Artwork setup
This resource helps prepare your artwork for printing.
Most importantly, you don’t need to do anything special to your artwork if you don't want to.
We have designers who are experts in print and can prepare everything for you, for free.
However, if you want to, then read on.
Setup depends on if you have artwork, so the first question is..
Do you have artwork?
Great, you already have artwork or know which tool you'll be creating artwork in.
See our artwork setup guides for each design tool below:
General setup guide
Canva setup guide
Coming soon!
Illustrator setup guide
Coming soon!
CorelDRAW setup guide
Coming soon!
Photoshop setup guide
Coming soon!
Procreate setup guide
Coming soon!
Useful resources
Here are other useful resources to help prepare artwork for printing.
- Downloadable templates
- How to make a holographic sticker print-ready video (opens in YouTube)
- How to create a cutline in Adobe Illustrator video (opens in YouTube)
We can help you create stunning designs.
Here a different options depending on your experience & ambition.
Beginner - Free online designer
If you’re completely new to design, we recommend you take a look at our online design tool Graphic.
We’ve got 1000s of pre-made designs for you to use and customise to create the perfect artwork. Like this:
You can choose your material, change colours, edit, and more. Here’s a sneak peek at Graphic:
Intermediate: Canva
Canva is one of the world’s most popular design tools, and many of our customers send us artwork from Canva.
They have pre-made templates & designs for almost anything you can imagine.
You can’t create a cutline in Canva, but we can do it for you.
Here are some useful links if you decide to use Canva.
Useful resources
- How to share Canva artwork with us
- Canva print setup guide (coming soon)
Advanced: Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is the experts choice.
It’s highly capable and can do everything you need to create the most advanced design.
It’s often not required, but if you are keen on being the best, we’d recommend Illustrator.
A slightly simpler alternative is CorelDRAW. The 2 programs are very similar, and we use both tools inhouse for making artwork ready for printing.
Here are some useful resources if you’d like to use Adobe Illustrator:
Useful resources
- How to create a cutline (opens YouTube)
- How to add bleed (opens YouTube)
- Convert text to outlines (opens YouTube)
- Adobe Illustrator tutorials from Andy (opens YouTube playlist)
Useful resources
Here are other useful resources to help prepare artwork for printing.
- What is a design proof?
- Vector vs bitmap artwork: What's the difference?
- CMYK vs RBG colours: What is best for printing?
- How to create a cutline in Adobe Illustrator?
- White ink layer: What is it and do I need one?
- How to create metallic colours on silver/gold/holo/glitter products (coming soon)