Banners to Flags to Cards, Mugs, T-shirts, ... On this page, we will give you some tips on how to make the best designs using our Online Editor!

Happy Tip #1 - Get inspired by our Design Templates

For many of our products, we have created Design Templates for your inspiration and use. You can select one of these and then customise it to make it yours, or, there is always an empty Template that you can select and start designing 'from scratch'.

When you go to a product page on our website and scroll down, you will see the option to 'Design Online', which opens our Online Editor. For many products, we have Design Templates to help you with your design, either as inspiration or you can also use the Design Template as a starting point for your own design.

You can be overwhelmed by all the choices that we offer. Take your time! Browse through the different Design Templates, choose one or two to get inspired. You can also choose the first one, which is a blank template, and you can make your design from scratch. Always remember: a good design takes time!

Happy Tip #2 - Choose a Background

If you click on the 'Background' (Bckgrnd) tab on the left, you can choose between different backgrounds for your design. You can also look for a background you want to use or additional pictures you might want to use as a background for your design in the 'Search’ tab. Just type in whatever you are looking for (e.g. 'Cat') and stock images will appear for that subject.

You can even edit the pictures by adding them to your design, selecting it and then choosing e.g. a filter or making the image background transparent. Anything is possible!

Happy Tip #3 - Upload your Photos

Do you want to have a design that no one else has? Use the Online Editor to design your own. If you open the Online Editor, you will see that you can 'Upload' your own photos (see tab 'Upload' at the left of your screen). These can be uploaded from your computer and even from your phone, although you are working on your computer.

All you have to do, after you have selected the 'Phone' to upload your photos from, is scan the QR-code with your mobile phone, select the picture(s) on your mobile phone and upload them, and then you are ready to go. It is also possible to import your photos from Facebook and Instagram. Online editing has never been so easy.

Happy Tip #4 - 'Color inside the lines'... or not

The red area (rim) at the outside of your product/design is called the 'Bleed' and will be cut off when we cut your product to the right size. If you upload a background or an image and place it on your design, and if this is placed against the outside of your product/design, touching the red area ('Bleed'), be sure to have the image go into the red area, into the 'Bleed' (see I and II).

If you do not have the image fully 'into' the red area ('Bleed') it can happen that your printed product will have a 'white border' at that place when we cut your product to size and possibly cut say a mm wider than intended (this is because when cutting the product, we can not cut exactly, on the mm exact, on the 'Cutting Line', so if we then cut a bit to the left or a bit to the right, it will still is OK and will not show e.g. some white rim around your product).

If you add e.g. text or a logo onto your design, make sure you stay inside the green lines (called 'Safety Margin', see III). This is so that your text, logo, ... is not too close to the border of the product, for that will not look nice/professional and if it is placed upto/against the red area ('Bleed'), some thin parts might be cut off when the product is cut to size, again, because of the accuracy with which we can cut your product to size).

The 'Bleed' and 'Safety Margin' is not shown for all products, for those products, the above does not apply!

Happy Tip #5 - Do not forget to design the rest of your product!

This may seem obvious, but it is easy to forget! You can switch between the front and the back, the outside and the inside of your product's design by clicking on the thumbnails at the bottom of the page - do not forget to review or design all sides/pages!

Have fun designing, and if you have any questions after reading this or you need our personal assistance with your design, please feel free to contact us!

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